Regicide Suit Powers, Enemy Immunity & Damage Examples
Understand how hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades interact with Royal immunity, combinations and the turn’s damage step.
Understand how hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades interact with Royal immunity, combinations and the turn’s damage step.
Start with the complete Regicide game guide for setup, turn order and the wider strategy. This page focuses on a specific question rather than repeating the full rules.
Suit powers compared
Hearts shuffle discarded cards back under the Tavern deck. Diamonds distribute draws without exceeding hand limits. Clubs double damage. Spades shield the team by lowering the active Royal’s attack until that Royal is defeated. Aces can combine suit effects with one other non-Jester card.
Immunity versus card damage
A Royal’s matching suit ability does not apply when played against that Royal, but the card’s printed attack still counts. For example the Jack of Clubs ignores the doubling power of an 8 of Clubs, though the card still deals eight damage. A Jester removes immunity for the current enemy.
Why order matters
Resolve healing before card draws when one combined play has both Hearts and Diamonds. Apply shield before suffering a surviving Royal’s damage. Only an active enemy attacks back; defeating it skips its counterattack and reveals the next enemy.
Combining equal numbers
A combination can contain two to four equal-number cards if their combined number is at most ten. Aces are paired separately with one card, not stacked arbitrarily. A 3 of Diamonds with a 3 of Hearts creates one six-strength play that both recycles six cards and draws up to six in turn order, subject to deck size and hand limits.
Avoid these mistakes
Do not confuse the enemy’s health with attack. Do not carry spade shields to a different Royal. Do not assume same-suit cards become unusable. Do not forget that a perfectly lethal attack places the Royal atop the Tavern deck rather than among normal discards.
When this article is useful
Use this focused reference during play when the table disagrees about whether a Royal blocks an effect, what order effects occur in, or how a combined attack’s strength determines the power of each suit.
Sources and editorial disclosure
Publisher or published rules reference. This is original explanatory writing, not a claim of personal playtesting. For printing-specific card text, check the supplied rulebook. See our editorial policy.