TURN SEQUENCE

Choose whether you will take a Normal Turn to buy cards or a Confrontation Turn to
Confront your opponent directly.
Normal Turn:
•Play cards from your hand. Total up your Power and purchase cards with combined cost
less than or equal to that total. You may play additional cards even after making purchases.
•As soon as you gain a card, place it into your discard pile, unless instructed otherwise.

Confrontation Turn:
•Play cards from your hand. Resolve all “Confrontation:” text on cards you play.
•After you have played all your cards, your opponent may discard Block cards to make their
cost greater than your Power.
•If your Power is greater than or equal to the cost of the opposing Character, you have
defeated that card. Place it into your score pile.

END OF TURN
1. Announce that you are ending your turn. Your turn is now over.
2. Place any cards remaining in your hand into your discard pile.
3. Resolve any “at end of turn” effects.
4. Place all cards without the Ongoing keyword you control into your discard pile.
Any unspent Power is lost.
5. Draw 5 cards.
6. If there are less than 5 cards in the Line-Up, take cards from the top of the main deck and
add them to the Line-Up until there are 5 cards. Do not replace empty slots as soon as you
gain a card from the Line-Up.
7. Now your opponent starts their turn.

The game ends immediately when either of the following 2 conditions is met:
• You defeat your opponent’s last Character card. You win instantly!
• You are unable to refill all 5 slots of the Line-Up. Most VPs on their cards wins.

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OVERVIEW TYPES OF CARDS
In DC Deck-Building Game: Rivals — Shazam! vs. Black Adam, you take on
the role of one of the iconic rivals and engage in an epic magical showdown! Your deck
will start out with only the ability to Punch your foe. As the game progresses, you will PUNCH WORD OF POWER WEAKNESS

add more powerful Heroes, Villains, Equipment, Super Powers, and Locations to your
deck, with the goal of defeating your biggest rival. Adding these new cards builds up the
effectiveness of your deck. That’s why it’s called a “deck-building game.”

Card Type
BLACK ADAM ™
STARTER SUPER POWER

If you can knock out your opponent 3 times, you instantly win the game. However, if the
LEVEL 1 +1 Power Choose 1: +2 Power OR Play this card before non-Weakness cards or ending
your turn. Return this to its stack if destroyed.
The first time you gain a card with cost 5 or greater Confrontation: Return this card to its stack. If you do, Ongoing: Subtract 1 from your Character's cost.
each turn, you may destroy a Vulnerability or play the top card of the main deck, then add it to the
Line-Up. When your Character is defeated, destroy this card.
Weakness you control.
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If you are a seasoned expert of the Rivals line, skip to pages 11 and 12 for the exciting
new rules found in this game! MAIN DECK CARDS

CONTENTS CHARACTER
SYMBOLS POWER OF ZEUS KAHNDAQ AMULET OF ISIS EUGENE CHOI ™

98 Game Cards 6 Oversized DC Character Cards SHAZAM!

• 14 Punch Starter Cards 1 Rulebook
• 6 Vulnerability Starter Cards 1 Randomizer Card

Ongoing Ability
SUPER POWER LOCATION EQUIPMENT HERO

• 60 Main Deck Cards 1 Multiverse Divider +2 Power Ongoing: Each time you destroy a card, you may put +1 Power +2 Power

Abilities
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Attack
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special ability and cost. Be sure to read each of your
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WHEN YOU GAIN THIS: Gain a Weakness.
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Super Power in your discard pile. you play or have played this turn.

