Card Types

Every card has a type. The type tells you where the card goes and whether it stays.

• Unit: a creature you play to your base. It stays on the board and fights for you.
• Champion unit: a unit that carries a champion's name as a tag, like Ahri. Your Chosen Champion is one.
• Spell: does what its text says, then is gone. It never stays on the board.
• Gear: an object you play to your base. It stays on the board, like a unit. The exception is gear with Deploy[Deploy]: it's played to a battlefield instead (Chapter 7 shows how).
• Token: a unit or gear made by a card's effect. It was never in your deck.
• Rune: lives in its own small deck, not your Main Deck. Chapter 2 is all about runes.
• Battlefield and Legend: you never play these. They start the game on the table.

Units and gear are permanents: they stay. Spells don't. Your runes pay for the cards you play; the next chapter explains how, and in these drills the table pays for you.

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  A Unit: Ravenbloom Student.
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  A Champion unit: Ahri, Inquisitive.
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  A Spell: Hextech Ray. It acts, then it's gone.
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  A Gear: Pendulum Blade. It stays in your base.
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  Sprite Call is a Spell that makes Sprite tokens: units that were never in your deck.
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  A Rune: Fury Rune. Next chapter.

Try it: play one of each type, then take the battlefield.

From the Core Rules (2026-10-09): Card types: Units, Spells, Gear, Runes, Battlefields, Legends · Tokens (game objects made by effects)