Tahm Kench (Legends of Runeterra)

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Brackern

Surrounded around the Shuriman Continent are several clans of Brackern, including clans in the Shuriman desert.

Dormun

• Dormun 1
• Dormun 2
• A depiction of a Mwatis

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The Dormun are gigantic, slow-moving creatures protected with large chitinous plates covering their body. In the harsh conditions of Shurima they have evolved to survive the perpetual drought by utilizing an unknown sense to locate hidden reservoirs of water. Incidentally, certain nomadic tribes have built themselves a permanent home upon the backs of these beasts where they clean the creature and hunt any airborne pests who venture near.

Eka'Sul

Desert goats that travel in herds.

Mwatis

Mwatis are goatlike creatures with large plated casques on their heads. Mwati wool and plate are prised for felting and insulation.

Kmiros

Gigantic scarabs that roam in swarms, looking for unfortunate travelers to feed on. They seem to be common prey for Rammus.

Outerbeasts

Main article: Voidborn

• A Xer'Sai known as Rek'Sai
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 1
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 2
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 3
• Kai'Sa fighting Outerbeasts 4

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Beside the Xer'Sai, other creatures from the Void, referred to as 'outerbeasts', can be found in the desert.

• Xer'Sai: Creatures from the Void that plague the southern deserts. They are the size of big dogs on average, but can be smaller or much bigger. Rek'Sai, as the queen, is by far the largest and most dangerous of her species. Xer'sai burst from their small burrows and ravage anything nearby, to the detriment of desert caravans. Once dead, the Xer'sai decompose at an abnormally rapid rate and become inedible.

Ralsiji

• A Ralsiji
• A Shuriman Camel 1
• A Shuriman Camel 2

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Large and aggressive minotaur-like creatures. They are humpbacked quadrupeds with long limbs and thick horns.

Shuriman Camel

A breed of camels native to the deserts of Shurima and are used by caravans as well as common folk as primary mode of transportation. Despite being well-suited for lengthy travels in the desert landscape, they are still prey to a many predator such as the Xer'Sai.

Sandswimmers

Sandswimmers

Sandswimmers are massive quadrupedal creatures that traverse the Shuriman desert in cyclical patterns. They got their name due to their preferred method of travel. Their narrow bodies and webbed feet are perfectly design for swimming under the sand. They feed on bugs and other small creatures most desert beasts ignore. Scavengers will often memorize the predictable paths these creatures take, and jump onto their backs to ride as far as they wish.

Skallashi

• Skallashi
• Skallashi in The Great Sai
• Skallashi at The Zoantha Cascade
• Skallashi near The Sun Disc
• Skallashi in Nashramae

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The Skallashi are large quadrupedal herbivores. These hardy beasts of burden are common across Shurima, ideally suited to the harsh desert environment. Their key body feature is their long legs. Notoriously bad-tempered, they are nevertheless treated with great reverence. Their brown hides are often painted with sacred symbols of protection, and their horns hung with totems and charms. While these creatures are mostly used for travel and carrying heavy loads, on some larger skallashi people are able to built miniature rooms for more comfortable travel. To own one is often considered a sign of considerable prosperity.

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Tahm Kench

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Tahm Kench
Region	Bilgewater
Type	Champion
Cost	4 Mana
Card text
Description	When I'm summoned or Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand.
Level Up	I've Captured 3+ units. When I level up, Obliterate my Captured enemies and release my allies.
2 6
Collecting & Crafting
This card is collectible, and costs 3000 or 1
Flavour
"My friend, I know that expression. I can see you feelin' like the cards you're holdin' ain't the ones you deserve. You got a desire for the finer things, don'tcha? Perhaps you'll allow me to satisfy your hunger, let you savor all that you ever desired. All I need is your name, scratched on my paper... and you, my friend, will be satisfied for life."
Expansion	Set 3 - Call of the Mountain
Rarity	Champion
ID	03BW004
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary