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Place the top 5 cards from the main deck in a row to form the Line-Up. There is no board
1. Your Character Stack and Starting Deck necessary to play this game; just reserve space for each card.
One player plays as Shazam!, while the other one plays as Black Adam. Grab your 3
oversized Character cards and place them in a face-up stack with the 9 on top, 12 in the 4. The Stacks
middle, and 15 on the bottom. Place the Word of Power and Weakness stacks at the end of the Line-Up. Rotate these
Each player begins with a starting deck of 7 Punch cards and 3 Vulnerability cards with stacks to help distinguish them from the Line-Up.The main deck and the 2 stacks of cards
symbols matching their Character. on the end are not part of the Line-Up.
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GAMEPLAY Order of Playing Your Cards
Each turn, you must first decide if you will take a Normal Turn and buy cards to add to your deck On your turn, you get to play the cards in your hand in the order of your choice. When
or Confront your opponent and try to defeat their current Character. At the beginning of the game, you play a card, its game text resolves immediately from top to bottom. When you
you will not have enough Power in your deck to Confront your opponent, so you should spend your have played all the cards you wish to play at that time, total up the Power you have
first few turns buying new cards for your deck. accumulated and buy cards. You do not have to play all of the cards in your hand before
you start making purchases. You may play additional cards even after making purchases.
If you take a Normal Turn, you may buy cards from the Line-Up or Word of Power stack to
improve your deck. Cards you buy are immediately placed into your discard pile unless you are
Confronting Your Opponent
instructed otherwise. Discard piles are always face up and may be looked through at any time.
Soon they’ll be shuffled into your deck, and then you’ll be drawing these more powerful cards At the start of your turn, you may announce a Confrontation. Only by announcing a
into your hand so you can play them. Confrontation can you attempt to defeat your opponent. If you can defeat your opponent 3
You can buy any number of available cards with combined cost less than or equal to the amount of times, you instantly win the game! However, your opponent is no easy mark. Each Character
Power you have for the turn. For example, your Punch cards each give you +1 Power. If you draw has 3 versions that are progressively harder to defeat. If you generate Power equal to or
4 of them and a Vulnerability, your total Power for the turn is 4. You can buy a single card with cost exceeding its cost during a Confrontation, that version of your opponent’s Character is
2, 3, or 4, or even 2 cards each with cost 2, assuming these options are available. Word of Power removed from their Character stack and placed into your score pile. Should the game end
cards are (usually) available if the cards in the Line-Up are too expensive, and you may buy more due to being unable to refill the Line-Up, these defeated Character cards are worth a lot of
than 1 during your turn if you wish. Victory Points.
You may choose to end your turn when you are done playing and buying cards. You do not have Note that during a Confrontation, you can only beat the top card; even if you have 30
to play all the non-Weakness cards in your hand or spend all of your Power before ending your Power, you cannot defeat more than one of your opponent’s Characters in the same turn.
turn. However, you cannot carry over cards you do not play to your next turn and any Power If you choose to Confront your opponent, you cannot buy cards from the Line-Up or
you do not spend is lost. So, it’s normally a good idea to play all your cards and spend as much Word of Power stack. You should only choose to Confront your opponent if there is a
of your Power as you can. chance that you can amass enough Power to beat your opponent’s cost. You may not
If you decide to Confront your opponent, you will not be able to buy any cards to add to your have all of the Power you need to defeat your opponent at the very start of your turn.
deck. See the following page for more on Confrontations. If you need 9 Power to defeat your opponent, and you start your turn with 6 Power
and the ability to draw 2 cards, you might be able to get to 9 or more Power with those
Sample Normal Turn Sequence extra draws.
After shuffling up your starting cards, you draw a hand of 4 Punch cards and 1 Vulnerability for your
Several cards you can acquire during the game work MARY MARVEL ™
first turn. You may play the 4 Punch cards for a total of 4 Power, which is enough to buy Mary Marvel
from the Line-Up. After buying that card, you put it into your discard pile. Playing the Vulnerability especially well during a Confrontation. These cards have the
provides you no additional Power. You have no Power left to buy additional cards and no other cards bold keyword “Confrontation:” in their game text. The text
to play, so you can end your turn. Put all of the cards you have played into your discard pile and then after the “Confrontation:” keyword only resolves while
draw a new hand of 5 cards. After refilling the Line-Up, it will be your opponent’s turn. you are Confronting your opponent. That text is ignored if
you are taking a normal turn to buy cards from the Line-Up.
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Block cards contain the bold keyword “Block” followed
by a number in parentheses in their game text. After a foe DR. SIVANA ™
Confronting you has played all of their cards, you may discard
any number of Block cards from your hand to increase your
Character’s cost. The value in the parentheses is how much
your Character’s cost increases by. Any text after the Block
