Leveling Up

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Your hero starts the game at level 1. When you collect enough coins, you must purchase a level up.

Coins are usually gained by defeating enemy heroes and minions. Several heroes are able to gain coins by performing special actions.

Leveling up is not optional! At the end of each round, you must purchase a level up if you have enough coins.

The cost of each level is shown on the left side of your hero dashboard.

If you have enough coins for multiple level ups, you must purchase as many levels as you can afford.

Each time you level up, slide the Level indicator card up to the corresponding number to track your hero Level.

Tigerclaw’s hero dashboard with the Level indicator card tucked under its left edge — The first level up costs 1 coin. Each following level up costs 1 more coin than the previous one. After you level up, slide the Level indicator card up to the corresponding number.

You cannot skip a level. A level 1 hero needs 3 coins to reach level 3 (1 coin for the first level up, and 2 coins for the second).

When you gain a new level, you choose a card in your hand with the lowest card Tier to upgrade. Since basic cards have no Tier, only non-basic cards can be upgraded.

Don’t forget to collect your Pity coin if you didn’t have enough coins to level up that round! (See page 8).

If you forget to level up you don’t get to select the card and gain the benefit of the item and will have to wait until the end of round to level up properly. If you are defeated, use your correct Tier and Level (as if you did level up).

Hero Level*	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Level Up cost	-	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Max card Tier**	-	II	II	II	III	III	III	IV

* All heroes start the game at level 1. It costs 1 coin to go from level 1 to level 2.

** You must upgrade all your non-basic cards to Tier II before upgrading them to Tier III.

Upgrade a Card

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Choose a non-basic Action card in your hand with the lowest card Tier or tied for the lowest. Return this card to your deck.

Your Basic cards (Gold and Silver), are never upgraded, have no Tier, and are not considered when checking your lowest card Tier.

Find two Action cards in your deck that have the same color as the chosen card but are one Tier higher.

Take one of those cards into your hand and set the other one aside, Facedown, next to your hero dashboard — you will need it later.

If you are leveling up more than once, repeat these steps for every purchased level.

You must first upgrade all your non-basic cards to Tier II, before upgrading your Tier II cards to Tier III.

All players who are leveling up upgrade their cards simultaneously. When finished, wait for all other players who are still leveling up to upgrade their cards before moving to the next step.

You should now have exactly 5 cards, 1 of each color, in your hand.

Tigerclaw chooses to upgrade his Tier I green card (“Light-fingered”) and returns it to the deck. He then finds his two Tier II green cards (“Pick Pocket” and “Poisoned Dagger”). He decides to take “Poisoned Dagger” into his hand and sets “Pick Pocket” aside, next to his Dashboard, Facedown.

Gain an Item

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On the bottom of every Tier II and Tier III Action card, there is an Item icon. It matches the icon on one of four slots on the top of your hero dashboard.

Take each card set aside during the Upgrade card step and tuck it Faceup under your hero dashboard, under the slot with a matching icon, so that only the item section of the card is visible — it becomes your new item.

Multiple items can be placed under the same item slot.

Your items must be clearly visible to the opposing team. If your item was not clearly visible or if it was not placed in the appropriate item slot, the item has no effect!

The card Pick Pocket being tucked under the Attack slot of Tigerclaw’s dashboard

Tigerclaw takes the Tier II green “Pick Pocket” card which he set aside earlier. That card has a crossed swords “Attack” icon on the bottom, so he tucks it under the first item slot of his dashboard which has the same icon. Tigerclaw now has a new item that gives him +1 Attack.

The card Poisoned Dagger being tucked under the Initiative slot of Tigerclaw’s dashboard

Tigerclaw had another option when upgrading a card. He could have taken the “Pick Pocket” card into his hand, and set aside “Poisoned Dagger” instead. That would give him a +1 Initiative item, placed under the third slot of his dashboard.

Item Bonus

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Each item increases the value of the matching icon on each of your Action cards by +1.

If an Action card has no matching icon, the item has no effect on that particular Action card.

For example, most heroes have only two cards with Attack icons — their Gold and Red Attack cards. This means that only these two cards would benefit from the +1 Attack item.

Likewise, if the card has no Range icon, a +1 Range item would have no effect. Only Ranged cards with a Range icon would benefit from a +1 Range item.

Items never affect values in the card text, only the value of the Initiative, Attack, Defense, Movement, Range, or Radius icons on a card are affected.

The Ultimate

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Once you upgrade all your cards to Tier III, the next time you level up, instead of upgrading a card and gaining an item, you unlock the Ultimate card.

The Ultimate is a special Tier IV card. It provides you with a powerful permanent ability that is always in effect (as long as your hero is on the board).

Place it Faceup to the left side of your hero dashboard, facing the opposing team.

Once you unlock your Ultimate, you cannot gain any additional levels, but can still gain coins.

Tigerclaw’s Ultimate card, Cloak and Daggers, placed beside a dashboard with six items tucked under it — This is how a Level 8 Tigerclaw’s Dashboard could look, with 6 Items and the Ultimate card to the left