Rush of Ikorr Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Game Overview
• Victory Condition
• Deck Construction
• Aspects
• Setting Up
• Turn Phases
• Action Phase
  • Play Cards
  • Use Avatar Powers
  • Use RUSH Abilities
  • Activate ACTION Abilities
  • Attack with Champions
  • Raid with Champions
• Card Types
  • Avatars
  • Champions & Fabled Champions
  • Locations and Fabled Locations
  • Spells
  • Infusions
  • Card Abilities
  • Drawing with No Cards in Deck
  • Golden Rules
• Glossary

Game Overview

In Rush of Ikorr™, you will assume the role of a powerful avatar, infusing and summoning legendary champions, building iconic locations, and casting mystical spells to claim your dominance in this battle for ultimate possibility! Join up to two other avatars, each with their own deck, to defeat your foes and fight toward a common goal of the Rush of Ikorr™.

Victory Condition

You win the game by securing a specified number of Ikorr. This number may change based on the player count.

• 1v1: Secure 10 Ikorr
• 2v2: Secure 15 Ikorr
• 3v3: Secure 15 Ikorr

Deck Construction

To begin constructing a deck, you will need to choose an avatar. This avatar's aspects will dictate your deckbuilding restrictions and will start the game in the Avatar slot. (Learn more about avatars on page 11.)

Your deck must include:

• A minimum of 40 cards containing a combination of champions, locations, and spells with an aspect matching your avatar or without an aspect. Decks can contain no more than 2 copies of any card.
• Any number of your champions can be customized with a single infusion. To imbue your champion with an infusion, you will place 1 infusion on top of your champion in a sleeve. Decks can contain no more than 2 copies of any infusion, and 1 copy of each "unique" infusion. (Learn more about infusions on page 15).

You will also need:

• 10 influence cards to form your Influence Deck.
• Ikorr and damage tokens.

Aspects

Each aspect can represent the intention, motivation, or will of the card it is associated with.

• AMBITION | Aspire. Demand. Ascend. The ambition aspect focuses on agile battle tactics to rise above its enemy to expedite a decisive victory.
• CURIOSITY | Anticipate. Prepare. Execute. The curiosity aspect commits to a longer game plan, leaning on clever control and manipulation to achieve the payoff always planned.
• DEVOTION | Embrace. Vow. Defend. The devotion aspect prides itself on selflessness, loyalty, and upholding a greater purpose. Pledged to victory, no matter the sacrifice.
• FEAR | Plot. Hunt. Kill. The fear aspect intends to surprise and overwhelm, using unpredictable and even taboo methods to reap the spoils.
• INTUITION | See. Scheme. Strike. The intuition aspect addresses the problems at hand with calculated wit, flexibility, and urgency.
• PROPHECY | Live. Die. Repeat. The prophecy aspect accepts the inevitability of the end and the understanding of renewal, believing time is to be manipulated not obeyed.

Setting Up

1. Randomly determine which team will decide who goes first. (Die roll, rock paper scissors, etc.)
2. Place your Avatar and deck face-down in the designated areas. Then draw a hand of 5 cards.
3. You may choose to shuffle any number of cards from your hand back into your deck then draw that many cards.
4. Both teams simultaneously reveal their Avatar.

The rulebook shows a play area diagram with these labelled zones: Avatar Zone, Champion Zone, Void Zone, Location Zone, Graveyard, Influence Deck, Influence Zone, and Play Area.

Turn Phases

1. Start Phase – Consists of two steps. a. Secure Step – All allied champions secure stored Ikorr. Place this Ikorr into a pile shared by all allied players. This will be further referred to as your "secured Ikorr". b. Influence Step – Refresh exerted influence and gain 1 influence (max 10). To refresh exerted influence flip it from its exerted state (face-down) to unexerted (face-up). To gain an influence add 1 influence card from your Influence Deck to your Influence Zone.
2. Draw Phase – All allied players draw 1 card from their deck. (This is skipped during the first turn of the game)
3. Action Phase – All allied players may play cards, activate Avatar powers & RUSH abilities, activate ACTION abilities, declare attacks, and raid for Ikorr. (Champions cannot raid on the first turn of the game)
4. End Phase – "END" abilities trigger.

Action Phase

Play Cards

Summoning a champion, building a location, and casting a spell are all ways to "play cards". To play a card, you must first exert influence equal to its cost found in the top left corner of the card.

Use Avatar Powers

Each avatar will have an avatar power. These can be activated any time during your Action Phase when the queue is empty, and only once per turn. To activate this ability, first pay the designated cost (shown with the black circle icon containing a number), then resolve the effect.

Example avatar card (name not shown in the illustration), with the Avatar Ability "[cost icon]: Until the end of this turn, you may play locations in the champion zone." and the Rush Ability "RUSH 3: Search your hand, deck, or graveyard for a location and play it." Avatar Ability and Rush Ability are labelled.

Use RUSH Abilities

Each avatar will also have a RUSH ability. These can be activated anytime during your Action Phase when the queue is empty, and only once per game. To activate this ability, you must destroy secured Ikorr equal to the number following "RUSH", then resolve the effect.

Activate ACTION Abilities

Some champions and locations have an "ACTION" ability. These abilities can be activated anytime during your Action Phase while you have priority, and only once per turn. To activate this ability, you must declare the activation, pay any additional costs, then resolve the effect.

