Editing Artifact (section)

== Artifact Mechanics ==

* When an artifact is played, it is equipped to your current general.
* You are limited to three artifacts at one time. Playing any more will discard your oldest artifact from play and equip the card you played.
* Your general may still move and attack on the turn you play an artifact.
* Each artifact has a maximum of three durability at once. Whenever your general takes any amount of damage from any source, your artifacts lose one durability. They are discarded once they have zero durability.
* The effects of artifacts persist during your opponent's turn. This means that during your opponent's turn, they can still be destroyed, but you will also keep any attack boosts or effects that they give you until they are.
* Artifacts, like spells, are faction-exclusive. This means that they can be generated by cards that generate faction cards, such as [[Sworn Sister L'Kian]]. However, [[Grincher]] can add artifacts from other factions to your hand.
*Artifacts trigger their effect in the order they are equipped. For example, killing a minion while equipped with [[Thunderclap]] and [[Spinecleaver]] (in that order) may result in Thunderclap summoning a minion on the space where the Bloodfire Totem should be, preventing it from spawning. If you equip Spinecleaver first the [[Bloodfire Totem]] will always be summoned before the minion, preventing the above situation from happening.
*Similarly if you equip [[Iceshatter Gauntlet]] and then [[Winterblade]] you will get the same results attacking a non stunned minion as if you had only Winterblade equipped. Whereas if you equip Winterblade and then Iceshatter Gauntlet you will always destroy any minion you attack (although you will get counterattacked unless the minion was stunned prior to your attack).