Rules & Formats

Game Modes

The official ways to play, from standard Clash to multiplayer Dominion.

Clash

Standard Duel

Team Battle — 2v2

Teammates' units count as allies; abilities referencing “an ally you own” only affect your own warband.
Open table talk and bluffing allowed — but never show your hand to your teammate.
Terrain is pooled per team; each player keeps their own echo, but mastery is shared.
Both teammates must agree to bid; card costs are added and initiative goes to the team.
Teams alternate activations, and a player can't activate twice before their teammate acts.

Team Battle — 2v1

Two teams: the Union (2 players) and the Nemesis (1 player).
Each deploy phase, the Nemesis may play 1 basic or elite unit without spending echo.
Each refresh phase, the Nemesis draws 3 cards instead of 2.
When all Nemesis units are exhausted, the Nemesis refreshes units equal to the round number, then activates.
The Nemesis' bid card cost is doubled; the Union adds both players' costs.
The Nemesis may use both deployment zones on their side of the battlefield.

Free for All

Terrain and husks are placed in turn order decided by a die roll — 4 husks in total.
During the setup bid, players choose in bid order between initiative and a deployment zone.
The initiative player chooses who deploys and activates first, then play goes clockwise.
When a unit is defeated, every player who doesn't own it scores mastery by rank (1 basic, 2 elite, 3 unique, 4 legendary) — or its cost if you defeated it yourself.

Any mode above can be played smaller or larger by applying these alterations.

Strife

Small Battlefield

Maelstrom

Large Battlefield