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The Key and the Gate


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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Man Out of Time
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Icon: (A)(A) Skill: 4
Scientist. Independent.
Forced Response: After you trigger an effect from your discard pile, put a success token on Nikola Tesla.
Disrupt: When Nikola Tesla would be destroyed, move all success tokens on him to any number of revealed story cards.
Illustrator: Greg Opalinski
Set: TKatG
***** 14 Comments
Rite of the Silver Gate

Rite of the Silver Gate

Rending Space-Time
Type: Support Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Ritual.
Fated 3.
Action: Exhaust Rite of the Silver Gate to choose a non-story card in play. The controller of that card reveals the top card of his deck and compares its cost to that of the chosen card. Discard the card with the highest cost. Then, place a success token on the Rite of the Silver Gate.
Illustrator: Stephen Somers
Set: TKatG
****- 9 Comments
Will of Azathoth

Will of Azathoth

The Edicts of Madness
Type: Support Faction: Neutral
Cost: 2
Spell. Attachment.
Attach to a story card.
Characters cannot be committed to attached story card.
Forced Response: After a story card is won, discard Will of Azathoth.
Illustrator: Scott Purdy
Set: TKatG
***-- 21 Comments
Andrew-Chapman

Andrew-Chapman

Boon Companion
Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(I)(I) Skill: 4
Explorer. Scientist.
Fated 3.
Disrupt: When an opponent's effect would destroy or make you sacrifice a character you control, instead discard a card from your hand. Then, place a success token on Andrew Chapman.
Illustrator: Raymond Bonilla
Set: TKatG
***-- 3 Comments
Slenderman

Slenderman

Feaster Upon the Innocent
Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 3
Icon: (T)(C)(C) Skill: 4
Monster.
Fated 3.
Disrupt: When the first struggle would resolve at a story at which Slenderman is committed, all non-[Shub-Niggurath] characters at that story with cost 2 or lower are uncommitted. Then, place a success token on Slenderman.
Illustrator: Damien Worm
Set: TKatG
***-- 5 Comments
B. Ramsdale Brown

B. Ramsdale Brown

Well Connected
Type: Character Faction: Silver Twilight
Cost: 3
Icon: (A)(I)(I) Skill: 3
Lodge. Sorcerer.
Fated 3.
Response: After you play a character or support card, choose a card in your discard pile of equal or lower cost and put it into your hand. Then, place a success token on B. Ramsdale Brown.
Illustrator: Samuel R. Shimota
Set: TKatG
***** 10 Comments
Vortex of Time

Vortex of Time

Type: Event Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Spell. Disaster.
Action: Draw 2 cards.
Response: After a player drains a domain, reveal the top card of that player's deck. You may place that card on the bottom of that deck. (Limit once per turn.) This effect can only be triggered from your discard pile.
Illustrator: David Demaret
Set: TKatG
***** 7 Comments
Arsene Renard

Arsene Renard

Gentleman Thief
Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(C)(I) Skill: 4
Criminal. Relic Hunter.
Fated 3.
Response: After an opponent plays a support card, search the top 5 cards of his deck for a support card and put that card into play under your control. Then, place a success token on Arsene Renard. If that card is still in play at the end of the turn, sacrifice it.
Illustrator: Paul Tobin
Set: TKatG
**--- 15 Comments
Professor Nathaniel Peaslee

Professor Nathaniel Peaslee

Alien Intelligence
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 1
Icon: Skill: 1
Yithian.
Action: During your operations phase, pay X (which must include at least one [Yog-Sothoth resource) to choose a non-Ancient One character of X skill or less. The controller of that character gains control of Professor Nathaniel Peaslee and you gain control of that character.
"It was on Thursday, 14 May 1908, that the queer amnesia came... I had a singular feeling - altogether new to me - that some one else was trying to get possession of my thoughts."
Illustrator: Rafal Hrynkiewicz
Set: TKatG
****- 6 Comments
Hungry Star Vampire

Hungry Star Vampire

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Icon: (T)(C) Skill: 2
Monster.
Toughness +1.
Forced Response: After Hungry Star Vampire readies, choose and destroy a character with the lowest skill.
The thing was bloated and obscene-a headless, faceless, eyeless bulk with the ravenous maw and titanic talons of a star-born monster.
Illustrator: Brent Hollowell
Set: TkatG
****- 4 Comments
Interstellar Migration

