Geverifieerde rulings en officieel bevestigde community-inzichten, met per item de volledige bewijsketen: bron, citaat en klikbare §-verwijzingen.
Find Your Center
When Find Your Center is given Repeat via Temporal Portal, its cost reduction applies only once (to the base cost, not to the Repeat cost). The final spell costs 4: base cost 3, plus Repeat cost 3, minus the single cost reduction of 2. Citaat uit de bron: “Find Your Center's cost reduction applies only once and the final spell costs 4—its base cost of 3, plus its Repeat cost of 3, minus its cost reduction of 2”
Gear cards enter play in the Ready state (not Exhausted), so they can be used immediately; Gear always enters at the controller's Base.
“Gear cannot hold or conquer battlefields, and can only exist in base. If a Gear card is played at a battlefield, it is immediately recalled to the base.”
“Gear enters play Ready, so you can use it right away. It always goes to your Base.”
Arise!
Arise! is revised to use a reflexive trigger: it first plays a 2 M Sand Soldier unit token for each Equipment you control, then 'Then do this:' readies up to two of them, allowing players to respond between the two effects. Citaat uit de bron: “Play a 2 M Sand Soldier unit token for each Equipment you control. Then do this: Ready up to two of them.”
Each Battlefield can only award 1 point per turn; moving a unit away and replacing it with another unit in the same turn does not grant additional points.
“Moving away from a battlefield and back to it with another unit the same turn will not gain you a bonus point.”
“Each Battlefield only gives you 1 point per turn max. You can't move a unit away and move a new one in to score twice.”
Score at/above Victory Score (§466.1)
Per rule 466.1.b, when a player tries to gain a point through a Score and their current total is one point from the Victory Score or higher, every such point becomes the 'final point': if from Conquering, the player draws 1 instead of gaining the point, unless they have scored each battlefield that turn. Citaat uit de bron: “every point at or above the Victory Score becomes the final point”
During the Beginning Phase, each player channels 2 Runes from the top of their Rune Deck; the second player channels 3 Runes on their very first turn to compensate for going second.
“If you're going second on your very first turn, you get 3 Runes instead to help catch up.”
Rumble, Hotheaded
Rumble, Hotheaded can choose a Mech token to recycle. Tokens inherit the recycle destination of their type—a token that is a unit or gear is recycled to the Main Deck. The token then vanishes (as tokens do whenever they leave the board), but it still counts as 'the unit you recycled,' so Rumble can check its Might. Citaat uit de bron: “tokens 'inherit' the recycle destination of their type(s), so a token that's a unit or gear is recycled to your Main Deck… it still counts as 'the unit you recycled' and Rumble can check its Might.”
When an Attacker destroys all Defending units and still has units remaining, they conquer the Battlefield and immediately score 1 point; additionally, every time a Battlefield is conquered without winning the game, the conquering player draws a card.
“every time you conquer a Battlefield but it doesn't win you the game, you get to draw a card”
Target – publicly visible (Public zone)
A target must be in a Public zone: a player, a unit on the board, a spell on the chain, or a card in the trash can all be targets. A card in a player's hand cannot be a target because it is not in a Public zone; if you must choose a card from your hand, you do so as the spell or ability resolves. Citaat uit de bron: “A card in your hand cannot be a target, because it's not in a Public zone.”
Units with the Ganking ability may move directly from one Battlefield to another, whereas normal units can only move between their controller's Base and a Battlefield.
“only units with the Ganking ability may move between battlefields”
“Some units have Ganking though, which lets them move from Battlefield to Battlefield.”
Rell, Magnetic
Rell, Magnetic is revised to use a reflexive trigger for Equipment attachment: when she attacks and you play a qualifying Equipment for free, 'then do this:' attaches it to her as a separate chain item, allowing players to respond before the attachment resolves. Citaat uit de bron: “If you do, then do this: Attach it to me.”
Action Spells may be played during the controller's turn or during a Showdown; on an opponent's turn, a player may only play Action Spells during Showdowns.
“Most Spells are labeled Action, which means you can play them during your turn or during a Showdown. If it's not your turn, you can only play Action Spells during Showdowns.”
reflexive trigger
Reflexive triggers, identified by 'then do this:' language, create new chain items to handle effects that need to offer players a chance to react between two effects, or that must happen after the rest of a spell or ability resolves. Citaat uit de bron: “Reflexive triggers, identified by 'do this:' language, create new chain items to handle things that need to offer players a chance to react, or just need to happen later”
Recalling a unit to base via Zhonya's Hourglass is explicitly not considered a move.
“Send it to base. This isn't a move.”
Swain, Visionary
Swain, Visionary's conquest ability scores 1 extra point by checking whether you've played a non-token unit, a non-token gear, and a spell this turn. These three conditions can be satisfied by different cards; a single card satisfies only its own types. Citaat uit de bron: “Swain only checks whether you've played a non-token unit, a non-token gear, and a spell. Checks like that do not care whether they were satisfied by multiple cards or a single card.”
