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Ganking is not an extra move

The keyword everyone misreads in their first tournament, and the one line of the glossary that settles it.

M Marek T. Reader 3 Jul 2026 · 1 min read

Ganking reads like a bonus. It is not. It adds a legal destination to the standard move you already had — nothing else about that move changes.

What actually changes

Without Ganking, the standard move goes from your base to a battlefield. With it, battlefield to battlefield becomes legal too. That is the whole keyword.

  • It is still one move, not two.
  • Exhausting the unit is still the cost.
  • The unit still arrives exhausted.

The trap

Players read “can move between battlefields” and hear “can move again”. Then they move once from base, and try to move a second time across. That second move has no cost left to pay, because the unit is already exhausted.

If you want a unit ready where the fight is, Ganking will not get you there. Something else has to.

#keywords #movement

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R Rin Aketo Reader 5 Jul 2026

I lost a game to exactly this misread last weekend. Reading it written down plainly helps.