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A unit is one of the main card types and can be either a 
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.
Champion
- Main article: Champion (Legends of Runeterra)
Champions are a type of 
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.
Follower
- Main article: Follower (Legends of Runeterra)
Followers are a type of unit card in 
Legends of Runeterra, with numerous cards that only interact with them.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- A player can control a total of 6 units and/or
landmarks on their bench at a time.
- A player can play additional units or landmarks while their bench is full, but will need to replace one of their existing units or landmarks. The replaced unit or landmark is
obliterated before the newly played card enters the board. - If playing a unit/landmark would cause the player's existing unit or landmark to leave the board (e.g. playing
0 Ravenous Butcher or playing a Titanic unit while controlling 1 Sigil of the Storm), they will not need to replace a unit/landmark.
- A player can play additional units or landmarks while their bench is full, but will need to replace one of their existing units or landmarks. The replaced unit or landmark is
- When units
attack, they temporarily leave the bench until the attack is complete. Up to six attacking units can be present in a single attack.
- Attacking units temporarily do not count toward the number of spaces on the bench, meaning that summoning attacking units during the attack can cause a player to temporarily control more than 6 units/landmarks.
- If units are summoned during the attack and cause the player to control more than 6 units or landmarks total, then after the attack, units that attacked will return to the bench in the order that they entered play, then any that cannot fit are obliterated.
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.
Play is the act of playing a card by manually dragging it from your hand to the board.
Some units have Play effects, which are optional effects that occur when they are played. Note that this is distinct from "When I'm summoned" effects: unlike "When I'm summoned" effects, Play effects do not trigger if a card is summoned another way.
ManaMana is the primary resource used to play cards in Legends of Runeterra.
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.
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.
Level UpLevel Up is a keyword that causes a champion card, and all copies of them, to transform into an upgraded version of itself instantly, playing an animation, keeping all effects applied to it and damage taken and counting as the same unit. The vast majority of Champions gain improved stats (most often, an increase of 1 in both Power and Health) when they Level Up, in addition to new/improved effects and keywords.
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.
Legends of Runeterra
Riot Games (development name was Project Bacon).
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows, Android, iOS
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.
Obliterate
attachments from the current game.
When cards are obliterated from either player's deck or hand, they are shown to both of them.
Obliterated units are not considered 
dead or to have died.
Units with +8 health or power. The status of Titanic is affected by modifying a unit's stats, either positively or negatively.
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.
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.
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