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+author: JayDi85
+title: New blocking AI, Aetherdrift and 108 new cards
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+New release contains 108 new cards, most from Aetherdrift (including Start your 
+engines mechanics), but also includes new cards from other sets like PIP or DSK. 
+It also contains reworked AI's blocking with more smarter AI and improved stability 
+and performance.
+
+If you find any bugs or has ideas on new features or changes then report it on [github](https://github.com/magefree/mage/issues).
+
+If you like the project then you can [support it by patreon](https://xmage.today/#donate).
+
+## AI and reworked blocking
+* now AI will use simplified 1 vs 1 combat damage simulations to choose better blocker (#13290);
+* now AI will use [chump blocker](https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Chump_blocker) to sacrifice creature and skip game loose (in simple use cases, #4485);
+* now AI will correctly use a blockers with Deathtouth, Indestructible, First/Double strike and other battle related abilities (#13290);
+* fixed game freezes for no-possible block configurations like Menace (#13290);
+* fixed computer cheating to ignore block requirements like Menace (now AI will choose all required blockers instead 1);
+
+## AI and other improves
+* improved performance and fixed server crashes on use cases with too much target options like "deals 5 damage divided as you choose" (#11285):
+* improved performance in tournament games (now computer will play AI vs AI games at the same time);
+
+## Other
+* game: added defenders info in declared attackers log;
+* game: added source info in choose mode dialogs;
+* deck: added booster to DFT;
+* deck: added tokens from INR;
+* deck: added reprints from all Wizards Play Network, Judge Gift Cards, and Game Day Promos;
+* deck: updated reprints from Special Guests;
+* deck: fixed that UNF cards was illegal in command games (example: Name Sticker Goblin, #13295);
+
+## Ability fixes
+* Choose card name dialogs - added support to choose names from adventure spells (example: Anointed Peacekeeper, #13286);
+* Decayed ability - improved rules text with more details (#13296);
+* Dredge abilities - fixed game error in some use cases;
+* Greatest power among creatures - added card hints in all related cards;
+* Number of card types in graveyards - added card hint for cards like Tarmogoyf;
+* Reveal abilities - added support of face down creatures (#13277);
+
+## Card fixes
+* Ballad of the Black Flag - fixed wrong text (#13300);
+* Crypt of Agadeem - added card hint (#13283, #12603);
+* Heaped Harvest - fixed that it trigger only once on enters and sacrifice (#13309);
+* Shadow Kin - fixed game error on usage with MDF cards (#13308);
+* Shifting Woodland - fixed game error on usage with MDF cards (#13308);
+
+## New cards
+* Aetherdrift - added 99 new cards;
+* Aetherdrift Commander:
+  * Accursed Duneyard
+  * Adaptive Omnitool
+  * Aetherflux Conduit
+  * Peema Trailblazer
+  * Rhet-Tomb Mystic
+* Bloomburrow Commander:
+  * Thickest in the Thicket
+* Duskmourn: House of Horror:
+  * Hauntwoods Shrieker
+* Fallout:
+  * Struggle for Project Purity
+* Unfinity:
+  * Priority Boarding
+
+Full change history available on GitHub as [commits history](https://github.com/magefree/mage/commits/)
+or as [wiki page](https://github.com/magefree/mage/wiki/Release-changes)

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