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Tahm Kench
Region	Bilgewater
Type	Champion
Cost	4 Mana
Card text
Description	When I'm summoned or Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand. Attack: Obliterate my Captured enemies and release my allies.
3 7
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"You struck a deal, my friend, and though you will undoubtedly bask in its benefits, remember... there will be a time when I get my fill, too."
Expansion	Set 3 - Call of the Mountain
ID	03BW004T3
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary

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An Acquired Taste
Region	Bilgewater
Type	Spell
Cost	2 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Slow Fleeting
Description	Pick an enemy unit. It strikes 4Tahm Kench created me, then he Captures it.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"You had a chance to walk away. Instead, you're the fool who let me in..." - 4Tahm Kench
Expansion	Set 3 - Call of the Mountain
ID	03BW004T2
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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Tahm Kench's Bayou Brunch
Region	Bilgewater
Type	Champion Spell
Cost	3 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Slow
Description	An ally Captures another ally and gains the captured ally's stats. Create a 4Tahm Kench in your deck.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"Step inside, friend, and all that you desire shall be yours in perpetuity." - 4Tahm Kench
Expansion	Set 3 - Call of the Mountain
ID	03BW004T4
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary

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Jinx
Region	Piltover and Zaun
Type	Champion
Cost	4 Mana
Card text
Level Up	Your hand is empty.
4 3
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"It's all just fun and games until something gets blown up - then it's a PARTY!"
Expansion	Challenge
ID	00PZ012
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary

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Jinx
Region	Piltover and Zaun
Type	Champion
Cost	4 Mana
Card text
Description	The first time you empty your hand each round, create a 2 Super Mega Death Rocket! in hand.
5 4
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"It's all just fun and games until something gets blown up - then it's a PARTY!"
Expansion	Challenge
ID	00PZ012T2
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary

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Super Mega Death Rocket!
Region	Piltover and Zaun
Type	Spell
Cost	2 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Slow
Description	Deal 4 to an enemy and 1 to the rest.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"See ya!" - 4Jinx
Expansion	Challenge
ID	00PZ012T1
Artist	Ben Skutt
Artwork	Primary

The Path of Champions

Path of Championsedit
Tahm Kench
Unlock 750 / 30
Playstyle
Difficulty
Star Powers
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Tahm Kench is a playable champion in The Path of Champions. See more at Tahm Kench (The Path of Champions).

Champion Stars

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Notes

• Each copy of 2 An Acquired Taste is unique and exclusive to the Tahm Kench that created it. In other words, it will always target the Tahm Kench that created it and can't be cast should that copy of the champion be removed from play, even if another exists on the board.

Trivia

• Internally, An Acquired Taste is called Tahm's Dinner.
• An Acquired Taste is based on Tahm Kench's An Acquired Taste.
• "Why don't you make like a banana and split." is likely a reference to Original Soraka's Basic attack projectile's shape.
• "Call me king! Call me demon!" is a reference to him being a demon and one of his titles being "The River King".
• In the artwork of 4 Loaded Dice, his hand can be seen.
• His Level Up animation features 5 Jack, the Winner and Tahm's contract.

Quotes

Summoned

• ▶️   "My diet is expensively unique."
• ▶️   "I've been propagatin' quite the appetite."
• ▶️   "Table for one, if you'd oblige."
• ▶️   "I'll scrutinize somethin' scrumptious!"
• ▶️   "There's always room for supper!"
• ▶️   Tahm Kench hums.
• ▶️   "I am unbenched!"

Allied 3Soraka present

• ▶️   Soraka: "I will find the goodness in you, River King."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Hope only provides temporary sustenance, child."

Enemy 4Jack present

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I've been propagatin' quite the appetite."
  • ▶️   Jack: "You do fight best on an empty stomach, Tahm."
• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I'll scrutinize somethin' scrumptious!"
  • ▶️   Jack: "I warned you not to follow me."

Enemy 4Viktor present

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "There's always room for supper."
  • ▶️   Viktor: "The needs of flesh are the enemies of intellect."

Allied 5 Jack, the Winner present

• ▶️   Jack: "Ah, there's the man of the hour."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "You always knew how to host, Jack."

Enemy 5 Jack, the Winner present

• ▶️   Jack: "You've bitten off more than you can chew, Tahm."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Oh, Jack... and I thought we were acquainted."
• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Let us peruse this establishment's fare!"
  • ▶️   Jack: "Looks like catfish, boiled alive."

