Patch 0.36.0: The Arena Ledger

Open any tournament and you land on the new Arena Ledger: one page that holds
the whole event across six tabs. An Overview, the full bracket, the
participants, the rules, the rewards, and your own matches all sit in one place
instead of scattered panels, laid out in the same dense, columned style as the
tournaments board. The bracket now marks which matches are live and which have
already finished, so you can read the state of the whole event at a glance, and
everything stacks down cleanly on mobile.

When one of your tournament rounds is closing, the site-wide reminder banner
now shows a live countdown ticking down to the deadline, so you always know
exactly how long you have left to get your team in.

On the tournaments board, every event row is now fully clickable straight
through to its Arena Ledger, and each row carries its league emblem so you can
tell the tier of an event at a glance. Your own matches stay pinned to the top
and link directly to the match they belong to.

The Healer filter on the cards page used to miss some Fighters that heal, so
searching for a healer left real options hidden. It now surfaces every
heal-carrying Fighter in the catalog, so you can actually find your sustain
picks when you filter for them.

A Retaliate counter-swing now triggers the defender's own reflect abilities,
so recoil chains resolve the way you would expect instead of stopping short.
Reflect-heavy boards now play out fully in combat.

During the closed alpha, unspent value now rolls into your Closed Alpha
Earnings instead of vanishing. Leftover gladiator packs and Void Chest rewards
carry over into that ledger, and gladiator pack buying is paused for now, so
what you earn during the test is held for you rather than spent against a live
economy that is not switched on yet.

Rulesets that ban a rarity from a match restrict your commander too, not just
your Fighters. Their descriptions now say so, so you are not caught out by a
commander that is quietly illegal for the match.

In a single-elimination series that ended in a draw with no clear winner, the
bracket could stall with nobody advancing. The higher seed now advances, so
the event keeps moving.

Fixed a case where the tournament rewards view could error out instead of
loading. Opponent-submitted notifications are now deduped to a single alert per
series and deep-link straight to the match they are about, with it highlighted
when you arrive.

A ruleset that caps your team size is now enforced across the tournament and
brawl pickers and re-checked on the server when you submit, so an oversized
team can no longer slip through the draft on either surface.

Guild probation that had run its course could linger past its expiry. It now
clears on schedule, and existing expired probations were swept clean.

The front-line heal float in a Pandamonium replay now lands on the correct
slot after the position shuffle, and armor now correctly reads as zero on the
arena tile under the Armor Failure ruleset, so the replay matches what actually
happened in the match.

On the landing page, the ability panel that opens when you hover a card now
lines its top edge up with the top of the card, so it reads as one clean unit
instead of sitting a little off.

Connecting a Hive account now overwrites a placeholder username instead of
leaving the auto-generated one in place, and the onboarding station now
self-heals a stale in-progress verification that could otherwise trap you
part-way through connecting an account.

Earth is the armor-and-attrition affinity, but its walls were dying to the
opening alpha strike before their mitigation ever mattered, and the affinity
had no cheap body and no real sustain piece. This pass gives the wall lineup
one more point of top-end armor so they actually outlast the first volley,
turns Spore Vagrant into the budget bruiser Earth was missing, makes the
Substrate-Tongued Mender a genuine double-healer, and gives the legendary
Vellorn a counter that scales with the fight.