LoR:Durand Architect
Support: Give my supported ally +0|+2 and 
Formidable this round.
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6 The Ranger Elmheart has brought us grim news," the architect said calmly, focusing on rerolling the parchment to hide how his hands shook. He turned to the waiting sculptors and gave them a stiff nod. "It seems the time has come for Demacia's unseen protectors to come out of hiding."
Durand Architect is a follower in Legends of Runeterra.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- His name is Dominick Durand, named after designer Designer Dominick Sileo.[1][2]
- He is the husband of 2 Durand Sculptor, and father of 3 Shireen.[3]
- He created 9 Gorlith the Unscalable and potentially helped with 2 Petricite Broadwing.
- 2 Durand Sculptor and 3 Durand Protege, as well as 6 Genevieve Elmheart with 5 Cern, are featured in his artwork.
Quotes[edit | edit source]
Summoned[edit | edit source]
- "Our family's work lives on within the city walls."
- "We are Demacia's unseen protectors."
- "Beyond imagination: That is the Durand way."
Allied 3 Durand Protege present
- Durand Architect: "Beyond imagination: That is the Durand way."
- Durand Protege: "Wait... how do I imagine 'beyond' imagination?"
Allied 2 Durand Sculptor present
- Durand Architect: "Been working hard, I see."
- Durand Sculptor: "I work smart - not hard."
Sees a 
Unit Summoned[edit | edit source]
Allied 
7Galio
- Galio: "The guy who made me was pretty good, right?"
- Durand Architect: "The very best. You are proof."
Allied 3 Durand Protege
- Durand Protege: "A mistake is the first step to improving."
- Durand Architect laughs. "I've made enough for the both of us."
- Durand Protege: "I'm still learning, but I'll help if I can."
- Durand Architect: "Eager to help, as always. That's my girl."
Allied 2 Durand Sculptor
- Durand Sculptor: "Every work demands a piece of ourselves."
- Durand Architect: "I'm here to help every step of the way."
- Durand Sculptor: "I sculpt what others only dream of."
- Durand Architect: "A true Durand. You'd have made him proud."
Allied 9 Gorlith the Unscalable
- "My finest creation."
- "Hello Gorlith, old boy."
- "As pristine as the day you were sculpted."
- "Still unscaled, these many years later."
Allied 2 Petricite Broadwing
- "Lighter than it looks. Impressive, no?"
- "And they said you'd never fly!"
Allied 1 Petricite Hound
- "Haha, who's a good boy? -- Down boy!"
- "His best trick is 'stay'." Durand Architect laughs.
Allied 4 Petricite Stag
- "Graceful. Elegant. A true work of art."
- "One of her finest, I think."
Sees a 
Spell or 
Skill Resolve[edit | edit source]
Allied 
5 Heroic Charge
- "Here he comes! Magnificent."
- "Just as he was centuries ago!"
Attack Declared[edit | edit source]
- "Durands build the best."
- "Our legacy lives on."
- "Written in stone."
Support committed[edit | edit source]
- "We will protect this place."
- "We can withstand anything - together."
- "Nothing is stronger than petricite."
Block Declared[edit | edit source]
- "For kin. For Demacia."
- "This will not stand."
- "Certainly not."
Death[edit | edit source]
- "Protect them..."
- "We... endure..."
- "Unfinished..."
Change Log[edit | edit source]
| Durand Architect | |
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| V3.2 |
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RegionEvery card in Legends of Runeterra is sorted into a region based off a canon region of 
Runeterra. Cards within a region tend to share mechanics such as certain keywords and tend to synergise well with each other, and combining cards from different regions can lead to unique synergies and playstyles, with their own strengths and weaknesses. Game Modes and deckbuilding rules have specific restrictions on the number of regions that can be in a deck.
ManaMana is the primary resource used to play cards in Legends of Runeterra.
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.
FormidableWhen a Formidable unit attempts to 
strike (either by combat or by card effect), it uses its 
Health to calculate damage dealt instead of its 
Power (does not change its Power). This bypasses the rule that units with 0 Power cannot strike.
| Type | Static | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Positive | |
| Generatable | No | |
| Transferable | Yes | |
PowerDictates the damage a unit does in combat, whether attacking or defending. This value can be changed through various cards temporarily or permanently, but each card has a default Power that it returns to if effects are removed.
Collectible cards always have a Rarity gem at the bottom. Most effects which activate 
Random can only create Collectible cards.
SeeA unit sees an action happen if it is on the board when it happens.
Unit card
Champion or a 
Follower card. A unit card can be played by spending 
Mana equal to its cost, and fulfilling any additional conditions in the card text, which summons it. A unit has a Cost, Power and Health. A unit can also have additional card text that has its own effects, usually only when the unit is alive.Ally in card text refers to an allied unit. Enemy in card text refers to one of your opponent's units.
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.
Skill spell-like card that can be committed by a unit. Goes on the Spell Stack like a Fast or Slow spell.
Skills are committed to enact a unit's card text in a way that can be reacted to. If card text creates a Skill, there will usually be an 
icon before the text to indicate this.
The text of skills is usually written as if it's on the unit itself, but they count as their own card. In particular, damage dealt by a skill is not dealt by the generating unit.
- Examples of this are when a unit is dragged into the Attack or
Block position, or when a spell is dragged onto the board. - When a spell is declared, then undeclared, it's placed in the rightmost position in the hand.
- When an attack or block is declared, then undeclared, the unit(s) are placed in the rightmost position on the board.
Death unit is reduced to 0 Health or is otherwise killed, it is removed from play.Effects that specifically kill a unit go through
Barrier.
Killed units are added to a list of units that have died in the game, which the game interacts with in various ways. Multiple copies of a unit can be on this list.
A unit killing another refers to it reducing another's Health to 0 with a Strike or with its own card text.
Skills generated by the text don't count as the same card and therefore do not count as killing for this purpose. See Skill.
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.
Equipment Legends of Runeterra that equip to a unit (called Bearer) as a separate entity. While equipped, it shares the stats buffs also its positive keywords to its Bearer. (This sharing cannot be interacted with).
Equipment can be played by 
Spell Mana.
Collectable cards from 
Runeterra have a specified unique Origin card (or 'Origin') associated with them. Each distinct card in the deck with an Origin counts as one of the deck's regions. The Origin of these cards allows specific cards to be added to the deck regardless of their region.
Origins can also have an effect that is active from the start of the game and throughout, if there is a card with them in the deck at the start of the game