ONGOING:
Gains +2 power for each full location on your side of the field.
STATS: 2 Cost / 2 Power
RELEASED: 3/15/2026
ARTIST: TBD
Daisho Rei grew up with the Trophaeum on every screen. The names of victors scrolling across scoreboards visible from three blocks away, match highlights running on loop in the neon-soaked windows of every establishment in the upper plates. He didn’t discover the climb. He was raised inside its broadcast. By the time he was old enough to enter he already knew the brackets, the rankings, the names of everyone worth knowing. The danger was always part of the presentation. He assumed that was the point.
He came in with a code. Honor, discipline, the particular weight of doing things the right way in a place that stopped caring about the right way long before he was born. The upper plates will tell you this is naive. That the Trophaeum chewed through honor centuries ago and built something more efficient in its place. Daisho Rei has heard this. He keeps the code anyway. Not because it’s practical. Because it’s his and in a world of neon and sponsored brackets and names on scoreboards, having something that belongs entirely to you matters more than people admit.
He hasn’t been hit hard enough yet to know the difference between sport and survival. That’s not a criticism. It’s just true. The Trophaeum has a way of teaching that lesson and it doesn’t schedule the class in advance. When it comes for Daisho Rei it will find someone disciplined enough to absorb it and stubborn enough to stand back up. What he does with the code after that is the question the Trophaeum is waiting to ask him.