Changelog

Imbue subnote added for clarity with exalted

Phantasmagoria incorrectly specifying reflexive trigger was amended

Replacement effects in a resolving player action + resolution checks (if you do, when you do, etc.) note added for clarification

Timestamps for boons/masteries clarified

Restructured End of Combat step to be better in line with other sections

Added clarity to preserve objects + banishment interaction

Reworded Attacking 2.c. for better resolution of edge-case interactions

Typos and other stuff fixed, QOL

Kinda functional change for Everflame Staff: From the last update, " 'as a spell' now counts as a spell subtype for abilities. E.g., Everflame Staff will trigger if a triggered or activated ability does damage "as a spell." This is covered as rule 17 in Abilities.' -> This ruling is incorrect. While this is kind of the intention, the rules don't support a simple way to resolve this interaction, so it is being tabled for now. The changes in Abilities.17 are still valid otherwise.

This way, any effects ascribed to the card, such as Imbued, Brewed, or Prepared will still be copied over. This also has the effect of allowing instances to copy over the state of restriction abilities from the controller of that card source. E.g., if my opponent activates a card with a restriction ability that says Level 10+ and meets this requirement, a copy of that card activation I create (and control) will also have that restriction ability unlocked, even if I do not meet the Level 10+ requirement. This will apply to class bonuses, champion bonuses, etc. The change will also now apply to things such as Empower and also track additional cost payment information.

• This change also specifically affects Empower, which we've changed to reflect the functional changes and moved it to a property of cards on the effects stack. Copies of activations of empowered cards will thereby also be empowered.

The second effect this change will have is the following: Regarding negation effects, negations that target a card activation target specifically an activation instance, not the card itself. The card remains in the effect stack and is removed as a state-based check for when the last activation instance is resolved, fizzles, or is removed from the stack. If the card itself is removed, then all above or pending activations will fizzles due to not having the card reference for the card activation. E.g., Frostbind will banish the card of the activation, moving it from the Effects Stack to Banishment. Any remaining activations of that card fizzle since there is no card to "read" and activate.

While the cards that are added to the effects stack are naturally timestamped, the cards themselves don't follow a specific ordering or placement in the stack. The activations, however, do, and will still follow the structured first-in-last-out ordering for resolution, regardless of what time point their corresponding card was given.

The wording in the Copy section has been slightly reworded with these changes in mind.

Other:

• Bug regarding play permissions fixed

• Split ability resolution and card resolution sections to allow us greater ability to be specific and explicit when discussing one or the other, since "activation" can be ascribed to both cards and abilities. There are no functional changes pertaining to how abilities are activated, tracked, and represented in this update.

• "As a spell" now counts as a spell subtype for abilities. E.g., Everflame Staff will trigger if a triggered or activated ability does damage "as a spell." This is covered as rule 17 in .

• Regarding "modal" triggers: To cover any ambiguities and accommodate future design space, modal triggers will have the mode be determined during resolution, rather than when they are placed on the effects stack. This will clear up interactions with Ciel's Servile Possessions mastery, where, after the triggered ability is added to the Effects Stack during combat, players will be given Opportunity to affect the amount of Omens in banishment before the ability resolves. See , rule 5.b.

Other fixes

Included Pantheon tag in border information

Added section on Statuses

Added section on Dice Results / D Effects for "D6" rolls.

Added ruling for Recovering while having 0 damage counters. E.g., Recover 1 while having 0 damage counters will still trigger "whenever you recover" abilities.

Added note that counters can be placed on card activations.

Modified Names section for clarity regarding restrictions, lineages, and conventions of champion names

Reorganized Imbue keyword to be more comprehensive/combine Imbue types

Added First Boon as a keyword, as well as Level Locked, and Class Locked.

Updated type masterlist

Masteries can get counters (kind of implied, but rules are a little more explicit now)

Broadened language regarding the Ephemeral property (applies to card activations as well as objects; activations that would become objects are only ephemeral when they hit the field, whilst Actions (or non-object) and like card activations become ephemeral on the stack.

