Happy Hearthstone Violet Hold release day everyone!
Today we're putting out the second largest site update of the year - the first being our major redesign. There is a ton of stuff that is a part of it and I'm sure folks will find something that doesn't work quite right so be sure to let us know what doesn't feel good in the comments.
Some of the things in these patch notes were released over the prior two weeks, so if you've already seen them, don't worry, you aren't going crazy.
Let's jump right into it.
PRO
Fixed the incorrect price displaying on the PRO page.
Previously this was showing some bad math and it made it look way more expensive than it actually was.
PRO is the Out of Games premium feature. It removes ads when you browse which gives you a way better experience and it opens up more XP earns for your activity, points for our upcoming website cosmetic shop revamp, and is the best way you can support the site. Our cheapest plan is a year of Out of Games PRO for $15 CAD (which is around $11 USD). We don't have a subscription, it's a pay once and we won't charge you again until you decide to renew.
Note that anyone who has previously been PRO and no longer has an active membership will be receiving an on-site message and email detailing the cheaper price point and how you can reactivate. We will also send you messages when your plan is about to run out as a reminder. Thank you to everyone who has supported Out of Games / Out of Cards / HearthStation in the past. You're seriously awesome for that and it is with your help that we've been able to come as far as we have. To think how little we had when the site first came online all those years ago... wild stuff!
General
Search
Realms can now be searched
Added a new feature which allows you to quickly activate site search with your keyboard. By hitting "Ctrl+K" ("CMD+K" on macOS) on your keyboard, the site search will highlight and give you a box in the center of your screen to start looking for things.
More searchable things are coming in our next deployment. Stay tuned!
Collection Managers
We have a brand new feature on the site for collection management. Our original collection management feature was... it existed.
You can see your collection stats, add and remove cards, see your favourite cards, and even create binders (PRO).
You can make parts of your collection public so that anyone can see the cards you've collected. If you want to show off your golden card collection for mages, you could make a custom binder for that.
Note that binders are primarily a PRO feature, but everyone can create a binder to play around with it and share a smaller subset of their cards.
TCG Decks
A large part of Out of Games has been the ability to share decks with other members of the community and the public. What if you don't want something to be public though? We now support three visibility options for your decks:
Public: Everyone on the site can see them, they will appear in listings.
Private: No one on the site can see them, you can share them with specific members.
Unlisted: Anyone that knows the URL can view your deck, does not appear in listings.
Do note that staff can always see your decks. Anyone trying to do anything funny will get a swift banhammer (like spamming our database with nonsense).
Member Profiles
Removed the Decks tab and replaced it with Creations.
Different types of guides you create will appear here now for others to find. That includes right now decks for various card games and for staff, our literal guides.
We only show a specific type of guide when you have created a guide for that thing already. So if you have no Hearthstone Decks, that won't appear in your profile.
Guides
Comments no longer span the entire width of the website.
RSS
RSS feeds are now detectable again in our site markup on news feeds if you use an RSS reader.
Advertisements
Added a new siderail ad that will display on higher desktop resolutions on non-full width pages.
Currently testing the slot for the next 2-4 weeks to see how it improves our monetization.
Fixed an issue where ads were causing layout shifts at the top of the site as they loaded in which was an awful experience. Yes, ads are still an awful experience. You can join Out of Games PRO for a low yearly cost if you want to support us <3
Deckbuilders
We have a bunch of new deckbuilders. Looking forward to feedback on them to help change the way we integrate with each specific card game. Most builders right now are quite "generic".
Social Media
We have resumed posting to our social media accounts when new news articles are written, though we will likely be posting other things too! Follow us on X, Bluesky, and Facebook.
Newsletter
We are starting up our newsletter again, though we are targeting daily instead of weekly digests. You can opt-in via account management.
I don't expect this to be immediately daily as we tweak things and test stuff out over the next week or two, but afterwards we're going full steam ahead.
Arcade
You can now rate games on the arcade.
This is a rating for the game as a whole, not just that day's unique game (in the case a game has daily games like our "dle" style games.
Hearthstone
Card Pages
Added a button to add the card to your collection.
Added a button to favourite cards.
Decks
Decks with 0 cards will no longer appear in listings.
Deckbuilder
You can now press "/" on a keyboard to gain focus of the search box within the deckbuilder interface.
Azalina Soulsever now correctly restricts deckbuilding to 20 cards.
Collection Manager
Moved over the old collection manager to our new one.
Do note that we have some work to do for Signature and Diamond cards still. That part of our card database needs some serious work.
Originally I wanted this to go live with the previous Hearthstone expansion and most of the work was done for it, but my personal life got flipped upside down for a few months and so it got put on the backburner.
Do note as well that currently our HSDT plugin is still not working. I'm going to be taking a look at that soon because we should be able to have automatic imports of your cards. There is also a dedicated Out of Games desktop application in the works though as well which will have this functionality (and for other games).
Data Importer
We now automatically import basic Hearthstone patch data without the involvement of humans. Woo automation! This isn't the full picture, but expect very fast updates now when patches hit and there are data changes.
Long-term I'm looking to get more automated aspects out of Hearthstone patches so we can be the fastest to update our data.
Fixed issues that were preventing data imports from non-client sources (battlenet) during card reveal period.
LEgends of Runeterra
Card Pages
Added a button to add the card to your collection.
Added a button to favourite cards.
Deckbuilder
Rebuilt using our new deckbuilding technology so that you can once again create decks for Legends of Runeterra.. not that anyone asked for it.
This was one of those things that was never migrated over to the new site, so I'm glad to have it for the sake of history.
Collection Manager
Moved over the old collection manager to our new one.
Data Importer
Modernized our data importer.
Marvel Snap
Card Pages
Added a button to add the card to your collection.
Added a button to favourite cards.
Deckbuilder
Collection Manager
Added a new collection manager feature.
Important Notes
We still need to do a data import for Marvel Snap. We are very out of date with our card data so please bear with us as we add that to our priority list again.
Magic The Gathering
Deckbuilder
Added a deckbuilder! We support scryfall search terms to help find cards.
Added a deck listing!
Data Imports
Our data imports work again and we will be importing cards on a regular basis once more (daily at the very least).
Palworld TCG
Palworld TCG releases on July 30, 2026. We are preparing! Join the Palworld TCG Realm.
Added a starter database for Palworld's TCG.
Added a deckbuilder. Note that we do not have a full idea of what the cards look like, so deckbuilding is not feature complete yet but you can mess around with decks.
Added collection management.
Yu-Gi-Oh
Card Pages
Added a button to add the card to your collection.
Added a button to favourite cards.
Deckbuilder
Added a very basic deckbuilder; There is still some custom work to be done.
Also added deck listing!
Data Imports
Our data imports work again and we will be importing cards on a regular basis once more (daily at the very least).
Path of Exile 2
Added a new realm for Path of Exile 2.
Previously we were sharing the POE realm for 1 and 2 but decided in this case, they needed to be separate due to our tool and database integrations.
Added listings for gems, items, and uniques. These are all quite early and based on initial datamining so we're still working on improvements to them.
Our ultimate goal is to add in build guides for Path of Exile 2 and to support imports from Path of Building 2.
That concludes today's site update! Thanks for reading =)
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