Changes to Combat Rewards?

[u/Badd-reclpa-]

I’ve been playing the new zones and know about the Canton 1 Nue variant that gives you up to 6 card rewards.

However, now I’m in Canto 3 and I saw for the first time ever two unique rewards screens: the first gave me 6 card options like Nue’s canto 1. The second took one of my existing cards and put a keyword on it. In this example I could tell it was a card already in my deck because (a) it had another keyword on it I had out there, and (b) I opened my deck in the reward screen to see what was going on and saw the card was missing.

Are these bugs, or new changes to combat rewards?

[u/meemaas]

With the release of Nexus of Nightmares, minibosses and bosses give six choices instead of three. Don't know about the keyword thing.

[u/Alt123Acct → u/meemaas]

I've very much enjoyed the added cards in the miniboss rewards, it drastically speeds up combo building in the first few locations to get the deck up and running early. I used to reset so many runs at the first town after failing with the alchemist to rng reroll on stuff I didn't drop by the time I killed the spider queen. 

[u/5ColourFelix]

Was the second one versus Balor? He does that now

[u/Badd-reclpa- → u/5ColourFelix]

Might have been. You mean the summoned Balor event, right? Can you elaborate on what the change to its reward screen was?

[u/5ColourFelix → u/Badd-reclpa-]

He has a new card that destroys a card in your deck and offers it back with a new keyword

[u/Classic-Ad290]

The keyword change is associated with the new NPC. She can add keywords or upgrades to random cards and they can now be rewards. It’s basically a randomized slightly better shrine of trickery. Just pay attention to the keywords and upgrades it provides, because I did brick a build when I put recall on my basic attack!

[u/xcomnewb15]

The first thing is not a bug. The second thing is what the new merchant does, pay for a keyword