8.0 Cards and Tokens

 

8.1 When a rule or text on a card refers to a “card,” it means only Terrus cards. 

Tokens aren't considered cards - even a card that represents a token isn’t 

considered a card for rules purposes.

 

8.1a In the text of actions or abilities, the term “card” is used only to refer to a 

card that’s not in play, such as beasts, structures, resources, items, or 

actions that are in a player’s hand, in the market, or in the ravine.

 

8.2 The owner of a card in the game is the ruler who started the game with it in their 

deck. (This rule does not apply in the deck-building variant). Legal ownership of a card is irrelevant to the game rules.

 

8.3 A card doesn’t have a ruler unless it is in play, at a location in a city or in the 

fatigued zone; in those cases, its ruler is determined by the rules for beasts, structures, items, actions and resources.

 

8.3a If anything asks for the ruler of a card that doesn’t have one, use it’s 

owner instead.

 

8.4 Some effects put tokens into a ruler’s city. A token is a marker used to represent 

a beast, structure, or item that isn’t represented by a card.

 

8.4a A token is owned and ruled by the ruler that activated the effect that 

created it unless otherwise noted in the text of the effect.

 

8.4b The effect that creates a token may define the values of any number of

characteristics for the token (name, statistics, species, abilities). This 

becomes the token’s “text.” The characteristic values defined this way are 

functionally equivalent to the characteristic values that are printed on a 

card; for example, they define the token’s copiable values. A token 

doesn’t have any characteristics not defined by the spell or ability that created it.

 

8.4c If an effect would create a token, but another effect states that a beast, 

structure or item with one or more of that token’s characteristics can’t be 

played, the token is not created.

 

8.4d A token is subject to anything that affects the type or sub-type. A token 

isn’t a card (even if represented by a Terrus card.)

 

8.4e If a token is discarded from a city, it ceases to exist. Tokens do not go to 

the ravine when they are buried, they cease to exist.