Ancestral Cards are a special progression feature designed for high-level players who have already maxed out most of their standard card collections. They provide powerful, permanent combat boosts to help you conquer high-level mines and maintain your competitive edge.
Unlocking Ancestral Cards
Campaign Requirement: This feature unlocks automatically after you reach Mine 100.
Activation Trigger: You will begin utilizing this feature once you receive duplicate cards that have already reached their absolute maximum upgrade level.
How the System Works
Instead of letting extra card duplicates go to waste, the game automatically funnels them into long-term endgame progression:
Automatic Conversion: When you pull a card that is already fully upgraded, it instantly converts into a unique progression resource called Ancestral Knowledge.
Rarity Scaling: The rarer the original duplicate card, the more Ancestral Knowledge you receive from its conversion.
Passive Unlocks: This knowledge accumulates automatically to unlock and level up permanent global passive bonuses.
Provided Benefits
Once unlocked, Ancestral bonuses are permanently active and require no extra resource investment or management. They include:
Increased Goblin Damage: Your active workers hit harder and break campaign obstacles significantly faster.
Improved Dynamite Damage: Explosives deal far more structural damage to rocks when dropped.
⚠️ Important Limitation: These combat effects apply globally across all regular campaign mines, but they do not apply within temporary event mines.
Where to Find Ancestral Cards
Duplicate Conversions: Your main ongoing source is the passive conversion of extra maxed-out cards.
Chest Bonus Rewards: Occasionally, Ancestral Knowledge can drop as a direct bonus reward inside standard chests after you clear Mine 100.