3. Battlefields

Moving

Sending your units out to battlefields, and bringing them home

Units are played to your base, but points are won at battlefields. To get a unit from one to the other, exhaust it, and it goes from your base to a battlefield, or from a battlefield back to your base. That's how you move a unit.

Exhausting it is the whole cost. No runes, and nothing goes on the chain, so your opponent can't answer a move. It just happens.

When you can move

• In your main phase, with nothing on the chain. Not on your opponent's turn, and not while a battlefield is being fought over.
• Once a turn for each unit, as moving exhausts it. A unit you played this turn arrived exhausted, so it can't move until your next turn.
• Several units at once, as long as they all go to the same place. They can come from different places: one from your base and one from a battlefield can move to the other battlefield together.

Where you can move

From your base to a battlefield, or from a battlefield to your base. Not from one battlefield straight to the other.

A few units can. Laurent Bladekeeper says "Ganking (I can move from battlefield to battlefield.)" A unit with Ganking can still do everything other units can, and it can also skip the trip home.

Moving onto a battlefield you already have starts nothing: your unit is just there now, helping you keep it. Moving onto one you don't have is how fights start, and the next pages cover them.