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Card Types

Diagram needed — anatomy of each card type.

Type Played To Has Vigor? Contributes Morale?
Troop Vanguard (battlefield) Yes Yes
Gambit Homeland No No
Dwelling Battlefield or Homeland No No
Territory Centre of table No No
Objective Player deck No No
Token Varies — outside your deck No No

Card Anatomy

Every card includes some or all of the following:

  • Faction Allegiance — Claw Empire, Paw Coalition, The Weald, or Hireling
  • Card Type — Troop, Gambit, Dwelling, Territory, or Objective
  • Provision Cost — paid each Attrition Phase, not when the card is played
  • Vigor — Troops only. Damage dealt in combat.
  • Vitality — Troops only. Health; damage is persistent until healed.
  • Morale — Troops only. Contributes to your army's total Morale Value.
  • Quirks — special abilities and keywords. See Keywords.

A card's type line reads Faction — Card Type, Subtypes, for example:

Paw Coalition — Pike Troop, Rabbit Partizan Claw Empire — Pike Troop, Coyote Conscript Hireling — Troop, Fox Smuggler


Card Text Timing

Card text When it fires
Phase: (e.g. "Muster Phase: …") Takes a full turn to come into effect.
When played, When destroyed, etc. Fires immediately on the trigger described.

See Card Text Timing for details.