Allied 2 Boxtopus present

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Table for one, if you'd oblige."
  • ▶️   Boxtopus: "Aye! Is uh dinner on you, then?"

Enemy 2 Boxtopus present

• ▶️   Boxtopus: "Tahmy-boy! Wanna taste of ol' Pablo, do ya?"
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Couldn't a' summarized it better myself, child."

Allied 2 Fortune Croaker present

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I've been propagatin' quite the appetite."
  • ▶️   "I see feast in your future."

Enemy 2 Fortune Croaker present

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Didn't prognosticate this, did ya?"
  • ▶️   Fortune Croaker: "You stay away! I give gecko! Bat!"
• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I think we all know how this plays out, Meemaw."
  • ▶️   Fortune Croaker: "Why you here? I sent you payment."

Allied 3 Lounging Lizard present

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Encountered any appetizin' stories, Lenny?"
  • ▶️   Lounging Lizard: "Right to business, eh Tahm? Let's see."

Enemy 3 Lounging Lizard present

• ▶️   Lounging Lizard panicking: "Now, listen here Tahm, there's been a misunderstanding..."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Keep conversatin', child. See if it helps."

Allied 6 Wise Fry present

• ▶️   Wise Fry: "Yo, Tahmy! I hope you've come hungry!"
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Famished actually, my little toothpick."

Sees a Unit Summoned

Allied 3Lulu

• ▶️   Lulu: "Yup, that tasted purple."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Allow me to confirm your assertation"
• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Lulu, you're stranger than a puffcap pie."
  • ▶️   Lulu: "Puffcap pie? That sounds delicious!"

Enemy 3Lulu

• ▶️   Lulu: "There's nothing a good giggle can't fix."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Well aren't you syrupy sweet."

Enemy 4Shyvana

• ▶️   Shyvana: "Dragon blood, Demacian heart."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I confess to a weakness for both."

Allied 3Soraka

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I proffer my allyship, demon to starchild."
  • ▶️   Soraka: "Oh, Tahm; there may be redemption for you yet."
• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Care to accompany me, starchild?"
  • ▶️   Soraka: "I will gladly guide all who seek my aid."

Enemy 3Soraka

• ▶️   Soraka: "I am here to help."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Come, starchild. I could use assistance."
• ▶️   Soraka: "I am here to help."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Why don't you make like a banana and split."
• ▶️   Soraka: "This world has great potential."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Oh... I could just eat you up."

Enemy 4Taric

• ▶️   Taric: "Each life a rare jewel."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "To be savored in perpetuity..."

Enemy 5Vladimir

• ▶️   Vladimir: "Who's for supper?"
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Why you are, my sanguine companion."

Allied 5 Jack, the Winner

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I was conjecturing your arrival, Jack."
  • ▶️   Jack: "You know me Tahm. I follow the blood."

Enemy 5 Jack, the Winner

• ▶️   Jack: "Who's hungry for action, eh?"
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Oh. I am, Jack. I am."

Allied 2 Boxtopus

• ▶️   Boxtopus: "Put me in, Tahmy-boy!"
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Oh, I'd be happy to accommodate, Pablo."

Enemy 2 Boxtopus

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "I've always had a propensity for seafood."
  • ▶️   Boxtopus: "You keep your distance there, Tahmy-boy!"

Allied 2 Fortune Croaker

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "So what's in store for me, Meemaw?"
  • ▶️   Fortune Croaker: "I need time for commune, Tahm. This you know!"

Enemy 2 Fortune Croaker

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Well, you've already got the pot boilin'."
  • ▶️   Fortune Croaker: "Yes- but not for you! Or me!"

Allied 0 Ravenous Butcher

• ▶️   Ravenous Butcher: "Suppertime!"
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "You stay away from mine, lil' piggy."

Allied 3 Lounging Lizard

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Well, if it ain't the eyes of the operation."
  • ▶️   Lounging Lizard: "'Suppose that makes you "the guts". Eh big fella?"

