Regicide FAQ
107 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup
How to play
- Does play always pass clockwise between turns?
- After you defeat an enemy, who faces the next enemy first?
- Do you have to defeat an enemy in a single turn?
- Do all players take a full turn of all four steps, or do the steps happen once per round?
- Where do you put played cards, and how do you track the enemy's health?
- Do you need to track every discarded card to play Regicide well?
- Can you play several cards of different values together in one attack?
- In what order are suit powers and damage resolved in a turn?
Suit powers and discarding
- Do Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs powers happen only once, while Spades keep an ongoing effect?
- Do Spades played against a royal keep blocking damage for every player until the royal is defeated?
- Can you look through the discard pile during play?
- Can you discard more cards than needed to cover damage?
- Does the current player still have to discard when the enemy's attack is reduced to 0?
- Can you discard cards during the suffer-damage step when the enemy's attack is already fully blocked?
- When you suffer damage, do you discard a fixed number of cards or cards totalling the attack?
- Do suit powers apply when you discard cards to cover enemy damage?
- Which red suit power resolves first when a card plays both Hearts and Diamonds?
- Does a Clubs card's double damage carry over to later cards and turns?
- How many cards does a Diamond draw, and what happens if the hand limit or the Tavern runs out?
- In a multiplayer game, does one player's full hand end a Diamond draw for the whole table?
- When Diamonds draw cards, does the player who played the Diamond also keep drawing in the clockwise cycle?
- Is a Diamond you have just played still counted as part of your hand when its draw is resolved?
- What happens when a player must draw but the Tavern deck is empty?
- How does the Hearts heal work with the discard pile?
- Where do new discards go, and is the discard pile face up?
- Do cards played against an enemy stay on the table until that enemy is defeated?
- When you discard cards to block damage, do they leave play right away?
- When Hearts heal from the discard, is the played Heart already in the discard pile?
- For a Hearts heal, does the attack value include cards played on earlier turns?
- Does a King of Hearts or Diamonds heal or draw 20, and does a red companion make it 21?
- Other than Diamonds or a Jester, can you draw back up to the hand limit after emptying your hand?
- Is there a penalty for playing a Heart when the discard pile has too few cards to heal fully?
- Can you skip your draw so that a player with few cards can draw more?
- Can you decline a suit power, such as Clubs' double damage, when it would be more useful not to use it?
Animal companions
- Can an Animal Companion be played together with a combo of other cards?
- Can you play an Animal Companion Ace together with another card, and how many cards can be paired?
- Can an Ace be played as an Animal Companion with another Ace?
- When an Ace companion joins another card, do both cards' suit powers apply to the combined value?
- Does pairing an Animal Companion with a card of the same suit stack its suit power?
- Does an Ace of Spades companion's shield keep its full value on later attacks?
- Do Spades played in a combo or with an Animal Companion keep their effect on later turns?
Combos
- Can you play cards from more than one player together as one combo?
- What is the maximum total for a combo of identical-rank cards?
- When cards are played as a combo, do the suit powers use the combined total?
- Do cards played together as a combo stay combined for the rest of the enemy fight?
- Does a Spade played in a combo keep its combo value when another player blocks with it?
- Do Clubs double the whole combo total or only the Club card's value?
- Does a combo or Ace pairing apply its shield, heal and damage to the total of all its cards?
- Does a combo that includes Spades keep reducing enemy attack on later turns?
- Can a Face Card be paired with an Animal Companion or combined into a combo?
- When a Jester removes a Spades immunity, does the whole combo's shield count?
Enemy immunity
Playing the Jester
- If a Spades card was blocked by an enemy's immunity, does a later Jester make it count?
- After a Jester is played, can the player choose themselves as the next player?
- After playing a Jester, who takes the next turn when the chosen player finishes?
- After a Jester changes the turn order in a four-player game, who goes next?
- How long does a Jester's removal of an enemy's suit immunity last?
- Does playing a Jester reactivate Spades and Clubs played earlier against a Spades or Clubs enemy?
- After a Jester is played against a Spades enemy, do Spades played earlier start reducing its attack?
- After a Jester is played against a Clubs enemy, do Clubs played earlier still count double?
- How do you know which Clubs were played before a Jester against a Clubs enemy?
- Does a Jester count for any value when you discard cards to take damage?
- In a 3 or 4 player game, can any player play a Jester out of turn?
- In a 3 or 4 player game, does a played Jester go back into the Tavern?
Drawing a defeated enemy
- If the combined damage exactly equals the enemy's health, where does the enemy card go?
- Can you draw a Diamond enemy with exact damage so that it returns to your hand?
- Does the order of discarding cards after defeating an enemy matter in Regicide?
- What attack value does a face card have when you play it as an attack?
- When discarding a defeated face card to block damage, does its attack or its health count?
- Can you use the suit power of a defeated royal you have drawn?
- Where does a royal go when it is defeated by more damage than its health?
- When you defeat an enemy with exact damage using a Heart or Diamond, what is the order of healing, drawing, and placing the enemy?
Game end
- If you defeat an enemy with your last card, do you lose?
- Do you lose when the Tavern deck runs out while you must draw cards?
- Do you lose if you cannot play a card or yield on your turn?
- Does having no cards in hand mean you lose?
- If you play your last card and reduce the enemy's attack to 0, do you lose?
- If the game stalls with the last enemy alive and no cards left to play, is that a win, a loss or a draw?
Yielding
Solo play
- Does a Spade shield from a combo keep blocking on later turns in solo play?
- In solo play, can you attack with your only card before flipping a Jester?
- When can you use a Jester in solo play?
- Does your hand refill automatically if you run out of cards during an attack?
- How do you set up and play solo Regicide with the Jesters?
- In solo play, does flipping a Jester to refill cancel an enemy's immunity or stop working against a Diamond enemy?
- Can you flip a Jester in solo play when your hand is empty?
- In solo play, if the Tavern deck runs low, can a Jester refill with fewer than 8 cards?
- Can you flip a solo Jester mid-attack when a Queen's counterattack is only partly blocked?
- Can you draw more cards in solo play when you have no Diamonds in hand?
- In solo play, can you use a Jester when the Tavern is empty?
- In solo play, what happens if the Tavern is empty and you have no Hearts in hand?
- In solo play, is the game lost as soon as your hand is empty with no Jesters left?
- How is the Gold, Silver or Bronze win rating decided?
- In solo play, do you lose if you cannot play a card on your turn?
- What can you do in solo play if your opening hand has no Diamonds?
- Do the Legacy solo Jester rules change regular Regicide solo play?
Communication
- Can players signal what is in their hand by the order they play or discard cards?
- Can you tell other players to play a Heart or Diamond when the Tavern or your hand is low?
- Is all communication banned in Regicide, or only revealing what is in your hand?
- Can you say how many cards you have left, or ask another player to yield?