Kayn (Legends of Runeterra)

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Kayn For Alternate Card
Region	Runeterra
Type	Champion — Darkin
Cost	5 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Challenger
Description	Origin:  The Shadow Reaper. Auto-Equip: 2 The Darkin Scythe. When I kill an enemy, heal me 2.
Level Up	I've struck twice. When I level up, Recall me.
2 5
Collecting & Crafting
This card is collectible, and costs 3000 or 1
Flavour
As another body fell, 5Kayn let out a gleeful laugh, knowing that he would soon unleash the second Darkin weapon that lay below. Within him, 5Rhaast's anticipation grew, knowing that Kayn's undoing was finally near.
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
Rarity	Champion
ID	06RU005
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary Censored

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Kayn
Region	Runeterra
Type	Champion — Darkin
Cost	0 Mana
Card text
Description	Play: Transform me and all copies of me everywhere into 5Rhaast or 5The Shadow Assassin, and 2 The Darkin Scythe in hand or in play into 2 Corrupted Scythe or 2 Shadow Scythe according to the corresponding choice.
3 6
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
A fierce and sudden flash of anger overwhelmed Kayn, and a terrible, searing pain passed behind his eyes, bringing him to his knees. 5Rhaast's triumphant laughter echoed all around him, mocking and merciless. He had known this day would come--the day he would finally prevail or lose himself to the Darkin...
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T8
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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The Darkin Scythe
Region	Runeterra
Type	Equipment — Darkin
Cost	2 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Equipment
Description	Attack: Grant 2 The Darkin Scythe +1|+0.
+0 +0
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"Time to reap." - 5Rhaast
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T3
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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The Shadow Assassin
Region	Runeterra
Type	Champion
Cost	5 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Elusive Challenger
Description	Auto-Equip: 2 Shadow Scythe.
3 6
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
Tremendous power flowed through his veins. Freed from the Darkin's influence, the full power of the shadows was his to command. 5Kayn laughed, slipping into darkness, and emerged a moment later only to silently slit the throat of the guard before him.
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T1
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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Shadow Scythe
Region	Runeterra
Type	Equipment
Cost	2 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Equipment
Description	Attack: Grant 2 Shadow Scythe +2|+0.
+0 +0
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
5Kayn's anger grew into a fearsome blaze amidst 5Rhaast's furious screams. The Darkin's hold on the shadow warrior burned away, and when Kayn rose to his feet, he knew the full power of the Darkin was his to command.
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T10
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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Rhaast
Region	Runeterra
Type	Champion — Darkin
Cost	5 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Challenger Overwhelm
Description	Auto-Equip: 2 Corrupted Scythe. When I kill an enemy, fully heal me and heal your Nexus 2.
3 6
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
5Rhaast let out a triumphant howl. Years of waiting, yearning, and now... he was finally free. He lifted 6 Xolaani's blades and put them to his tongue, savoring the taste of fresh blood. He closed his eyes in bliss, and a smile crept across his face for the first time in millennia. The reaping had begun.
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T2
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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Corrupted Scythe
Region	Runeterra
Type	Equipment — Darkin
Cost	2 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Equipment
Description	Attack: Grant 2 Corrupted Scythe +1|+1.
+0 +0
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
As 5Kayn yielded his spirit to the Darkin, his anger subsided and an unbearable emptiness was left in its place. The young warrior was gone. Only 5Rhaast remained.
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T11
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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Kayn's Shadowstep
Region	Runeterra
Type	Champion Spell
Cost	3 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Slow
Description	Give 5Kayn, 5Rhaast, or 5The Shadow Assassin Quick Attack this round. They start a free attack Challenging an enemy. Create a 5Kayn in your deck.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"No escape." - 5Kayn
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T4
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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The Shadow Reaper
Region	Runeterra
Type	Origin
Card text
Description	You may put any Cultist cards into your deck during deckbuilding. Once you have summoned 4+ Cultist units, draw a 5Kayn.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
Only two outcomes are possible: either 5Kayn bends 5Rhaast to his will, or he is consumed by it.
Expansion	Set 6 - Worldwalker
ID	06RU005T6
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

The Path of Champions

Path of Championsedit
Kayn
Unlock 750 / 30
Playstyle	Balanced
Difficulty	Medium
Star Powers
	10
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	40

Kayn is a playable champion in The Path of Champions. See more at Kayn (The Path of Champions).

