Terralore: Complete Rules

Deck Composition and Setup

• Each player starts with a 20-card deck. You can only have a single copy of each card in your deck.

• Players draw 4 cards to form their starting hand.

• You can only have 7 cards in your hand. Any surplus cards drawn go to the Graveyard.

• From the second turn onward, at the beginning of each turn, players draw 2 cards.

• To play a card, players must discard a number of cards equal to its cost, sending them to the Graveyard. For example, a card costing 1 requires discarding 1 card.

• A player loses if their deck runs out of cards to draw or their castle reaches 0 HP.

Types of Cards

Creature Cards

• Each creature has a cost (upper-left corner, i.e. number of cards to sacrifice to play it) and a point value (bottom-right corner).

• Creature cards are played in either the attacking lane (⚔️) or defending lane (🛡️).

• Creature cards remain in play unless they are removed by a card's effect or by a player wanting to free space for a creature on a full lane.

Skill Cards

• Skill cards provide unique effects but do not contribute to point totals directly.

• They may target creatures, castles, or other game elements.

Landmarks

• Landmarks persist between turns.

• Each player can only have one landmark on the field at a time.

• Playing a new landmark destroys the one previously in play.

• Landmarks don't occupy creature slots

Affinity / Rarity

• In addition to cost, points, and effects, a card also has an elemental affinity, marked in the upper-right corner of the card.

• Affinities are fire 🔥, water 💧, wind 💨, darkness 🌑, light, ✨ lightning ⚡, earth ⛰️ and nature 🌲.

• Cards also have rarities ranging from common, uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary, marked at the bottom-left corner of the card.

The Board and Castle

• The board is divided into two lanes:

  • Defending Lane (🛡️): To a player's left. Protects the player’s castle.

  • Attacking Lane (⚔️): To a player's right. Targets the opponent’s defending lane.

• A player's attacking lane is the opponent's defending lane, and vice-versa.

• Each player’s castle starts with 10 HP.

• The goal is to reduce the opponent’s castle HP to 0 to win.

Game Phases

Terralore is played in four phases per turn:

1. Draw Phase:
   Both players draw 2 cards. (This phase is skipped on the first turn.)

2. Play Phase:
   Players place their cards facedown in either their attacking or defending lane. The placement remains hidden from the opponent.

3. Reveal Phase:
   All cards are revealed.

   • In round 1, and in cases where players are perfectly tied (refer to Tiebreakers section), players roll a die. The winner goes first.

   • In other cases, the reveal order starts with the defending lane of the player with the least castle HP, then proceeds clockwise:

     • Losing player’s defending lane

     • Opponent’s attacking lane

     • Opponent’s defending lane

     • Losing player’s attacking lane

4. Counting Phase:
   Resolve combat and effects, calculate lane totals, and apply damage to castles.

   • Points in the attacking lane are compared to points in the opponent’s defending lane.

   • Excess points from the attacking lane are dealt as damage to the opponent’s castle.

Lane and Board Mechanics

• Each lane can hold a maximum of four creatures per player.

• If a player attempts to play a fifth creature in a lane, they must destroy one of the creatures already in play, sending it to the Graveyard.

Graveyard and Exile:

• Destroyed cards go to the Graveyard unless a card effect states that they are Exiled, in which case they are permanently removed from the game.

Victory Conditions

• Reduce your opponent’s castle HP to 0 to win.

• The opponent runs out of cards in their deck before you do.

Tiebreakers

• If both players run out of cards at the same time, the player with the highest HP wins.

• If castles are tied in HP at the end of the game, the total number of points on the field determines the winner.

• If the total points on the field are also tied, the game is considered a draw.

Glossary

• Destroy: Send a card from the field to the graveyard.

• Discard: Send a card from your hand to your graveyard.

• Defending lane: The lane on a player's left-hand side, which is the opponent's attacking lane.

• Attacking lane: The lane on a player's right-hand side, which is the opponent's defending lane.

• Here: The lane in which the card was played.

• Banish: Remove a card from the game.

• Synergy: Effect triggered when all cards in the deck fulfill a requirement.

• Trap: Skill card that is played face-down and is only revealed when certain conditions are met.

• Token: A card generated by another card. Once it is played or removed from the field it is banished.