Wheel of Time CCG Errata
The following new rules, clarifications, and errata have been issued for the Premier and Dark Prophecies Editions of The Wheel of Time. Where possible, rules within each major heading are listed alphabetically, with card-specific rulings appearing last.
New errata: July 21
Allegience Specific Rules (page 28)
Under Aiel, remove "or troop".
New definition: July 20
Participate as
Certain characters may participate in challenges as troops, and certain troops may participate as characters. This ability does not change the type of the card in any way. Characters participating as troops merely roll their dice during the Coming to Grips phase, and add damage to (and may take damage from) the troop damage pool. Troops participating as characters merely roll their dice during the Opening Moves phase, and add damage to (and may take damage from) the character damage pool.
New rules and errata: June 27
The following new rules and errata address the issues of damage, being killed, and the ever-popular Compulsion/Darkfriend issue.
Definitions
- Mortally wounded:
- a character or troop is mortally wounded when it has taken
at least one point of damage, and it has no current ability above
zero.
- Killed:
- placed in the "killed pile".
Rulebook changes
Page 23 - Damage
Replace (c) with
No mortally wounded character or troop may be assigned additional damage until all eligible characters and troops are also mortally wounded.
Page 23 - Effects of Damage
Remove the second sentence in its entirety.
Page 26 - Step 1, Discard the Dead
Replace the first sentence with
Any character or troop that is currently mortally wounded is placed in a pile next to the discard pile, called the "killed pile".
Page 26 - Victory and Defeat
Replace dies with is killed.
Errata
Bitter Fighting
Replace killed with mortally wounded.
Seasoned Warrior
Change he may pay to he may, as an event, pay.
New rule
If an effect would place a character or troop in a player's control (such as the expiration of Compulsion), and that card could not be legally controlled (for example, if it now has an invalid allegience), the character and all attached cards are placed in their owner's respective discard piles.
Allegiences
There seems to be some confusion about which traits are allegiences. There are exactly 10 possible allegiences at the current time:
- Aes Sedai
- Aiel
- Andor
- Cairhien
- Children of the Light
- Dark One
- Dragon
- Illian
- Mercenary
- Tear
Any other boldface trait is, at least for now, only a trait and not an allegience. Also, any reference to an allegience in boldface is identical to the phrase "... has the ** allegience".
cards with no cost
Cards with no cost (no symbols in the lower right corner) are not valid targets for effects which refer to the cost of their target.
controlling characters
Villain Players cannot control any Ta'veren, Starting Hero, or card with the Dragon Allegiance, and Hero Players cannot control any Starting Villain or card with the Dark One Allegiance. Any effect that would attempt to attach an illegal allegiance is ignore. (This is an addition to the current Allegiance rules.)
killing a card
Some cards use the word kill in their effect. To kill a card, move it directly to the killed pile. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
playing events
No events may be played in any given turn until dominance has been determined.
rotating cards in a challenge
In order to generate symbols in a challenge, character and troops must rotate. Rotating to generate symbols in a challenge is voluntary. A participant can stand around as a target dummy if you desire and not rotate to generate symbols.
simultaneous steps
The following steps are all considered simultaneous:
- Ready Round, Step 1, Ready Cards (although you cannot play events in this step anyway, since dominance has not yet been determined -- see below).
- Action Round, Step 1, Generate Resource Pool (already noted).
- Resolution Round, Steps 1 & 2 (dice rolling is simultaneous, applying damage is simultaneous).
- Draw Round, Step 3, Draw cards.
Errata
Children of the Light
Children of the Light characters and troops you control cannot participate in the same challenge as Aes Sedai, Dark One or Dragon characters and troops you control, unless those Children of the Light cards also have the same allegiance (Aes Sedai, Dark One or Dragon) as the cards with which they would participate.
Generating symbols
Although the rulebook does not say this word for word, nothing changes between the Opening Moves and Coming to Grips aspect of dice resolution. Under Coming to Grips, it should also read Generating symbols during this step is considered simultaneous, and no actions may be taken or events played, except ones which allow rerolls, until both players are finished.
Callandor
Callandor is a sa'angreal, and works like all other angreal. You roll the dice for Callandor at the same time your are rolling the One Power dice for the target character, and those dice are considered to be from the target character.
Charge
Replace the effect text for Charge with:
Play this card during the Opening Moves step of a challenge. For each
you pay, target one troop participating in that challenge. Rotate the target troops, roll their dice, and add the results to your pools.
Compulsion
For you to play Compulsion, you must have more pattern than the number of symbols you would have to pay to recruit that character.
Defensive Measures
Defensive Measures may not be used in the Last Battle.
Future Returns
Replace the effect text for Future Returns with:
Pay any ability symbol as a limited event to place an investment token on this card. Rotate this card and remove 5 investment tokens to draw a card.
Guarded by Fate
Replace Ability with Permanent Ability.
High Lord Samon
High Lord Samon adds High Lord to Be'lal's title.
House Guards
Replace Ability with Permanent Ability.
