LoR:Piltover & Zaun
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Piltover & Zaun is a Legends of Runeterra unified regional card set based on the lore regions of 
Piltover and 
Zaun.
Piltover & Zaun is a primarily spell-based region that focuses on constantly drawing and comboing spell effects. They are the most versatile deck with regards to both offensive and defensive options.
Description[edit | edit source]
Piltover and Zaun may seem worlds apart, but an unusual harmony connects them beyond mere proximity. On the surface, Piltover is a prosperous city of industry. Standing as Valoran's cultural center, innovation and ingenuity are prized. However, amidst the cliffs beneath Piltover lies Zaun. Swathed in a smog-induced twilight, Zaun thrives in the shadow of its sister city. When the brilliant scientists above find society too constraining, they journey below, into the toxic air to conduct their experiments. Will you choose to stay on the surface or chance what lurks beneath?
Mechanics[edit | edit source]
Burst-speed 
Summoning- Comboing cards
Draw (++Synergy)
Discard
Imbue- Manipulating Keywords
Nexus Strike- Specific
cost synergy and creation - Targeting
Trap- Copy
- Exact Copy
Nexus Damage
Spellcasting- Direct damage
- Creating cards
Secondary Mechanics[edit | edit source]
List of Cards[edit | edit source]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
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in-game icon
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Zaun alpha icon
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Piltover Crest 1
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Piltover Crest 2
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Zaun Crest 1
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Zaun Crest 2
- The icon used in-game is an incredibly simplified version of the Piltover and Zaun crests, bearing very little resemblance to the crests themselves. This crest could be intended instead to convey the nature of the two cities, with the towering buildings of Piltover, and the depths of Zaun below.
- There are files in early patches for a separate Zaun region, hinting that initially it wasn't intended to be combined with its overcity.
Media[edit | edit source]
References
Burst spells resolve instantaneously after being committed.They can be committed at any time during the user's turn. They are added to the stack, but resolve instantaneously during the turn they are committed, so functionally aren't. They commit as soon as any required targets/choices are declared.
DrawDrawing a card takes it from a deck or hand and adds it to the right side of a player's hand. Unless specified, the card drawn is the one on top of the allied deck.
ManaMana is the primary resource used to play cards in Legends of Runeterra.
A copy of a card is an instance of a card (same card code), with no consideration of any effects applied to it. Different from exact copy.
An exact copy of a card is another instance of a card (same card code), inheriting all effects applied to and all statistics of it. Different from copy. An exact copy will not copy any 
attachments or underlying disguised unit
NexusThe Nexus represents the player's health. Apart from mode-specific exceptions, it has a maximum of 20 Health points, which it starts the game at. It cannot go above its maximum health. But maximum health can be increased, by cards like 
9 Gorlith the Unscalable, capped at 99.
It is destroyed when its health is depleted or the player otherwise loses the game (eg. 
4Fiora or decking out)—at which point the game ends and its player suffers a loss.
Spells
speed of a spell dictates when it can be played, and whether the opponent can respond.
The Spell Stack: Once one or more Fast or Slow spells have been played, it can be responded / reacted to by the opponent with one or more Fast or Burst spells. Fast spells played are added to the stack, where the most recent one placed is the first to resolve. Once the response is confirmed by pressing the Button, the opponent has a chance to react, and this continues until both players pass. Only 10 spells can be on the stack at once, and the 10th spell may only be Burst.
Elusive
Units with Elusive can only be 
blocked by another Elusive unit, or a unit with 
Sharpsight.Non-Elusive units can be forced to block Elusive units by effects that force them to block.
| Type | Static | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Positive | |
| Generatable | Yes | |
| Transferable | Yes | |
Random
Random cards are chosen from a given scope.
If there's no given scope, cards are chosen from all 
regions and only out of cards that are collectible.
Random effects that refer to your regions can only choose from the regions that the cards in the deck were chosen from. If the deck is regionless, such as in some Labs, then their effect cannot happen.
Spell Mana Spell and Equipment cards along with Mana. These cards prioritise using Spell Mana before they use regular Mana.Unlike regular Mana, Spell Mana doesn't completely refresh each round, instead up to 3 remaining Mana from the end of the previous round is converted into Spell Mana. Spell Mana is conserved between rounds, and a player can have a maximum of 3.
Support
Units with Support trigger an effect 
when they 
attack if there is an ally positioned to their right (this ally is referred to as the "supported ally" in card text). Support effects are resolved from left to right, at the same time as Attack effects.Units that are summoned attacking at the same time as the attack is committed with the unit with Support can trigger Support effects.
The Darkin Saga (Subset 6)
- New mechanics: Equipment, Flow, Forge, Improvise, New, Empowered, Assimilate
- New subtypes: Darkin, Cultist, Weaponmaster, World Rune
Beyond the Bandlewood (Set 5)
- New region:
Bandle City - New mechanics:
Impact, 
1 Prank, Manifest, Multi-region, 
Fated, Attach, 
Formidable
Rising Tides (Set 2)
New region: 
Bilgewater
New mechanics: Attune, Deep, Plunder, Scout, Vulnerable, Nab, Toss and Stack
Foundations (Set 1)
New regions: 
Demacia, 
Freljord, 
Ionia, 
Noxus, Piltover & Zaun and 
Shadow Isles.
Bandle City
Runeterra region: 
Bandle City
Bilgewater
Runeterra region: 
Bilgewater, Serpent Isles
Freljord
Runeterra region: 
Freljord, likely 
The Arctic
Shadow Isles
Runeterra regions: 
Shadow Isles, 
Blessed Isles
Shurima summoning and to facilitate slaying units for swift aggression, whittling and weathering down the opponent with large numbers of units, de-buffing effects and board-wide effects, while using mechanics such as Predict and Countdown to set up and guarantee wins, and to have the right cards just when you need them.
Targon region with a focus on powerful, slow, and permanent effects, calling upon powerful Celestial beings, and having large amounts of healing and effect nullification, with unparalleled access to SpellShields and Silences.
Runeterra region: 
Targon, Celestial Realm
RuneterraUnlike other regions, Runeterra cards have unique deckbuilding rules, dictated by the origins of the cards in it, with only one card from Runeterra able to be put into the deck.
Champions Unit.
A champion is able to 
Level Up to transform it and every other allied copy of it in the game that could ever exist into a new card instantly, keeping all effects applied to it and damage taken, which has its own interactions as well. While there is an allied champion alive, any copies of it in hand are instead a Champion Spell.
FollowersFollowers are a type of unit card in 
Legends of Runeterra, with numerous cards that only interact with them.
Landmarks Legends of Runeterra that take up a space on the board, like units, but can't interact with the same mechanics as units - for example they can't Attack or Block (See also: 
Immobile), don't have 
Health or 
Power, and can't 
strike.Text that can affect Landmarks will explicitly refer to them.