GENERAL:
- Monster keywords -OPTIONAL-, -EXTERNAL-, and -SUMMON- have been introduced! A new page has been added to the Glossary to explain these new keywords, and some existing Monsters (Which will be mentioned in the individual expands) have been updated to use it.


MADNESS REIGNS:
+ New content is available! 1 new Loot card, 4 new Treasures, 7 new Monsters, 3 new Events and a new character in the form of Rider from Furi have been added.

> Culex has been modified to be External.
> Zera has been modified to be External.

- Yoki's Eyes of the BEAST has been buffed to award Treasures in place of the Souls that Bosses killed while under its effects would have granted. It has also had its wording tweaked to clarify that Bosses only don't award Souls while their Dice has been debuffed.
- Remedy's "heal another player" character tap has been buffed to award her with 2 Loot instead of 1 for each Health she heals that way.
- Remedy's Heal Counters now come in a clickable counter form as well; check her character bag for details. Huge shoutouts to Eldin's "Make Anything A Counter" tool!
- Black Knucklebones and White Knucklebones have been merged into one singular "Knucklebone" card that can add or subtract from the result of a roll. There are 12 copies of it total.
- Blood Punch has received a huge buff to deal damage equal to twice the number of counters removed.
- Tardigrade Shield has been nerfed, having its healing effect removed.
- Vow of Kindness has been buffed to grant a Treasure when the owner assists another player in killing a Monster instead.
- Vow of the Mighty has been significantly nerfed to increase the owner's Damage by 1 instead of 2, and now is discarded whenever an attack roll made by the owner is modified to hit instead of modified by the owner.


You might be wondering to yourself, "where are the Monsters that use Optional, though?" Stay tuned for more on that.

Tiny patch tonight, just fixing up some content for Stand Proud:

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STAND PROUD:
- Buffed Heirophant Green by changing the attack roll penalty to a tap effect, which will give players more control over how they address the penalty and how quickly they can gain counters.
- Fixed Crazy Diamond's incredibly scuffed wording.
+ For the first time since release, a new Stand, 「Boy II Man」, has been added!

Hotfix Moment:

- Fixed an issue where the characters in Celeste: Crystal Souls' starting items were not displaying their cardback properly.

GENERAL:
- All cards (Except for maybe a few states...) should now be properly sized for use on the standard table.

CELESTE: CRYSTAL SOULS:
- Fixed Madeline's Crystal Heart being accidentally nerfed to a previous version when the Level system was implemented. Whoops!
- Center of the Earth/No More Running have been restructured to clarify that they cannot discard Monsters that are being attacked. They now allow you to cancel your own attack, however, so you can use them as an escape button on your own turn!
- Fixed Ruby Heart so its effects only last until the end of the turn.
- Dust Bunny, literally the first Monster card I ever made, has been completely reworked into a co-op beast everyone can help attack for its considerable Loot reward.

STAND PROUD:
- Corrected Magician's Red to use the new "Event" term official to Requiem instead of the unofficial "Happening" term.
- Hermit Purple buffed - now upon activation, you may choose how many cards to reveal, up to 5. Card also corrected to use the new "Event" term.

HOPE VS. DESPAIR:
+ New content! 3 new types of Loot cards, 9 new Monsters, and 2 new Extras Bag cards have been added. Now every murderer in Trigger-Happy Havoc and every Remnant of Despair is represented!
- Chiaki Nanami's Cheat Code has received a small nerf - the "Remove 1 cover" effect has been changed to cause her to gain 2 Cents instead of Looting 1.
- Komaru Naegi's Megaphone Hacking Gun has been significantly buffed. She now always chooses which dice roll to use as the result of its activated ability, and its start-of-turn effect now allows her to reveal Bullet Loot cards and excise them from her hand to play for free later.
- Increased copies of each form of Monocoins from 5 to 6, to keep money appearance ratios up.
- All Monokuma Units from Ultra Despair Girls now have a new background, using a beautiful piece of fanart by qosic. This means that every Monster in Hope vs. Despair now uses a non-stock background!
- Kazuichi Soda's bonus Health has been increased from 2 to 3.
- To help preserve the existing Boss:Non-Boss ratio, Mechamaru has been changed into a Boss. In accordance with this, his reward has been decreased to +1 Treasure.
- Corrected Chisa Yukizome to use the new "Event" term official to Requiem instead of the unofficial "Happening" term.