keyword is only resolved if you discard the card to increase
your cost while you are being Confronted. In order to prevent VILLAIN
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Block cards may be played during your turn just like any other card, but the Block text is
not applicable.
Ending Your Turn
1. Announce that you are ending your turn. Your turn is now over.
2. Place any cards remaining in your hand into your discard pile.
3. Resolve any “at end of turn” effects.
4. Place all cards without the Ongoing keyword you control into your discard pile.
Any unspent Power is lost.
5. Draw 5 cards.
6. If there are less than 5 cards in the Line-Up, take cards from the top of the main
deck and add them to the Line-Up until there are 5 cards. Do not replace empty slots as
soon as you gain a card from the Line-Up.
7. Now your opponent starts their turn.
END OF GAME
The game ends immediately when either of the following 2 conditions is met:
• You defeat your opponent’s last Character card. You win instantly!
• You are unable to refill all 5 slots of the Line-Up.
If you are unable to refill the Line-Up, both players return all Ongoing cards they have
in play, all cards in their hands, and all cards in their discard piles to their decks. Then,
players total up the Victory Points on cards in their decks and on opposing Characters
in their score piles. Weakness cards in a player’s deck at the end of the game will subtract
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Victory Points (VPs) from their total. The player with the highest VP total wins! In case of
a tie, the player with more opposing Character cards in their score pile is the winner. If
there is still a tie, the player with more cards in their deck is the winner.
ADDITIONAL RULES
Resolving Card Abilities
When an effect tells you to draw a card, that card always comes from your own deck. If you
cannot fully resolve the text on a card, resolve as much of it as possible. When you play
a card that triggers another ability, like on your Character, fully resolve the card you are
playing before resolving any secondary abilities triggered by your card play. Text after
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after “Block” only resolves if you discard the card while you are being Confronted. Text
after “Defense:” can only be used when your opponent plays an Attack card. When
you see the phrase “that foe,” it refers to the foe you chose earlier for an Attack card or
that you are currently Confronting.
Some cards in this set affect multiple opponents. Even though Rivals — Shazam! vs.
Black Adam is a 1v1 experience, it can be combined with other sets to play with more
players. These cards are worded that way to integrate more easily with other sets.
Shuffling Your Deck
You don’t shuffle your discard pile and make it your new deck as soon as you run out of
cards. However, if at any point during the game there are no cards in your deck and you
need to draw, discard, or reveal a card from your deck, immediately shuffle your discard
pile, and it becomes your new deck.
Ongoing
Some cards have the keyword “Ongoing:” in their game text. KAHNDAQ
This keyword is found on all Locations and Weakness cards in
this set. Ongoing cards go straight to your discard pile when
gained, just like any other card. However, when you later draw
and play an Ongoing card, that card will remain face up and in
play in front of you for the rest of the game. Ongoing cards are
not put into your discard pile at the end of your turn like all of the
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is not active while the card is in your hand and is only active for
a card from your discard pile on top of your deck.
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You control the cards in your play zone that you played this turn and Ongoing cards you When a card tells you to “discard” a card, it means from your hand as the default. However,
played on a previous turn. You do not control cards in your hand, deck, or discard pile. a card may tell you to discard a card from another place, such as the top of your deck. Cards
that are discarded this way count as being “discarded.
Attack and Defense
Attack cards have the bold keyword “Attack:” in their POWER OF ZEUS THE WIZARD ™ Gaining Cards
game text and will have some negative effect for your Gaining a card is the process of taking ownership of that card.
opponent. When you play a card with an Attack ability, This occurs most often when you purchase a card by paying its
it will either affect all of your foes or a foe of your choice, cost. When a card tells you to gain a particular card or a card of
signified by the word “target.” Each affected foe has an your choice, that card is taken and immediately placed into your
opportunity to avoid the Attack with a Defense card. If HERO discard pile at no additional cost, unless otherwise directed by
a player doesn’t avoid the Attack, they are immediately EUGENE CHOI ™
SUPER POWER +3 Power
Gain a Word of Power from its stack, the Line-Up, the card. If a card tells you to gain a card with a specific name,
affected by the text after “Attack:”. +2 Power
Attack: Each foe gains a Weakness.
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NEW CONCEPTS
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+2 Power
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If an Attack looks for a particular card or card type and you do not have one in the place to their deck. If the Weakness stack runs out, effects that would
where the Attack looks, you suffer no effects of the Attack, but you may still use a Defense cause a player to gain a Weakness do not do so, but any other
against it to gain the Defense reward. effects those cards have still resolve as usual. If the game ends
due to being unable to refill the Line-Up, each Weakness card
Play this card before non-Weakness cards or ending

