This is the 14th published ruleset of Keeper of the Cards.
Unlike the last two editions, this update is more incremental and 100% compatible with 13th Edition cards. This tweaks some mechanics, adds some new counter types, and adjusts one case of wording by adding a new keyword. Neither of the starter decks have been altered, but this update should expand somewhat the options for card creation.
Compared to 13th Edition, the following changes have been made:
- Added new counter types, and corresponding effect texts which place them on a target. These new counter types are: Berzerk Counters, Taunt Counters, and Trap Counters.
- Berzerk Counter (proactive): Choose a valid victim for the host; immediately after the current chain finishes resolving, force the host to attack the chosen victim (with only itself as the attacking team), as if it was the host's controller's Battle Phase, but do not exhaust the host, also, the host's abilities cannot be activated until after this battle's Damage Allocation.
- Taunt Counter (reactive): When the host's controller is the defending player in an attack: Change the victim of the attack to the host.
- Trap Counter (reactive): When a chaining action is performed while the host is unexhausted: The host's controller may exhaust the host to activate any ability of the host, ignoring its activation condition, as a new chain link to the current chain.
- Spells are now allowed to be level 0.
- Added the "hex-play" keyword, which replaces certain instances of the "ghost-play" keyword.
- Multiple costs on a single ability are now separated by the word "and" instead of "also".
- Touched up the wording of the rulebook and card building guide in various places.