Enemy 3 Lounging Lizard

• ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Can't recall the last time I sampled lizard."
  • ▶️   Lounging Lizard: "Probably... best we keep it that way, Two-Coats, eh?"

Allied 3 Tasty Faefolk

• ▶️   Tasty Faefolk: "I taste purple. Yay."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "Perhaps I should eat more vegetables..."

Allied 6 Wise Fry

• ▶️   Wise Fry: "Well, look at what the crocs dragged in."
  • ▶️   Tahm Kench: "A banquet of options, desperate for digestion."

Ability effect

• ▶️   "Yummy."
• ▶️   "Sublime."
• ▶️   "You already let me in."
• ▶️   "Tender, ain't cha?"
• ▶️   "I did promise a safe return."
• ▶️   "I desire a different flavor."
• ▶️   "Out you get, child."

Level Up

• ▶️   "Call me king! Call me demon."
• ▶️   "All shall drown in my magnificence!"
• ▶️   "Come along! There's room for everyone."

Sees a Spell or Skill Resolve

Allied 8 Sunk Cost

• ▶️   "It is but a brief moratorium."
• ▶️   "Enjoy your adjournment."

Allied 3 Bayou Brunch

• ▶️   "Bargain accepted."
• ▶️   "Close enough."

Allied 1 Shakedown

• ▶️   "Everyone hungers."
• ▶️   "A feast awaits."
• ▶️   "I know desire."

Allied 2 An Acquired Taste

• ▶️   "Come on in."
• ▶️   "Plenty o' room inside."
• ▶️   "Allow me a small sample."
• ▶️   "It's too late now."
• ▶️   "Ye had your chance to walk away."

Attack Declared

• ▶️   "Let us reconnoiter."
• ▶️   "I do enjoy prospectin'."
• ▶️   "The river always provides."

Block Declared

• ▶️   "How delectable."
• ▶️   "Another nibble?"
• ▶️   "Closer, friend."

Round Start

• ▶️   "Let us peruse this establishment's fare!"
• ▶️   "Oh, I don't require a menu."
• ▶️   "I'm sure there's somethin' for my tastes."
• ▶️   "Appetizers aplenty."
• ▶️   "Where there's a will, there's a meal."

Turn timer appears

Allied turn timer

• ▶️   "My comestibles are gettin' cold."

Enemy turn timer

• ▶️   "They've got no where to go."

Removed from Combat or Play

• ▶️   "You are a capricious and a contrary companion."
• ▶️   "You're missin' out on quite a bargain."

Brought back to Combat or Play

• ▶️   "It is my mouth into which all travels end."
• ▶️   "You have excellent taste."

Death

• ▶️   Tahm Kench roars.
• ▶️   Tahm Kench groans.
• ▶️   Tahm Kench groans.

Victory

• ▶️   "Now we gormandize!"
• ▶️   "What a commendable achievement!"

Defeat

• ▶️   "Now this just won't do."
• ▶️   "No one escapes my hunger!"

Change Log

Tahm Kench
V3.16	Text becomes: "When I'm summoned or Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand." Old Text: "Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand."
V3.1	Undocumented: Text becomes: "Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand." Old Text: "Round Start: Create a 2 An Acquired Taste in hand."
V1.12	Added.

Tahm Kench (Level 2)
V3.16	Text becomes: "When I'm summoned or Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand. Attack: Obliterate my Captured enemies and release my allies." Old Text: "Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand. Attack: Obliterate my Captured enemies and release my allies."
V3.1	Undocumented: Text becomes: "Round Start: Create an 2 An Acquired Taste in hand. Attack: Obliterate my Captured enemies and release my allies." Old Text: "Round Start: Create a 2 An Acquired Taste in hand. Attack: Obliterate my Captured enemies and release my allies."
V1.12	Added.

An Acquired Taste
V1.12	Added.

Tahm Kench's Bayou Brunch
V1.16	Text becomes: "An ally Captures another ally and gains the captured ally's stats. Create a 4Tahm Kench in your deck." Old Text: "An ally Captures another ally and gains the captured ally's stats. Shuffle a 4Tahm Kench into your deck."
V1.12	Added.

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