Zenith
43 questions players ask about Zenith. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-05.
Setup and Resources
- What happens when the Agent deck or the Bonus token reserve runs out?
- What if I run out of influence discs, credits or Zenithium, or need a fifth disc of one planet?
- What happens if an effect takes credits, Zenithium or an influence disc from my opponent and they have none?
- What does the second step of Track O mean when it says to pay one Zenithium and gain a token?
Influence System
- When do I apply a planet's bonus token and is it ever replaced?
- If a planet's disc is one step from my zone and I gain 2 influence, do I get the next disc too?
- Do I discard the cards in a planet's column when I gain its influence disc?
- Can my own card effects make my opponent gain an influence disc?
- What counts as adjacent planets, and does Mercury wrap around to Jupiter?
- Does the not-equal symbol on a card (such as Cl4rke or Charlemagne) mean every move must be on a different planet?
- How does Augustus work: which planets does it move and what if one can't move fully?
- Does Gilgamesh always move the planet twice?
- What does a dominated planet mean on Lord Creep?
- On Suleiman, can the three moves be split across planets, and what is the discard condition?
Recruit an Agent and Card Effects
- Are card effects mandatory, or can I skip some?
- What if I can't apply an effect on a card fully?
- Can the card I just played be exiled or targeted by its own effects?
- When an effect repeats a move or exile several times, can I choose the same color each time?
- In exile or transfer effects, which card is 'the last card' and do I choose?
- Are exile and discard different on card effects?
- Does a transferred or mobilized card apply its effects or move its planet?
- Does the arrow-card icon always take a card from my opponent, and do 'the column' effects touch their cards?
- On Thompson, are the 6 credits counted after paying the card's cost?
- If a card is covered by another one, are its effects still applied when played?
Technology and Leader
- Can I use the technology action on a track that is already at level 5?
- Do I regain the lower levels' effects when I develop a higher level?
- Can I skip a technology level with a discount such as BR4DBURY?
- Does completing a technology row give a bonus token, and do those tokens refill?
- For Animod's level 1 technology, which opponent column is the corresponding column?
- What does Become the Leader do for each faction?