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Backpedal

Your pawns may retreat one square straight back this turn (no capture).

Backpedal
-1Roles: Modification
Your pawns may retreat one square straight back this turn (no capture).
A sketch of the card in use.
Cost

1 Braincell, paid in Built Deck.

Plays in

Built Deck: up to 3 copies in a deck.

Role
  • Modification. Bend the rules: new ways for a piece to move, extra moves, a board that slides or turns.

Related cards

  • Sideways Pawns
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    Your pawns may also step sideways one square this turn (no capture).
  • Tripping
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  • Hall of Mirrors
    -2Roles: Modification
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  • Mental Block
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  • Iron Wall
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  • Blood Oath
    -1Also costs: sacrifice 1 of your piecesRoles: Modification
    Sacrifice one of your pieces, then take two extra moves this turn.

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Put it in a deck, then try it against the robot.

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