WARHAMMER UNDERWORLDS:
RELIC FORMAT RULES
Relic is the broadest format of Warhammer Underworlds, letting players build decks using their entire collections from across the history of
the game. Use this unrivalled flexibility to make a deck that’s entirely your own, build powerful combos, and find new ways to win.
WARBANDS AND GAME BOARDS FORSAKEN CARDS
All Warhammer Underworlds warbands and game boards can be used Cards are added to the Relic Forsaken list below to improve the
in the Relic format. experience of playing Warhammer Underworlds. When changes
are made to this list, any changes from the previous version will be
highlighted in magenta. This list was last updated in May 2022.
DECK-BUILDING
The deck-building rules for Relic are as follow: The following cards are Forsaken. They cannot be included in any deck
used in a Relic format event.
• Choose 12 or more objective cards. No more than 6 of those cards
can be surge objectives. This is your objective deck. OBJECTIVE CARDS
• Extreme Flank (Nightvault #317)
• Choose 20 or more power cards. No more than half of these cards • Keep Them Guessing (Nightvault #340)
can be gambits. This is your power deck.
POWER CARDS
• Neither deck can include more than one card with the same name: • Aggressive Defence (Nightvault #391)
each card in both of the decks must be unique. • Baffling Illusion (Nightvault #397)
• Great Concussion (Shadespire #329)
• You can only include cards that have the same warband symbol • Hunter's Reflexes (Beastgrave #403)
as your warband’s fighter cards, the same Grand Alliance symbol • Last Chance (Shadespire #336)
as your warband’s fighter cards, or the universal symbol. Some • Prescient Blow (Beastgrave #418)
older fighter cards do not have a Grand Alliance symbol. To find • Quick Thinker (Shadespire #347)
out which Grand Alliance those fighters belong to, check the rules • Time Trap (Shadespire #368)
update document. • Upper Hand (Power Unbound #48)
• You can only use one plot card, with the exception of your
warband’s plot card. This means that you can only use one Rivals
deck that uses a plot card (and any number of Rivals decks that do
not use plot cards) when building your deck.
All Warhammer Underworlds cards are allowed, with the exception
of ‘Forsaken’ cards (see right). Where cards have been printed in more
than one product, they are assumed to have the wording of the most
recent version printed.
BEST OF THREE GAMES
In the best of three format, players cannot use the same side of a game
board more than once in each match in an event – this means they
must bring and use a minimum of two different game boards in total
(giving them a choice of four game board sides). A player could, for
example, use the Mistmarsh Tangle in their first game, Visceral Coil in
their second game (which is on the reverse of the Mistmarsh Tangle)
and Moltscape in their third game.
In addition, in the second game of a best of three match, do not roll off
in step 2 of set up (the Place the Boards step). Instead, whichever player
lost the roll-off in the first game is assumed to have won the roll-off in
the second game. If the match is not decided after the second game, roll
off as normal in this step in the third game.
WARHAMMER UNDERWORLDS:
CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT RULES
Championship is a variant of the Relic format in which players construct their power and objective decks using cards from the most recent
seasons of Warhammer Underworlds. To create the most balanced competitive experience, Championship uses Forsaken and restricted card
lists. The card pool and the available boards in Championship are constantly evolving as new products are released, making it both a fun and
challenging way to play Warhammer Underworlds.
WARBANDS BOARDS
All Warhammer Underworlds warbands and their faction cards
are allowed. The following game boards may be used in the Championship format:
Starter Set boards (Soul Refractor, The Cursed Oubliette, Shyishian
DECK-BUILDING Stardial, The Mirror Well)
The deck-building rules for Championship are as follows:
Harrowdeep boards (Ultimatum Engine, Profane Larder, Chamber of
• Choose 12 or more objective cards. No more than 6 of those cards Genesis, Hall of Sublimation)
can be surge objectives. This is your objective deck.
Nethermaze boards (The Inevitable Morass, The Tortured Coil,
• Choose 20 or more power cards. No more than half of these cards Oblivion's Pillars, The Abyssal Depths)
can be gambits. This is your power deck.
Gnarlwood boards (The Mistmarsh Tangle, The Stricken Swamp,
• Neither deck can include more than one card with the same name: Visceral Coil, Moltscape)
each card in both of the decks must be unique.
