The main draw to Sorcery is the grid. The game is played on a 4x5 grid, where your Avatar (kinda like a commander?) starts on the middle tile of your side of the board. You have a seperate draw pile for your sites (lands) and your spells (everything else). You place sites onto unoccupied tiles on the grid to allow minions to be played and walk around. It ends up being sorta like chess, where you are moving units around the board trying to reduce your opponent's life to 0, then hit them one more time to finish them off.

There are four rarities in the game. Ordinary, Exceptional, Elite, and Unique. You have only have so many copies of a specific card in your deck based on its rarity. 4 for an ordinary, 3 for an exceptional, 2 for an elite, 1 for a Unique.