🔄 Turn Structure

Understanding the phases of each hand is crucial for timing your plays correctly. Here's a complete breakdown of how a hand flows from start to finish.

🎴 Select
👀 Reveal
⚡ Resolve
🏆 Score
📥 Draw
1

Your Turn

Players take turns clockwise. On your turn, you may PLAY one card or PASS.

  • You start each hand with 10 Energy
  • Every card has an Energy Cost (1-5) based on its Power
  • Pay the card's cost and place it face-up
  • Resolve any immediate effects (Links, Draws, etc.)

💡 Strategy Tip

Passing doesn't end your participation! You can play again in future rounds until everyone passes consecutively.

2

Rounds & Passing

Play continues in rounds until all players pass consecutively.

  • Each round, every player gets one turn (clockwise)
  • You may PASS even with playable cards
  • Passing does NOT eliminate you - you can play again next round
  • The hand ends when ALL players pass in the same round
3

Effect Resolution Phase

Chaos card effects resolve in a strict priority order. Understanding this order is crucial for advanced play!

Order Effect Type What It Does
1st 🛡️ Cancel Cancel or protect against other effects
2nd 🌟 Aura Apply persistent bonuses/penalties for the match
3rd ⚡ Energize Modify Energy pools
4th 🔗 Link Play additional Action cards from hand
5th 💣 Sabotage Reduce opponent scores
6th 🎴 Draw Draw additional cards
7th 🎯 Combo Conditional bonus points
8th 💪 Push Energy-based bonuses
9th 📣 Rally Card/element-based bonuses
10th ✖️ Multiply Multiply your stats or total score

⚠️ Important: Multiply is Last!

Multipliers apply after all other bonuses are calculated. This makes Multiply cards extremely powerful when combined with Combo, Push, and Rally effects!

4

Scoring Phase

Calculate final scores in this order:

Step 1: Base Action Points

Sum all stats (Time + Heart + Spotlight + Connection) from your Action cards

Step 2: Apply Stat Multipliers

If any effect multiplies a specific stat, apply it now

Step 3: Add Chaos Power

Each Chaos card adds its Power value to your score

Step 4: Add Bonuses

Add all Combo, Push, Rally, Link, and Draw bonuses

Step 5: Apply Hand Multiplier

If any effect multiplies your total, apply it now

Step 6: Subtract Sabotage

Reduce score by any Sabotage penalties (minimum 0)

Determining the Winner

Highest score wins the hand! In case of ties:

  1. Highest Spotlight total wins
  2. If still tied: Highest Connection total wins
  3. If still tied: Player seated earliest wins
5

Draw Phase

After scoring, prepare for the next hand:

  1. Discard played cards - All played cards go to their respective discard piles
  2. Draw back to 10 - Each player draws cards until they have 10 total
  3. Choose your draws - For each card drawn, choose Action or Chaos pile

💡 Draw Strategy

A balanced hand has roughly 5 Action cards and 5 Chaos cards. But don't be afraid to go heavy on one type if your strategy calls for it!

🏆 Match Structure

A complete match consists of multiple hands:

  • First player to win 10 hands wins the match
  • Energy resets to 16 at the start of each hand
  • Some Aura effects persist across hands
  • Keep track of won-hands - some cards reference this!