• You can only include cards that have the same warband symbol BEST OF THREE GAMES
as your warband’s fighter cards, the same Grand Alliance symbol In the best of three format, players cannot use the same side of a game
as your warband’s fighter cards, or the universal symbol. Some board more than once in each match in an event – this means they
older fighter cards do not have a Grand Alliance symbol. To find must bring and use a minimum of two different game boards in total
out which Grand Alliance those fighters belong to, check the rules (giving them a choice of four game board sides). A player could, for
update document. example, use the Mistmarsh Tangle in their first game, Visceral Coil in
their second game (which is on the reverse of the Mistmarsh Tangle)
• You can only use one plot card, with the exception of your and Moltscape in their third game.
warband’s plot card. This means that you can only use one Rivals In addition, in the second game of a best of three match, do not roll off
deck that uses a plot card (and any number of Rivals decks that do in step 2 of set up (the Place the Boards step). Instead, whichever player
not use plot cards) when building your deck. lost the roll-off in the first game is assumed to have won the roll-off in
the second game. If the match is not decided after the second game, roll
Universal and Grand Alliance cards can only be included in your deck off as normal in this step in the third game.
if one of the following is true:
• They have one of the following set icons:
- Nethermaze
- Harrowdeep
- Essential cards pack
• They have one of the following Rivals deck icons:
- Tooth and Claw
- Daring Delvers
A maximum of three restricted cards can be included across a player’s
objective and power decks (see below).
A different Forsaken list is used in Championship (see below).
FORSAKEN AND RESTRICTED CARDS
Cards are added to the Championship Forsaken or restricted lists below to improve the experience of playing the Championship format of
Warhammer Underworlds. When a card is too prevalent, too powerful or has too great an effect on the ‘meta’, it will be added to the appropriate
list. When changes are made to this list, any changes from the previous version will be highlighted in magenta. This list was last updated in
October 2022.
FORSAKEN CARDS The Grymwatch
There are currently no forsaken cards in the Championship format. • In the Name of the King (Beastgrave #71)
• Shifting Madness (Beastgrave #76)
RESTRICTED CARDS
The following cards are restricted. You cannot include more than Rippa’s Snarlfangs
three restricted cards across your objective and power decks in a • Bonded (Beastgrave #119)
Championship event. • Cruel Hunters (Beastgrave #100)
For example, you could include one objective from the restricted list in Hrothgorn’s Mantrappers
your objective deck, one gambit from the restricted list in your power • Arm of the Everwinter (Beastgrave #162)
deck, and one upgrade from the restricted list in your power deck. Once • Famed Hunter (Beastgrave #184)
you have done that, you cannot add another restricted card to either deck • Unexpected Cunning (Beastgrave #172)
– you have three restricted cards in total, which is the maximum.
Morgok’s Krushas
You must clearly identify restricted cards on the deck list that you • Got it, Boss (Beastgrave #230)
submit at registration in a tournament. • Inured to Pain (Beastgrave #251)
Thorns of the Briar Queen
OBJECTIVE CARDS • Treacherous Foe (Nightvault #37)
• Contest of Equals (Harrowdeep #191) • Howling Vortex (Nightvault #42)
• Sudden Revelation (Nethermaze #225) • Sudden Appearance (Nightvault #47)
Mollog’s Mob
POWER CARDS • Foul Temper (Nightvault #224)
• Brigade Strength (Harrowdeep #140)
• Daylight Robbery (Essential Cards Pack #25) Spiteclaw’s Swarm
• Death’s Soldiers (Nethermaze #165) • Expendable (Shadespire #167)
• Duel of Wits (Essential Cards Pack #27)
• Ferocious Bite (Nethermaze #287)
• Healing Potion (Essential Cards Pack #30)
• Instinctive Shield (Nethermaze #186)
• Lurking Horror (Nethermaze #292)
• Partial Resurrection (Harrowdeep #165)
• Shrewd Wits (Nethermaze #303)
The Exiled Dead
• Alternating Strikes (Harrowdeep #97)
Starblood Stalkers
• The Great Plan (Direchasm #106)
Kainan’s Reapers
• Hatred of the Living (Direchasm #219)
Elathain’s Soulraid
• Surging Tide (Direchasm #232)
• Cloud of Midnight (Direchasm #239)
Drepur’s Wraithcreepers
• Bitter Strength (Starter Set #55)
• Pall of Fear (Starter Set #62)
Lady Harrow’s Mournflight
• Fleeting Memories (Champions of Dreadfane #36)
• One Will (Champions of Dreadfane #42)
