Ruleset Catalog

Standard

Allowed at Bronze

No ruleset modifiers active. Pure mana cap.

Targeting Lock

All melee and ranged attacks always hit; Lift-Drive, Slipstream, and Blink-Shift evasion neutralized.

Reinforced Hulls

Allowed at Bronze

All fighters gain +2 armor at battle start.

Tectonic Resonance

End of round, non-Lift-Drive fighters take 2 damage — armor absorbs it first (no overflow), then HP.

Open Season

All fighters gain Hunter (target the lowest-HP enemy).

Overkill Doctrine

Attacks deal double damage to Shocked (stunned) fighters.

Skirmish Class

Allowed at Bronze

Only fighters and commanders costing 4 mana or fewer may play.

Psionic Blackout

Magic-attack fighters may not be used.

Time Dilation

Fighters act in ASCENDING speed order (slowest first).

Boarding Action

Allowed at Bronze

Melee fighters may attack from any position (not just position 1).

Grounded Guns

Ranged-attack fighters may not be used.

Standoff Doctrine

Melee-attack fighters may not be used.

Aces Grounded

Legendary-rarity fighters may not be used.

Even Echelon

Only fighters with even mana cost may be used.

Odd Echelon

Only fighters with odd mana cost may be used.

Knife Fight

Only melee-attack fighters may be used.

Artillery Doctrine

Only ranged-attack fighters may be used.

Psi-Storm

Only magic-attack fighters may be used.

Ironclad Only

Only fighters with armor may be used.

Interceptor Class

Only fighters with speed 3 or higher may be used.

High-Caliber Only

Only fighters with attack 3 or higher may be used.

Rank and File

Only Common and Rare fighters may be used.

Mercenaries Only

Only Neutral-affinity fighters may be used.

Allegiance Sworn

Neutral-affinity fighters may not be used.

Fireteam

Each team is capped at 4 fighters.

Strike Squad

Each team is capped at 5 fighters.

Veterans Only

Common-rarity fighters may not be used.

Fallen Aces

Legendary-rarity fighters may not be used.

Cadet Class

Only fighters and commanders costing 6 mana or fewer may play.

Aegis Protocol

Every fighter on both teams begins the battle with Aegis Bubble.

Defiance Protocol

All fighters gain Final Defiance (1.5x stats while the sole survivor).

Infiltration Doctrine

All melee fighters gain Flank (target the back-most enemy).

Marksman Protocol

All ranged and magic fighters gain Pickoff (target the back-most non-melee enemy).

Ordnance Loadout

All fighters gain Splash (splash damage to fighters adjacent to the target).

Reactive Plating

All fighters gain Recoil-Plate (reflect 2 damage to melee attackers).

Adrenaline Surge

All fighters gain Berserker (+50% attack and speed while wounded).

Attrition Protocol

Coming soon: would grant Marrow-Rot (max-HP-on-hit). Currently inactive — replay marker only.

Killstreak Protocol

All fighters gain Killstreak (+1 to all stats on kill).

Cloaking Field

All fighters gain Phase-Cloak (untargetable unless front-most or hit by Flank/Pickoff/Hunter/Spray-Fire).

Ablative Plating

All fighters gain Plate (halved melee and ranged damage).

Null-Field Generators

All fighters gain Null-Field (halved magic damage).

Volatile Cores

All fighters gain Volatile Frame (splash half of damage taken to an adjacent ally).

Ironwill Protocol

All fighters gain Ironwill (immune to stat-reducing debuffs).

Vector Rotation

All fighters gain Vector-Shift (rotating attack vector).

Undying Protocol

All fighters gain Final Defiance (1.5x stats while the sole survivor).

Incendiary Rounds

Ranged and magic fighters apply Plasma-Burn on hit.

Armor Failure

All fighters lose all armor at battle start.

Mass Equilibrium

All fighters' max HP is normalized to the highest max HP on the field at start.

Vital Suppression

Every fighter's max HP is capped at 4.

Command Jamming

Commander stat-modifier effects are disabled. Replay marker only.

Medbay Offline

Med-Mend, Frontline Mend, and Field-Mender are stripped at battle start.

Systems Blackout

All fighters lose every ability at battle start.

Hardened Shielding

Magic damage routes through armor first instead of bypassing it.

Toxic Atmosphere

Every fighter on both teams begins the battle Poisoned (2 damage at round start).

Radiation Storm

Every fighter on both teams begins the battle Burning (2 true damage end of round).

Gravity Flux

Each team's positions are deterministically shuffled at battle start.

Sensors Dark

Flank, Pickoff, Hunter, and Spray-Fire targeting are silenced.

Feedback Surge

Attackers take 2 true damage on a miss.

Overdrive Cascade

At end of each round, every alive fighter gains +1 to every stat.

Chain Reaction

Overrun kills chain on consecutive kills (safety depth cap of 6 still applies).

Power Initiative

Fighters with the highest attack act first, rarity as tiebreak.

Vanguard Charge

On equal speed, melee fighters act before ranged and magic.

Point-Blank Protocol

Ranged fighters may attack from the first position.

Priority Target: Alpha

All fighters target the highest-current-HP enemy. Flank and Pickoff ignore.

Phalanx Formation

Allowed at Bronze

Position 1 takes 25% less damage; positions 5-6 take 25% more damage.

Solar Flare

Magic attacks deal +1 damage to HP.

Restorative Field

Med-Mend, Frontline Mend, Field-Mender, and Plate-Welder also restore 1 armor to the healed target.

Focus Fire

Second and subsequent hits on the same target this round deal +2 damage.

Purge Cycle

At end of every round, all status effects (stunned, poisoned) are cleared on every fighter.

Marked for Death

End of round, the lowest-HP enemy is marked; attacks vs marked targets deal +1 damage.

Sniper's Mark

First ranged/magic hit each round marks its target; subsequent hits on it deal +1 damage.

Mirror Plating

Recoil-Plate, Counter-Volley, and Spell-Mirror reflected damage is doubled.

Iron Tide

At end of every round, every alive fighter gains +1 max armor and +1 current armor.

Battle Hardening

At end of round, every fighter that took damage this round gains +1 attack.

Blood Frenzy

On kill, all friendly alive fighters gain +1 speed (cumulative).

Heat Seeking

All fighters target the highest-current-armor enemy. Flank and Pickoff ignore.

Slow Burn

Plasma-Burn damage scales with round number (round N deals N damage).

Last Word

On any death, the friendly sliding into position 1 gains +1 attack and +1 speed.

Battlefield Promotion

When position 1 dies, the new position 1 inherits its max armor (capped +3) plus that much armor.

Old Guard

Epic and Legendary fighters banned; max mana per card capped at 6.

Death March

Every alive fighter takes 1 true damage at end of each round (ignores armor and Lift-Drive).

Sabotage Protocol

Strips Killstreak, Final Defiance, and Splash from every fighter at battle start.

Resurrection Wave

End of rounds 3 and 6: last fighter that died on each team revives at 50% max HP.

Resonance Field

Each fighter gains +N attack where N = number of other allies sharing its affinity.