Playing Units

Units are your fighters. Each has a Might (the number on the card): that's how hard it hits and how much damage it can take.

• Pay a unit's cost and put it in your base, or at a battlefield you already control.
• It enters exhausted (turned sideways). It can't move this turn. At the start of your next turn it readies with the rest of your cards.
• Many units do something when you play them ("When you play me, …"). That part happens right away, even though the unit is exhausted.

So a unit you play this turn usually moves next turn. The ones already on the board, Ready, can move now: from your base to a battlefield (the next lesson is all about moving). If the opponent has a unit there, the two fight: each deals damage equal to its Might, and a unit with as much damage as its Might dies. Chapter 4 has the details.

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  Pit Rookie: 2 Energy, 2 Might. When you play it, it buffs another friendly unit.
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  Stellacorn Herder: 3 Might, and it draws you a card whenever it moves.
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  First Mate: when you play it, it readies another unit.

From the Core Rules (2026-10-09): 140 — Units (enter the Board exhausted) · 349 — Playing Cards · 415–416 — Exhaust and Ready