CARDS

Legendary

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Dynamite

One of your pieces is booby-trapped. If it captures or gets captured by a normal move, it explodes — itself included — along with the 8 adjacent squares (never kings).

Laser Beam

One of your long-range pieces fires a beam that destroys everything on the line, all the way to the edge — kings pass through unharmed.

Turncoat

While in check, the enemy piece threatening your king switches sides and joins your camp.

Rare

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Atomic Piece

Choose one of your pieces and blow it up: it vanishes along with everything on the 8 surrounding squares.

Body Double

In checkmate, your king and one of your pawns swap squares.

Chromatic Cleanup

Removes all black pawns on white squares and all white pawns on black squares.

Coup d'État

Your king swaps squares with the opponent's king — even in check, or checkmate.

Double Bishop

The same bishop slides twice in a row. It can capture on each slide.

Double Gallop

The same knight jumps twice in a row. It can capture on each jump.

Double Rook

The same rook slides twice in a row. It can capture on each slide.

Emergency Takeoff

In checkmate, your king escapes to any free, safe square on the board.

Frame-Up

Swap an opponent's knight with an opponent's bishop — you rearrange the opponent's pieces.

Guardian Angel

While in check, bring back your last captured piece and interpose it between your king and the threatening piece.

Home Stretch

One of your pawns already on the 6th rank is immediately promoted to a Queen.

Knightmare

One of your knights swaps squares with an opponent's knight.

Poisoned Piece

One of your pieces becomes poisoned. If the opponent captures it with a normal move, their capturing piece is destroyed along with it — unless it's their king, always spared.

Push

Your pawn advances onto an occupied square and pushes the whole line of pieces in front of it one square, without capturing anyone.

Reappearance

Recover the last piece your opponent captured from you and bring it back on a free square of its original home rank.

Rook Tango

Your rook swaps squares with an opponent's rook. Both lose their castling rights.

Royal Exchange

Your queen swaps squares with the opponent's queen.

Savior Pawn

While in check, the enemy piece threatening your king becomes a simple pawn.

Self-Defense

Cancels your opponent's last capture: your piece returns to its square, and the piece that took it disappears.

Shield

After your move, the piece you just moved can't be captured by a normal move on the opponent's next turn.

Slumber

An opponent's piece of your choice falls asleep: it can't make a normal move (castling included) until either king has been put in check. A card can still move it.

Survivor

If you have only one pawn left on the board, it is immediately promoted to a Queen.

Undo

Cancels your opponent's last move. They must now play a different one.

Vampire

Your next move must be a capture: the capturing piece then becomes the type of piece it just captured.

Common

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A Day in My Life

One of your bishops swaps squares with an opponent's bishop.

Back Step

For this move, one of your pawns can capture diagonally backward.

Bouncing Bishop

Your bishop slides diagonally; if it reaches the edge without meeting anything, it bounces once and keeps going.

Breakthrough

One of your pawns captures the piece right in front of it, straight ahead — a move normally forbidden for pawns.

Central Reinforcement

Recover one of your captured pawns and place it on one of the 4 central squares.

Double Advance

Two of your pawns each advance two squares, with no capture possible.

Draughts

One of your pawns jumps diagonally over an adjacent piece and lands on the empty square right behind it — the jumped piece is not captured.

Forced Truce

No card can be played, by anyone, until a king is put in check.

Fresh Start

Discard your whole hand and draw 4 new cards.

Fright

An enemy pawn retreats 1 or 2 squares, terrified.

Homecoming

Send one of your pieces back to a starting square matching its current type.

Infiltration

Two of your pawns swap places, each with an opponent's pawn of your choice.

Lost Pawn

Removes a completely isolated enemy pawn — no piece on any of its 8 neighboring squares.

Marriage Proposal

Your queen moves to an empty square right next to your king — or the other way around, your king comes to your queen's side.

Metamorphosis

One of your bishops permanently turns into a knight, on its square. You then play your move as normal.

Movement Constraint

Your opponent must move a piece other than their king or queen on their next move.

Pas de Deux

One of your knights swaps squares with one of your bishops.

Pegasus

One of your knights teleports to a free square of the opposite color to its own.

Perimeter

One of your pieces (except a pawn) on the board's edge teleports to another free square on the edge.

Push Forward

All your pawns advance one square. Any that are blocked stay in place.

Reorganization

One of your bishops swaps squares with one of your rooks. The rook loses its castling rights.

Tackle

One of your pawns captures the piece right next to it, left or right, on the same rank.

The Rook

Your rook jumps over one of your own pieces, then keeps sliding straight ahead — it can capture the first enemy piece it meets beyond (never the king).

Towing

A pawn advancing without capturing tows the piece of yours directly behind it: it advances one square too.

Triple Step

One of your pawns advances straight ahead as far as possible (up to 3 squares). No captures possible.

Twins

Move two of your pieces of the same type at once (bishops, knights, rooks, or pawns) — each makes a normal move.

Universal Bishop

One of your pieces (except a pawn) slides like a bishop, diagonally, without ever capturing.

Universal Queen

One of your pieces (rook, bishop, or knight) slides like a queen, in a line or diagonally, without ever capturing.

Vanish

Removes one of your own pieces (never your king) from the board. You then play your move as normal.

Vengeance

In reaction to one of your pieces being captured, remove one of your opponent's pawns.

Zombie

Choose 2 of your captured pawns and 2 of your opponent's captured pawns: they come back on a free square of their starting rank.