Champion Stars

Stars	Power
	Reap Essence	When an allied unit kills another unit, give that ally +1|+1 and heal it 2.
	Suitable Host	+1 Starting Mana. Game Start: Create a random Darkin Equipment in hand. It costs 2 less.
	Reap Essence II	When an allied unit kills another unit, give that ally +2|+2 and heal it to full.

Trivia

• Internally:
  • Corrupted Scythe is called Red Scythe.
  • Shadow Scythe is called Blue Scythe.
• 3 Jun, the Prodigy and 1 Vastayan Disciple are featured in his Level 1 artwork.
• 2 Disciple of Doran and 3 Jun are featured in his Level 2 artwork.
  • The shadows of 5The Shadow Assassin and 5Rhaast can also be seen.
• 2Master Yi, 4 Ranger-Knight Defector and 3 Jun are featured in artwork of 5The Shadow Assassin.
• 3 Jun and 1 The Darkin Bloodletters are featurd in the artwork of 5Rhaast.
• Both The Shadow Assassin and Rhaast have level-up quotes, indicating there may have been different animations for both or voicelines based on the transformation.

Quotes

• Kayn
• The Shadow Assassin
• Rhaast

Summoned

• ▶️   Rhaast: "The undoing draws near."
  • Kayn: "Yes, yours."
• ▶️   Kayn: "You are the tool, I am the weapon."
  • Rhaast: "Lies to ease your feeble mind."
• ▶️   Kayn: "The child is gone, the killer remains."
• ▶️   Kayn: "They will fear my name."
  • Rhaast: "And grovel before mine."

Enemy 2Master Yi present

• ▶️   Kayn: "Give me the 1 Darkin weapon or succumb to shadow."
  • ▶️   Master Yi: "This path leads to a darkness beyond even your strength."

Allied 4Varus present

• ▶️   Kayn: "The child is gone, the killer remains."
  • ▶️   Varus: "Both will live on through you."

Enemy 4Varus present

• ▶️   Kayn: "They will fear my name."
  • Rhaast: "And grovel before mine."
    • ▶️   Varus: "They don't even know you're there, Rhaast."

Enemy 3 Jun, the Prodigy present

• ▶️   Kayn: "Stand aside, child. The weapon is mine."
  • ▶️   Jun: "Is 1 violence the only path I have left?"
• ▶️   Kayn: "You think you're strong enough to wield a Darkin weapon, foolish girl?"
  • ▶️   Jun: "You leave me no choice!"

Allied 4 Noxian Defector present

• ▶️   Kayn: "The child is gone, the killer remains."
  • ▶️   Noxian Defector: "We're only what Noxus made us."

Enemy 4 Noxian Defector present

• ▶️   Kayn: "Step aside, brother."
  • ▶️   Noxian Defector: "You're no brother of mine!"

Allied 3 Shadowblade Fanatic present

• ▶️   Kayn: "Yi will surrender the Darkin weapon, or die."
  • ▶️   Shadowblade Fanatic: "We will drown him in shadow."

Allied 2 Keeper of the Box present

• ▶️   Kayn: "I need your power, priestess."
  • ▶️   Keeper of the Box: "I offer... what the Box bestows."

Sees a Unit Summoned

Enemy 2Master Yi

• ▶️   Master Yi: "Behind your intrepid words, I sense a frightened child."
  • ▶️   Kayn: "Give me the weapon!"
    • Rhaast: "Take what is rightfully yours!"

