Balance Changes — August 2025 (Season 74)
A 20-card overhaul: the reworked Furnace is toned down, Minions gain a big range boost, Witch Evolution's healing is redesigned, and Dart Goblin plus two Evolutions get full reworks.
This was 2025's broadest mid-year patch. Bait staples (Spear Goblins, Firecracker, Goblin Barrel-adjacent tools) and tower troops (Cannoneer, Dagger Duchess, Royal Chef) were all pulled back, while long-neglected air units — Minions, Minion Horde, Phoenix — received meaningful buffs.
Witch Evolution's heal was rebuilt to only trigger from her own skeletons, closing the loop on months of incremental nerfs to skeleton-synergy healing.
Reworks
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- Evolution Heal per Skeleton: 56 → 76 (+36%)
- Evolution Heal from other Skeleton cards: 56 → 0 (-100%)
Evolution change — healing now comes only from her own spawned skeletons.
- Evolution Poison Cloud Duration: 4s → 1s (-75%)
- Hit Speed: 0.7s → 0.8s (+14%)
- Damage: 133 → 156 (+17%)
Applies to both the base card and Evolution stats where shared.
- Evolution Power Shot Damage: 215 → 168 (-21%)
- Evolution Power Shot Range: 4.5 → 4 tiles (-11%)
- Damage: 107 → 112 (+5%)
Evolution power shot weakened, base damage raised.
- Spear Goblin Deploy Delay: 1s → 0.5s (-50%)
- Spawn Speed: 1.8s → 1.9s (+6%)
Buffs
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- Air Form Range: 4.5 → 5 tiles (+11%)
- Air Form Hitpoints: 1254 → 1318 (+5%)
- Ground Form Hitpoints: 1075 → 1134 (+5%)
- Crown Tower Death Damage Reduction: 70% → 0%
Its death damage now hits Crown Towers at full strength.
- Golemite Damage: 48 → 84 (+74%)
- First Hit Time: 1.1s → 0.8s (-27%)
- Range: 1.6 → 2.5 tiles (+56%)
- Range: 1.6 → 2.5 tiles (+56%)
Nerfs
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- Hit Speed: 2.4s → 2.1s (-13%)
- Damage: 386 → 320 (-17%)
Faster shots but a net damage-output reduction.
- Hit Speed: 0.45s → 0.5s (+11%)
- Minimum Cooking Time: 21s → 23s (+9%)
- Maximum Cooking Time: 35s → 38s (+10%)
- Hit Speed: 1.2s → 1.3s (+8%)
- Damage: 148 → 179 (+21%)
- Duration: 5.5s → 4.5s (-18%)
More damage but a notably shorter effect window.
- Range: 5.5 → 5 tiles (-9%)
- First Hit Time: 0.4s → 0.5s (+25%)
- Sight Range: 8.5 → 8 tiles (-6%)
- Knockback: 1.5 → 1 tile (-33%)
Adjustment
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- Spawn Speed: 5s → 7s
- Hitpoints: 896 → 727
Tones down the reworked Furnace after a strong run.