Juilin Sandar
Juilin Sandar can only target non-hero and non-villain characters with his ability.
Sabotage
Sabotage may not be in a player's opening hand.
Taking Advantage
Replace the effect text for Taking Advantage with:
When you play an advantage that has a printed cost, you may draw a card. [Playing this card does not trigger its own effects.]
Clarifications
cost reductions
To use Rand's ability (or similar questions with Lord Edorian) you must pay an appropriate symbol from Rand (or a High Lord). If this reduces the card's cost to zero, the symbol is still lost.
damage negation
The Ta'veren's damage negation ability (using pattern) can be used to remove any amount of damage from the opponents' character damage pools whenever a Ta'veren is participating in the challenge. (See also the targeted damage comment above.)
dragonsworn
The dragonsworn have no cost to recruit. You may recruit them without needing any one at the homefront.
effect timing
Each effect completes before any other effect can begin.
playing events
At any appropriate time, the Subordinate Player can say "I want to play an event" or "(this particular time to play an event) is about to end and I don't want to play an event, do you?" In either case, if the Dominant Player decides to play an event (or event-like effect), the Subordinate Player can also decide at that point. If the Dominant Player passes, the Subordinate Player must play or pass as he said before. In all cases, after either player plays an event, his opponent gets the next opportunity to play an event. If the opponent passes his opportunity, and then the original event-player chooses not to play another event, that event-playing-opportunity ends. The Dominant Player can ask the Subordinate Player if he is going to play an event at any of these event-playing times (before any events have been played in one) without having to commit to whether he will play an event or not.
An example, after damage has been distributed in a challenge: The Dominant Player wants to play an event. He (for nefarious reasons) wants to know if the Subordinate Player intends to play one also, so he asks. The Subordinate Player says "yes," and the Dominant Player wants to see this event before he plays his so he passes his first opportunity. The Subordinate Player now must play an event (or event-like effect). The Dominant Player is utterly surprised by this event and it ruins the use of the event he was intending to play, so he passes again. If the Subordinate Player plays another event, the Dominant Player will have the opportunity to play an event after that. If he doesn't, the challenge finishes resolving with no further opportunity for event play.
replacing characters
Replacement is an event-like effect. When replacing characters, the replacement has the same status in all respects:
- Same damage
- Same state (rotated or ready)
- Targeting transfers from all other effects
- etc.
Reserve Tokens
The Reserve Tokens from Combat Reserves and Dangerous Liaisons are interchangeable.
targetted damage
Some damage is targetted. Such damage does not go into the damage pools, and is applied before pool damage. Ta'veren can still use pattern to negate such damage.
targetting characters in the battlefield
During the action round, step 2, you can play advantages on characters in the battlefield (or even standing down).
while participating in a challenge
A target is considered to be a participant/participating in a challenge from the moment they commit to the challenge (when tokens are revealed, it reinforces, etc) until the moment the challenge in which they are participating is resolved. This may mean you occasionally need to keep track of the pools for a challenge before the challenge round begins. Those pools cannot be used until the challenge is being resolved.
While participating effects can be generated with symbols from the Action Round, or from earlier-resolved challenges.
With respect to Infiltration and Heron-Mark Blade, these tokens will go into the proper pools for those challenges whenever you generate the effect.
A Stroke of Luck
The symbol generated from A Stroke of Luck is as if the character rolled it. It has the same allegience(s), and is the same type.
Al'cair'rahienallen
If Al'cair'rahienallen is used with A Stroke of Luck to generate an Intrigue symbol, you do not also generate a Damage symbol.
Andoran Spearmen
A card cannot be "ready, but killed." A card in the killed pile is neither ready nor rotated. Andoran Spearmen can use their special ability if they have damage equal to or greater than their highest ability.
Aura of Death
Aura of Death is the source of the damage.
Compulsion
This includes any doubling for allegiance (if you control no characters of the target allegiance) and for Light Nature. Generally, no discounts (like paying pattern) can be applied to this. You control the character for the whole turn following the turn you play Compulsion. Control allows you to treat the character as if it were a character in your faction for all intents and purposes. Note that there are restrictions on what cards a player can control (see above).
Defensive Measures
Defensive Measures may be played in the Action Round. It may be played during one challenge while targetting troops in a different challenge. It can not be played during the Coming to Grips phase.
Distractions
Distractions may be played at any time you could normally play an event, limited to times when there are troops participating in a challenge.
Horn of Valere
To control the Horn of Valere, you must have 20 more tokens than any other single player. Once you control it, it is no longer a Contested Advantage. There is no loss of pattern for discarding or otherwise losing Horn of Valere.
Lord Edorian
Lord Edorian's effect triggers on card titles.
Lord Lir
Lord Lir's ability may be used a maximum of once per turn. You may use his ability during the Opening Moves, regardless of how much damage is on Lord Lir.
The Truth They Tell
The symbols for The Truth They Tell have to come from initial generation (unless you have some effect which allows you to rotate other characters during your Action Round). You may choose different challenges, and it is possible to put symbols into pools for challenges before the challenge has started to resolve.
