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.”
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.
community (1 bron, trust 0.50, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“every time you conquer a Battlefield but it doesn't win you the game, you get to draw a card”
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.”
Gear cards enter play in the Ready state (not Exhausted), so they can be used immediately; Gear always enters at the controller's Base.
community (2 bronnen, trust 0.75, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“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.”
Spinning Axe (Temporary while attached) (§816.2.a)
When Spinning Axe is attached to a unit, its printed rules text—including its printed Temporary keyword—becomes inactive. If Spinning Axe is separately granted Temporary, only that granted instance is active. Because only one active instance exists, rule 816.2.a does not prevent it from triggering; the inactive printed Temporary is treated as if it did not exist.
Citaat uit de bron: “the grey Temporary doesn't have any function. We can treat it as if it didn't exist for the purposes of rule 816.2.a.”
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.
community (2 bronnen, trust 0.75, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“Moving away from a battlefield and back to it with another unit the same turn will not gain you a bonus point.”
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”
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.
community (1 bron, trust 0.50, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“If you're going second on your very first turn, you get 3 Runes instead to help catch up.”
The empowered status is a temporary modification and not part of a card's printed traits, so it is not copyable by copy effects such as Shady Spectacles. Equipping Shady Spectacles and choosing to copy an empowered unit will not grant the empowered status to the equipped unit.
Citaat uit de bron: “empowered is a status, a temporary modification, and not part of the printed traits of the card, so it will not be copied by Shady Spectacles”
A player can use Profiteer to disempower their own legend (e.g., Ambessa, Matriarch of War) in order to empower another unit such as Kayle. A player controls their own legend; control of legends cannot change.
Citaat uit de bron: “you can disempower Ambessa, Matriarch of War with Profiteer. And yes, you control your own legend.”
Origins cards with the 'to a minimum of 1' clause (e.g., Stupefy) retain that floor and are not receiving errata. The removal of 'minimum of 1' is a design philosophy change beginning with Spiritforged; it does not retroactively change Origins cards.
Citaat uit de bron: “This is a change to our design philosophy beginning with Spiritforged, but Origins cards will maintain their functionality.”
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.
community (2 bronnen, trust 0.75, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“only units with the Ganking ability may move between battlefields”
HOT FEPR is recursive: the procedures that designate tasks as outstanding are themselves steps or substeps that wait until all outstanding tasks and all chain items are completed before moving on.
Citaat uit de bron: “the procedures which designate tasks as outstanding are themselves steps or substeps. Anytime the Core Rules Document says 'the following task(s) become outstanding,' that step itself waits”
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.
community (1 bron, trust 0.50, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“You can only use them with their matching Legend, and you can't put more than 3 total Signature Cards in your deck.”
Target – 'must' be taken actions exclusion (Sigil of the Storm)
Units that use the 'must' wording (like Sigil of the Storm) are excluded from targeting. This category exists to allow cards to require something to happen and ensure it actually does, without making those objects targets.
Citaat uit de bron: “Actions that 'must' be taken are a new category to handle cards like Sigil of the Storm… its purpose is to make sure that we can make cards that require something to happen and make sure it actually d”
If Perched Grimwyrm cannot be legally finalized (no valid play location due to its own restriction), all actions taken as part of playing it are undone and it is returned to the zone it was played from. If you have conquered a different battlefield this turn you may play it there without paying Dragon Roost's additional cost, but not to Dragon Roost itself unless you've conquered it.
Citaat uit de bron: “The actions taken as part of playing Perched Grimwyrm will be undone and it will be returned to the zone it was played from.”
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.
community (1 bron, trust 0.50, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“The next spell you play this turn deals 1 Bonus Damage.”
In Riftbound, 'can't' beats 'can.' Perched Grimwyrm's restriction (can't be played except to a battlefield conquered this turn) is a prohibition that Dragon Roost's permission to play a dragon there cannot overcome.
Citaat uit de bron: “In Riftbound, 'can't' beats 'can.'...Dragon Roost's ability tries to give the Grimwyrm permission to be played to the Roost, but that can't overcome Perched Grimwyrm's own restriction.”
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.
community (1 bron, trust 0.50, officieel bevestigd, status=unreviewed — nog niet gereviewd)
“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.”
If Ride the Wind targets a unit at Vilemaw's Lair and instructs it to move to base, Vilemaw's Lair's 'Units can't move from here to base' negates (does not ignore) the move instruction. Because the instruction is negated rather than ignored, linked instructions such as readying the unit still execute—the unit will be readied.
Citaat uit de bron: “They will be readied...An instruction is not ignored if an ability, effect, or circumstance of the game prevents it from occurring.”
When naming a card or tag in Riftbound, you cannot name something that does not exist in Riftbound. You may identify a card by any information that uniquely identifies it (not just its printed name). If the identifier is ambiguous—e.g., saying only 'Kai'Sa' when multiple Kai'Sa cards exist—no card has been named.
Citaat uit de bron: “you can't name something that doesn't exist in Riftbound … As long as there is no ambiguity as to what card is being named, a player can use whatever method is clear to their opponents and teammates.”
Cleanups work inversely to other HOT FEPR procedures: several tasks are queued at once, and all of them must be completed before the FEPR process will initiate.
Citaat uit de bron: “cleanups work in the inverse, where several tasks are queued at once and all must be completed before the FEPR process will initiate”
If Counter Strike (or any prevent effect) completely prevents Elder Dragon's 1 damage to a unit, that damage is never dealt per rule 437.2.a. Since no damage is dealt, Elder Dragon's passive ability—which redefines lethal damage thresholds for units that have damage marked on them by its controller—has no opportunity to apply to that unit.
Citaat uit de bron: “If the damage is entirely prevented, it is never dealt per rule 437.2.a., and thus there is no opportunity for the passive ability of Elder Dragon to apply”
Damage-increasing replacement effects now also apply during damage assignment, in addition to prevention effects (such as Ki Barrier or Counterstrike) that already applied at that step.
Citaat uit de bron: “damage increasing replacement effects will also apply during damage assignment”
When Baited Hook resolves, kills the targeted unit (the sole unit at a battlefield), and the player plays a unit from the top 5 cards, that unit goes pending on the chain. The outstanding cleanup cannot strip battlefield control while a chain item is pending, so the finalized unit can be played to the same battlefield where the kill occurred.
Citaat uit de bron: “I can't lose control of the battlefield because the played unit is on the chain pending”
A player cannot be compelled to perform an action on cards whose privacy is secret or private if that action specifies a type or quality of card. If such an effect would compel this, the player may ignore it instead. This means Rift Herald's Deathknell cannot force an opponent to play a unit from hand.
Citaat uit de bron: “A player cannot be compelled to perform an action on cards whose privacy is secret or private if that action specifies a type or quality of card.”