Glossary

Effect

Choose a player and eliminate them immediately.

Interactions

• It can be cancelled by an Alibi card.
• It can be redirected with Distortion.
• If redirected, the new target becomes the player chosen by the Distortion.
• If the new target holds an Alibi, they may use it as normal.

Effect

Choose a player and eliminate them immediately.

Interactions

• It cannot be redirected with Distortion.
• It can be cancelled by an Alibi.

Effect

Cancel an Accusation or Advanced Accusation card played against you.

Interactions

• It can be played out of turn.
• It does not protect against the effects of the Ancient Essence.
• It does not protect against eliminations other than Accusation or Advanced Accusation.

Effect

Look at one card from a player's hand.

The target player chooses which card to show you.

Interactions

• Any card in their hand may be shown.
• The player can freely decide which card to show you.

Effect

Look at one card from a player's hand.

You choose which card from their hand to look at.

Interactions

• Point to a card in the target's hand.
• You cannot ask to see a specific card.
• You will simply see the card you chose.
• If the chosen card is the Role, you will be able to see it as normal.

Effect

Draw 2 cards from the Action Deck.

Interactions

• If the Action Deck runs out during the draw, reshuffle the discards and keep drawing.

Effect

Exchange a card from your hand with a card from the hand of a target player.

Interactions

• Both players choose the card they will hand over and exchange them simultaneously.
• Role Cards cannot be exchanged.

Effect

A target player discards 2 cards.

Interactions

• The cards are discarded face down.
• The player chooses which cards to discard.
• If they are forced to discard their Role Card, they are eliminated.

Effect

Change the target of an effect from one player to another.

Interactions

• It can be played out of turn.
• It can redirect the effect to any valid player, including the player who originally played the card.
• You cannot choose yourself as the new target.
• It does not work against Advanced Accusation.
• It cannot affect Event Cards in any way.
• It can only be used on effects that have a specific target.
• Distortions can be played in a chain.
• Each new Distortion replaces the target chosen by the previous one.
• When the chain ends, only the last valid target will suffer the effect.

Effect

Ritual cards have no immediate effects.

Usage

• Cultists must accumulate 5 of them to complete the Ritual.
• The Veil Mage can use 3 of them if all the Cultists have been eliminated.
• The Ancient Essence can spend 2 of them to eliminate a player.

Effect

Immediately trigger an Event.

Interactions

• Reveal the top card of the Event Deck.
• Resolve the Event completely.
• The Event is then discarded as normal.

Effect

Choose a card from the discard pile and add it to your hand.

Then discard 2 cards.

Interactions

• You can retrieve any Action card in the discard pile.
• After retrieving the card you must still discard 2 cards from your hand.

Effect

Discard 2 cards.

Then search the Action Deck for a card and add it to your hand.

Interactions

• After searching, shuffle the Action Deck.
• You can search for any Action card.

Effect

Discard up to 3 cards.

Then a target player discards the same number of cards.

Interactions

• You can choose to discard 1, 2 or 3 cards.
• The target must discard exactly the same number.

Effect

Discard 2 cards.

Then steal a card from a player's hand.

Interactions

• The Role Card cannot be stolen.
• The stolen card is chosen at random.

Effect

Each player draws 2 cards.

Interactions

• The effect is resolved starting from the active player and proceeding clockwise.
• If the deck runs out, reshuffle the discards.

Effect

All players with fewer than 5 cards in hand draw 1 card. Those with more than 5 discard 1.

Interactions

• Anyone holding exactly 5 cards does nothing.
• Discarded cards are chosen by the player.

Effect

Each player with 3 or fewer cards in hand draws 1 card.

Interactions

• The number of cards is checked at the time of resolution.
• Anyone with 4 or more cards receives nothing.

Effect

Each player may discard 2 cards to draw 4.

Interactions

• Optional choice.
• Exactly 2 cards to discard are required.

Effect

Players holding at least 2 Rituals in hand may draw 3 cards.

Interactions

• Optional effect.
• The Rituals are not spent.

Effect

Each player takes a card from the discard pile.

