Reveal — Riftbound Rules

424.1.

Revealing is the act of presenting a card to all players from a zone that one or more players do not have access to the information of.

424.1.a.

Revealed is a temporary state and is not a zone.

424.1.a.1.

Other cards, including the card being revealed, can reference the act of being Revealed.

424.1.a.2.

Cards remain in the zone they are being Revealed from. Example: If a card is being Revealed from the top of a player's Main Deck, it is still the top card of that player's Main Deck.

424.1.b.

Unless otherwise described, Revealed cards do nothing else beyond become temporarily known information to all players.

424.2.

Revealing is a Limited Action.

424.2.a.

Players may only Reveal cards from Private or Secret zones when instructed to do so by Game Effects.

424.2.b.

During the course of a game of Riftbound, a player may choose to show Private information to one or more other players. This does not count as revealing and does not trigger any effects that trigger when cards are revealed.

424.3.

This action is formatted as "Reveal cards from [zone]." Example: "Reveal 2 cards from the top of your Main Deck" would be executed by taking the two cards from the top of your Main Deck, and then presenting them to all players to clearly read and understand at the table. Then, when all players have had a chance to understand the revealed information, return them to the top of the deck in the same order.

424.4.

Game Effects can manipulate or modify the cards Revealed while they are Revealed

424.4.a.

While cards are Revealed, those cards can be further manipulated, or accessed. They can even have their destination modified for when the Reveal ends. Example: "Reveal 2 cards from the top of your Main Deck. Put one into your hand and Recycle the other" would be executed by taking the top two cards from your Main Deck to the table, and once every player present has had a chance to understand them you would make the selection of one of them to add to your hand. The one you did not select would then be Recycled to the bottom of the Main Deck.

Related FAQ (4)

What about cards like Blind Fury and Promising Future, which let players look at or reveal cards from the top of a deck, play one, and recycle the rest? If I can't play that card, where does it go? It sounds like it's too late for it to be recycled as part of “the rest."

Hey, you're pretty sharp! For most cards that let you play something, it's easy to put the card back where it came from if you can't play it. The Harrowing would put it back in your trash, Ava Achiever would put it back in your hand, and so on. But when the card came out of a deck, which is both secret and randomized, it's not so simple. To provide a clear and easy answer to this question, four cards in set 1 that let you play other cards from decks are receiving errata. They'll each banish the card before instructing a player to play it. If the card can't be played for any reason, it just stays banished. This is a small functional change, but it's one we feel is well worth it to avoid the fuss of getting these cards back into a deck somehow. (1)(C), (E) Kill a friendly unit. Look at the top 5 cards of your Main Deck. You may banish a unit from among them that has Might up to 1 more than the killed unit and play it, ignoring its cost. Then recycle the rest.

OK, so what about Nocturne? How does his ability work? Is it a triggered ability? Can I use it if I “reveal" him, or only if I “look at" him?

Nocturne has a few problems we'd like to address. ● His ability is worded like a triggered ability (“when"), but it can't really work like one. By the time a triggered ability could go on the chain, be reacted to, and resolve, you wouldn't be looking at Nocturne anymore. ● He has the same problem that the above cards do: you're trying to play a card from a deck (in this case, Nocturne himself), and it's hard to put him back there if you try to play him but can't for some reason. ● He is intended to be usable any time you're looking at the front faces of cards from the top of your deck, whether the effect in question says to “look at" them or “reveal" them. The rules will be changed to clarify that last one—they will now explain that to “reveal" means the same thing as “allow all players to look at." Nocturne is receiving errata to solve these problems and bring him in line with his intended function. This errata makes it clear that this ability is not a triggered ability, and it uses banishment as a holding zone. It also specifies that revealing and looking both count; although we are handling that part at the rules level, we also want card text to reflect it unambiguously.

If I reveal multiple Nocturnes, can I play more than one? What if all 3 of the cards I look at for Stacked Deck are Nocturnes and I play all of them?

Yes, you can play more than one Nocturne at a time this way. If there aren't any eligible cards left for the original effect you were resolving, any further instructions will be ignored. So if you reveal Stacked Deck, see 3 Nocturnes, and opt to banish and play all of them, you won't put any cards into your hand, nor will you recycle any cards. You will, however, have 3 Nocturnes.

What about Dazzling Aurora? If I reveal Nocturne, do I get to play him and keep going?

No, Dazzling Aurora stops when it finds Nocturne. Nocturne is revealed, then you may choose to banish him or not. If you banish him, you can play him for (A) using his own ability. If you don't, you can play him for free using Dazzling Aurora's ability (probably better, but you do you). Either way, you revealed a unit, so you don't keep going.