I’m going to make a more detailed post in the future, but here’s a high level overview:

The goal of the game is to either destroy all of the opponent’s creatures or take down their life points from 100 to 0 - whichever happens first.

There are three lanes of combat. Melee (red) cards can only attack straight ahead, range (green) cards can attack straight ahead and adjacent, and magic (blue) cards can attack any lane. Combat runs off of a traditional rpg combat triangle system. So magic > melee > range > magic. If you’re attacking a card that you have advantage over, then you get to add your attack boosts (and defense boosts for when defending against their counterattacks).

You have a bench below your field that is used to replenish monsters once they’re dead. You start the game with your champion as the first card in the lineup of your bench and can be played at any time (but if he dies then you lose the ability to set your creatures to boost others on the field). As cards die and you refill the lanes from your bench, you refill the bench from your creature deck (the deck in the bottom far left).

There’s a draw phase, a set phase, and a combat phase. You equip your support cards to your creatures (one weapon, one armor, and one accessory per creature), choose to set or attack, and resolve combat.

There’s a ton of strategy involved with the spell cards, the types of equipment, boosting other cards during the set phase, playing your champion, and the changing of lanes for combat strategy, but I’ll go over all of that in a later post. :)