Manacaster is a strategic card battle game where players aim to reduce their opponent's life points from 20 to 0. • Each player prepares a 50-card Main deck and a 12-card Mana deck. • Set aside the Mana deck and shuffle the Main deck. • Randomly determine which player starts with Combat Priority.

• Look at the top 14 cards of your Main deck and keep 6 or 7. • If you kept 6, draw one more random card. • All players should have exactly 7 cards in hand. • Reshuffle unchosen cards back into the deck.

Units: Personnel that can attack or defend. • They remain on the board until defeated. Actions: Represent temporary or permanent effects. • Discarded after use. Mana: Provide one Mana per turn, used to deploy Units and Actions. • There are two types of Mana cards. Mono Mana: Provides one elemental type of Mana, ready to use immediately. Hybrid Mana: Offers a choice between two elemental Mana types. • Hybrid Mana enter tapped unless you pay 1 life point. • You may deploy an untapped Hybrid Mana for free on turn 12. •Deploy one Mana card each turn until your Mana deck is empty. •Mana cards stay in play, and untap at the end of each turn.

• Starting Phase: Refresh cards, clear damage, remove temporary effects. • Pre-Combat Phase: With attacker acting first, both players may Deploy Mana, Units & Actions. • Combat Phase: Attack with Units (if you have Combat Priority). • Post-Combat Phase: Deploy more cards. Defending players act first after being attacked. • End of Turn: Both players draw a card. If you run out of cards to draw, you lose.

•The player with Combat Priority chooses attacking Units. • Defending player selects blocking Units. • Resolve combat (see Combat Steps for details). • Unblocked attackers deal damage directly to the defending player. • Multi-Blocking Defenders can use multiple Units to block a single attacker. • The attacker then chooses how to distribute damage among blockers.

• Declare attackers • Declare blockers • Resolve Ambush damage • Resolve standard damage • Apply combat-related effects

When multiple triggers activate simultaneously, resolve in the following order: • Players gain life • Players draw cards • Players discard cards • Apply automatic beneficial Unit effects • Apply chosen beneficial Unit effects • Apply automatic negative Unit effects • Apply chosen negative Unit effects • Deal damage & apply life loss

Each Elemental Keyword is associated with two different elements & each Element has access to three Keywords in total: HEAVY (Water & Metal) • When this Unit attacks and is blocked, any excess damage to the blockers is automatically passed along to the defending player. ALERT (Solar & Earth) • This Unit doesn't tap when attacking, allowing it to always block. AMBUSH (Solar & Lunar) • This Unit deals damage in the Primary damage phase during Combat, before most other Units deal their damage. TWINSTRIKE (Flame & Metal) • This Unit deals damage twice during combat: once in the Ambush damage phase and once in the Combat damage phase. PARRY (Solar & Metal) • When this Unit receives combat damage, it gains +DEF equal to the incoming damage, capped by this Unit's ATK. Triggers twice against Twinstrike. RIPOSTE (Lunar & Earth) • When this Unit blocks or is blocked by an enemy Unit, it gains +ATK equal to its own DEF, capped by the enemy Unit's ATK. REVENGE (Flame & Water) • When this Unit is dealt combat damage, it deals damage to the enemy Unit equal to the received damage, capped by this Unit's DEF. LEECH (Earth & Water) • When this Unit deals combat damage, you gain life equal to the damage dealt, capped by the enemy Unit's DEF. EXTRACT (Lunar & Flame) • When this Unit is dealt combat damage, you gain Life equal to the incoming damage, capped by this Unit's DEF.

Neutral Keywords may appear on any card, regardless of its elemental costs. RAPID: Can attack the turn it's deployed. RALLY: +1/+1 when you deploy a Unit (until end of turn). FOCUS: +2 ATK when you deploy an Action (until end of turn).