Wildcard

How players use it

• King of Nothing Years 1 to 4: play Castle duplicates and Wildcards on the base and leave the other plots empty. Restart if the opening hand has neither, and spend no free re-rolls.
• Run plan by year Restart weak openings. TomarEmerald restarts when the first hand has no Wildcard or Castle card. 3DM’s Progress plan restarts when no Defender appears by year 2, and Aevean expects a few resets per King IX IX win. Four sources treat early restarts as normal at these levels.
• Level-up chains: Lab Rat, Concabulator and Overhaul Lab Rat levels up whenever an adjacent plot levels up, with no maximum level. A level-up next to one Rat therefore levels the Rat too, and if that Rat sits next to another Rat, the second one levels as well. The chain starts from anything that levels a plot: an upgrade, Wildcard, Overhaul, a level-3 Concabulator and, since Patch #29, Patronage.
• What a card does on a plot A troop, building or tower can only be upgraded by the same card. Wildcard, Overhaul, Concabulator and the Gentrify decree also raise levels. Buildings such as Blacksmith and Farm only affect adjacent plots, so a building in the centre of the 3×3 grid touches four plots and a corner building touches two.