Addendum 12/12/25

• Correctly added Anomaly under master type list

• Ammended Attack Declarations to be more explicit with a breakdown of timings for payments and options associated with attack declarations

• Corrected slight bug with Turn One under start of game procedures

• Corrected slight bug with X cost verbiage. X costs for objects are counted as 0 for effects like Unbroken Mustang. For cards (not objects, not on the effects stack) value-wise, still counts as 0 when under a non-discrete set (e.g., "less than 3") but will need to match "X" when part of a discrete set. E.g., specified as "card with cost X" is valid. Finding a "card with cost 0" will not allow selecting a card with X cost while "cards with cost 2 or less" and "cards with cost 0 or X" will be valid for finding an X cost card). (edited)

Reminder to check the GitHub commit history for exact changes

Added section on simultaneous selection rules

Will start to reorganize rules such that each entry, if it is not a general description within a section, will be itemized under subchapter headings to give better indexing of rules. E.g., A chapter flow should read starting with a broad description (if applicable), followed by General Rules, and then subsequent specific subchapters delineating specific areas of those rules. This reformatting will be trialed and prone to feedback. The first section to undergo this change is General Rulesm, which has also received reorganization and clarification changes in each section

Consolidated Durability, Life, Power, and Speed under Stats section

Revamped Object and Targeting section

Other various changes (have fun)

Integrated with GitHub via GitSync. Now any changes will be reflected on GitHub, along with diffs of the changes. This patch will troubleshoot this feature

Cardistry added as a label keyword

Section on special continuous effects added, which includes time distortion

Ephemerate and On Charge added to keywords

• Ephemeral added as a property

Exalted element added

Servile Possessions mastery added

Amended conditions for attacker roles in combat. Previously, the attacker's role ended simultaneously with the loss of all defending units. The attacker role will be preserved until the end of combat, and its attack target can be redirected or reselected from a legal/null target/no target to a valid target

Amended rules for ability activations from the intent. Cards in the intent can activate abilities as if they were objects, with the exception of costs such as resting and sacrificing (since you can't rest or sacrifice an intent, you can only do these actions with objects)

Additional rule for Command attack cards added regarding the intent

Various fixes

• Added missing keywords

Searching and Finding section updated for clarity on instructions to Put or move cards across zones (e.g., Incarnate Majesty, Slime King)

Section on copying clarified, additional support for considerations like Imbue.

Phase ending ruling added (regarding not self-banishing)

Empower 0 ruling added, stacking clause added

Revised section on card/ability resolutions with "default choice" on optional resolving modes added

Other minor fixes...

Modifed rules regarding setting stat characteristics: If an effect sets a value that the object previously did not have, such as setting a champion's power to 3, the effect will concurrently "give" that object stat which is set to a default of 0 for as long as that effect applies.

Slightly expanded public vs private information concerning previously-public or previously-private information and play permissions.

Clarified damage events from the perspective of damage sources.

Clarified Opportunity context in the Materialize phase

Updated typing and characteristics of triggers to inherit those of their sources. This is important for Strategem triggers vs Spellshroud and other similar cases. The definition of Spellshroud has been updated accordingly.

Updated Format Conventions regarding draft to match the TRG (and fixed a minor duplicated numbered list bug)

Cleaned up the section regarding the intent, now should read as intended.

Fixed bug in logic regarding leveling/playing champion requirements (now explicitly have to satisfy legal conditions).

Expanded "discrete events" regarding drawing cards to other similar classes of deck interaction, e.g. banishing, putting into graveyard, etc.

Shifted obedience clause on Intercept in the ability definitions rather than under obedience definitions for clarity.

Various fixes, QOL improvements (such as download link at the top of this page)

Clarified rules for information across zones and last-known information

• Expanded section and added in dedicated page to detailing tracking of card and object information across zones: Card and Object Information

• Functional change to Dusklight Communion (now the effect will apply and persist even if Dusklight Communion leaves the field)

Clarified what happens if an attack card is activated during active combat (it fizzles)

And that a resolved attack card must choose a valid target (can't opt to not pick and let it fizzle)

State checks will test for loss/win conditions first (now explicit)

Fixed On Hit being unclear with regards to combat damage sources (applies to retaliation as well)

Adjusted negative LV rules (split cases for when negative values don't apply.)

Clarified Brew ruling for additional activation costs

Cleaned up Ending the Game section

Reworked properties section. Intrinsic properties has been relabeled to Card Characteristics and is now its own section under General Rules.

Reworked section on Properties and States to be more explicit/straightforward

Added note on copying object activations

Fixed card types only specifying activation at slow speed (playing at slow speed is default)

Vigor is now a triggered ability instead of being part of the turn-based actions during End Step procedures, in line with the intended triggered effect of Agility. This also means that Vigor is no longer redundant. End Phase steps have been adjusted accordingly

Updated Sideboard rules.