Ruleset Catalog

Standard

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

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 target the lowest-current-health enemy from any position. This overrides every other targeting effect.

Overkill Doctrine

Attacks deal double damage to Shocked (stunned) fighters.

Skirmish Class

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), and the speed-based miss roll inverts with it: the slower Fighter is the harder target.

Boarding Action

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 and commanders 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 and commanders 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 and commanders may not be used.

Fallen Aces

Legendary-rarity fighters and commanders 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

The first time each fighter dies, it revives once at 1 health.

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 fighter).

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

Every fighter gains Vector-Shift: at combat start its attack type rotates one step (melee → ranged → magic → melee).

Undying Protocol

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

Incendiary Rounds

Ranged and magic fighters gain Plasma-Burn (the bearer takes 2 true damage at the end of each round; Immunity carriers are exempt).

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. Battle buffs can exceed this.

Command Jamming

Commander effects are disabled, both stat buffs and granted abilities. Fighters battle at their printed stats.

Medbay Offline

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

Systems Blackout

All fighters lose every ability at battle start, including abilities granted by a commander.

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 the end of each round; Immunity carriers are exempt).

Radiation Storm

Every fighter on both teams begins the battle Burning (2 true damage end of round; Immunity carriers are exempt).

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 the end of each round, every alive fighter gains +1 attack, +1 speed and +1 health. Armor is not affected.

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-health enemy from any position. This overrides every other targeting effect.

Phalanx Formation

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

Solar Flare

Adds 1 to positive base magic damage before class mitigation and armor absorption. The boosted base still passes through ordinary halving and armor routing.

Restorative Field

At the end of each round, fighters with a heal ability gain +1 armor; a Frontline-Mend carrier additionally grants +1 armor to the front-line tank.

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 from any position. This overrides every other targeting effect while any enemy has armor; once all enemy armor is gone, normal targeting resumes.

Slow Burn

Each round, Plasma-Burn carriers take additional true damage equal to the round number, on top of the base Plasma-Burn tick.

Last Word

When the front-line Fighter dies, the friendly Fighter sliding up to the front line gains +1 attack and +1 speed.

Battlefield Promotion

When the front-most living Fighter dies, the friendly sliding up to the front line 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.

Open Alliance

Your commander binds no affinity. Field fighters from any affinity the match still allows.