Lost Chapters Keywords

Keywords are short rules printed on cards. This glossary explains each one and lists the Set 1 cards that use it. For the full rules, see How to Play.

Explore

Can only be blocked by characters that also have Explore.Cards: Alexander Graham Bell; Amelia Earhart, Vehicle Junkie; Lincoln Ellsworth; Test Flight; Inventor's Goggles; Apollo 11; Neil Armstrong, Space Explorer; Harriet Tubman; Little Anne; Amelia Earhart, Adventurer; Meriwether Lewis, Captain; William Clark, Lieutenant; Sacagawea, River Guide; Amelia, Test Pilot and 8 more.

Swift

Can charge the turn it comes into play.Cards: Malcolm X; John Laurens; Sally Ann Thunder; The Rough Riders; Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider; Rebel, Two Sided Hound; Alexander Hamilton, Young Hopeful; Paul Revere; Marquis de Lafayette.

Guard

Blocks without resting.Cards: John Jay, Constitution Drafter; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Rosa Parks; Chief Powhatan; The Queen's Rangers; Redcoats; Battleship; Abigail Adams; Speak Softly, Carry Big Stick; Chips, Purple Hearted.

Protest

Can't be chosen as the target of a charge (it can still block).Cards: George Washington Carver; Martin Luther King Jr.; Rosa Parks; Marilyn Monroe, Infamous; Susan B. Anthony.

Double Chapter

Hitting a Leader takes 2 Life.Cards: Apollo 11; Paul Bunyan & Babe; Ulysses S. Grant; Edward Teach "Blackbeard"; Abrams Tank.

Tenacious

The first time each turn it would be destroyed, it survives with 1 health.Cards: John Paul Jones.

Resolve

When it survives damage, it gets +1/+0 for the rest of the game (once per turn).Cards: Rosa Parks; John Paul Jones.

Build X

Create X tokens: Tinker (1/1 Inventor), Lightbulb (0/1, draw when destroyed), Steel Golem (1/1 Guard).Cards: Nikola Tesla, Father of Electricity; Thomas Edison, Static Hero; Alexander Graham Bell; Henry Ford, Vehicle Visionary; Wilbur Wright, Brother; Andrew Carnegie, Steel Hero; Washington, Nation Builder; John Henry, Master of Machine; Isaac Singer; The Lightbulb; Genius Convention; The Workshop; Benjamin Franklin; Marquis de Lafayette and 1 more.

Recover X

Put the top X cards of your deck into your Life (max 5).Cards: Southern Citrus; Martin Luther King Jr.; I Have a Dream; John Jay, Constitution Drafter; Frederick Douglass; Squanto, Uniter of People; The Queen's Rangers; Jamestown; American Countryside; Honest Abe Lincoln; Chips, Purple Hearted; The Gettysburg Address.

Lightning X

Deal X damage to an enemy character when this card is played.Cards: George Westinghouse; Kite and Key; Zap; Edgar Allan Poe; Buffalo Bill; Molly Pitcher, Cannoneer.

Charge:

Triggers when this card charges.Cards: Cornelius Vanderbilt; John Henry, Master of Machine; Harriet Tubman; Meriwether Lewis, Captain; Davy Crockett; Edward Teach "Blackbeard"; Alvin York.

Legacy

Legendary and Ultra-Rare characters.Cards: Nikola Tesla, Father of Electricity; Thomas Edison, Static Hero; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Henry Ford, Vehicle Visionary; Andrew Carnegie, Steel Hero; Martin Luther King Jr.; Washington, First President; Neil Armstrong, Space Explorer; Rosa Parks; Amelia Earhart, Adventurer; Theodore Roosevelt; Meriwether Lewis, Captain; Sacagawea, River Guide; Benedict Arnold, Turncoat and 10 more.

Triumph

Free to play when revealed from your Life.Cards: Genius Convention; I Have a Dream; The Boston Tea Party; Crossing the Delaware; Louisiana Purchase; New Deal; The American Dream; Sign Your Name; Independence Day; The Gettysburg Address.

Counter

A Moment event. You can play it on your own turn, or while your rival is charging you, using crystals you saved.Cards: Test Flight; Zap; Ring, Ring!; Pulling Up; Alexander and the Virginians; Make Camp; Parley; Duel.

Brace

When a character charges a character, the defender may spend unspent crystals to give the defending character +1 power each until the charge ends.

Infuse

Spend an unspent crystal on your turn to give your Leader or a character +1 power for the turn.

Command

Each Leader's once-per-match big play. You can call it from your second turn by paying its crystals.

Signature card

Each Leader has three Signature cards. They cost 1 less while that Leader leads your deck, and they are always allowed in that Leader's deck.

Token

A card created by Build: Tinker, Lightbulb or Steel Golem. Tokens have no color and never go in decks.Cards: Thomas Edison, Static Hero; Alexander Graham Bell; Henry Ford, Vehicle Visionary; Washington, Nation Builder; John Henry, Master of Machine; Isaac Singer; The Lightbulb; The Workshop; Benjamin Franklin; St. Augustine, First City.