Zones
A zone is a place a card can be. Where a card is decides what it can do and who can look at it.
- Base and battlefields: the table. Units and gear sit here, and everyone sees them.
- Hand: cards you've drawn. You play from here. Only you can read them; your opponent sees how many.
- Main Deck: your face-down draw pile. Its order is secret. Everyone can see how many cards are left.
- Rune Deck: a small deck of runes. Chapter 2.
- Trash: used spells, defeated units and discarded cards go here, face up. To discard is to put a card from your hand into your trash.
- Banishment: cards removed in a way that's hard to undo. Face up.
- Champion Zone: your Chosen Champion waits here, face up.
Public means anyone can look. Private means only you can. Cards always go to their owner's zones: your trash is yours, and your opponent's trash is theirs.
You finish playing a spell. Where does it go?
What can your opponent know about your hand?
You haven't drawn a single card. Where is your Chosen Champion?
On your opponent's side, which of these can you look through?
Make your guess, then play the drill to find out.
To draw is to move the top card of your Main Deck into your hand. Some cards draw by themselves: "When I move, draw 1" happens when that unit moves. Try it: draw a card by moving a unit, play it, and take the battlefield.
Words from this lesson
- Zone
- A place a card can be, like your hand or your trash.
- Hand
- Cards you've drawn, which you play from. Only you can read them.
- Main Deck
- Your face-down draw pile. Its order is secret.
- Rune Deck
- Your small separate deck of runes. Chapter 2 explains it.
- Trash
- Your face-up pile of used spells, defeated units and discarded cards.
- Discard
- Put a card from your hand into your trash.
- Banishment
- A face-up place for cards removed in a hard-to-undo way.
- Champion Zone
- Where your Chosen Champion waits until you play it.
- Public
- Anyone can look at it, like the board and both trashes.
- Private
- Only you can look at it, like your hand.
From the Core Rules (2026-10-09): 107–108 — Spaces and zones (Base, Battlefield, Trash, Champion Zone, Main Deck, Rune Deck, Banishment, Hand) · 128–129 — Public and private information