Portal
When this building reaches max level, your kingdom travels 2 years back in time.
- Type
- Building
- Owner
- King of Time
- Unlock the king
- Play for 999 years
How players use it
- King of Time Portal loops: a Portal sends the kingdom 2 years back at max level. Vao levels it instantly with Shrine and Overwork, loops back to the first council and takes Kintsugi repeatedly. Vao stops after 20 to 25 jumps to avoid breaking the time continuum, which warps the run to year 33 (Patch #27).
- King of Time: Amplifier, Portal, Regression and Rewind The King of Time unlocks after 999 years played across all runs. Its deck turns the calendar into a resource: Portal sends the kingdom 2 years back at max level, so you replay those years’ councils, merchants and loot, and Amplifier copies the buffs it receives to neighbouring plots. Lives lost are not given back by time travel.
- Long runs Time Bender (reach a negative year, 4.0%): play the King of Time and chain Portals (each sends you 2 years back; Wormhole adds more) in the early years. Shrines speed up Portal levels. King of Time.
- After year 33 The King of Time can move the calendar backwards with Portal, replaying councils, merchants and Rainbow fights.
How to get it
- In the King of Time's 9-card deck: a run as this king can start with it, and losing a battle offers cards from your own deck.
- Loot after beating the King of Time in battle when that king is one of your enemies.
- Merchant: Jack of Structures (buildings, towers and bases).
- Joker mode: pick it for a custom deck.
Decrees, perks and cards that name it
| Entry | Effect |
|---|---|
| Wormhole King of Time decree | Portals now travel 1 more year back in time. |
| Physicist King of Time perk | Start with Portal cards. |
Rest of the King of Time deck
Patch history
- Patch #23
When you Randomfy a level 3 building into a Portal, it now properly triggers a time travel event.
- Patch #27
Portal logic massive revamp: fixed dozens of soflock occasions on Multiplayer. Hopefully this issue should be fixed for good. Please keep us posted.
- Patch #29
Fixed a bug that caused the game to break when Illuminism leveled up a Portal to level 3.
Lines from the official Steam patch notes since Patch #18 that name this card.
Data: 9 Kings 1.0 card table on the official wiki, imported 2026-11-13.