Q: When am I offered augments, and how many do I get?

You are offered augments three times, on rounds 2-1, 3-2 and 4-2. Each offer shows three choices and you keep one. That makes three picks in a normal game. Offers can be rerolled. One game-opening event grants an extra augment reroll for the whole game. Note: Some picks hand you a whole extra augment on the spot. So the number you end up holding can be higher than three.

Question 1

What is a Prismatic augment, and how is it different from Silver and Gold?

Accepted Answer

A Prismatic augment is the top of three power bands: Silver, Gold and Prismatic.

Silver effects are the smallest.
Gold sits in the middle.
Prismatic holds the biggest, game-shaping ones.

Every augment carries exactly one band. The band belongs to the whole offer round, so all three cards in front of you share it. Browse them all on the augments list.

Note: The band caps how large an effect may be. It never promises the augment fits your board.

Question 2

When am I offered augments, and how many do I get?

Accepted Answer

You are offered augments three times, on rounds 2-1, 3-2 and 4-2. Each offer shows three choices and you keep one. That makes three picks in a normal game.

Offers can be rerolled.
One game-opening event grants an extra augment reroll for the whole game.

Note: Some picks hand you a whole extra augment on the spot. So the number you end up holding can be higher than three.

Question 3

Are my augment tiers random each game, or fixed in advance?

Accepted Answer

The band of each offer is decided by the game, not by you.

The three offers are not three independent rolls. Published odds are given for the whole three-round path, so some orders are far more likely than others.

Opening low and rising is the common path.
Every offer landing top band is rare.

Note: Whether everyone in the lobby walks the same path is not stated by any source we could confirm.

Question 4

Why is the augment that shifts my next tier sometimes missing from my choices?

Accepted Answer

Because there would be nothing to shift into. There are only three bands. A raise cannot climb past the top one, and a drop cannot fall below the bottom one.

The game already knows the band of your next offer, so:

The raise is not offered when that next offer is already top band.
The gold-for-a-downgrade trade is not offered when it is already bottom band.

Note: It is a hard removal, not a reduced chance.

Question 5

Do two tier-changing effects stack? Can I climb two bands?

Accepted Answer

No further than the ends. A shift moves your next offer only, and by one step.

One kind of pick raises the band.
Another lowers it in exchange for gold.

There are exactly three bands. So a raise cannot lift you above the top one, and a drop cannot push you below the bottom one. Two raises would also have to land on separate offers. Treat a shift as a one-step nudge, not a ladder.

Note: Whether two shifts held at once compound is not documented.

Question 6

Does rerolling an augment choice change its band?

Accepted Answer

No. The band belongs to the whole offer round, not to one card, so all three choices share it. A game-opening event that sets a round's band sets it for every augment offered then.

Rerolling swaps a choice for another augment. It buys you more looks, not a better band.

Note: This is not the same button as a shop reroll, which costs gold and redraws champions.

Question 7

Can anything outside my own picks change which bands I am offered?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A randomly chosen event fires at the start of the game and can fix the band of your offers. See encounters.

Some set every offer to the middle or the top band.
Others set only the first offer.
Others set only the last.

They replace the normal draw rather than nudge it. Many other events are possible, so this will not happen every game.

Note: How a personal one-step shift behaves on top of a fixed band is not documented.

Question 8

Is a Prismatic augment always the best pick?

Accepted Answer

No. The band caps how large an effect is allowed to be. It says nothing about whether that effect fits the board you are building.

A top-band augment built around a plan you are not running is worth less than a small one that doubles your current line. Unseen rules also shape the offer. You cannot be shown three economy augments in one round.

Note: There is even a pick that trades your next band down on purpose. Read the offer, not the frame.

Question 9

Is trading a weaker future augment for gold now worth it?

Accepted Answer

It can be, but treat it as an economy play.

You are paid gold at once.
The bill lands on your next offer, which drops one band.
The drop cannot take you below the bottom band, since nothing sits under it.

Cash early compounds into levels and rerolls. So the swap is strongest while there is still time to spend it.

Note: Separately, picks that hand you an extra augment of a named band also pay a little gold on top.

Question 10

Is an augment's tier the same as a champion's cost tier?

Accepted Answer

No. They share only the word tier.

An augment's band (Silver, Gold or Prismatic) is a rarity carried by the augment itself. It caps how strong one of your offers may be.

A champion's cost tier is a shop price rank from 1 to 5. It drives two things:

How often that champion appears in your shop at each level.
How many copies exist in the shared pool.

Note: cost-tier upgrades never change which augments you see.

Augment Tier

What enables Augment Tier (10)

Augments that raise Augment Tier (10)

Prismatic (2)

Gold (4)

Silver (4)

See also

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