A player's main deck may only contain cards belonging to the domains listed on their Champion Legend card.
“her deck must only contain cards of the Mind and Order domain”
“You can only put cards in your deck that match your Legend's Domains”
Jax, Unmatched
Jax's Equipment everywhere have Quick-Draw: each gains Reaction, meaning when you play it, you attach it to a unit you control. This is captured in the revised text. Citaat uit de bron: “Your Equipment everywhere have Quick-Draw. (Each gains Reaction. When you play it, attach it to a unit you control.)”
Even when no enemy units are present during a Showdown, both players may still play Actions and Reactions in an attempt to remove the attacking units.
“Even if there are no enemy units, players may still play Actions and Reactions to try and remove the attacking units.”
Falling Star
Falling Star is no longer a reflexive trigger. All targets are chosen upfront before anything resolves; the opponent can react before resolution; then each chosen unit takes 3 damage on resolution. The same unit may be chosen for both instances. Citaat uit de bron: “you pick all the targets up front, the other player can react before any of it resolves, and then each of the units affected take the damage on resolution”
Signature Cards are Legend-specific cards that can only be included in a deck matching their designated Legend, with a maximum of 3 total Signature Cards permitted across the entire deck.
“You can only use them with their matching Legend, and you can't put more than 3 total Signature Cards in your deck.”
344.2
Rule 344.2 updated: a Showdown is opened during the Cleanup at the end of the action that caused the Battlefield to become Contested if there aren't units controlled by different players at that Battlefield — replacing the old condition of 'the Battlefield is uncontrolled when it becomes Contested.' Citaat uit de bron: “If Control of a Battlefield is Contested and there aren't units controlled by different players there, a Showdown is opened during the Cleanup at the end of the action.”
Ravenborn Tome's Bonus Damage effect now applies only to the next spell played 'this turn,' preventing the bonus from carrying forward to future turns.
“The next spell you play this turn deals 1 Bonus Damage.”
battlefield control without units
When a player controls the battlefield but has no units there (achievable via Hostile Takeover or Stormbringer), the current rules have a gap with no obvious outcome. The interim ruling is to start a noncombat showdown as the least disruptive way to handle this scenario. Citaat uit de bron: “starting a noncombat showdown is the least disruptive way to handle this scenario”
A unit's Might value represents both the damage it deals in combat and the total damage it can absorb before being destroyed.
“Might... this number shows how much damage they deal AND how much they can take”
Battlefield Control (open state, rule 187.4.c) (§187.4.c)
Per rule 187.4.c, a player loses control of a battlefield only in a cleanup that occurs while the turn is in an Open state and they have no units there (and no Combat/Showdown is ongoing). Control cannot be lost during a cleanup while items remain on the chain, enabling effects that kill or banish a unit and then play a new one to target that same battlefield. Citaat uit de bron: “If a player has no Units at a Battlefield and the turn is in an Open state, they lose Control of that Battlefield in the following cleanup”
Draven, Vanquisher
Draven, Vanquisher reads 'When I attack or defend, you may pay C. If you do, …' — because 'you may pay C' does not fall in the expected cost-within-instructions sequence position, the resource payment is not the base cost of the triggered ability. It is paid on resolution of the ability (not during finalization) and functions as a game action checked by 'if you do', not as a cost. Citaat uit de bron: “those resources are not a cost and are paid on resolution of the ability and not finalization.”
Target – you and you alone choose (other players' choices excluded)
If another player is involved in the choice, the object is not a target. Cull the Weak has no targets because all players are instructed to choose and kill a unit — the choice is not made by you alone. Citaat uit de bron: “Cull the Weak doesn't have any targets, because you're instructed to kill a unit as part of an instruction for all players to choose and kill a unit.”
Cruel Patron (187.4.c example) (§187.4.c)
If a player kills their only unit at a battlefield to pay Cruel Patron's additional cost, a cleanup is triggered, but control of the battlefield is not lost because Cruel Patron is on the chain. The player may then choose to play Cruel Patron to that same battlefield. Citaat uit de bron: “because there is an item on the chain (Cruel Patron) I don't lose control of the battlefield”
Astral Heron
Astral Heron's triggered ability discounts the next card played (added to the chain and queued for finalization) this turn after the ability resolves. Erratum wording: 'When you play your first card each turn, if I'm at a battlefield, the next card you play this turn costs [2]AA less.' Citaat uit de bron: “It discounts the next card played (added to the chain and queued for finalization) this turn after the ability resolves.”
Heimerdinger, Inventor (§727.1.b.1)
Heimerdinger, Inventor can gain Jayce, Defender of Tomorrow's Empowered> activated ability (ready 2 gear) even if Jayce is not empowered, because a dependent ability exists on the card for reference and evaluation before its condition is met (rule 727.1.b.1.). Heimerdinger himself must be empowered to satisfy the ability's activation condition. Citaat uit de bron: “The Dependent Ability is present on the card for the sake of reference or evaluation until the Condition is met … Heimerdinger, Inventor is exactly one such effect.”