Official Rules

01

What you need

Two players, sitting across the table.

• Two decks Constructed, 40 cards each.
• Life counters Both Heroes start at 40 HP.
• Mana trackers 1 to 10. Dice, crystals, or a pad.
• One Coin For the player who goes second.

Table space: five creature lanes and five spell/trap spaces per player, plus a deck pile and a graveyard pile. Optional markers help for summoning sickness, “already attacked,” Freeze, and Taunt.

02

How to win

Reduce the enemy Hero to 0 HP. You win. They lose.

Only Heroes have a life total that wins the game. Creature fights are all-or-nothing — a body is either still on the table or it is in the graveyard.

If both Heroes would hit 0 at the same time, the game is a draw.

03

Build a deck

• Exactly 40 cards.
• No more than 3 copies of any one card.
• You may mix classes. Neutral cards can go in any deck.

Shuffle thoroughly before every game. The deck sits face-down. The graveyard sits face-up next to it.

04

Set the table

Each player has two rows in front of them, closer to the middle of the table first:

• Creature row — five lanes. A lane holds at most one creature. Empty lanes stay empty. Never slide creatures together to close a gap.
• Spell row — five spaces behind your creatures, closer to you. Face-down traps and lasting Passive spells sit here.

Line the creature rows so each of your lanes sits directly across from one of theirs. Left and right neighbors are adjacent. Diagonal is not adjacent.

Hand stays in hand. Maximum hand size is 10. If you would draw past 10, the extra card goes to the graveyard.

05

Read a card

1. 1
   Cost

   Top-left. Pay this much mana to play the card.

2. 2
   Type

   Creature, Spell, or Trap.

3. 3
   Class

   Crown, Bow, Wizard, Zombie, Pirate, or Neutral.

4. 4
   Attack / HP

   Bottom-left Attack, bottom-right HP. Creatures only.

5. 5
   Text

   What the card does. Keywords and pills (Play, Passive, Haunt) print here.

06

Start the game

1. Shuffle your 40-card deck. Set Hero HP to 40.
2. Decide first player at random. The second player takes the Coin.
3. Each player draws 4 cards.
4. Opening return: put every card in that opening hand that costs 5 or more back into your deck, shuffle, and draw that many replacements. Cards that cost 4 or less stay.

The Coin

Once during the game, when the second player plays a card, they may spend the Coin to pay 1 extra mana for that card. The Coin does not raise their mana cap. After it is used, it is gone.

07

A turn

Turns alternate. Unspent mana does not carry over.

1. 1 Gain

   Mana cap +1, max 10. Refill to that cap. Turn 1 is 1 mana.

2. 2 Draw

   Draw 1. Empty deck: fatigue — 1, then 2, then 3 damage, and so on.

3. 3 Start

   Start-of-turn effects, left to right, then lasting spells oldest first.

4. 4 Main

   Play creatures, cast spells, set traps, attack — in any order you can pay for.

5. 5 End

   End-of-turn effects left to right. Temporary effects wear off. Pass.

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Playing cards

09

Combat

Ready creatures may attack an enemy creature or the enemy Hero. After a creature attacks, it is spent for the turn unless it has Fury.

Stacking an attack

You may send two or more of your ready creatures at one enemy creature as a single attack. Add their Attack together for the kill-gate. If the stack is legal, the defender strikes back at each of your attackers separately.

Hitting the Hero

A ready creature may attack the enemy Hero and deal its Attack as damage. This is real numbered damage — Heroes do take chip damage.

You cannot hit the Hero the turn a creature is played, even with Rush. Rush only lets that creature attack other creatures the turn it enters.

If the enemy has any Taunt creature, you must attack a Taunt. Face is closed. Non-Taunt bodies are closed until every Taunt is gone.

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Keywords

Taunt

While any enemy Taunt creature is in play, your attacks must go at a Taunt. You cannot hit the Hero or a non-Taunt creature.

Rush

May attack creatures the turn it is played. Still cannot attack the Hero that turn.

Poison

Destroys the creature it fights, even if Attack is lower than that creature’s HP. Poison does not ignore Hero HP.

Fury

May attack twice per turn when ready.

Frozen

A Frozen creature cannot attack. Freeze lasts through that creature’s controller’s next turn, then wears off.

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Effect timing

Cards print when they fire. Resolve one creature fully before moving to the next, left to right.

Play

Once, when you play the card from your hand. Creatures summoned by other cards do not get Play.

Start

During your Start step, left to right.

End

During your End step, left to right.

Haunt

When the creature dies — put it in the graveyard, then do the Haunt. Some cards also trigger Haunt while the body is still in play. Follow the printed text.

Passive

Always on while the card is in play: auras, locks, and start/end ticks.

There is no shared response stack. Resolve what the card says, in the order it prints, then continue.

12

Spells and traps

Traps at the table

1. Pay the cost. Set the card face-down in your spell row.
2. When its trigger happens — an enemy summon, attack, spell, and so on — you may Spring it or Hold it.
3. Spring: flip it, do what it says, then put it in the graveyard.
4. Hold: leave it face-down for a later trigger.

If several of your traps could fire on the same moment, resolve them left to right. A trap that stops the action (counter, prevent, negate) ends that wave. Later traps stay set.

Lasting spells

Passive spells that stay in play occupy a spell-row space and keep working until they are destroyed.

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Classes

Crown, Bow, Wizard, Zombie, and Pirate are the five classes. Neutral cards sit in any deck.

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What wins an argument

1. The printed card.
2. This rulebook.
3. If both Heroes would die at once — draw. Shuffle up again.

Do not invent Attack, HP, costs, or card text. If a card is unclear, read it aloud, follow the words, and keep playing.