Rules

Deck construction

• 1 Leader + 50 cards in the deck + 5 Chakra cards + 1 Summon card.
• Chakra and Summon cards are not part of the deck: they start the game in play.
• Every card in the deck must be the same colour as the Leader.
• Maximum copies per card: not confirmed (the demo decks had 3 copies of each card).

Card types

• Leader: DMG, POW and LIFE; has a Recovery effect.
• Character: DMG, POW, HP, often a SUPPORT effect with a Chakra cost.
• EX-Character: cannot be summoned normally, needs its Summon Requirements.
• Chakra: 5 per player, used to pay costs.
• Summon: 1 per player, rested to summon a Character.

How to win

A player loses when their Leader reaches 0 LIFE or their deck reaches 0 cards.

Turn phases

1. Start
2. Refresh: cards return to Active (face-down Chakra cards do not flip back).
3. Draw: draw 2 cards. On turn 1 the first player draws 1 and the second player draws 2.
4. Main: summon and attack in any order.
5. End

No player can attack on their own turn 1, not even with RUSH. The second player may take one full mulligan.

Combat

• Only Rested Characters can be attacked; the attacker's POW is subtracted from their HP.
• Damage stays until the end of the turn, then HP returns to full.
• Attacking the Leader deals DMG to its LIFE. There is no blocking.

Attack Declaration → Effect Declaration → Support Cut-in → Damage Step.

Support and Chakra

• Costs are paid by turning face-up Chakra cards face down, always before the effect applies.
• The turn player can use Supports from hand or from the Support Area; the other player only from the Support Area (max 5 face-down cards).
• Chains resolve from the last effect to the first.
• Recovery: from the second turn on, rest your Leader and turn all your Chakra cards face up.

Keywords

• QUICK: can be played in any valid Support Cut-in window.
• RUSH: can attack on the turn it enters play (never on turn 1).

Not confirmed yet

• How an attack is declared and who can attack the Leader.
• When the Summon card returns to Active.
• When face-down Supports are placed.
• What the Exclusion Area is for.
• The details of the Damage Step.

Try it

See the rules at work on real cards, build a deck and play a test game.

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