Unit Triggers
Every ability fires at a set moment. Here’s each trigger — and exactly when it happens.
FIRESthe moment a unit finishes deploying — after it’s revealed, survives the response window, and passes the state check.
A single time, and never again. A unit that arrives by attaching was never deployed, so it has none — but a unit that another card Seeks from your deck and deploys, or one deployed at Lightspeed, is deployed, so it fires.
FIREScontinuously — the whole time the unit is face-up in the Battle Zone.
Not an event, an ongoing state. Its buffs and debuffs stay live through the count (so they’re part of Total CQ at Tallying) and end when the unit leaves play — at Clean Up at the latest.
FIRESwhen a card effect destroys the unit — sending it from the battle zone to the discard pile.
It fires whether the card was face-up or face-down when it was destroyed. Being swept to the discard at Clean Up is not destruction — that won’t fire it.
FIRESwhen the unit is discarded by an effect — for example, pitched from your hand.
The Clean Up sweep to the discard does not count as a discard, so it won’t fire then either.
FIRESwhen the unit is depleted — sent from the top of your deck to the discard.
Depleting sends cards from the top of your deck straight to the discard; each depleted card raises its own trigger.
FIRESduring the End of Battle phase — but only if the unit is in play.
Resolves in Location order (lowest first), with the Extra Locations last. A card sitting in your hand or discard has no “in play” unit, so it doesn’t fire one.
FIRESat the exact window the card’s own text names — and it can fire from anywhere, even your hand.
On a timing clash it resolves first (for example, a Black Energy Fragment uploads at the start of End of Battle, straight from hand). A Special Trigger can also bundle more than one triggering point in a single card — each one spelled out in the card’s text.
- UPON DEPLOYMENTWhen it deploys, it destroys all the units you control.
- THROUGHOUT THE BATTLEFor the rest of the Battle, you can’t deploy any more units.
Both live inside its one Special Trigger — the card text tells you each timing.
