What is the difference between conquering and holding a battlefield?

You conquer when you gain control of a battlefield you have not already scored that turn. You hold when you maintain control of a battlefield during your Beginning Phase and have not already scored it that turn. Either event scores that battlefield, can grant up to 1 point, and triggers its matching Conquer or Hold abilities.

Why did conquering a battlefield not give me my eighth point?

The final point from Conquer has an extra requirement: you must have scored every battlefield that turn. If you have not, you draw 1 instead. Points from sources other than Conquer do not use this restriction. Reaching 8 also does not end the game until a cleanup finds you at or above the Victory Score and strictly ahead of every opponent.

What is a standard move, and where can a unit go?

During your Main Phase, outside a Showdown, Combat, or Closed State, you may exhaust a ready unit to make its standard move. A normal standard move goes from your base to a battlefield or from a battlefield back to your base.

Does a unit exhaust when a spell or ability moves it?

Not unless that spell or ability says so. Exhausting is the cost of the unit’s standard move; it is not an automatic result of every Move effect.

Can I move several units to the same battlefield together?

Yes. You may perform multiple units’ standard moves simultaneously as one game action. They must share the same destination, but they may start in different locations, and all of their exhaust costs are paid simultaneously.

Does Ganking give a unit an extra move?

No. Ganking expands the destinations of that unit’s existing standard move so it may move from one battlefield to another. It does not create an additional move or remove the standard move’s exhaust cost.

Can a unit move or use an exhaust ability on the turn it enters?

Units normally enter exhausted, so they cannot pay an exhaust cost until they become ready. Accelerate lets you pay 1 Energy and 1 matching Power as an additional cost so the unit enters ready; a ready unit can act immediately when the normal timing rules allow it.

What happens if both sides survive combat or have the same total Might?

Both players assign damage and all assigned combat damage is dealt simultaneously. During Combat Cleanup, lethal units die, surviving units heal, and attackers are recalled if defenders remain. If both players still have units there, combat has no result and another Showdown and Combat are staged.

When does damage heal from units?

All surviving units heal during Combat Cleanup and all units heal again during the Ending Phase cleanup. Lethal damage is checked before that healing step, so a unit with lethal damage dies instead of being saved by the automatic heal.

Does a unit die just because its Might becomes 0?

No. Lethal damage must be a nonzero amount equal to or greater than the unit’s Might. A unit at 0 Might survives until it has at least 1 damage marked on it or another effect removes it.

How do runes make Energy and Power, and can I recycle an exhausted rune?

A basic rune has two separate Reaction abilities: exhaust it to add 1 Energy, or recycle it to add 1 Power of its domain. Recycling does not require the rune to be ready, so an exhausted rune may still be recycled. Unspent Energy and Power disappear at the end of the turn.

What is the difference between Action and Reaction?

Action gives a card or ability permission to be used during Showdowns on any player’s turn. Reaction includes every Action permission and also permits use during Closed States while a chain exists. A Reaction does not need to answer a specific card, but you still need an appropriate priority window.

Can I play a card with Hidden on the same turn I hide it?

No. You hide it facedown at a battlefield you control by paying 1 Power during an Open State on your turn. Beginning on the next turn, it gains Reaction and may be played while ignoring its base cost.

Where can a card played from Hidden go or choose targets?

A hidden permanent must be played to the battlefield where it was hidden. Targets chosen by a hidden spell or a hidden permanent’s play effect must normally be at that battlefield, and any unit that effect tells you to play must also be played there.

What happens if a spell or ability loses a legal target before it resolves?

Targets are chosen when the item is finalized on the chain. If a target is illegal when the item resolves, that target is unaffected and instructions linked to it are ignored. Other independent instructions still happen when possible, and the card is still considered played even if every instruction ends up doing nothing.

Does my Chosen Champion return to the Champion Zone after leaving play?

Not by normal means. After you play it, it goes wherever the effect or game rule sends it, usually the trash or your hand. Any Champion Unit with the same name as the card chosen for that slot counts as your Chosen Champion, and the chosen copy is included in the normal three-copy deck limit.

What happens when I try to draw from an empty Main Deck?

You Burn Out: complete as much of the draw as possible, recycle your trash into your Main Deck, choose an opponent to gain 1 point, then finish the draw. If both deck and trash remain empty, repeated attempts can cause repeated Burn Outs.

What exactly does Deflect protect against?

Deflect adds a mandatory Power cost to opposing spells and abilities each time they target that object. It does not prevent the object from being affected by an instruction that does not target or choose it, and multiple Deflect values add together.

How do Tank and Backline change combat damage assignment?

Tank units must receive lethal combat damage before friendly non-Tank units can be assigned damage. Backline units must receive lethal damage after friendly non-Backline units. If one unit has both and the requirements conflict, the assigning player chooses which one of those requirements to satisfy.

Who chooses the order when several abilities trigger at the same time?

One player chooses the order of simultaneous triggers they control. If several players control triggers, the Turn Player orders theirs first, followed by each player in turn order. Because the newest chain item resolves first, triggers placed later will resolve earlier.

Comment jouer à Riftbound TCG

Comment jouer à Riftbound

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Learn how to play Riftbound TCG with the current July 16, 2026 RUP4 rules. This guide covers deck building, setup, runes, turns, reactions, showdowns, combat, scoring, multiplayer modes, and 20 answers to common gameplay questions, with official rule references throughout.

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The turn

Six phases, always in this order. Scoring happens at the START of your turn — you hold battlefields through everyone else's turns to get paid.

1
Awaken
Ready everything you control — units, gear, runes, your Legend. Everything that was exhausted stands back up.
2
Beginning
Start-of-turn effects happen, Temporary permanents die, and then you score 1 point for every battlefield you control (a Hold). This is where patience pays out.
3
Channel
Channel 2 runes from your Rune Deck. They enter ready.
4
Draw
Draw 1 card. If your Main Deck is empty you Burn Out first — an opponent of your choice gains a point, your trash reshuffles into a new deck — and then you still draw.
5
Main
First, every player's Rune Pool empties. Then do things in any order: play cards, move units, activate abilities, start fights. Combats and showdowns happen inside this phase.
6
Ending
End-of-turn effects trigger, then everything winds down: all units heal fully, "this turn" effects expire, stuns wear off, and every rune pool empties. The next player becomes the turn player.

Scoring & winning

Conquer battlefields to score now; hold them to score every turn. The last point has a special rule.

Conquer — you take control of a battlefield you haven't scored this turn: 1 point, immediately.
Hold — at the start of your turn, each battlefield you still control: 1 point.
Each battlefield pays each player at most once per turn, by either route.
Battlefields' own "Conquer" and "Hold" abilities fire when you score them — at most once per turn too.
Some cards grant points directly, and an opponent Burning Out hands you a point if they pick you.

What the full rules say

CR 467–476

The restriction applies while at Victory Score − 1 or higher, and "scored every battlefield" counts both Conquers and Holds this turn.
Burn Out points cannot be prevented or replaced after the first Burn Out in a sequence — an empty deck and empty trash spiral ends the game.
Team modes: battlefields a teammate controlled during your Beginning Phase can't be scored by your team that turn.

Foire aux questions

Réponses directes aux questions sur les règles de Riftbound qui interrompent le plus souvent une première partie, avec les références RUP4 actuelles pour chaque décision.

What happens when I try to draw from an empty Main Deck?: You Burn Out: complete as much of the draw as possible, recycle your trash into your Main Deck, choose an opponent to gain 1 point, then finish the draw. If both deck and trash remain empty, repeated attempts can cause repeated Burn Outs.; Règles 431.1.a., 431.2., 431.3.