Roguebook: What Are Keywords? Explained

Ally Keywords

• Activate -Use this ability once per turn. Allies lose 1 spirit if this activates unless they are unique.

• Ally – Allies remain on the battlefield.

• Aggressive – Deal damage equal to this ally’s spirit to the front enemy at the end of turn.

• Frog – Frogs have 1 Spirit each and are aggressive. Reduce the frogs’ stack of spirit by 1 each turn. Frogs are mostly in Roguebook’s Aurora’s cards, but can also be in Fugoro’s.

• Spirit – Spirit is an ally’s life total. You can spend spirit to activate abilities. When an ally’s spirit hits 0, it is removed from play.

• Spiritless – This ally’s abilities don’t cost spirit.

• Unique – Only one of these allies may exist on the battlefield at one time.

Other Keywords

• Anger -Seifer; gain 5 rage and lose one anger at the start of each turn.

• Bearer -The equipped character.

• Bleed -Bleeding Creatures takes this much damage at the start of each turn.

• Block -Ignore this much damage taken next turn. Swap to the front. (Heroes share a block total.)

• Charge -Swap this hero to the front.

• Combo – If the last card was played belonged to the other hero, this card costs (1) energy less.

• Courage – Gain (1) energy and lose 1 courage at the start of every turn.

• Critical hit – This attack does double damage.

• Dissolve/Exhaust – After playing this card, remove it until next combat.

• Mark -In Roguebook update 1.10, a new hero named Fugoro was added, and his cards contain a keyword called Mark. When Fugoro assaults a target with a Mark card, the enemy receives a random mark. When Fugoro attacks again, the Mark is triggered, and Fugoro receives the benefit from that Mark. Things like obtaining an extra block or gaining a coin are examples of Marks.

• Melee – This costs 1 energy less when played by the hero in the front.

• Options – Gives players a choice.

• Planned – In Richard Garfield’s Roguebook, “planned” means that this character must be in the front row to use this card.

• Power – Increases attack damage.

• Protection – Prevents the first hit this hero would take as damage.

• Ranged – This costs (1) energy less when played from the back.

• Reap – This ability only happens with this card kills its target.

• Retain – This card remains in a player’s hand at the end of each turn.

• Retreat – This hero goes to the back or remains in the back.

• Sacrifice – This card is destroyed, usually as an additional casting cost.

• Stacks – Can stack multiple copies in hand, and they are not discarded at the end of your turn.

• Teamwork – If the last card played this turn belonged to the other hero, do the following text.

• Weak – The target attacks do 33% less damage for a turn.