Interstellar Migration

Type: Event Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Yithian.
Action: Choose a Yithian character and return it to its owner's hand.
Action: Put Interstellar Migration on the bottom of your deck to choose a deck. Discard X cards from that deck. X is equal to the number of Yithian cards in your discard pile. This effect can only be triggered from your discard pile. Limit 1 per phase.
Illustrator: Paul Carrick
Set: TkatG
***** 7 Comments
Nadine Eskiy

Nadine Eskiy

The Namer
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Icon: (T)(A) Skill: 2
Sorcerer. Servitor.
Toughness +1.
Forced Response: After Nadine Eskiy commits to a story, exhaust and commit all ready characters with skill of 4 or more at the same story at which Nadine Eskiy is committed.
"By your true name I summon you!"
Illustrator: Smirtouille
Set: TKatG
**--- 7 Comments
Frozen Time

Frozen Time

Type: Support Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Polar. Attachment.
Loyal.
Attach to a card.
Treat attached card as if its text box was blank.
Illustrator: David Demaret
Set: TKatG
***** 11 Comments
Wilbur Whateley

Wilbur Whateley

Scion of Yog-Sothoth
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 4
Icon: (T)(C)(A)(I) Skill: 4
Servitor. Sorcerer.
Reduce the cost of the first Spell event card you play each turn by 1.
Action: Discard a Spell event card from your hand to choose an exhausted character controlled by an opponent. That opponent must return that character to the top of its owner's deck or discard 1 card from his hand.
Illustrator: Michel Koch
Set: TKatG
***-- 5 Comments
Fthaggua

Fthaggua

Regent of the Fire Vampires
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Icon: (T)(C) Skill: 2
Servitor. Monster.
Invulnerability.
Fthaggua gains (T)(C) and +1 skill for each facedown card attached to it.
Forced Response: After a character is destroyed, attach that character facedown to Fthaggua. Any player may discard 2 cards from the top of his deck to cancel this effect.
Illustrator: John Silva
Set: TKatG
***-- 10 Comments
Summon Spectral Hunter

Summon Spectral Hunter

Type: Support Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Attachment. Spell.
Play only if it is not Day. Attach to a non-Ancient One character.
Attached character gets -1 skill for each success token on it, and it is destroyed if its skill is 0.
Forced Response: After the beginning of its owner's turn, place a success token on attached character.
Illustrator: Johannes Holm
Set: TKatG
**--- 4 Comments
Norman Blackwood, Sr.

Norman Blackwood, Sr.

Crafty Veteran
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(A)(I) Skill: 4
Investigator. Independent.
Fated 3.
Disrupt: When an opponent's card effect would wound an Investigator you control, instead wound a character of your choice. Then, place a success token on Norman Blackwood, Sr.
Illustrator: Bryce Cook
Set: TKatG
***-- 7 Comments
Lost Oracle

Lost Oracle

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 1
Icon: (A) Skill: 1
Independent. Sorcerer.
Response: After you win an [Arcane] struggle, discard 2 cards from your deck to choose and discard a success token. This effect can only be triggered from your discard pile.
"If I said that I could tell you when you were going to die, would you want to know?"
Illustrator: Alice Duke
Set: TKatG
****- 5 Comments
Sieur Piriou Louis

Sieur Piriou Louis

Hastur's Huntsman
Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(C)(A) Skill: 4
Cultist.
Fated 3.
Response: After Sieur Piriou Louis is committed to a story, all other characters committed at that story go insane. Then, place a success token on Sieur Piriou Louis.
Illustrator: Charles Urbach
Set: TKatG
***-- 8 Comments
Claude Owen

Claude Owen

Trying to Conquer Death
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(A)(A)(A) Skill: 3
Avatar. Scientist.
Action: Pay 3 to choose 1 character in each player's discard pile. Put those characters into play under your control. At the end of the phase, if a chosen character is still in play, return it to its owner's control. (Limit once per turn.)
"Playing God you say? I have recreated life from its essential salts! I am God!"
Illustrator: Romain Leguay
Set: TKatG
****- 4 Comments
Decrepit Wizard