MADNESS REIGNS:
+ New content! 3 new Monsters, 1 new Event, 2 new Treasures, and 2 new Extras bag cards have been added.
- Largely administrative note, but the contents of the Monster deck are now properly alphabetized.
- Friendship Scarf has received a significant buff—no more forced death; it now allows the friends to take damage to protect each other.

First major patch since release; this aims to clarify some of the more obtusely phrased cards and improve the general gameplay experience for Madness Reigns in particular. Full patch notes below:
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GENERAL
- All starting items in the mod now bear the new starting item borders, coming in Four Souls: Requiem.

CELESTE: CRYSTAL SOULS
- Madeline's Crystal Heart has been updated to utilize the level system, coming in Four Souls: Requiem. A temporary note has been added to explain the mechanic.

STAND PROUD
- Star Platinum's active effect has been nerfed to mimic Book of Belial instead of D6.
- Sex Pistols has been rewritten to be marginally less scuffed.

HOPE VS. DESPAIR
- Kyoko Kirigiri's Ultimate Obscurity has been reworked, allowing her to guess once during *each turn.* This should allow her to be more liberal with her guesses and make Ultimate Clarity more achievable.
- Hell Hound Earring has now been named, so you can search for it in the Loot deck more efficiently.

MADNESS REIGNS
- The glossary page for Brawls has been updated to clarify that players who die in a Brawl do not destroy an item, regardless of how it is that they die.
- The glossary page for Vows has been updated to make them a keyword, similar to how Curses will be in Four Souls: Requiem. This keywording has also allowed for their functionality to be changed slightly - now a Vow may be given to any player, unless the active player has received rewards from killing a Monster that turn, in which case they cannot give the Vow to themselves. This allows intrepid top-deck-attackers to give Vows to themselves while also letting them serve their intended purpose of helping players who have fallen behind.
- Stained Glass Coin has had its effect rewritten to remove unnecessary algebra.
- The Sundial Trinket has been remade to fix using the item template instead of the Trinket template, as well as having its incorrect wording based on Dad's Lost Coin fixed.
- The Phonograph has had its effect rewritten to be more intuitive and use appropriate wording (e.g. "defeat" -> "kill").
- Salty Runback has had its effect rewritten to use appropriate game language (i.e. "fighting" -> "attacking").
- Stained Glass Cannon has had its effect rewritten to be easier to understand.
- A gameplay note for recommended behavior for Pack Rat in cases where the Loot discard pile has less than 3 cards in it has been added.
- Poison Oak has completely new card art, removing the cursed-as-Hell default Boss background when it gives no Soul reward.
- Tabi has had his second state's stats nerfed (2/5/1 -> 3/4/1).
- Vow of Kindness has been buffed slightly, now allowing you to take a shop item as your reward instead of pulling from the Treasure deck if you wish. Its wording was also adjusted to be more consistent with official terminology.
- In accordance with the Vows' functionality changing, Vow of Matrimony has been changed such that the player chosen to receive it chooses another player to give a copy of it to.
- It would seem we've hit a Warp Zone of sorts! 5 new Monsters (All of which are Bosses), 2 more unique Loot cards, and a new character in the form of Princess Remedy have been added.

Wouldn't be a major release without a fix on the first day, right? :'v

>"A Part of You!" now has its card named so it can be searched for (If summoned by In the Mirror).
>Culex's states are now in the proper order.
>The "Monster Death Prevention" rule in the Glossary now has the Health icon as it properly should.

INITIAL RELEASE