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Blood is the colored resource used to play cards and activate abilities. Each faction produces its own color: Red, White, Black, or Purple. Colored Blood can also be spent to pay generic colorless costs.

Gold is a separate colorless resource produced by Gold lands. It appears in the playing cost of most creatures and relics alongside Blood. Gold can substitute for any generic colorless cost — but it cannot pay for colored Blood requirements, and colored Blood cannot substitute for Gold.

Every card that has a cost shows it in the top-right corner as a row of icons. To play the card, you must spend exactly those resources from your lands.

Each colored blood drop icon represents 1 Blood of that faction's color. The Gold coin icon represents 1 Gold. You pay costs by exhausting your lands — each land produces 1 resource when exhausted.

Lands are your resource base. You may only play 1 land per turn, during your own Pre-Battle or Post-Battle phase. Lands have no playing cost — they are placed in play directly from your hand. Lands enter play in a Renewed state and are not subject to Newly Turned.

Spells can be played during any phase of any player's turn except the Renew phase. All spells resolve immediately when played — there is no waiting. However, both players have a window to respond before resolution occurs. Spells are placed in your Discard Pile after they resolve.

Whenever a spell is played or an ability is activated, both players have a chance to respond before it resolves. Responses are resolved in Last In, First Out (LIFO) order — the most recently played response resolves first.

This creates a response chain. Either player may continue adding responses until both players pass without adding anything new. The chain then resolves from the top down.

Land plays do not use the response system. A land entering play cannot be responded to.

If a spell or ability targets a specific card or player and that target is no longer valid when the spell resolves — for example, the targeted creature was destroyed by a response — the spell fizzles. It has no effect and is placed in the Discard Pile.

Activated abilities on cards (such as Exhaust abilities or Overexhaust abilities) can be responded to in the same way as spells. Triggered abilities — those that say "when" or "whenever" — also go through the response system and can be responded to before they resolve.

During your Battle phase, choose any number of your Renewed creatures to attack. Newly Turned creatures cannot attack unless they have Haste. Attacking exhausts each attacker unless it has Tireless.

Response window: After attackers are declared, both players may play spells or activate abilities before blockers are declared.

Your opponent may block using any of their Renewed creatures. Each blocker is assigned to exactly one attacker. A creature with a multi-block ability may block more than one attacker — the blocking player chooses the assignments.

Response window: After blockers are declared, both players may play spells or activate abilities before damage resolves.

Once both players pass on the final response window, all damage is dealt simultaneously. Unblocked attackers deal their full power as damage directly to the defending player. Blocked attackers deal their power to their blocker; the blocker deals its power back to the attacker.

All destruction is simultaneous. Triggered abilities that fire on destruction all trigger at the same time and are then resolved through the response system in LIFO order. Destroyed creatures are placed in their owner's Discard Pile unless an effect specifies otherwise.

When a creature with Bleed X deals combat damage directly to a player (unblocked hit or Breach overflow), that player gains X Bleed counters. At the end of your own Post-Battle phase, you take damage equal to your total Bleed counters, then all counters are removed.

If a creature would apply Bleed to a player who already has Bleed counters, the new counters are simply added to the existing total.

If a creature has Bleed 1 applied to it twice — through abilities or effects — it has Bleed 2. Multiple instances of Bleed on the same creature are combined into a single value.

"Bleed represents a wound that festers — the full pain hits after the battle is over. Some cards benefit from having Bleed counters, so managing them is part of the strategy."

Unique cards represent legendary, one-of-a-kind vampires and relics. Only 1 copy of a Unique card may be in play on your side at any time. Both players may control a copy of the same Unique card simultaneously — one on each side.

If you would ever control two copies of the same Unique card — due to a spell, ability, or other effect — the copy you controlled before the new one is immediately destroyed.

Relics are permanent cards that remain in play once played. Unlike creatures they cannot attack or block, but they provide ongoing passive effects or activated abilities. Relics enter play in a Renewed state and are not subject to Newly Turned. Relics remain in play until destroyed by a card effect.

Tokens are created by card effects during the game. They are treated as creatures in all respects — they can attack, block, and be targeted by spells and abilities. They cannot be included in decks. There is no limit to how many tokens of the same type can be in play at once. If a token leaves play for any reason, it is removed from the game entirely rather than going to the Discard Pile.

You own every card that came from your decks. You control any card currently in play on your side, including cards you gained from your opponent.

If a card you control but do not own is destroyed, it goes to its owner's Discard Pile — not yours. If you lose control of a card, it moves to the appropriate zone under its owner's control.

Any ability that says "when this enters play" triggers whenever that card enters play by any means — played from hand, returned from the Discard Pile via Reanimate, created as a token, or put in play by any other effect. There are no exceptions unless a card specifically states one.

Each player has their own Discard Pile — a face-up pile kept beside their Main Deck. Destroyed creatures, resolved spells, and any card sent from play are placed here. Cards in the Discard Pile are not in play and cannot be used unless a card effect specifically allows it — such as Reanimate, which allows a creature to be played directly from it.

Newly Turned applies to all creatures the turn they enter play. A Newly Turned creature cannot attack or activate abilities until the start of your next Renew phase. Creatures with Haste ignore Newly Turned entirely. Lands and relics are never subject to Newly Turned.

A card's ongoing abilities are not active while it is Exhausted or Overexhausted. Only cards in a Renewed state have their ongoing abilities in effect.

If the deck you choose to draw from is empty, you simply skip the draw. There is no penalty for an empty deck — the game continues normally.