Why have some card costs increased?

[Dizzy49]

Ok, this keeps happening and I just do not understand why. Randomly some of my cards will increase. They aren't cards with Strain, it's not a Torment ability, or a monster ability.

Right now my tinkerer's Gear Up costs 2. I'm on turn 2, and the Templar's Shadow Sword costs 1. The only creatures on the board are Cool Crawlers, Chaotic Goat, and Mirage Lancer. Is this a bug, or what?

[Dizzy49]

Ugh, seriously. Field Flux is supposed to be 0 and it's 3!? Organize, also 0 is now 1. On the Templar Side Swipe should be 1 and it's 4, and Safeguard should be 1 and it's 2, and Shadow Strike should be 0 and it's 1. I'm dead, I have 48 damage coming in, and I can barely do a thing.

[Dizzy49]

I think I figured it out, I think the Cool Crawlers gave me a Frozen debuff that froze a card, so it increased their cost. There is another one that burns cards.
It would be nice if there was an indicator that showed I was hit with it and that's what happened.

[forcecomdr]

Yeah, that happens to me too. I assumed it something a mob does, because suddenly a card will have a higher, red number. It's annoying.

[Whitey]

Cool crawlers do that. Actually, all "cool" monsters do. They inflict "freeze" which make a random cards increase in cost by X amount (I can't tell if this amount is 1, but it does mention your influence count when trying to catch the "freeze" tooltip, so I don't know for sure). Basically, for each "cool" monster attacking you one of your cards will increase in cost.

[Dizzy49]

@Whitey I believe it says the unblocked damage is distributed across random cards.

[Whitey]

Originally posted by Dizzy49:

@Whitey I believe it says the unblocked damage is distributed across random cards.

....I feel like that's not the case. I've NEVER been able to block the frozen status.