The main play area consists of 3 lanes. The Priority player places both of their
Starter Terras on the end lanes with a space between them. The other player
chooses one of their Starter Terras and places it in the center lane (set the
other aside). Each lane has two sides: friendly (your side) and non-friendly (your
opponent’s side). Lanes can hold up to 5 legal cards per side, excluding the Terra.
Only creatures, equipment, Casters, and Aura enhancements may occupy lanes.

Each round consists of 3 phases: draw phase, Aura phase, and action phase. Complete all of these phases each round, even on the first round of the game.

• Swap priorities (except for the first round).
• Draw 1 card from the deck.

• Add 1 Aura from the Aura deck to the Aura zone.
• Untap all Aura in the Aura zone and untap cards in play.
• Reset all lanes (they are ready to resolve Missions again).
• Untap any tapped creatures and equipment.

Players alternate taking one action at a time. The player with Priority goes first.
Actions include:
• Play a card. Pay its cost in Aura.
• Enhance a lane with Aura (Aura Enhancement keyword).
• Use an ability on a friendly creature or equipment in play.
• Declare a Mission and resolve the lane.
The action phase ends when all lanes have been resolved. Players must always
take an action on their turn. If players are done taking actions, a player must declare
a Mission in an unresolved lane.

Declare a Mission to resolve a lane. The player with the highest total Influence
in the lane wins the mission and scores Mission Points (MP). Missions have a few
outcomes when you win, lose, or tie.
• Uncontested Mission: If your opponent has no creatures in the lane, the mission is uncontested. Winning an uncontested mission awards you +2 Mission Points.
• Contested Mission: If your opponent has at least one creature in the lane, the mission is contested. Winning a contested mission awards you +1MP.
• Tie: If both players have equal influence and a creature in a lane, each player receives +1 MP.
• Loss: Both players have zero Influence and/or neither player has a creature in the lane. No MP is awarded.
After all lanes have been resolved, follow the same steps to start a new round.

Damage that meets or exceeds a creature or equipment’s Influence will Shatter it,
sending it to the discard pile. Damage is tracked on each card until the end of the round, and then it is removed if there is not enough to Shatter it.
Keyword Abilities: Most keyword abilities are capitalized in the rules text.

Build for the long haul. The first big change will be your minimum main deck size and the points needed to win. To play a full game requires a 50-card main deck and 30 MP to win. You’d likely run out of cards before scoring 30 MP with your Alpha deck. You need a plan to add at least 35 more cards. Purchase boosters at your local game store to build your collection, and you’ll want to prioritize finding a new caster card.

Find a caster who can play two colors (Aura Types). Your “In Training” caster only allows one Aura Type (color) to be played. That means fewer cards out of every pack will be allowed in your full game deck. You’ll want to buy some booster packs or trade with friends to find a caster that will let you play an allied Aura Type (a second color). Don’t worry, casters are common cards, so it’ll be easy to find what you need. And you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how helpful their more advanced abilities are! Plus, with that one change, there will be twice as many cards in each
booster that you can jam in your main deck!

Up your “curve.” Currently, your Aura deck stops at 5. But the full game is a 10-Aura deck. You need to collect cards from booster packs that will help you make more powerful plays with that additional Aura. Find and add 5+ cost cards that can dominate a lane.

If you play two colors, you must use 1 Starter Terra of each Aura Type (your primary color and your chosen allied color) as your starters. The allied color you choose must be shown on your caster card in your caster’s allied Aura box.

Learn how to “trade” Aura. You couldn’t do this in the demo decks. During play, to bring in a second color, you have to take an action and pay 1 aura to swap in an allied Aura Type for one of your primary Aura type. Each card you play of the Allied color will require you to use at least one allied Aura to play it.

Roll to determine who will go first (the first player is the “Priority” player).

• Your main deck may only hold 3 copies of any card.
• Terras without “Starter” can only be added to your main deck.
• Terras with “Starter” can be added to your main deck, so long as they aren’t copies of the Starter Terra you used in Pre-Game Setup.
• You may play with one of your allied colors, but you can’t play with both allied card colors in your main deck.
• Your creatures and equipment with the exact same name can’t be played to the same lane.
For example, Piasa Bird and Piasa Bird the Territorial would not be considered to have the same name, but you can’t play two copies of your Piasa Bird to one lane.
• Some creatures and equipment have the “unique” trait. Cards with the unique trait are limited to 1 copy per side in play (not in the deck), regardless of which lane they are played to.

• You may enhance a lane with Aura(s) if you have at least one friendly unit with an Aura enhancement in the lane.
• To enhance the lane, as an action, move an untapped Aura into a friendly lane. It cannot be tapped to pay any costs while in a lane. Lane size limits still apply.
• Enhancing a friendly lane with Aura provides +1 Influence to the lane and enables the powerful Destruction keyword on Aura.
• Enhanced Aura in lanes typically cannot be Shattered or affected by your opponent or their effects. It cannot be chosen to satisfy Destruction or Sacrifice effects for either player.
• Note: At the end of each round, all Aura in lanes returns to the Aura zone, whether used for Destruction or not.