Allied 4Varus

• ▶️   Varus: "You speak of 'balance' as if you've mastered it."
  • ▶️   Kayn: "I need not make peace with my parasite, as you have."

Enemy 4Varus

• ▶️   Varus: "Of all forms, you pick one hiding in shadows."
  • ▶️   Rhaast: "This vessel is capable of incredible power, observe."

Enemy 5 Mihira, Aspect of Justice

• ▶️   Mihira: "There's no redemption for a child born of shadow."
  • ▶️   Kayn: "I do not seek... redemption."
    • Rhaast: Merely power.

Allied 4 Noxian Defector

• ▶️   Noxian Defector: "Brothers in blood, once again!"
  • ▶️   Kayn: "Servants to no master."

Enemy 4 Noxian Defector

• ▶️   Noxian Defector: "You're just like them."
  • ▶️   Kayn: "There is no one like me."

Allied 3 Shadowblade Fanatic

• ▶️   Shadowblade Fanatic: "I have seen it! A weapon even the shadows fear."
  • ▶️   Kayn: "I mastered one weapon, why not a second?"
    • Rhaast: "Your arrogance will be your undoing."

Allied 2 Keeper of the Box

• ▶️   Keeper of the Box: "The shadows reveal a new Darkin weapon."
  • ▶️   Kayn: "And I will take it as well."

Level Up

• ▶️   Kayn: "Drown in shadow!"
• ▶️   Kayn: "I will not yield!"
• ▶️   Rhaast: "The rage! Let it loose!"

Attack Declared

• ▶️   Kayn: "Cowards hide."
  • Rhaast: "But never escape."
• ▶️   Kayn: "Serve me, Rhaast."
  • Rhaast: "Never."
• ▶️   Rhaast: "Kill!"
  • Kayn: "Yes."

Challenger Declared

• ▶️   Kayn: "Be still."
• ▶️   Kayn: "Shhh..."
• ▶️   Kayn: "Hush."

Block Declared

• ▶️   Kayn: "How foolish!"
• ▶️   Kayn: "To slaughter."
• ▶️   Rhaast: "Feed."

Death

• ▶️   Kayn: "I... failed you, 3Zed."
• ▶️   Kayn: "I'm... free."
• ▶️   Kayn groans

Turn timer appears

Allied turn timer

• ▶️   Kayn: "A quick hand delivers a clean kill."
  • Rhaast: "Clean is... tiresome."
• ▶️   Rhaast: "I'm beginning to rust."

Enemy turn timer

• ▶️   Kayn: "Death and shadow come for us all."
  • Rhaast: "Sooner for some."
• ▶️   Rhaast: "Is it the anticipation I like best? No, it's the killing."

Chosen

• ▶️   Kayn: "Will you prove worthy?"
  • Rhaast: "Probably not..."

Removed from choice

• ▶️   Kayn: "The weak fear the shadows."
  • Rhaast: "And fear controls them."

Victory

• ▶️   Kayn: "You see, Darkin? A display of true power!"
  • Rhaast: "Impressive."
• ▶️   Rhaast: "Triumph is built on a foundation of death!"

Defeat

• ▶️   Kayn: "A shadow is never truly gone."
  • Rhaast: "It lurks in every heart."
• ▶️   Rhaast: "Set me free, and we will have our revenge."

Summoned

• ▶️   "I am my own master."
• ▶️   "Fear the dark."
• ▶️   "No Darkin can overcome me!"
• ▶️   "The shadows beckon."

Sees a Unit Summoned

Allied 2 Keeper of the Box

• ▶️   Keeper of the Box: "Enshrouded in such darkness, Shieda Kayn."
  • ▶️   Kayn: "My shaded blade will slay them all!"

Level Up

• ▶️   "None can overcome shadow!"
• ▶️   "Fear the darkened blade!"
• ▶️   "I. Am. Shadow!"

Attack Declared

• ▶️   "Embrace the shadows!"
• ▶️   "You cannot hide!"
• ▶️   "Death calls."

