World of Warcraft Trading Card Game: Assault on Icecrown Citadel Raid Deck
World of Warcraft Trading Card Game: Assault on Icecrown Citadel Raid Deck Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Raid Decks and Gold-Bordered Cards
The four hero cards have special gold borders because they are much stronger than typical heroes, so they can only be used when you're playing the Raid. For example, the Lich King's ability to retrieve Frostmourne from his deck on the third turn makes him too powerful to play in a normal deck, but it's also why he is able to defeat three opponents at once! Additionally, each deck includes a special gold-bordered weapon card that can only be played with the appropriate hero during the Raid. You may play any of the raiding hero decks (Jaina, Sylvanas, or Tirion) against any other World of Warcraft TCG deck simply by replacing the hero with a normal one of the appropriate class and removing the gold-bordered weapon from the deck! The Lich King's deck and the cards in it are not designed to be played against other decks in a one-on-one game (although you could try, if you dare!), which is why they are gold-bordered and not legal to include in your other World of Warcraft TCG decks.
Additional Rules and Setup
The Assault on Icecrown Citadel Raid plays like a normal game of the World of Warcraft TCG with a few exceptions:
- Players may use protectors to protect any other raiding heroes or allies, not just characters they control.
- Gold-bordered cards from this Raid (the heroes, their weapons, and all the Lich King's cards) can only be used when playing the Raid itself. Any black-bordered cards can be used in a standard game of the World of Warcraft TCG.
- You can play Jaina's, Sylvanas's, or Tirion's deck against any standard World of Warcraft TCG deck simply by removing Staff of Antonidas, Ashbringer, or Deathwhisper from the relevant deck, then replacing the hero card with a standard hero of the appropriate class. You must still follow faction and reputation deckbuilding rules when playing Tirion's deck.
- Unique: Some cards, including allies affiliated with the Argent Crusade, have the word "Unique" on their type line. Any time you control more than one unique card with the same name, you must immediately destroy all but one of them. You choose which one to keep.
- The Lich King's deck includes event cards, which function like quest cards would in any other deck. They are placed face up and are turned face down when initiated.
- When a player's hero is destroyed, all of that player's other cards are also removed from the game.
Winning the Assault on Icecrown Citadel
In this Raid battle, the Lich King wins by destroying all three raiding heroes, and the raiding heroes win if they are able to destroy the Lich King. A hero is destroyed when it has damage greater than or equal to its health.
Setup and Play
Each of the four players chooses one of the decks to play. The player who chooses the Lich King will face off against the other three players in a 3 vs. 1 game. Each player shuffles his deck and draws a hand of seven cards. Any player may take a mulligan at the start of the game, reshuffling his hand into his deck and drawing a new starting hand of seven cards. The player with the Lich King deck starts the game and gets to draw a card on his first turn. Play then proceeds clockwise around the table.