4. Triggers

Ordering your own triggers

When several of your triggers go off at once, you pick the order

Move two units together, and both their "When I move" triggers go off at the same moment. Only one can go on the chain first, so you choose. Whichever goes on last is on top, and resolves first.

Stellacorn Herder — Two move triggers that care about their order

Traveling Merchant — Two move triggers that care about their order

says "When I move, draw 1." says "When I move, discard 1, then draw 1." You move them together, with one card in hand that you want to keep.

on first, on top. The resolves first: you draw. Then the : you discard the card you just drew, and draw again. You keep your card.
on first, on top. The resolves first, and the card you wanted is the only one you can discard.

So put on last the one you want to happen first.

When the order is set

You only choose when triggers go off at the same moment. If they go off at different moments, the earlier one goes on the chain first, and you don't choose.

A move is two moments. First you pay its cost, so the unit becomes exhausted. Then it moves. says "When I become exhausted," so its trigger goes off as the cost is paid, before the move. Move it together with the , and the 's trigger is on the chain before the 's. The 's resolves first, every time.

Try it

Move the and the together, and order their triggers to keep your card.

Set it up on the board

Try it

Move two units whose triggers go off at different moments of the same move.

Set it up on the board