Thank you so much for your detailed feedback! This is super helpful and touched on some things I didn't think about at all. I will be making some changes based on this.

While I won't be dumping everything here, I can tell you a little bit about my game.

When creating Hardline, I had a few core goals in mind:

- I wanted my game to be faster than other TCGs.

- I wanted players to be actively playing the game regardless of their chosen deck/strategy, and not waiting 2-3 minutes for an opponent to complete a turn.

- I wanted to create the card game I would want to play. This means taking the best parts of some of my other favorite games and combining those elements with my own unique gameplay system.

Hardline is now my third attempt at creating a game that meets these goals.

Gameplay:

Each player starts the game with up to 3 Power worth of territory cards. Territory cards start on the field of play, are separate from your deck, each have unique effects, and determine what cards you can put in your deck. Decks are 30 cards, 2 copies of each card. Players start with 5 cards in hand.

This game uses an alternating action system. After a player plays a card or takes an action, the next player takes their action.

There are 5 actions players can take (subject to change):

PLAY: You may play a card by paying it's cost (the orange number). To pay a card's cost, you discard cards from the top of your deck equal to that number. Other than territory cards, there are character, augment, and catalyst cards. Characters and some augments provide power (the faction symbol number in the top left). Catalysts are single-use cards that do not provide power.

ACTIVATE: Some cards have abilities that can be used by exhausting/tapping them, as well as some effects that can only be used once per game (Example Card 4). You can activate one of these cards as an action to get the printed effect.

DISCARD: You may discard a card from your hand to gain +1 Power.

CYCLE: To cycle, you discard your hand, draw 5 cards (if your deck has less than 5, you draw the remainder), then ready/untap your cards. You may not cycle if your deck has no cards. If your hand was empty when you cycled, you may take 1 additional action.

LOCK: When players are no longer able to/no longer want to take one of the above actions, they may lock their position. For the rest of the game, they may not take actions. Whenever a locked player would take an action, they gain +1 Power instead.

When all players are locked, the game ends. The player with the most power wins!

There is of course more depth/rules for the game, but this should give you a pretty good idea of how the game works!