Mythos Rising
Basic Rules
Setup:
Mythos Rising is a competitive card game in
which two players race to build the first
“great” civilization on a new world.
Each player should bring two decks to
play Mythos Rising, a 40-Card Civilization
Deck (7), and a 5-Card Territory Deck. (2)
The Civilization Deck should be
composed of at least 6 Wonders, and then
any number of Actions and Creatures,
while the Territory Deck should only
contain Battlefields.
To begin, the players should decide who is
going first. That player should draw the
first card in their Territory deck and place
in the center of play area, in the Battlefield
zone (1). Once this is done, each player
should draw 6 cards. The first Phase of the
game can now begin.
How to Play:
In Mythos Rising, players take turns
performing single actions in pursuit of
being the first player to build three
friendly Wonder cards. The first player to
do so wins.
A standard game of Mythos Rising can be
broken down into two types of time
increments: Turns and Phases.
Phases:
At the start of a new Phase, a few things
Turns:
When it is your turn, you can perform one
of the actions below.
Summon: Pay the cost of a card in your
hand to put it into play.
Use: Use a ready card in play to perform
some action.
Pass: End your turn without doing
anything.
Once you have completed any one of
these actions, the turn passes to your
opponent.
When two players pass in succession (or
when both players have no actions
available to them), the Phase ends.
happen in the following order:
- If there is no Battlefield in the
battlefield zone, (1) the player who
the previous battlefield did not
belong to plays a battlefield from
their Territory Deck.
- Each player readies every friendly
Creature and Wonder.
- Each player draws four cards and
discard up to three cards.
- Start of Phase effects trigger.
- The player that controls the
battlefield currently in play takes
the first turn.
At the end of a Phase, the following things
occur:
- If any zone contains creatures from
two opposing sides combat in that
zone resolves.
- End of Phase effects trigger.
- If only one player controls
creatures in the battlefield zone, (1)
they capture that battlefield,
moving it to their artifact zone. (5)
- Each creature that is outside of
their owner’s Barracks (4) returns
to its owner’s Barracks.
- Each player shuffles their Recycle
Pile (6) and place it on the bottom
of their Civilization Deck (7).
Resources in Mythos Rising:
In Mythos Rising, in order to summon
Creatures, Wonders, and Actions, players
must accumulate mana of the
corresponding colors in order to pay the
cost of those cards.
The amount of mana that a player
currently has is dictated by their discard
pile (3)—each card is worth one mana of
its color while in the discard.
Players may also gain mana from the
effects Actions, Creatures, or Wonders:
Any mana gain of this type is called
“floating” and is lost if not used before the
end of the current Phase.
Summoning Cards:
To summon a card, you must first pay the
cost out of your current resources, using
“floating” mana first, and then by
removing the appropriate amount of cards
out of their discard, and placing them into
their Recycle Pile (6).
Creatures: Creatures are placed, exhausted,
into their owner’s barracks. (4)
Wonders: Wonders may only be
summoned if there is at least one available
captured Battlefield card in its owner’s
artifact zone (5). The Wonder is then
place, exhausted, on top of that Battlefield
card. No other Wonder may be built on
that same Battlefield.
Actions: Actions trigger their play effects,
and then leave play, going immediately
into their owner’s discard pile.
Using Cards:
Creatures and Wonders can each take
different actions while in play if they are
ready. A ready card is vertical, while an
exhausted card is horizontal.
Creature Actions:
- Idle: If this creature is in its
barracks, remove damage on it
equal to its restore stat and gain
one “floating” mana of this
creatures color. Exhaust this
creature
- Deploy: If this creature is not
currently engaged, move it to
another zone that is not blocked. If
it enters a zone in which there is
one or more enemy creatures that
are not engaged, place it in a direct
engagement with one of those
creatures. Exhaust this creature.
- Action: Some creatures have
alternative actions that do not fall
into either of the other categories.
If so, you can choose to take the
action written on that card, and
then exhaust this creature.
Wonder Actions:
- Action: If a Wonder has the
Action keyword, you may exhaust
it in order to trigger that effect.
Combat:
If, at the end of phase, two creatures
belonging to opposing players are in the
same zone, combat must then resolve in
that zone.
Combat resolves as follows:
- If both players control the same
number of creatures in that zone,
each creature deals damage equal to
its Strength stat to the creature it is
directly engaged with. If any
creature then has damage on it
equal to or greater than its Health
stat, that creature is destroyed.
- If one player controls more
creatures than the other player in a
zone, they may choose bolster one
of their creatures in a direct
engagement with each excess
creature. To indicate this, they
place the excess creature beneath
the engaged creature. Then, each
creature deals damage to its direct
opponent equal to its Strength stat
and the strength stat of the creature
bolstering it.
If a creature is in a zone with an enemy
Wonder, they deal damage to that wonder
equal to their Strength unless engaged with
an enemy creature.
Blocking:
In Mythos Rising, positioning matters—
sections of the board can become available
or unavailable for deploying your creatures
depending on where your opponent has
placed theirs.
The rules for blocking are simple—you
may not deploy a creature further into
enemy territory than their closest creature
to you. So, if an enemy has deployed to
your barracks, you cannot deploy a
creature out of your barracks until that
enemy is removed.
Endgame:
Play ends when a player controls three
Wonders at the end of a Phase. If they
manage to do so, that player is the winner!
Keyword Glossary
Play: When a card enters play, perform
the stated effect.
Action: Exhaust the card to perform the
stated effect.
Deploy: When this card is deployed to
any zone, perform this effect after it
arrives in that zone.
Witness: When a battlefield would be
about to be captured, but before it is
actually captured, perform the stated
effect.
Trap: The next time an enemy creature
enters the zone this card is in, perform the
stated effect after that creature has arrived
in this zone. For the purposes of this
effect, the creature that just entered this
zone is the “trapped creature.” (If multiple
creatures are moved into the zone at once,
the Trap creature’s owner picks which
creature is the “trapped creature.”)
Destroyed: If this card would go from in
play to the discard, trigger the stated
effect.
Bloodied: After this card takes damage
but is not destroyed, perform the stated
effect.
Idle: When this creature takes the idle
action, perform the stated effect.
Guard: When this creature is deployed
into the friendly artifact zone, perform the
stated effect after it arrives in that zone.
Recycled: When this card is used as
mana, after the effect produced by that
mana is resolved, perform the stated
effect.
Revealed: When this card is revealed (I.E.
put in play or simply upturned) perform
this effect.
Start of Phase: At the start of a new
Phase, perform this effect.
End of Phase: At the end of a Phase,
perform this effect.
Subtle (This creature may ignore blocking rules
when deployed)
Sturdy (This creature does not take damage,
unless that damage would destroy it)
Sentry (This creature does not return to its
barracks at End of Phase).
Revive: Fully heal, move to barracks,
exhaust.
Provoke: Move a creature to a zone of
your choosing, then exhaust.
Stockpile: Place a card under another card.
Cards that are stockpiled under other
cards are not considered “in play,” cannot
be used, and are carried with the top card
when it moves.
Sacrifice: Destroy a friendly creature.
Move: Move a creature to any zone,
regardless of whether it is ready, or
whether the move would regularly be
allowed by blocking rules.
Recycle: Place this card in your Recycle
Pile.
Restore: Remove damage from a creature
equal to its restore stat.