Aeon's End

Indie Boards & Cards

Cooperative deck-builder against a nemesis, with a shuffled turn-order deck and decks that are never shuffled. The turn structure is modelled.

1–4 co-op vs the nemesis · cooperative

A deckbuilder without shuffling: each player's deck is deterministic; the chance lies in the turn order and the nemesis deck. Every turn is a free loop of legal actions.

Goal and end of the game

Win nemesis_life = 0
Win nemesis deck empty and no minions/powers in play
Loss gravehold = 0
Loss all players exhausted

How the game goes

Follow the track from top to bottom. ↻ repeats, a side track is a branch; under every step: what you decide there. Tap a step for what you decide there.

All steps in words

Game until end (checked immediately)
1. Draw a turn order card (empty → shuffle the discard)
  - If card = wild: choose any player
2. Whose turn is it? turn_card
  - If player (wild: players choose who)
    1. Casting phase: optional for an open breach, required for a closed one by player
    2. Main phase until player stops
      1. Any order, any number of times by player
        One of:
        play gem or relic
        Allowed if gem or relic in hand.
        Choose gems/relics in hand
        gain card
        Allowed if aether ≥ cost of a supply card.
        Choose affordable supply piles
        gain charge
        Allowed if aether ≥ 2 and charges < ability maximum.
        focus breach
        Allowed if aether ≥ focus_cost of a closed breach.
        Choose closed breaches
        open breach
        Allowed if aether ≥ open_cost of a closed breach.
        Choose closed breaches
        prep spell
        Allowed if spell in hand and an empty breach that is open or was focused this turn.
        Choose spell × suitable breach
        use ability
        Allowed if charges = ability maximum.
        end main
    3. Draw phase: discard played cards in a chosen order, draw up to 5 by player
      - Choose order of the played cards
  - If nemesis
    1. Main phase: minions and powers in play, oldest → newest
    2. Draw phase: attack (at once) / power / minion (into play)

On the table

12 zones and piles

turn order deck face down · shuffled — player cards (depending on player count) + 2 nemesis
turn order discard open
deck per player · only its owner sees it — never shuffled: order = the player's own discard order
hand per player · only its owner sees it
played per player · open
discard per player · open
breaches per player · open — 4 per mage; at most 1 prepped spell per breach
supply open — 9 piles: gems, relics, spells
nemesis deck face down · shuffled — shuffled per tier, tier 1 on top
nemesis revealed open
nemesis play open — powers and minions, in order of arrival
nemesis discard open

Under the hood

These rules are read straight from the game's model: the same data the engine plays with. For the exact expressions, the rules diagram and the model source:

Rules diagram

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