Interactions

• The discard pile of the Action Deck is used.
• The active player takes the first card of the discard pile.
• The next player takes the second.
• Continue clockwise.
• If the discard pile runs out, the following players get no card.

Effect

All players discard 1 card.

Interactions

• Each player chooses the card to discard.

Effect

All players discard 2 cards.

Interactions

• Anyone holding fewer than 2 cards discards as many as possible.

Effect

A randomly chosen player draws 3 cards and discards 1.

Interactions

• The player is determined at random.
• They choose which card to discard.
• They may discard one of the cards just drawn or a card they already held.

Effect

The player with the most cards in hand discards 2 cards.

In case of a tie, all the players involved discard 1 card.

Interactions

• The count is made at the time of resolution.

Effect

All players discard all the Distortions they hold.

Then anyone who discarded at least one Distortion draws 2 cards.

Interactions

• You always draw only 2 cards, regardless of the number of Distortions discarded.

Effect

All players discard all Blessing cards.

Then anyone who discarded at least one draws 2 cards.

Interactions

• You always draw only 2 cards, regardless of the number of Blessings discarded.

Effect

Each player passes a card to the player on their left.

Interactions

• The card is chosen by its owner.
• The Role cannot be passed.

Effect

All players with more than 5 cards pass a card to the player with the fewest cards.

Interactions

• If several players have the fewest cards, the player passing chooses the recipient.
• If all players have more than 5 cards, nothing happens.

Effect

Each player shows their hand to an adjacent player.

Interactions

• The Role is not shown.

Effect

All players with at least 3 Rituals in hand must show one.

Interactions

• The card shown stays in hand.

Effect

All players holding at least one Ritual in hand must show one.

Interactions

• The card shown stays in hand.

Effect

Each player discards a Ritual card.

Interactions

• Anyone without Rituals does nothing.
• If a player holds several Rituals, they still discard only one.

Effect

Each player shows a card of their choice from their hand.

It is possible to show your own Role as well.

Effect

A random player reveals their Role.

Effect

All players close their eyes.

Then the Cultists reveal themselves to each other.

Interactions

• It works like a Cult recognition phase.
• The Cultists recognise each other but do not reveal themselves to the others.

Effect

Each player discards all the cards in their hand except the Role, then draws the same number of cards.

Interactions

• The number of cards in hand stays the same.

Effect

Each player discards all the cards in their hand except the Role.

Then the discard pile is reshuffled into the Action Deck and each player draws 3 cards.

Interactions

• Everyone starts over almost from scratch.
• Roles are never discarded.

Effect

Draw 2 Events and resolve them immediately.

Interactions

• The Events are resolved in the order drawn.

Effect

All eliminated players return to life and draw 4 cards.

Then the Roles of the previously eliminated players are collected, shuffled and randomly redistributed among them.

Interactions

• The new Roles replace the previous ones.
• Victory conditions update immediately.

Effect

Each player may exchange a card with the top card of the Action Deck.

Interactions

• The effect is resolved starting from the active player and proceeding in turn order.
• A player who chooses to exchange takes the top card of the Action Deck and puts the card chosen from their hand in its place.
• The card left behind thus becomes the top card of the Action Deck for the next player.
• The exchange is optional.

Effect

The discard pile is reshuffled into the Action Deck, then each player draws a card.

Interactions

• First the discard pile is completely reshuffled into the Action Deck.
• Then each player draws a card, starting from the active player and proceeding in turn order.

Effect

Each player adds to their hand a card of their choice from the discard pile.

Interactions

• Players choose their card starting from the active player and proceeding in turn order.

Effect

The active player chooses a type of card. All players discard all cards of the chosen type, then draw the same number of cards.

Interactions

• The cards of the chosen type must be revealed before being discarded.
• Each player draws a number of cards equal to the number they personally discarded.
• Anyone without cards of the chosen type neither discards nor draws.
• The player who names the card must also discard and draw if they hold any.

Effect

Each player discards all Clue and Advanced Clue cards, then anyone who discarded draws two cards.

Interactions

• You always draw only 2 cards, regardless of the number of Clues and/or Advanced Clues discarded.

