Community Update - January 2026

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Greetings Skylords!

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

 

Happy New Year, Skylords!
The yearly feedback survey is back, giving you the chance to share your thoughts on the current state of the game and help guide our development priorities. We’re also approaching the end of the Natural Selection season, after which we’ll be taking a short break between seasons to properly prepare for what comes next.

On top of that, we have a brand-new card reveal to share, along with an update on the ongoing voice actor search. Let’s dive in and take a closer look at what’s happening in Skylords Reborn this month.

 

• Yearly Feedback Survey

Every year, Skylords Reborn invites the community to take part in our Feedback Survey. As a fully community-driven project, your opinions play a crucial role in shaping the future of the game. We want to better understand what you love, what could be improved, and where you’d like to see the project go next.

Taking a few minutes to fill out the survey helps us refine existing features, set development priorities, and make Skylords Reborn more welcoming to both current players and newcomers alike. Your feedback truly makes a difference.

As a small thank-you for your time, every player who completes the survey will receive two boosters. All responses are completely anonymous, so feel free to share your honest thoughts.

• New Card Reveal: Dark Mind

Dark Mind is a new Tier 2 Shadow flying unit that brings some additional crowd control options to the faction. With its confusion effect turning enemies against each other, it offers a powerful and faction-themed way to disrupt fights. The card has a very simplistic design, but helps fill some gaps in early-game Shadow decks.

Let’s take a closer look at the card.

Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. 

 

Bewitching Blast
Every 5 seconds, the unit projects psychic energy at an enemy dealing 220 damage. Attacked units will be confused, which will make it impossible for them to distinguish between friend and foe. Lasts for 5 seconds.

Design notes:

Dark Mind is a new T2 Shadow flying unit. It uses the Parasite Swarm model, scaled up to M-sized, and applies a confusion effect on application. This makes it a powerful unit as confusion is one of the strongest CC effects in the game as it turns units against their allies. Shadow has not had a new card added to it since the game rereleased. Over the years, we have steadily eroded the strength of Pure Shadow in PvP while adding cards to every other faction. This has left Shadow's T2 in PvP in an increasingly bad place as it keeps the same old tools while other factions again more flexibility. In terms of PvE, Shadow also lacks a more traditional flying unit and a way to manipulate enemies outside of Nether Warp. Dark Mind will therefore fill a gap in the faction in a way properly fitting to Shadow's identity.

 

• A Break Between Seasons

This month marks the final stretch of the Natural Selection season. the past few months have been pretty hectic for all of us - with lots of events, plenty behind-the-scenes work, and, of course - Christmas. Since we want to make sure that we deliver the best experience possible, we have decided to delay the release of the next season by a month.

This means that once Natural Selection concludes, the next season will begin on March 1st 2026.

Since the seasons began, we’ve been constantly gathering feedback from the community. With this in mind, we’re using the yearly feedback survey as an opportunity to hear from a wider audience and learn how you feel about seasons and potential breaks between them.

 

• Voice Actors Search #3 - Evaluation

Today marks the deadline for submitting recorded takes for our voice actor applications. All received submissions will now be passed along to the judges for evaluation, and we’ll be sure to keep the applicants informed as the process moves forward. Over the next few days, we’ll also be keeping an eye on our inbox in case any last-minute submissions find their way to us.

Altogether, 35 people applied, including several applicants who aren’t even players of the game, which is a fantastic result! Thank you to everyone who took the time to apply and lend their voice to the project.

 

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

Throughout the year, we hosted multiple in-game events, giving players new challenges to tackle and fresh reasons to return.
Here are a few fun facts about events in 2025:

• We had 3 special events - Q&A stream, Mega Quiz and Card Design Contest
• We hosted 8 PvE events with 650 replays submitted in and over 400 total participants
• We hosted 10 PvP events, bringing together 94 participants
• Together with the community, the Skylords Reborn project sponsored prizes worth a total of 1 200 000 BFP 

A big thank you to all the Skylords who took part in these events. Your enthusiasm keeps the community thriving - and rest assured, we’re already planning another year packed with activities just for you. ❤️

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!
 

Current events:

• It's Christmas time! -> From 20th of December till 6th of January
Play 1 match of any gamemode between 24th of December and the 6th of January to get the Promo Santa card.
The reward can only be claimed once per account.

 

• Save Christmas! -> From 20th of December till 6th of January
Win the featured community maps: Elfmaster, Christmas Fleet and Naughty Harvest on expert difficulty between 24th of December and the 6th of January to get the Promo Frost Mage card.
The reward can only be claimed once per account.

Recent events:

• FINISHED - TOME #4 - Reforged! -> Starting 14th of December
A PvP event with TOME rules, where you can make a deck from random cards taken from boosters. Now with the option to reforge unwanted cards! You can watch the event recording here.
 

 • FINISHED - TEAM - Thrilling Epic Action Mission -> Ended 30.11.2025
An exciting 4-player event with an edited Behind Enemy Lines map. You can watch the event recording here.

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us; we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a General booster: HAPP-YNEW-YEAR-2026
Please note: Filling out the feedback survey also rewards you with 2 boosters. 

This code is valid until February 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

You can also sign-up to our e-mail newsletter here.

Archive
• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)  
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update December 2025

[Majora]

Happy 2026 everyone! Finally a new shadow card is coming to the game❤️

I'm very happy with how Dark Mind came out. Elkondo did a great job on that artwork, which saw quite some changes during the process. Perhaps we'll do a art spotlight if people are interested. Resizing Parasite Swarm into a single unit was also a bit more challenging than we originally estimated, but it turned out nicely. 

More cool stuff is on the way for 2026, so I hope you'll stick around! 

[Hrdina_Imperia]

 Woooo, loving the new Shadow card. Looking forward to the new year!

[Didymos]

Happy new year 🙂

fixed, sorry

Edited January 3 by Didymos

[Elkondo]

19 hours ago, Didymos said:

Happy new year 🙂

Personally I'm not too attached to my works, but it's generally considered very disrespectful to take someone's artwork without permission and run it through AI.

[Metagross31]

Happy new year everyone!

The new card looks really cool, but also quite strong! 220 damage is quite the burst on a first attack and 600hp is beyond eruption+1 hit, even for things like Skyfire drake. I guess the 600hp has been chosen to make it vulnerable to an Eruption kill when dazed, right?
I'm really interested to see how it will turn out in practice!

[WindHunter]

I highly recommend everyone fill out the survey. The survey results are why we designed seasons, as the most common request we got was more reasons to login in daily/weekly to play the game and we designed the seasons around that. We want to make sure that we are hitting close to what players want/need. 

Additionally, Forest Elder was last year's most requested promo, and next season's promo was its faction's most requested promo (not announced yet), so your feedback here has a big impact on what we decide to release. 

[Elkondo]

On 1/1/2026 at 4:19 PM, Didymos said:

Happy new year 🙂

fixed, sorry

Thanks for removing it.
If you're interested in the full artwork, not cropped by the card, here it is.