Decrepit Wizard

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Icon: (A)(A)(A) Skill: 4
Cultist. Sorcerer.
Fated 3.
Disrupt: Discard a resource on a domain to cancel an effect just triggered that targets a character you control. Then, place a success token on Decrepit Wizard.
Happy is the town at night whose wizards are all ashes.
Illustrator: Michel Koch
Set: TKatG
***-- 5 Comments
Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth

All-In-One
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 7
Icon: (T)(T)(C)(A)(A) Skill: 8
Ancient One.
Villainous. Invulnerability.
Reduce the cost to play Yog-Sothoth by 1 for each Sorcerer character in your discard pile.
Forced Response: After a player places a success token on a story, choose a card controlled by that player to gain Fated 3 until the end of the phase. Then place a success token on that card.
Illustrator: Stephen Somers
Set: TKatG
****- 2 Comments
The Festival

The Festival

Bringer of Strange Joy
Type: Support Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 1
Location.
Action: Exhaust The Festival and sacrifice a resource to search your deck for a card and attach it to a drained domain as a resource. Shuffle your deck.
Action: Attach The Festival to a domain as a resource (Limit 1 per turn.) This effect can only be triggered from your discard pile.
Card designed by 2011 Liege Champion Graham Hill
Illustrator: Tiziano Baracchi
Set: TkatG
***** 2 Comments
Castro

Castro

Immensely Aged Mestizo
Type: Character Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 3
Icon: (T)(C)(A) Skill: 4
Cultist.
Fated 3.
Action: Discard one of your success tokens from a story card to discard a success token from a story card. Then, place a success token on Castro.
Illustrator: Rafal Hrynkiewicz
Set: TKatG
***** 3 Comments
Dark Passenger

Dark Passenger

Type: Support Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Attachment. Yithian.
Attach to a non-Ancient One character.
Attached character loses all icons and cannot be uncommitted from a story until the story is won.
Response: After Dark Passenger is discarded from a domain and you have 1 or more [Yog-Sothoth] cards in play, attach Dark Passenger to a character in play.
Special Attribute: Transient
Illustrator: Patrick Reilly
Set: TKatG
****- 4 Comments
Lost City of Pnakotus

Lost City of Pnakotus

Source of Forgotten Lore
Type: Support Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Lost Civilization. Yithian.
Response: After a Yithian card enters play, exhaust Lost City of Pnakotus to choose a player to draw 2 cards. Then, that player chooses and discards 2 cards from his hand.
There were horrible annals of other worlds and other universes, and stirrings of formless life outside all universes.
Illustrator: Cristina Vela
Set: TKatG
**--- 2 Comments
Yithian Scout

Yithian Scout

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 1
Icon: Skill: 1
Yithian. Investigator.
Response: After Yithian Scout enters the discard pile from play, search your deck for a card named Yithian Scout and put it in your hand.
Action: Discard a card from each opponent's deck. (Limit once per turn.) If a non-character card is discarded in this way, put Yithian Scout into play from your discard pile. This effect can only be triggered from your discard pile.
Illustrator: Rafal Hrynkiewicz
Set: TKatG
***** 3 Comments
Hand of Aforgomon

Hand of Aforgomon

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(A)(A) Skill: 0
Cultist.
All characters committed at the same story as Hand of Aforgomon are considered to have a skill of 0.
Illustrator: Smirtouille
Set: TKatG
****- 1 Comments
Mists of Lethe

Mists of Lethe

Type: Event Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 0
Spell.
Response: After an opponent commits a character to a story, commit that character to a different story.
Action: Choose a [Yog-Sothoth] card in play that you control and return it to its owner's hand to put Mists of Lethe on the bottom of your deck. This effect can only be triggered from your discard pile.
Special Attribute: Steadfast x3 Yog-Sothoth
Illustrator: Jesse Mead
Set: TKatG
***** 2 Comments
Prepared Alienist

Prepared Alienist

Type: Character Faction: Neutral
Cost: 2
Icon: (A)(I) Skill: 2
Scientist. Independent.
Toughness +1.
While Prepared Alienist is ready, characters cannot change control or be put into play through triggered effects.
"They can only reach us through angles. We must eliminate all angles from this room. I do not believe they can reach me, but I must beware."
Illustrator: Kelly Hensing
Set: TKatG
***** 7 Comments


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