Block Declared

• ▶️   "You too will bend!"
• ▶️   "Cling to the light!"
• ▶️   "Found you!"

Death

• ▶️   "How can this be?!"
• ▶️   "I return to shadow..."
• ▶️   Kayn groans.

Turn timer appears

Allied turn timer

• ▶️   "Patience never bested a Darkin."
• ▶️   "The shadows yield to no man, or Darkin."

Enemy turn timer

• ▶️   "They flee to shadow only to find that I am their embrace!"
• ▶️   "Cowards hide, but never escape!"

Victory

• ▶️   "With each kill, the shadows grow deeper!"
• ▶️   "Finally! My true potential is realized!"
• ▶️   "Merely the first to die! There will be more!"

Defeat

• ▶️   "Fools! I am the dark."
• ▶️   "Live by the shadow. Die by the shadow."

Summoned

• ▶️   "Finally free of that mortal constraint."
• ▶️   "Fear and flesh! Blood and bone!"
• ▶️   "I find their screams so... thrilling."

Allied 4 Noxian Defector present

• ▶️   Rhaast: "Fear and flesh! Blood and bone!"
  • ▶️   Noxian Defector: "I'll bring your their heads, master."

Sees a Unit Summoned

Allied 2 Keeper of the Box

• ▶️   Keeper of the Box: "The Box foresaw your return, master."
  • ▶️   Rhaast: "The Darkin dominion was always inevitable."

Allied 4 Noxian Defector

• ▶️   Noxian Defector: "Master Darkin, my blade is yours."
  • ▶️   Rhaast: "You have done well, my faithful servant."

Allied 3 Shadowblade Fanatic

• ▶️   Shadowblade Fanatic: "The Darkin rise, the shadows yield."
  • ▶️   Rhaast: "All of Runeterra will yield before my blade."

Ability effect

• ▶️   "Ahh..."
• ▶️   Rhaast laughs.
• ▶️   "More! More!"

Level Up

• ▶️   "Let me hear your screams!" *laughs*
• ▶️   "Yes! Haha, yes!"
• ▶️   "Runeterra is mine to consume!"

Attack Declared

• ▶️   "Submit to me."
• ▶️   "Yes, cry out."
• ▶️   "Time to reap."

Challenger Declared

• ▶️   "Bow before me."
• ▶️   "Obey your master."
• ▶️   "Beg for mercy."

Block Declared

• ▶️   Rhaast laughs.
• ▶️   "How easily flesh yields."
• ▶️   "Witness!"

Death

• ▶️   "Impossible...!"
• ▶️   "I will not go back..."
• ▶️   Rhaast groans.

Turn timer appears

Allied turn timer

• ▶️   "Any millenia now..."

Enemy turn timer

• ▶️   "Fear will only make your death sweeter."

Victory

• ▶️   "Now begins my reign!"
• ▶️   "Oh, how I missed the taste of their tears."
• ▶️   "Everyone really does look better in red."

Defeat

• ▶️   "Ugh, back in this 2 cursed weapon."
• ▶️   "Neither time nor violence can end me."
• ▶️   "You cannot refuse my thirst forever, Runeterra!"

Change Log

Kayn
V3.14	Added.

Kayn (Level 2)
V3.14	Added.

The Darkin Scythe
V3.14	Added.

The Shadow Assassin
V4.1	No longer belong to Darkin.
V3.14	Added.

Shadow Scythe
V3.14	Added.

Rhaast
V3.14	Added.

Kayn's Shadowstep
V4.10	Mana cost reduced to 3 from 4.
V3.14	Added.

The Shadow Reaper
V4.1	Text becomes: "You may put any Cultist cards into your deck during deckbuilding. Once you have summoned 4+ Cultist units, draw a 5Kayn." Old Text: "You may put any Cultist cards into your deck during deckbuilding. Once you have summoned 3+ Cultist units, draw a 5Kayn."
V3.14	Added.

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