How do I play Lords & Legends?
Use this quick guide below to understand the basic fundamentals of Lords & Legends and jump right into the action.
Assemble Your Deck
Lords & Legends Standard Decks are composed of 1 Lord and 65 cards.
Players can customize their decks to their liking and may purchase Booster Packs and Starter Decks to add more cards to their collection!
Don't forget to bring your Tokens and Counters if your deck's strategy calls for it.
L&L Deck Construction guidelines can be found in the Official Rulebook.
Card Types
• There are 8 main types of cards in Lords & Legends - they are separated into two categories:
• Assets
- Ground Units: The main forces of your Lord's army.
- Starships: Your orbital fleet and aerial firepower.
- Equipment: Tools used to empower your Units.
- Monuments: Unique landmarks & relics that provide passive or active effects.
- Lords: The leader of a deck.
• Non-Assets
- Commands: Orders deployed by players to affect the war effort.
- Terrain: Resource cards that power your deck.
- Tokens: Additional forces summoned by in-game effects.
Prepare Your Territory
Place your Lord face-down in the Lord Zone.
Place your Deck into the Draw zone, then draw a starting hand of 8 cards.
All Players begin the game with 30 Life.
Let the battle begin!
Turn Phases
There are three chapters to a turn, each broken up by specific phases.
CHAPTER 1
Ready all of your deployed cards by returning them to their upright position (Energize). Resolve any effects that occur at the start of your turn, then draw one card during your Draw Phase.
CHAPTER 2
Spend resources to deploy cards from your hand or activate your Lord's abilities. During the Mobilize Phase, you may move your Units between zones, relocate your Lord, equip or remove Equipment cards and use Shelters. Once you're ready, enter the Battle Phase and attack your opponent.
CHAPTER 3
After combat, you have another opportunity to deploy cards and activate abilities. A second Mobilize Phase lets you reposition Units, manage Equipment and use Shelters. During the Final Phase, resolve any end-of-turn effects, then adjust your hand to the maximum hand size by drawing or discarding as required.
Deploy & Mobilize
You may deploy one Terrain card during either your first or second Deployment Phase each turn. Exhausting a Terrain generates Magica, which is added to your resource pool. Spend Magica to deploy cards from your hand or activate the abilities of your Lord and other cards you control.
During the Mobilize Phase, you may move your Ground Units between zones you control, reposition your Lord to gain access to different zone abilities, equip or unequip Equipment cards, and move Units into Shelters to grant them defensive bonuses
To Battle!
On your Battle Phase, you can declare attacks with energized Units you control against other players, or against other Units directly.
If a player under attack has any energized Units, they may choose to defend the attack with those Units instead of taking damage and losing Life.
Players declare all attack targets at once. Then, defending players choose to take actions or defend the attack if their Life total is under fire. After responses, all combat damage is dealt simultaneously according to the Power Score of Units involved in battle vs targeted Unit's Defense Scores. If a Unit's Defense Score or a Player's Life total reaches zero, they are destroyed.
Hail the Victorious Dead.
Defeat other Units in battle to generate Starstones - by collecting 20 Starstones or defeating all other players, you win the game!
Stay vigilant - some card abilities and Lords can provide alternative paths to victory.
Good hunting...
Download the Official Game Manual
Sharpen your gameplans, learn the details and nuances of combat, master the terms with the game glossary and bring your strategy into the next star system. Download the latest up-to-date rulebook for Lords & Legends here.