Units
The body of every deck. Each unit carries one affiliation, and that decides the only section it can be placed in.
How to play
The rules, as short as they go
Two players, one deck each. The board is split into three sections, every unit belongs to one of them, and the match is decided by which sections you commit to. Below: the board, the card, and everything the game actually contains.
The board, annotated
This is the game's own schematic, from the glossary in the client. Pick a part of the board and the page on the right explains it.
Pick a markeron the board
The board
thirteen parts, marked
Three territories, two players, and one rule that decides everything: a unit goes where its affiliation says and nowhere else.
The illustrations are the game's own. Only the Total Power wording is the game's text; the rest is descriptive placeholder until the glossary strings are pulled from the client. Player rank is left off deliberately, since ranked play is switched off.
Where a card is allowed to go
The affiliation on the card is not a suggestion. Six rows, three sections, one row each side — and a card can only enter the section it belongs to. Click a card from the hand and watch the other two sections close.
Diagram — click a card to place it
Each section has a row on each side. The dim row is your opponent's, the lit row is yours.
Strength
Section 1 of 3
5
Them 5
You 0
They lead
Agility
Section 2 of 3
5
4
Them 9
You 0
They lead
Intelligence
Section 3 of 3
4
2
Them 6
You 0
They lead
Your hand
Schematic, not a screenshot — the numbers are illustrative. Both players commit to the same three sections, which is why the interesting decision is which one you let go. See the real board.
What goes in a deck
Three kinds of card, and 242 of them in total.
Heroes
One hero per deck, and each of the seven has an ability nobody else has. Choosing the hero is the first decision you make about a deck.
Spells
Played for effect rather than for presence on the board.
Anatomy of a card
A card carries everything a placement decision needs: what it is worth, where it is allowed to go, and what it does once it is there. This is a real card from the game — Innkeeper, a Humans card carrying the Strength affiliation, which is the clearest way to see that the two are not the same thing.
The four emblems in the kit
Hero is the fifth tier; its emblem has not been exported yet.
1
Power
What the card contributes to its section. The number you are weighing when you decide whether a section is worth contesting.
2
Affiliation
Intelligence, Agility or Strength. Not a suggestion — it is the only section this card is allowed to enter.
3
Art window
The painted illustration, masked to the frame’s window. Every card in the game is painted, none generated.
4
Name and epithet
Two lines, because the game names cards in the form "Kal’zactim, the Malignant".
5
Ability
A keyword and one or two lines of rule text. Heroes carry an ability nobody else has; units carry the shorter kind.
6
Faction mark
Carried by the frame itself, not a badge: blue for Humans, green for Nature, orange for Monsters, silver for Mercenaries. The power orb is tinted to match.
7
Rarity
One of five, carried as an emblem across the foot of the card. Governs how the card is found, crafted, fused and salvaged.
Rarities
Each tier carries its own emblem across the foot of the card. These are the game's own, four of the five — lowest to highest.
Basic
01 of 05
Rare
02 of 05
Unique
03 of 05
Mythical
04 of 05
Emblem pending
Hero
05 of 05
The three affiliation marks
The game's own marks. One sits on every unit card, and it is the only thing that decides where the card can go.
Strength
Section 1
Agility
Section 2
Intelligence
Section 3
Seven heroes, one per deck
Each carries a unique ability, and the hero you pick is the first decision you make about a deck. Four of the seven illustrations are ready for the web.
Factions and counts
Build an army with Monsters, use powerful spells with Humans, or control the battlefield with Nature. Mercenaries are a shared pool rather than a faction you commit to.
75
Humans
Powerful spells. The largest set of cards in the game.
60
Nature
Battlefield control.
55
Monsters
Army building, in numbers.
52
Mercenaries
A shared pool. Any deck can hire them.
242
playable cards in total
Where to play it
Three modes, all of them working today.
5stages
Campaign
Single-player, with painted story cutscenes between stages.
5tiers
Adventure
Escalating difficulty against the AI. Where you find out whether a deck holds up.
1v1unranked
Online
Matches against other players.
Friend battles are built and currently being tested. There is no ranked ladder. It is deliberately switched off until there are enough players for it to mean anything.
Between matches
What carries over when a match ends.
Collection
Every card you own, across all factions.
Crafting
Make the card you wanted instead of the one you found.
Fusion
Combine cards into stronger versions.
Quests
Objectives that pay out in currency and cards.
Chests
Earned and bought, opened for cards.
Hero levelling
Heroes gain levels as you play them.
Not documented yet
This page only states what has been verified against the game. The rules below are in the game but are not written down anywhere yet, so they are left blank rather than guessed:
- Turn order, and what a single turn allows you to do.
- How a section is resolved — highest total, or something else.
- Whether a match is one board or a best-of-several, as in Gwent.
- Starting hand size, draws per turn, and whether you may discard.
- Deck size limits and how many copies of a card are allowed.
- What passing does, and whether you can pass to bank a section.
Send the real numbers and this section becomes six more paragraphs instead of a list of holes.
Art still needed
- The Hero rarity emblem — the other four are in place.
- The five card frames as transparent PNGs at 2×.
- Six to ten real cards, one per faction and one per rarity, exported whole.
- The three affiliation icons as the game draws them, so these stand-ins can go.
- Card art at 3:2 for the window above — drop one onto the slot to test the frame.