ONGOING:
Move one of your other cards from this location each turn.
STATS: 2 Cost / 1 Power
RELEASED: 2/19/26
ARTIST: Leonardo Veronesi
Axl Rydell has been driving these streets longer than most of the Trophaeum’s current contestants have been alive. He knows every shortcut, every back alley, every route between every point in the city that doesn’t show up on any official map. He has driven fighters to matches, fighters from matches, and on at least three occasions fighters who were no longer technically conscious. He keeps a roll of paper towels under the seat. He has learned not to ask questions.
He is not entirely sure how he became the go-to transport for Trophaeum contestants. It happened gradually, the way most things in the lower plates happen, one fare at a time until suddenly it was just what he did. He doesn’t have a power in the traditional sense. He has routes. He has timing. He has the particular competence of a man who has been doing one thing for a very long time and gotten quietly exceptional at it without anyone throwing a parade about it.
He runs on coffee. The bad kind, from the gas station two blocks from the junkyard that has been open continuously for thirty years and has never once been cited for health code compliance. He considers this a feature. The Trophaeum promised him nothing and he expected nothing and somehow he’s still here every morning, engine running, meter on, waiting for whoever needs to be somewhere else.
Just don’t get blood on the seats. The upholstery is vintage and he means that sincerely.