Keywords

Keyword Abilities

Keyword abilities are unique effects of cards that cannot stack.

Agile

• This unit can attack the turn you play it.

Ambush

• This unit can block the turn you play it.

Can't Attack

• The card with this keyword can't attack while having the keyword.

Can't Block

• The card with this keyword can't block while having the keyword.

Deadly

• Kills any unit it damages.

Duelist

• Can attack enemy units directly (like an Active).

Fast

• You can play another card

Flying

• Can only be blocked by units with Flying (or Leap).

Immortal

• Can't be silenced or copied. Returns to owner's hand when destroyed or removed from the game. (Not available to players: only found on hero rewards)

Innate

• Always starts in your starting hand.

Leap

• Can block Flying units.

Lifebond

• When this card deals damage, you gain that much life.

Overrun

• When blocked, this unit deals excess damage to the defending player.

Rebound

• The first time this card would go to the discard pile, return it to your hand and it loses Rebound permanently (except if Milled).

Regenerate

• Regains all lost HP at end of turn.

Unblockable

• Unable to be blocked.

Untargetable

• Can't be targeted or chosen by actions or abilities (including friendly ones).

Ward

• Cancels the effect of one enemy Action, Active ability, or triggered ability on this unit (then loses Ward permanently).

Unofficial Keyword Abilities

Rule of 7: According to the devs, a keyword can be officially implemented into the game if 7 or more cards have the keyword.

Counter

• A spell that is countered is put into the graveyard instead of doing its effect. It is essentially negated.
• 1 cards in game. Shadow Consultant

Endure X

• Has +X HP. When this takes damage, heal X HP, up to the damage taken.
• 3 cards in game. Ickling, Blue Ickling, Menes, Pharaohs' Sickle

Harmonize

• This unit gets +1/+1 for each other ally unit that shares a tribe with it or has this ability.
• 3 cards in game. Grallaxian Soda Jerk, Vox's Polyphony, Biosludge

Merge

• Add this unit's stats and non-Merge abilities to another unit. Banish this until that unit leaves play.
• 6 cards in game. Pugilistic Parasite, Brutish Blob, Crawking Crow, Kasei Tricksune, Hydraxi Battlesuite, Tormented Image

Hook Words

Hook Words are the term for keywords that share a trigger ("hook"), but can have different effects when triggered.

Active

• Use this ability (during the Main Phase) instead of attacking or blocking for an effect.

Entomb

• Does something when it dies.

Feed

• Gives a bonus to each unit you play after this card this turn (Triggers after play ability of units).

Frenzy X

• When this is blocked, it deals X damage to its blockers (Frenzy is followed by a number which replaces X).

Rage

• Does something when it takes damage.

Summon

• Does something when you play this (from hand).

Ability Step Words

Duel

• The unit attacks another unit directly, as with the Duelist ability (no reminder text).

Ready

• Allows a unit to act again.

Silence

• Remove all abilities from a unit permanently.

Terminology

Banish

• Removes a card from the game.

Discard

• Move a card from the hand into the discard (no reminder text).

Exhaust

• Prevents a unit from attacking, blocking or using active abilities.

Heal

Healed unit returns to their current max HP. Counts as no damaged.

Herald X

• Give the top unit of your deck +X/+X.

Mill

• Puts cards from the deck into the graveyard (See Mill).

Scour X

• Look at the top X cards of your deck. You can decide if you want to discard each one of these cards separately.