Challengers! FAQ
45 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup
Gameplay
Deck Phase
- When you discard unchosen cards to redraw in the Deck Phase, must you discard all of them?
- When do you pick cards: before each match or after the 7th match?
- Can you replace the usual 5-card draw with a single 7-card hand?
- Can the extra pick from Sci-Fi Geek or Shapeshifter come from the other level pile?
- How does the Shapeshifter's extra pick work?
- Do unpicked cards discarded during a Deck Phase go to the exhaust pile?
- If you may pick two cards, can you keep one, then redraw only the rest?
- What happens when the A, B or C deck runs out during the Deck Phase?
Match Phase
- Where do the cards in your exhaust pile go after a match?
- Do bench-based power bonuses update when a card leaves the bench?
- When a stack of cards holds the flag, whose power counts?
- In what order are flag loss, benching and flag win resolved in one attack?
- Is Cowboy's effect active when it is the first card played in a match?
- What happens when an effect makes you exhaust a card but your deck is empty?
- Do cards with the same name share one bench seat even when they arrive at different times?
- Does a deck-search or look-at-deck effect shuffle the deck afterwards?
- When is a revealed card's effect resolved relative to the flag capture?
Final & Game End
The Robot
2-Player Game
Effects
- When does the Shapeshifter's remove-a-card effect happen?
- Does the Clown's take-two-fans effect trigger when the Clown takes the flag?
- Do you still resolve a card's effect when the opponent has no card to put on the exhaust pile?
- Does a card's effect without a trigger keyword activate when it goes to the exhaust pile or bench?
- Does Bard's bench bonus add +1 to each card or to the total?
- Does the Teenager's bonus count per card or per haunted-icon type?
- Does Villain's added A card stay in your deck into the next round?
- Does 'put up to two cards' on Vacuum Cleaner allow choosing zero cards?
- What does the During the attack keyword cover?
- Can one effect move several same-type cards from the bench to the exhaust pile?
- Do flag possession and flag loss effects still work on a card covered by other cards?