Dracards — Necropolis Ascension : New abilities and iconography

Lucas Alsberg
Dracards
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3 min readJan 21, 2023

Counter spell — Cancels the effect of a spell the moment it is cast.

Life pay — Additional casting cost for the spell where the caster pays a certain life cost. This cost is represented by the icon:

Burn Damage — Damage dealt directly to the opponent or to a specific creature . It’s not considered combat damage, so it can’t be prevented with creature block.
This effect is represented by the icon:

Healing — Restores hit points to the player’s Stronghold. This effect is represented by the icon:

Orb effect — Each player can play only one card with Orb Effect each turn. Cards that contain this rule have this effect represented by this icon:

Soul Charge — Temporarily adds a certain amount of souls for consumption. Souls generated by this effect are lost at the end of the player’s turn. This effect is represented by this symbol (+)

Evolve — Effect used to exponentiate the power of a creature. Naturally, this effect can be produced after casting the third copy of the same creature. However, there may be spells that allow a creature to evolve without this prerequisite.

Soul Expand — Effect that permanently adds one or more news Soul source to the player, increasing their souls income capacity each future turn. This effect is represented by the icon: [+]

Shield — Effect that adds a certain amount of defense points to the player’s stronghold, causing all damage taken in combat to be dealt primarily to shield points, instead of dealing damage to the stronghold’s life total. This effect is represented by the icon {+}

E.T.B — Short for Enters the Battlefield, an effect that is triggered whenever a card with this ability enters the battlefield under the control of the player who cast it.

Unconjure — Returns a creature from the battlefield to its owner’s hand.

Immortal — Creatures with this ability are unaffected by effects that would directly or indirectly destroy it. But despite that, this effect doesn’t prevent the creature from being unconjured.

Regenerate— Effect applied to creatures completely restoring all their power to the original value.

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Lucas Alsberg
Dracards

Software Engineer / NFT enthusiastic and Dracards Co-founder.