MaxDymond/CardGame1

• Start with 4 basic red/white and 2 basic green/black cards in hand.
  
• Start with 5 power tokens.
  
• Have a deck of basic red/white cards, a deck of basic green/black cards, and an advanced deck, central for everyone, facedown.
  
• Have a central pool of power tokens.
  
• Max hand size is 7.
  

• Turn steps:
  
  • Beginning of turn (Beginning of turn trigger happen)
    
  • Empower step (Put tokens on runestones according to their static effect)
    
  • Draw step (Draw from any basic deck)
    
  • Dispel step (Can dispel any runestones to reclaim their power)
    
  • Enchantment step (Can create runestones)
    
  • End of turn (End of turn triggers happen)
    
  • Tidyup (Discard down to hand size)
    
• During your enchantment phase you can (by default) create one full runestone from the cards in your hand.
  
  • A full runestone consists of one Trigger, one Action and one Static.
    
  • Runestones have to connect together.
    
  • Triggers, Actions and Statics have a power cost on them. To create a runestone you have to be able to put that many power tokens on that full device
    
• You can only have 3 runestones at once, by default (to keep the board state manageable). If you want to create a runestone and you don't have space, you have to dispel one of your runestones during your dispel step.
  
  • To dispel a runestone, reclaim the Power tokens on it. Put the cards into the relevant discard piles.
    
  • This is the main way of getting more Power than you start with.
    

• Triggers. When the trigger event happens, do the action. E.g. "At the beginning of your turn", "At the end of your turn", "Whenever you draw your first card in a turn".
  
  • Could also have activated triggers with limited activations - maybe for an expansion.
    
• Actions. Coupled with triggers. "draw a card".
  
• Static effects. Affects the game state all the time. E.g. "You can have one more card in your hand; # Charge".
  
• Effect cards. Can be played whenever. Cost Power tokens to cast. Go to the discard pile when resolved.
  

• Power tokens. More powerful cards require more power to create.
  
• No cheap negative abilities - it should cost you lots of power for negative effects
  
• If a deck is empty, shuffle the relevant discard pile for that deck into that deck.
  
• Queue triggers clockwise from the current player. Resolve triggers first in, first out.
  

• The game ends when someone builds a device which says that they win.
  

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