Digital Foil

The new digital foil pack looks great, they did such a good job implementing them!

Was it known that they were coming out? It seemed to come completely out of the blue this morning

The Tuesday Twitch Stream said "Within the next couple of weeks", and then they came out the next day!

Oh, cool - I hadn't seen the stream, so I had no idea it was even on the cards (no pun intended). Nice surprise!

They've been showing it off in the past few streams but like they have in the past they've gone with a default answer of soon most of the time.   They said within two week on this last Tuesday's stream likely because they were trying to account for any delays due to Apple.

It actually felt soon! Yes! I had seen the cursor effect, so I was swiping my finger around on my Ipad and wondering why the focus wasn't changing.

Anyone else a bit disappointed that no new promos came with it? Some of these promos have been out FOREVER in the actual game, so I don’t know why they can’t put any of them in the video game.

Because it relies on art and informantion from GtG.  It also needs some testing too. 

Also Handelabra did previously say they were no longer (constraining themselves to) tieing variants to new releases, they could come at any time!

Variants require a lot of work, both on our side and on GTG's. Just because a card exists doesn't make it magically appear in the video game with no effort.

Is anyone else having issues with the foils not coming up on The iPhone version?

the issue I'm having is that if I switch character cards (by replacing a hero or changing a variant) in a randomized game, the new hero (or variant) is not the foil version. 

The same issue crops up with Sky-Scraper. Foil normal sized card, but the large and tiny cards are the regular artwork. 

There are a couple bugs around that in particular with variants. As a workaround for now, choosing your variants before selecting the hero should help.

I know there is work involved; I was more ruminating on the odd asynchrony between the cards and the game.

A real question, though; I’ve heard mention of some sort of “new animations?” But when I’ve played, I haven’t seen any; everything looks normal, except for the cool new art on the fancy cards. When and where should I be looking for that, and how significant even is it?

Where have you heard that? I have not heard a thing about it.

On the page where you buy it, in-game. It mentions “new artwork with animated foil visual effects.”

You have a foil affect you can turn on or off.  It's meant to match the foil pack people got from OblivAeon. 

Oh. It's just lighting when you put your mouse over the card

For iOS it changes based on the angle that you're holding your phone/tablet - very cool!

THAT’S what I was looking for. I’m on Android, so no mouse. That’s pretty cool, actually.

I was having a lot of trouble getting the foils for expansion heroes to load on my iPad which has very little extra space for downloads on it.  I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall the game, which did successfully load in all of the foil cards, but it made me lose my beautiful collection of weekly challenges (almost all of which were mint).  [Sad face]

I have the hero foils -- the villain foils aren't out yet, is that correct?

Correct.