Available immediately on a new save.
Use Banished as your primary clan when you want movement and Valor while clearing the early unlock counters.
Banished level rewards →Monster Train 2 Clan Unlocks
The patch 2.2.1 roster has 12 playable clans: two starters, three early objective clans, five returning clans behind the Pyre Heart story gate, free-update Wurmkin and DLC-only Railforged. Every requirement is below, followed by all 127 clan-level card rewards.
How to unlock the old clans
First unlock six Pyre Hearts. That immediately unlocks Hellhorned and reveals four persistent objectives for Awoken, Stygian Guard, Umbra and Melting Remnant. The counters carry across runs; they do not need to be completed in one attempt.
All 12 clan unlock requirements
Progress counters carry across runs, so you do not need to force every objective into a single winning deck. Work on the three early clans together, then prioritize Pyre Heart objectives to open the returning roster. The complete Pyre Heart unlock guide lists every recorded counter and the patch values that changed.
Available at the start
Your first two clans need no challenge or story progress.
Available immediately on a new save.
Its damage spells, Equipment access and cheap Consume cards can advance all three early objectives.
Pyreborne level rewards →Early objective clans
These counters accumulate across runs; a win is not required.
Defeat 40 enemies with spell cards.
Prioritize inexpensive area damage and multi-hit spells. The May 2025 patch lowered this requirement from 70 to 40.
Luna Coven level rewards →Consume 75 cards across runs.
Draft cards with Consume and replay them when an effect returns consumed cards. The same patch lowered this from 120 to 75.
Underlegion level rewards →Attach Equipment to friendly units 100 times.
Take every safe Equipment draft and attach the gear even when the unit is temporary; each application advances the counter.
Lazarus League level rewards →Returning clans after six Pyre Hearts
Unlock six Pyre Hearts to open the returning-clan story gate. Hellhorned arrives with the gate; the other four have their own tracked objectives.
Unlock six Pyre Hearts.
The sixth heart advances the story and unlocks Hellhorned while revealing the other returning-clan objectives.
Hellhorned level rewards →Heal 300 lost health across runs.
Healing only counts when it restores missing health, so let durable units take damage before healing them.
Awoken level rewards →Cast five spells in one turn on five separate turns.
Build around 0-cost spells, card draw and Ember generation; the five qualifying turns can be spread across runs.
Stygian Guard level rewards →Increase room capacity 20 times across runs.
Draft capacity-increasing cards whenever they appear and play them even if the extra space is not essential to the current floor.
Umbra level rewards →Reform or Reanimate 50 units across runs.
Use disposable units and repeatable revival effects; each successful Reform or Reanimate advances the shared counter.
Melting Remnant level rewards →Free update clan
Wurmkin is free, but new saves still need the main-story gate.
Install the free 2.0 update and unlock six Pyre Hearts.
No DLC purchase is needed. Established saves past the story gate receive Wurmkin automatically after updating.
Wurmkin level rewards →Paid DLC clan
Railforged is the only clan that requires a separate purchase.
Own and install the Destiny of the Railforged DLC.
Railforged and Soul Savior are paid DLC content; Wurmkin is the free clan released alongside them.
Railforged level rewards →What unlocks after you get a clan?
Champions
The first champion comes with the clan. The second champion unlocks at clan level 5. Compare all 24 champions and their upgrade paths on the champions page.
Clan cards
Clan XP is earned win or lose and scales with final score. Your primary clan gets 100% of the score as XP; the ally gets 50%, so put the underlevelled clan first on a Covenant you can finish consistently.
Every clan-level card reward
Cards not listed have no clan-level gate in this dataset; special acquisition rules or DLC access may still apply. Use the beginner guide for early progression or the clan pairing guide to choose which roster to level next.
Awoken 11 unlockable cards
Banished 10 unlockable cards
Hellhorned 11 unlockable cards
Lazarus League 9 unlockable cards
Lv 2
Lv 3
Lv 6
Lv 9
Lv 10
Luna Coven 11 unlockable cards
Melting Remnant 11 unlockable cards
Pyreborne 10 unlockable cards
Lv 1
Lv 2
Lv 3
Lv 4
Lv 5
Lv 10
Railforged 10 unlockable cards
Lv 1
Lv 2
Lv 3
Lv 4
Lv 5
Lv 6
Lv 7
Lv 10
Stygian Guard 11 unlockable cards
Umbra 10 unlockable cards
Underlegion 10 unlockable cards
Lv 1
Lv 2
Lv 3
Lv 4
Lv 5
Lv 6
Lv 7
Lv 9
Lv 10
Wurmkin 13 unlockable cards
Lv 10
Sources & verification
Clan requirements are editorial data checked against the dated patch notes and independent player-facing references below. Card rewards above are generated separately from the committed patch 2.2.1 dataset, so an editorial unlock claim cannot silently change game-data output.
- Monster Train 2 — May 28 patch notes — Current Luna Coven and Underlegion target counts.
- Monster Train 2 — Wurmkin and Railforged launch notes — Free-versus-paid status and Wurmkin story-progression gate.
- Destructoid — Lazarus League unlock — Starting clans and the 100 Equipment requirement.
- GamerBlurb — original clan unlocks — Six-Pyre-Heart gate and returning-clan objectives.
- r/MonsterTrain — Wurmkin unlock verification — Player verification of the six-Pyre-Heart requirement on a new save.
Unlock questions
How do you unlock all clans in Monster Train 2?
Banished and Pyreborne are available at the start. Luna Coven, Underlegion and Lazarus League use across-run combat counters. Six Pyre Hearts unlock Hellhorned and the returning-clan track, while Wurmkin is free after that story gate and Railforged requires its DLC.
How do you unlock the old clans in Monster Train 2?
First unlock six Pyre Hearts. That adds Hellhorned and reveals the objectives for Awoken, Stygian Guard, Umbra and Melting Remnant. Their counters are 300 lost health healed, five spells in one turn on five turns, 20 room-capacity increases, and 50 Reform or Reanimate triggers.
How do you unlock the Wurmkin clan in Monster Train 2?
Install the free 2.0 update and progress the main story far enough to unlock six Pyre Hearts. Wurmkin does not require the Destiny of the Railforged DLC.
How do you unlock the Railforged clan?
Railforged is part of the paid Destiny of the Railforged DLC. Its cards then unlock through clan levels like every other clan.
How do clan-level card unlocks work?
Playing runs with a clan earns it XP, and specific cards enter its draft pool at set levels. The recorded patch 2.2.1 data contains 127 cards with a clan-level requirement across all 12 clans; the complete tables are below.