Tainted

Tainted cards were introduced with Mists of Bilehall and appeared again in The Chains that Rust.

During quests or the campaign in either of those expansion, the heroes use a new type of card: Tainted cards. Tainted cards represent the corruption that afflicts the heroes as they linger in the Mistlands. At the start of each quest, the overlord shuffles the Tainted cards together and deals 1 card to each hero, placing it facedown near each hero’s Hero sheet. No player should know which card has been dealt to any hero. The overlord places the remaining cards aside. While a hero has a Tainted card in his play area, apply +2 to that hero’s Health. When a hero with a facedown Tainted card is defeated, he flips that card faceup. That hero is then affected by that card until the end of the quest or a game effect flips it facedown again.

For a list of all currently available Tainted Cards see: Category:Tainted Cards