Unit
Tianna Crownguard
Energy
Rules
Deflect (Opponents must pay to choose me with a spell or ability.)
While I'm at a battlefield, opponents can't score points.
Flavor text
“I will stand for my country, my family, and nothing else.”
Card information
- Set
- Spiritforged SFD
- Card number
- SFD-060/221
- Rarity
- Epic
- Type
- Unit
- Tags
- Elite, Demacia
- Power
- 2
- Illustrator
- Six More Vodka
Names in other languages
Keywords explained
DeflectCR 809Passive Ability
It is functionally short for "Spells and abilities an opponent controls that target [me/this] cost an amount of Power equal to [Deflect Value] more to play as an additional cost for each time they choose [me/this]."
Functional text from the Core Rules
Legality
Simulator support
Fully scripted
Every printed ability works in the simulator.
Rulings & errata
›Does Kato give keywords he’s gained during play? What about Might bonuses from various sources like Equipment?
Yes. Kato gives his current keywords and additional Might equal to his current Might to the unit you choose. Later changes to Kato don’t matter; what the unit gets is locked in as the ability resolves.
Tianna Crownguard
›Can I still conquer and hold battlefields while my opponent has Tianna? Do I get conquer and hold triggers? What about drawing a card instead of getting the 8th point from conquering?
Riftbound rules and card text use the word “score” in a couple different ways. You can score battlefields; you can also score points, as on cards like Tryndamere, Barbarian. The difference between these two is usually clear… but Tianna muddles them more than we anticipated. Tianna is solely concerned with points and doesn’t interfere with the process of conquering or holding battlefields. You can still conquer and hold battlefields and get your conquer and hold triggers. You can even draw a card if you conquer a battlefield and can’t score because it’s the final point and you haven’t scored every battlefield yet. It’s not until you reach for your scorepad, app, or tracking die that Tianna says “No.”
The “gain points” meaning of score is underdeveloped in the current rules, so in the future we are likely to revisit the rules and/or card wordings for scoring points without scoring battlefields. For now, we’re issuing errata to make Tianna’s function clearer and leaving the rest unchanged.
Tianna Crownguard (revised text)
[Deflect] (Opponents must pay [A] to choose me with a spell or ability.)
While I'm at a battlefield, opponents can't gain points.
›ErrataTianna Crownguard
Current wording
[Deflect] (Opponents must pay [A] to choose me with a spell or ability.)
While I'm at a battlefield, opponents can't gain points.
Previous wording
[Deflect] (Opponents must pay [A] to choose me with a spell or ability.)
While I'm at a battlefield, opponents can't score points.