OSIRIS ™ you have subtracts 1 Victory Point from your VP total. your turn. Return this to its stack if destroyed.

Destroying Cards
Ongoing: Subtract 1 from your Character's cost.
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turn before you play any non-Weakness cards. You may not
your discard pile, the Line-Up, etc. When you destroy a card, end your turn while you have a Weakness card in your hand.
place it into a face-up pile of destroyed cards anywhere away Weakness cards also have the Ongoing keyword, so remember not to put them in your
from the area to show that it is no longer a part of the zone it discard pile at the end of your turn. Your Character has -1 cost for each Weakness you
HERO came from. You will often get to choose which of your cards to have in play. That means when a foe Confronts you, they need 1 less Power to defeat
+3 Power
Confrontation: You may destroy a card in the
Line-Up and/or in your discard pile.
destroy. Destroying Starter and Weakness cards will improve you for each Weakness you control. If a foe successfully defeats you in a Confrontation,
your deck greatly! If Weakness or Word of Power cards are return all Weakness cards you control to the Weakness stack. You still keep any Weakness
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 SLOTH ™ FAMINE ™
When You Gain This
Harnessing the power of the Seven Deadly Sins in this game, as
represented by 7 different cards, can weaken your Character. Famine: When you play this card, destroy a card in the Line-
You will note a yellow banner at the top of the text box on Up. If there are still more than 4 cards in the Line-Up, repeat
VILLAIN
most of these sinful cards. This “WHEN YOU GAIN THIS” text this effect.
VILLAIN
WHEN YOU GAIN THIS: Gain a Weakness.
Reveal the top card of your deck. Draw it or destroy it.
causes you to gain a Weakness when you gain the card from +2 Power
Destroy cards in the Line-Up until there are 4 cards.
any zone. Ignore this text when you later play the card. The Line-Up only refills to 4 cards until the end of
the player to your right's turn.

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PSYCHO-PIRATE ™

Payment Abilities
Psycho-Pirate: The attacker chooses what card is passed to
Many of the Character cards have a payment ability as indicated the defender.
by a bolded action followed by a colon at the start of their text VILLAIN
box. For example, Shazam! can discard a Punch to look for a +1 Power and choose a foe.
Attack: You may pass a card from your hand or
SHAZAM! Hero or Super Power from the top 3 cards of his deck. These
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Discard a Punch: Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck,
draw a revealed Hero or Super Power with cost 4 or less,
and put the rest back in any order.
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THE WIZARD ™

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The Wizard: If you are wondering how a Word of Power card

SPECIFIC CARD CLARIFICATIONS could end up in the Line-Up or destroyed pile, check out DC
Deck-Building Game: Justice League Dark for some additional
HERO
+3 Power
fun interactions with this card.
Gain a Word of Power from its stack, the Line-Up,
or the destroyed pile and put it into your hand.

