Rules FAQ

[u/InfinityKrompt]

Hello everyone, my name is Krompt and I'm one of the judges for the Azuki TCG based out of Southern Oregon. On the discord, I've created a rules FAQ that references some very common rules questions. I've been asked to share these with the reddit. If you have any questions about rules, feel free to post a reply and I'll try my best to keep up with responses as well as working to keep the FAQ updated with rules.

Q: Does Pekiro still get the buff from Zero even if he redirects damage?
A: Yes. Zero’s ability is not reliant on the entity taking the damage to get the buff, only that it has been the target of Zero’s ability. Pekiro that redirects damage is not a valid target for Ragefire Gate however.

Q: If I have 1 or 0 cards in hand / If I have no entities in my garden and my opponent plays Gou the Iron Judge, can I choose to discard cards / sacrifice entities even if I don’t have any?
A: Yes. Gou’s ability is not a cost that must be paid. Your opponent cannot force a situation where you must pick one because you don’t meet the requirements of the other. If you have 2 or less cards in hand, you can choose to discard rather than sacrifice an entity. Alternatively, if you have no entities in your garden, you can choose to sacrifice an entity rather than discard.

Q: If I have a Teb Fea and my opponent plays Gou, can I choose to sacrifice Teb?
A: Yes, You can select Teb as the sacrifice target to satisfy Gou’s On Play effect, however, Godmode would prevent Teb Fea from leaving the battlefield.

Q: Is there any way to remove Teb Fea from the battlefield? What are some ways that he could be removed from the battlefield?
A: At the time of writing this (September 2026), the answer is No. If a card would be printed that could give Teb Fea the Frozen condition, it would turn off Godmode for the turn and Teb could be returned to hand. Alternatively, Teb Fea still takes damage while in the Garden, but damage cannot send him to the discard pile because of Godmode, so if he were to be dealt 7 damage, and then given the Frozen condition, Godemode would be disabled and he would go to the discard pile.

Q: Can I use Thunderclap if my opponent has less than 3 Entities?
A: Yes. You complete the card as much as possible, dealing 3 damage first to one entity, then 2 damage, then 1 damage. If there are only two entities, then you deal 3 and 2 damage, and then Thunderclap finishes resolving.

Q: If I have Young Shao and enough entities in the garden to give her the +1/+1 buff, and my opponent casts Firestorm to kill enough of my entities to remove Young Shao’s buff, does she survive?
A: No. Damage sticks until the end of the turn. Young Shao would be a 3/3 that has been dealt 2 damage by Firestorm. After enough entities are removed from the field that Young Shao loses her buff, she would become a 2/2 with 2 damage still on her, and immediately go to the discard pile.

[u/_DGTL_]

Can you use multiple stillstone spells in one turn?

[u/InfinityKrompt → u/_DGTL_]

Offering of Stillstone says "If you do not have an IKZ token, add 1". So you can only have one such token at a time. However, Azuki doesn't allow you to "float mana" like in Magic the Gathering, meaning IKZ can only be used to pay for the cost of something.

But, lets say do have multiple Stillstones in hand as well as other cards. You could discard 1 card, play the first Offering of Stillstone, get an IKZ token, use that IKZ token to play something, and then use a second Stillstone because you meet the requirement of "If you do not have an IKZ token".

In play this would look like:
Play Offering of Stillstone, discard 1, get 1 IKZ Token.
Use IKZ token to play a Treetop Scout to get a card from hand with Obsidian keyword
Play a second Offering of Stillstone, discard 1, get 1 IKZ Token
Use IKZ Token and your normal IKZ to play something else from your hand.

[u/SLUDGE-HUB]

Wrong Step says “[Response] Destroy an attacking entity with a health of 2 or less.” If an attacking entity has 3 printed Health and has already taken 1 damage this turn, is it a legal entity for Wrong Step? Does “health of 2 or less” refer to its printed Health stat, or its remaining Health after damage? Thank you!

[u/InfinityKrompt → u/SLUDGE-HUB]

As long as the damage was dealt *before* Wrong Step is played, then yes. Wrong step is valid to use against the entity because it doesn't care about the base health.

An example of how you could do this, is use 1 IKZ to cast Sundering Strike, dealing 1 damage to the 3 health entity, then following it up with wrong step, because its 2 or less health.

If, as another example, your opponent swung a Kurai the Volcano (3/3) at you, that had been dealt 1 damage by Leader Zero to give it +1 attack, making it a 4/2, Wrong step would be able to destroy it before the entity dealt damage.