How to Check Card Stats and Seasonal Pools

Your dream combo is one rainbow card away, and the reroll bill is starting to look like a royal ransom. Before chasing another offer in 9 Kings, check whether that card is in the active multiplayer pool. Then inspect what it actually does. A clever kingdom starts with the small print.

Coverage: PC Early Access, November 9, 2026. The Compendium, seasonal pool screen and post-run kingdom review answer three different questions: what a card does, whether it is available this season, and how someone arranged a finished build.

Open the Compendium and inspect a card

1. From the main menu, open Extras, then Compendium, the in-game card reference.
2. Browse to the king’s deck you want to inspect, then find the card.
3. Read its effect text and displayed statistics. For a fighting card, start with health and damage, then compare any other fields shown. Check what each field measures rather than assuming every card has the same statistics.
4. During a run, hover over a card’s type icon to view its full statistics. Use this when an offer’s short description leaves you unsure what you are buying.

Read the card’s job before comparing its numbers. Troops are mobile fighters; towers attack or apply effects in battle; buildings provide support such as growth or summons. Tomes apply effects to occupied plots, while enchantments add effects that can stack. A plot is one space on your kingdom’s board. Check each card’s target limits rather than assuming every effect works on every type.

For any possible combo, pick out three things: who receives the effect, where they must be, and what makes it happen. Adjacency concerns neighboring plots. Wording such as “one adjacent troop” limits the target; “every year” sets a timing rule; a level-up trigger needs the stated plot to level up. Do not turn “one” into “all,” or assume that two similar triggers resolve the same way. If an interaction remains unclear, keep your next choice useful even without it.

A missing special card does not prove it is unavailable. Rainbow and Chaos cards appear in your Compendium only after you have used them. A partly filled collection is not the full card pool, and a card recorded there is not proof that it is available in the current multiplayer season.

Check the active multiplayer pools

1. Enter Multiplayer and stop at the lobby before starting a run.
2. Open the seasonal card-pool screen from the bottom-left corner.
3. Check the season’s rainbow-card pool, then switch to the decree pool on the same screen. Decrees are bonuses or rule changes chosen through Royal Council events.
4. Read the effects of the options your plan needs. Check both pools before committing to a combo.

Both pools change with the season. Being listed makes an option eligible; it does not guarantee that your run will offer it. If a required rainbow card is absent, stop spending rerolls trying to summon it. Choose a plan that works with the current pool, and fill the missing role—damage, protection or growth—with an available option.

Review a finished kingdom without copying it blindly

1. Finish a multiplayer run and stay on the post-run screen.
2. Use the post-game kingdom review to open an opponent’s kingdom.
3. Review your own kingdom too, and keep track of whose board you are inspecting.
4. Compare the same four features on your kingdom and a stronger opponent’s kingdom.

• Damage: Identify the troops, towers or effects meant to finish enemies. Read their targeting rules as well as their damage.
• Defensive support: Look for health growth, healing, protection or control that gives those attackers time to work.
• Positioning: Trace each support card to its eligible neighbors. Check whether your key attacker actually receives the help you intended.
• Scaling: This means growing stronger over time. Look for repeated stat gains, added units, enchantment stacks or other stated triggers.

Keep the printed effect separate from your explanation of the result. A building’s text can tell you that it strengthens nearby troops; its place beside a powerful troop suggests a useful connection. That alone does not reveal every earlier offer, upgrade or choice. Borrow the idea behind the engine, then adapt it to your cards. The finished board is not a fixed shopping list or a guaranteed win.

If your last run stalled, take one clear fix into the next attempt. For example, if your main attacker missed an adjacency bonus, plan its support position before filling nearby plots. That gives your tiny kingdom a better chance to become the absurd machine you had in mind.