Effect

Each player discards all Chaos cards, then anyone who discarded draws two cards.

Interactions

• You always draw only 2 cards, regardless of the number of Chaos cards discarded.

Effect

All players discard two random cards from their hand, except the Role.

Interactions

• The cards to discard are chosen at random from all the cards held, always excluding the Role.
• If a player holds fewer than two cards besides their Role, they discard all those available.

Effect

The Roles of all players still in the game are shuffled and randomly redistributed.

Interactions

• Only the Roles of players still in the game are used.
• Eliminated players do not take part in the redistribution.
• From that moment each player uses the new Role they received, with its Faction, victory condition and Ability.
• If that Role's Ability had already been used, it can be used again.

Effect

The active player takes back into hand the cards just played, then skips the Discard phase.

Interactions

• The cards played during the turn return to the player's hand.
• The player completely skips the following Discard phase.
• If this Event is resolved before the Event phase, the cards played afterwards remain in the play area until the next player's Discard phase is resolved.

Effect

All players draw a card.

Interactions

• The draw is made starting from the active player and proceeding in turn order.

Effect

In turn, all players may reveal a Ritual card; if they do not, they discard a card.

Interactions

• The effect is resolved starting from the active player and proceeding in turn order.
• A player who chooses to reveal a Ritual card shows it to the others but keeps it in their hand.
• A player who does not reveal, or cannot reveal, a Ritual card must instead discard a card.

Effect

The player with the fewest cards in hand draws three cards.

Interactions

• To determine who holds the fewest cards, the whole hand is counted, including the Role.
• In case of a tie, all the players with the fewest cards draw three cards.

Effect

All players shuffle up to two cards into the Action Deck, then draw the same number.

Interactions

• Each player may choose to put back zero, one or two cards into the Action Deck.
• After the cards have been added, the Action Deck is shuffled.
• Each player then draws as many cards as they put back into the Action Deck.
• The Role cannot be put back into the Action Deck.

Effect

All players draw until they have eight cards in hand.

Interactions

• Each player draws only as many cards as needed to reach eight cards in hand.
• Anyone who already holds eight or more cards draws nothing.
• The Role counts among the cards in hand.

Effect

All players add 1 Alibi to their hand.

From now on

• During the Event phase, the active player becomes the target of an Accusation.
• Chaos cards take on the effect of Advanced Accusation.

Interactions

• Each player adds 1 Alibi to their hand following the normal rules for adding a card.
• The normal Event phase is replaced by the Accusation against the active player.
• From now on, when a Chaos card is played, its normal effect is not used: the effect of Advanced Accusation is applied instead.
• These changes remain active until the end of the game.

Effect

All players discard every Ritual card from their hand.

From now on

• Roles lose their Ability.
• Every player plays for themselves.
• The last player left alive wins.
• During the Event phase, the active player adds 1 Ritual card to their hand, then skips the Discard phase.
• When a player holds 3 Ritual cards in hand, they are immediately Eliminated.
• The effect of Chaos cards becomes: “A target player adds 1 Ritual card to their hand.”

Interactions

• The Ritual cards initially held must be revealed before being discarded.
• From now on there are no more alliances or Faction victories: each player can win only by being the last one in the game.
• All the Roles' Abilities stop working.
• During every Event phase a normal Event is not drawn: instead, the active player adds 1 Ritual to their hand and then skips the Discard phase.
• The check for 3 Ritual cards is immediate: as soon as a player comes to hold 3, they are Eliminated.
• Chaos cards use only the new effect given by the Special Event.

Effect

All players draw until they have 8 cards in hand.

From now on

• During the Event phase, the active player discards 2 cards.
• The effect of Chaos cards becomes: “All other players discard 1 card.”

Interactions

• When the Event is triggered, anyone holding fewer than 8 cards draws until they reach 8. Anyone who already holds 8 or more does not draw.
• During every following Event phase a normal Event is not drawn: instead, the active player discards 2 cards.
• When a Chaos card is played, the player who used it discards nothing for its effect; all the other players discard 1 card instead.
• These changes remain active until the end of the game.