History VideoGame / Dawncaster

''Dawncaster'' was released on March 11, 2021 on both IOS and Android and has since received two expansion packs. The first called "Metamorphosis" released on April 10, 2022 and included new cards, portraits, and balance changes. The second released on August 20, 2022 called "Death Of Divinity" featured 32 new cards as well as entirely new scenarios, including new enemies and bosses.

* AntiDebuff: Certain Enchantments can make you temporarily or fully impervious to status ailments like Burn, Slow, and Poison. Similarly, certain enemies are also impervious to debuffs. Undead characters for example cannot be afflicted with Bleeding...Some bosses also have the innate ability of cleansing a status affliction at the start of their turn.

* BossBonanza: In the FinalDungeon you have to defeat 3 bosses fashioned after the grim reaper who are guarding the entrance to the Arch Demon.
* CastFromHitPoints: There are some strength cards that require you to lose a few HP to play, such as one to gain stacks of Anger and one to get more energy to play cards. There is also a shrine that allows you to convert the cost of any playable card into 4 HP instead of using your energy allotted for a turn to play. This can be very helpful for higher cost cards since as long as it won't kill you, you'd always be able to play them, rather than needing to accumulate energy over multiple turns. Hurting yourself is also the most dependable way to get Frenzy effects, since not every foe is "nice" enough to hit you with Poison or Doom.

* DeckClogger: Corruption cards are cards that either give you a small StatusBuff for a price (typically an HP cost or taking a compensating debuff) or just purely negative cards that give you a negative StatusEffect. The former are almost always playable while the latter aren't, however they will remove themselves from your deck once the turn they are drawn has passed.

* EquipmentUpgrade: You can upgrade any attack card by visiting either the blacksmith (who'll upgrade all basic attacks) or the alchemist (who'll upgrade any attack card), and doing so increases the damage the card does by 1 single point. All other card types however cannot be upgraded.

* FirePurifies: The Acolytes that show up in the alternate scenario for Canto V believe in a fire deity that will use fire to reveal truth and cleanse imperfections to defeat the darkness.

* ClassAndLevelSystem: There are 7 character classes to choose from, and each one (minus the Scion) has its own progression that can be leveled up using experience points accrued from previous runs. Leveling up a character to certain thresholds unlocks new weapons, abilities, and character portraits.

** Scion: Yellow/Gold, and starts off with the skill points of the associated class of the weapon you select.

* FighterMageThief: Save for Scion, the main roles one can play are either these roles straight up or a combination of these roles. Warrior, Arcanist, and Rogue are the classic roles, respectively. Hunter is a fighter-thief hybrid, combining strength and dexterity; Knight is a fighter-mage hybrid, combining strength and magical ability; and Seeker is a mage-thief hybrid, combining magical skill and dexterity.

* DeckClogger: Corruption cards are cards that either give you a small StatusBuff for a price (typically an HP cost or taking a compensating debuff) or just purely negative cards that give you a negative StatusEffect. The former are almost always playable while the latter aren't, however they will remove themselves from your deck once the turn they are drawn has passed.

* FireIceLightning: Arcanist has access to magic cards of all three types, while the staff you pick can have one of those three qualities.

* MagicMusic: Implied to be the case with the "Performing" status. After a certain number of performances ranging from 2-6 you automatically get one of the following effects: a single point of dexterity energy, inflict the Charmed status on the enemy 3x your current level, draw 4 cards, heal HP, do 5 damage to the enemy for each level you have.

** Arcanist: Blue, and starts off with 2 skill points in intelligence, which is color coded blue as well
** Rogue: Green, and starts off with 2 skill points in dexterity, which is color coded green as well
** Warrior: Red, and starts off with 2 skill points in strength, which is color coded red as well
** Hunter: Orange,and starts off with 1 skill point in dexterity and 1 in strength
** Knight: Purple, and starts off with 1 skill point in intelligence and 1 in strength
** Seeker: Teal/Turquoise, and starts off with 1 skill point in dexterity and 1 in intelligence
** Scion: Yellow/Gold, and starts off with the skill points of the associated class of the weapon you select

** Charmed - When the afflicted's HP falls below the number of stacks of Charmed on them, their health zeroes and they die.

* NonDamagingStatusInflictionAttack: Some cards allow you to apply one of the several StatusEffects to the enemy without dealing any damage. These are useful because such cards typically apply more stacks (4-5) of the status effect ''because'' there's no damage. Most {{Status Infliction Attack}}s only apply 2-3 stacks or make the number of stacks applied equal to the amount of damage inflicted, meaning that Armored foes or foes with Impervious would not be affected.

** Anger - increases the damage of all direct damage to the enemy by 1 per each stack of Anger.
** Focus - after 5 stacks of focus are accumulated, draw 1 card extra per turn
** Haste - lowers the energy cost for the next X amount of cards per stack of Evasion one already has.
** Evasion - evade the next X melee action(s) per stack of evasion
** Impervious - this one's a strange one. For incoming direct damage, it functions just like armor, negating 1 point of damage per stack. However, for damage dealt via status effects (bleed, poison, burn) it will completely negate it ''without'' losing a stack
** Reflect - an AttackReflector that bounces back incoming damage per stack of reflect.

** Bleeding - Attacks do an additional +1 bleed damage per stack of bleed
** Brittle - the afflicted takes +1 damage from melee strikes per stack of Brittle
** Burn - per each stack of Burn deal 1 damage at the end of the afflicted's turn
** Charmed - if the afflicted's HP falls below the number of stacks of Charmed on them, they die automatically

** Deep Wound - if the afflicted accumulates 5 Deep Wounds, they automatically die
** Frozen - Decrease the damage from all attack cards by 1 per stack of Frozen
** Jinx - Nullify the next card played
** Poison - the afflicted loses 1 HP per stack of Poison whenever they play a card
** Slow - Add 1 stack every time the afflicted plays a card. Increase the cost of the next cards drawn by 1 per stack of Slow

* StatusBuff: Several.

* NonDamagingStatusInflictionAttack: Some cards allow you to apply one of the several status effects to the enemy without dealing any damage. These are useful because such cards typically apply more stacks (4-5) of the status effect ''because'' there's no damage. Most {{Status Infliction Attack}}s only apply 2-3 stacks or make the number of stacks applied equal to the amount of damage inflicted, meaning that Armored foes or foes with Impervious would not be affected.

* StatusInflictionAttack: Several cards allow you to both deal damage and afflict one of the many status ailments to the enemy. For example, one of the starting cards for the Arcanist, Frost Shard, does damage and afflicts the enemy with the Frozen status ailment for every point of damage that landed.