How to Play - cthuff/m3-CardGame GitHub Wiki

Players: Each start with 50 Health Points and 40 Mana points.

  • Mana: Is used to play cards
  • Health: Used to calculate when the player loses

Monsters: Each monster has an Attack and Defense Value, as well as a mana cost.
Magic: Magic cards are used explicitly on monsters. They can target your monsters, opponent monsters, and can either damage or heal them.
Modifiers: Modifiers are used to increase the player's stats. This will allow for increased mana regeneration, health regeneration, and even card draw.

At the start of each game, the player and the opponent(the computer) will have five cards. Turns are done simultaneously in phases. Each turn consists of five phases; Draw Phase, Player Phase, Magic Phase, Battle Phase, and End Phase.

  • Draw Phase: Each player draws a card from their deck and gains 10 mana.
  • Player Phase: Each player puts a monster on the field in the active position face down. They can also place monsters on their bench at this time. After this phase is over, the active monsters will be flipped over for the others to see.
  • Magic Phase: The players can now play Magic or Modifier Cards to boost their monsters power, add health or mana, or weaken the other player's monster.
  • Battle Phase: The monsters in the active position now attack each other. The defense points of a monster change with the amount of attack they've taken. If their defense points are at or below 0, the monster is dead. Any negative defensive points then are subtracted from the respective player's Health Points.
  • End Phase: This allows for players to move monsters around with their active monsters and benched monsters. If a monster dies in the battle phase, this is where a new monster would be chosen from the bench.

This will repeat until one of the players has reached negative or zero health points. In the event that both players reach negative health at the same time, the player with a higher health will be considered the winner. In the event both players end at or below zero health points with the same amount, it will be a tie.