Four landmines sit buried across the middle of the board. A piece that travels over one is gone — the move stops dead on the crater, and only a knight's jump clears them. Landing safely tells you how many live mines that square touches, and you can flag the ones you don't trust, privately.
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Kamakaze arms your own pieces
Mark one of your pieces as a bomb. It detonates when it captures or gets captured, clearing everything within a square — and any other armed piece caught in the blast goes off too.
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Gojo spawns Hollow Purple
It appears next to your king and drifts one square every ply in a straight line to the edge of the board, annihilating everything it touches on the way. Your own pieces included.
Update
Goofball forces two moves
One activation now puppets your opponent twice — any pieces, the same piece twice allowed — before they get a move of their own back.
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Emoji reactions in online games
Fire off a reaction mid-game and it pops up as a speech bubble on your opponent's board — the fastest way to say "really?" without unmuting.
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Juggernaut joins the Hero roster
A king that eats the pieces sent to kill it. Every absorbed attacker tiers it up — earthquake, then edge charge, then the slam.