The machines are rising. The heat is unbearable. The air crackles with arcane feedback and failed automation.

This week’s challenge, Rise of the Machines, drops you into constructs and pressure-cooked mistakes. Every room could be your last — unless your boons stack faster than the damage does.

The weather’s heating up. So is the map. Might as well melt with purpose!

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🔥 Extreme Burning – Burn deals double damage if enemies have 2 or fewer curses. Stack smart, or catch fire fast.

💢 Contained Fury – Fury now boosts damage by +2% per stack, but no longer causes Bleed. Clean hits and heavy impact make for a good win.

🏆 Double Boons – boon you gain is doubled. You can snowball or combust.

🦁 Spiritual Monsters – +10% resistance to Holy, Shadow, and Mind. These constructs don’t care about your sacred rituals.

❤️ Vigorous Monsters – +25% HP across the board. Bring stamina and sustained damage.

🎲 Lucky – Easier event rolls. A bit of good fortune where everything else really, really hates you. Like a lot. Sorry.

This is a challenge built for synergy and speed—you’ll need to punch through heat-hardened defenses and outpace the flame before the constructs rebuild themselves around your ashes.

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🐷 Ottis – Sanctifies, dispels, and sweats through it all. The healer who deserves hazard pay but doesn't get any.

👑 Cornelius – The firestarter. With Double Boons, he doesn’t burn enemies—he erases them.

🐻 Grukli – Smashes steel like it insulted his beard. Zero finesse. Infinite rage.

🐺 Magnus – The line between you and immediate death. Holds it well. Usually.

Together, they’re less a party and more a walking furnace with a healing pig in the back.

💡Tip of the week: Double Boons = Double Momentum. Prioritize cards and your heroes that can generate buffs quickly—Barrier, Energize, or even Fury chains. A well-timed Inner Fire or Fortify can snowball your run if stacked early.

Just don’t forget your dispels, and you might just survive long enough to see Act 3!

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Survive to Floor 3 and unlock two new card backs:

One forged in the inferno, and the other chilled by contrast—because even the machine gods respect balance.

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• 💥 Did Cornelius nuke an enemy with a cool card combo?
  
  
• 🍖 Did Magnus stand alone while Ottis cooked on the back row?
  
  
• 🧠 Found a double-boon combo that made you feel like a genius?

Let us bear witness to your triumphs, tragedies, and tactical errors this weekend and drop your tales in the comments below!

Drop your stories in the comments—or join our official Discord[discord.gg] to swap strats, cry about how everything hurts and you need help, and/or argue over the best way to stack Fury.

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This challenge doesn’t care how good your build is.
It only cares how fast you melt.

Sharpen your cards. Gather your courage, and we'll see you again next week for more.

—The ATO Team ⚔️

This week’s challenge drops your party into an icy gauntlet—where every burn chills, every chill slows, and every mistake earns you double the bruises.

Welcome to Frozen to the Bone, a test of endurance, crowd control, and whether you can still think clearly while frozen solid.

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🔥 Frostfire – Burn now deals Cold damage andreduces Fire and Cold resistance by 0.3% per stack. That’s right—your fire chills.

❄️ Intense Cold – Chill slows you more aggressively: 1 speed loss per 4 stacks instead of 5. Chill control is a must.

💰 Prosperity – Gold and shard gain is boosted by 50%. Don’t forget to invest in your team wisely.

🐌 Slow Monsters – Enemies lose speed, too. Great for turn control and setup.

💉 Double Injuries – Taking damage past your limits? Expect two injuries for the price of one. Survivability matters.

👑 More Champions – Elite enemies appear more frequently. Build with flexibility and bring dispels—you’ll need them.

This is the kind of challenge where forgetting a cleanse costs you two injuries, your tank shatters like ice glass, and your best burn card ends up… well, cold.

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💀 Malukah – Support with strong Chill and Hex synergy. Keep her alive, she keeps you steady.
🦂 Zek– DoT and curse specialist. Slows and rot pair perfectly in drawn-out fights.
🐻 Grukli –Frontline bruiser. Protect him early, watch him punish slow enemies late.
💎 Evelyn – Cold-focused control mage. Scales well and locks down fights when it counts.

They didn’t dress for the weather—but they did bring a plague rat, a crystal cannon, and a whole lot of attitude.

Tip: Use the global slowing to your advantage. Plan around initiative, not just power. Cards like Chilling Touch and Cleanse effects go a long way here.

Watch out for champions with AoE debuffs—double injuries can destroy your run if ignored.

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Reach Floor 3 to unlock a chillingly cool card back—perfect for bragging rights and matching your frostbitten deck builds.

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• 🧠 Got a strategy that saved your party from double injuries?
  
  
• 🧠 Share your strategies, meme moments, or full-on wipe stories in the comments.
  
  
• ⚔️ Discovered a combo that makes Frostfire actually fun?

We want to hear it—the good, the cursed, and the downright tragic. Drop your builds, lessons learned, or icy disasters in the comments below and let us know how your week went.

Then come thaw out with us in the official Discord[discord.gg], where we swap tips and weep over our losses in real time.

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Next week’s forecast? Unknown modifiers, new ways of dying, and the same old suffering. Dress warmly. Play wisely. See you there.

—The ATO Team ⚔️