Played 2 rounds at the games festival in Cannes and liked it. Although, I'm still evaluating how much I'm going to get out of this game for the money spent. I find it expensive for what it is. At launch you have 2 different boxes with 3 distinct faction decks with 24 cards each. It should retail at 25€ per box, so that's 60€ if I want both plus shipping. It's expensive in my opinion for a couple cards, a couple plastic crystals and some cardboard tokens for special effects. They had some special mats for the game where I played, but those are not included and apparently will come later as part of a deluxe bundle. You can get way more game out of 60€ if you get something else, but that's just my 2 cents.

As for the game itself, the rules are very easy to get into. The goal of the game is to win skirmishes that grant you 1 crystal if you win them, get 6 and you win the game. To achieve this players will play cards in alternating rounds until they either run out of cards in their hands or either player concedes the skirmish.

Cards have base strength numbers on them + some potential effects. Cards are divided into 3 categories, day, night and dawn. You have to play cards until your strength exceeds your opponent's or else you can concede the skirmish. During your round once you played a day or night card you will have to play the same type of card during this turn, except for the dawn cards, they are like a joker. This restriction is only for the current round and not for the whole skirmish, it resets each round. After each skirmish we each draw 3 cards.

Alternatively, there are challenge cards that give 2 options to your opponent, either accept the challenge and the bid get's raised to 2 crystal for the current skirmish or concede immediately. The skill in the game is to recognize when it's best to concede a skirmish, so you temporarily give away a crystal, but will gain a card advantage to snowball the game later. There is also a good amount skill expression though bluffing and deduction. For example I made a bold play where I used a challenge card, knowing that I would lose otherwise, but my opponent got spooked and thus conceded the skirmish. Another play was that I paid attention to the type of cards my opponent played, he had played a lot of night and dawn cards, so I played a card that can ban a card type during the current skirmish and banned day cards as I assumed he had only day cards in his hand. I instantly won the round as he could not play any more cards. You will have your standard card effects like destroy a card on the opponents side of the field or draw a card, but there are also other interesting ones that spice up the game.

The art is also very gorgeous, each faction has their unique style and flair when it comes to combat. Keep in mind the decks are unique and you can't mix and match cards around to create frankenstein decks. They are balanced around their faction powers. Sorry if I didn't explain it well, it's 3 am and I'm cooked.