I was noticing that too.
Was a pleasant surprise to see it's 2x2 ... was expecting 3x3.
Will be a while til I have 30 Gold runes saved up tho.
And my kingdom is currently packed! Need more expansions to open up.
Decided to try for Kiln first before Alicorn and luckily recently got 10th gold rune but now that I have ten resisting the alicorn is getting harder