All Army Attack Factions

Factions are part of the mix, and the public list is two tags. Shop screenshots print Neutral and Plant on the cards with readable text. The store page and the November 10 briefing both tell you to experiment with factions. They do not print a faction select screen or a third tag.

Use Neutral and Plant as the working factions until a demo tooltip adds a name. Calling a chicken pile a faction because the art is full of chickens is how you misread Warcluck. He is a character with a troop pool, documented on the Warcluck page. A faction tag is the word under the card.

What the tags do in the shop text

Plant cards, among the lines that can be read, mutate two units at the end of the turn and pay free Refreshes plus Volcano Mush for every 60 gold spent. Neutral cards clear a row and take the units, pay gold when Reinforcement triggers, pay gold for units on a troops card, and make a random shop card free. The cards table is the quote sheet. Memorize triggers, not mascots.

Devolver's feature sheet calls this Special Ops: characters and maps bring their own card pools. The store paragraph says the same thing without that heading. A faction can be common to several pools or trapped inside one. That split is unconfirmed. When you change maps, write down which tags survived. Maps is the reason a Plant plan can dry up in a new region even though Plant is real.

How to draft with two tags

1. Decide the tag before you Refresh. Refreshing to "see what happens" spends gold the home base wanted.
2. If the row is already the units you want, the Neutral row-clear is a converter, not a delete key.
3. If you need the shop to keep moving, the Plant 60-gold line is the Refresh engine.
4. If Warcluck is your commander, add bodies first and let tags support the width. His tooltip is about numbers.
5. If a boss curse is on the table, reread it before you commit to a tag. Muddy Waters taxes speed on Refresh. Dead End blocks selling. Both are on bosses.

Tip: Two tags are enough for a Prologue. A third tag you cannot read is not a secret faction. It is a blurry word. Skip it.

A hands-on preview says roles differ and a front line needs support. That is compatible with tags and still does not name a faction roster. The units page refuses a tier list for the same reason. Builds will not rank Neutral over Plant. It tells you which problems each tag answers.

The briefing also says to mutate soldiers. Plant's mutate line is the on-screen version of that sentence. If you are looking for the faction that "does the crafting," start with Plant, then check whether Neutral cards mutate too. Only the Plant mutate line is legible today.

Verdict: Draft Plant when you want the shop to snowball through gold spent and mutations. Draft Neutral when you want to move units and gold around. Learn a third faction from the demo, not from the key art.

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