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would trigger Black Adam’s ability and allow you to destroy WORD OF POWER
a card.
BLACK ADAM ™ LEVEL 1

The first time you gain a card with cost 5 or greater

each turn, you may destroy a Vulnerability or
Word of Power: You must decide whether you want the
Weakness you control.
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SUPER POWER
you choose the return to stack option, you will no longer be Choose 1: +2 Power OR
Confrontation: Return this card to its stack. If you do,
Black Adam (12): You may use this Character’s ability up to considered to control the card. play the top card of the main deck, then add it to the
Line-Up.

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LEVEL 2
Discard a Villain or Super Power: Reveal the top 3 cards
of your deck, draw a revealed card with cost 5 or greater,
discard any number of revealed cards, and put the rest
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Combining Sets • Block cards can be used to increase the cost of your Character
This set can be combined with other Cryptozoic Cerberus Engine deck-building games. You or your teammate’s Character.
are free to mix and match cards from any sets to make your own custom game experience. We • If both of your foes are at the same Level, you can choose to Confront either of
recommend that when you swap cards, you exchange them for cards of similar type and cost. them. If they are not the same Level, you must Confront the foe with the lower Level.
For additional games in the Confrontations line and the ability to play with up to four players, • A team instantly wins if they defeat the Level 3 Character of either foe. If the game
check out these DC Deck-Building Game titles: Confrontations, Rivals — Batman vs. ends due to the main deck running out, determine the winner based on each team’s
The Joker, Rivals — Green Lantern vs. Sinestro, and Rivals — The Flash vs. combined VP total.
Reverse-Flash. Below are some additional recommendations when combining this game
with those sets. Confrontations
• Follow the suggested guidelines outlined in the combining
Combining with other Rivals games sets section of the Confrontations rulebook.
If you are playing this as a 1v1 game: • Create both a Word of Power stack and an Enhanced
• When forming the main deck, only combine cards associated Strength stack during setup. Cards can be purchased
with the Characters being played. For example, if you are from either stack.
playing as Shazam! against Sinestro, the main deck would
contain all cards with an emblem that matches the emblem
on Shazam! and Sinestro Characters. Cards from other
Characters would not be shuffled into the main deck. CREDITS
• Batman vs. The Joker: Use the Word of Power stack Game Design Nathaniel Yamaguchi
Rivals Concept Scott Gaeta, Matt Hyra, Adam Sblendorio
instead of the Kick stack.
• Green Lantern vs. Sinestro: Use the Hard-Light Graphic Design Larry Renac
Construct stack instead of the Word of Power stack. Editor Shahriar Fouladi
• The Flash vs. Reverse-Flash: Use the Super-Speed stack Playtesters Nina Abad, Eric Chae, Edgar Cheung,
instead of the Word of Power stack. Robert Gasio, Rezwan Kabir, Joshua Tompkins,
If you are playing this as a 2v2 game: Jason Wong, and many, many others.
• Shuffle both main decks together. CRYPTOZOIC ENTERTAINMENT
• Create a Kick / Hard-Light Construct / Super-Speed stack in CEO & Founder John Nee
addition to the Word of Power stack during setup. Cards can be CCO & Founder Cory Jones
purchased from either stack. Founder John Sepenuk
• You will form 1 team of Super Heroes and 1 of Super-Villains. Vice President, Product Development & Marketing Shahriar Fouladi
Have a seat next to your partner. That way, you can compare Director, Operations Ming Wan
hands and talk secretly about your plans. Teammates take Cryptozoic Special Thanks Mataio Wilson, Javier Casillas, Rumi Asai,
separate turns and player order will alternate between teams. Marycarmen Wilber, Colin Robinson,
For example, if Shazam! takes the first turn, Black Adam Tim Korklewski, Rachel Del Rio, Carl Braun,
would take the second turn, The Flash the third, and Reverse- Krystyl Campbell, Katie Pelaez, Andy Sopher,
Dani Cabrera, Kat Baxter
Flash the fourth. The turn order remains the same for the entire
game.

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