Rule changes & errata

Recent official changes to how the core rules work.

Each answer links to the full, sourced ruling in the Disputes tool.

Q: What is the change? How does it work?

Fighters Fighter Any miniature or token you control on the battlefield — your hero plus any sidekicks. are still defeated Defeated A fighter at zero health is removed from play. Defeat your opponent's hero to win. as per the normal rules. The endgame change only affects when you check if there is a winner. By the previous rules, the game immediately Immediately An IMMEDIATELY effect resolves the moment combat cards are revealed, before the other windows. ends when the penultimate hero Hero Your primary fighter, with a character card, special ability and unique deck. If your hero is defeated, you lose. is defeated (in 1v1 and FFA, when there is only 1 hero side remaining, in 2v2 when there is only 1 team remaining). Now, you only check if there is a winner at the end of the After Combat After combat An AFTER COMBAT effect resolves once damage from the combat has been dealt. effects. IMPORTANT: Active players win in cases where both heroes are defeated; the order in which heroes are defeated does not matter for the endgame check.

Check dispute

Q: What is the change? How does it work?

The team has been working on refining the explanation of some of the niche interactions in the game. One of these is how the effect ‘End the Turn’ interacts with the game. It causes the game to stop processing any effects when it happens, and jump directly to the ‘Cleanup Step’ for that action, and then proceed onto the ‘End of Turn Step’ of the turn. By reviewing the detailed ability Special ability The unique rule printed on a hero's character card. It is always in effect unless the card says otherwise. descriptions in the rulebook and applying the logic of consistently resolving the Cleanup Step, the following ability rulings apply.

Check dispute

Q: What does it mean when a player is Dormant?

Whether or not a player is Dormant is checked at the end of an action. If a player has no fighters Fighter Any miniature or token you control on the battlefield — your hero plus any sidekicks. remaining on the board, that player is Dormant. This is largely to make sure that weird edge cases where player can get effects after After combat An AFTER COMBAT effect resolves once damage from the combat has been dealt. they die function in line with the expectation of the new End Game rules. Dormant Players don't take actions during During combat A DURING COMBAT effect resolves after immediate effects and before attack and defense values are compared. their turn, draw Draw Take the top card of your action deck into your hand. cards or discard cards, their fighters can't take damage Damage A successful attack deals damage equal to its value, reducing the target's health., and they can't be chosen as an opponent or be affected by anything that affects all opponents.

Check dispute

Q: What is the change? How does it work?

Placement effects that do not specify Other or Empty can choose a space Space A single position on the battlefield. Fighters occupy one space and move between connected spaces along printed lines. with a fighter Fighter Any miniature or token you control on the battlefield — your hero plus any sidekicks. in it.. If you choose a space that already has a fighter, then the placement would then not happen, because you can't place Placed A fighter set directly into a space by an effect. Placing is not a maneuver, so it ignores normal movement rules. into that space. This means that fighters can stay in their current space as a result. (See: Hyde's Pure Evil scheme Scheme A scheme action: play a scheme (purple) card from your hand to resolve its non-combat effect..) This is a correction of the prior ruling that would force the fighter to leave their current space if a mandatory Placement effect happened. Now if an effect doesn't clarify ‘other/empty’ for the space, the space your are in is a ‘legal’ choice and choosing it simply causes the placement effect to fail since the space is occupied.

Check dispute