Example card: Amazonian Gladiator (Champion, Greek, Human Warrior), with the Quick Strike keyword and the ACTION ability "ACTION — (2 Influence): Deal 1 damage to a champion." Flavor text: "Their prowess is enough to make Artemis blush." The ACTION Ability and Additional Cost are labelled.

Attack with Champions

Champions cannot attack during the turn they are summoned.

All champions have an attack and health value in the bottom left corner. Attack determines how much damage a champion deals when it strikes and Health determines how much damage they can take before they die.

You may declare an attack anytime during your Action Phase while you have priority. To declare an attack, choose a champion you control and an opposing champion within targeted range. The two champions strike and deal damage to each other (track damage with tokens or dice). Champions can either attack or raid once per turn.

Note: Damage is not removed unless it is healed by a card effect.

Raid with Champions

Champions CAN raid for Ikorr during the turn they are summoned.

Most champions have a raid value in the bottom right corner of the card. This value is determined by the number of Ikorr symbols found here.

You may declare a raid anytime during your Action Phase while you have priority. To declare a raid, choose the raiding champion and store Ikorr on that champion equal to their raid value (track Ikorr with tokens or dice). Champions can either attack or raid once per turn.

Note: Securing Ikorr is how you win the game!

Card Types

Avatars

Embody the power of the divine avatars! Avatars serve as the leader of your deck, dictating your deck building restrictions and possessing powerful abilities.

Card anatomy shown for the avatar Ix Chel, Lady Rainbow (Avatar, Maya; Aspect 1: Curiosity; Aspect 2: Prophecy; Rarity R): labelled parts are Avatar Name, Aspect Icon, Avatar Ability, Rush Ability, Card Type, and Loyalty. Avatar Ability: "The next time you cast a spell this turn, add it to your hand after it resolves instead of placing it in the graveyard." Rush Ability: "RUSH 3: Until the end of this turn, allied spells cost less to play."

Champions & Fabled Champions

Summon legendary champions to the battlefield to fight in your name and raid for the sacred Ikorr!

You can summon a champion by paying their cost. You may only control six champions on the battlefield at any time. You cannot attempt to summon another champion if you are at the limit. Champions can be placed in any position when being summoned but cannot be moved once they are placed. Champions cannot attack the turn they are summoned. However, champions can raid the turn they are summoned. You cannot attack and raid with the same champion during the same turn.

Champions can also have the "Fabled" trait. You may only control one fabled champion with the same name at a time. No player can attempt to summon a fabled champion to your battlefield with the same name as a fabled champion you control.

Card anatomy labels for a champion: Champion Name, Aspect Icon, Influence Cost, Keywords & Card Ability, Infusion Allowance, Flavor Text, Card Type | Loyalty | Trait, Raid, Attack, Health, Overlay Points.

Example card: Amazonian Gladiator (ROI-022 C), Champion, Greek, Human Warrior, Aspect 1: Intuition, Cost 4, Attack 3, Health 3, Raid 2, Overlay Points 2, with the Quick Strike keyword and the ACTION ability "ACTION — (2 Influence): Deal 1 damage to a champion." Flavor text: "Their prowess is enough to make Artemis blush."

Locations and Fabled Locations

Build iconic locations and bring their wonder and secrets to the battlefield!

You may play a location into your location slot by paying its cost. You have only one location slot on your battlefield, however some abilities may allow you to play additional locations into champion slots. If you wish to play a location while you already control one in your location slot, you may send the one in your location slot to the discard and play the new location by paying its cost as normal.

Locations can also have the "Fabled" trait. You may only control one Fabled Location with the same name at a time.

Example card: Great Pyramid (ROI-148 R), Location, Egyptian, Fabled Location, Aspect 1: Curiosity, Cost 3. Card ability: "When a champion you control leaves the battlefield, store all Ikorr held by that champion on this location." ACTION — "Secure 1 Ikorr from this location."

Spells

Cast mystical spells and command the power of the unknown!

You may cast a spell by paying its cost. When you cast a spell, resolve its ability, then send it to your graveyard.

Example card: Oracular Visions (ROI-175 C), Spell, Greek, Aspect 1: Prophecy, Cost 1. Ability: "Look at the top three cards of your deck, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle your deck. Draw a card." Flavor text: "For answers, we must seek the Oracle of Delphi." – Odysseus

Infusions

Infusions imbue champions with the mysterious power of Ikorr!

Infusions are added to champions during deck construction. Infusions grant champions with additional abilities and those abilities work as if they were printed on the champion card itself.

Infusions can be added to any champion with an Infusion Allowance value. The Infusion Requirement on the Infusion must be equal to or less than the Infusion Allowance on the champion.

Infusion anatomy labels: Infusion Name, Infusion Ability, Card Icon, Infusion Requirement, Infusion Allowance, Additional Cost. Example: Contemplate Impermanence (ROI-279 U), Overlay, Japan, Cost blank, Overlay Points 2, with the ability "DEATH — Draw a card."

Some Infusions have the "Unique" trait which is marked by the symbol of three feathers under the infusion allowance. You may have only one copy maximum of a Unique Infusion in your deck.

Example: Winged Sandals (ROI-270 R), Fabled Overlay, Greek, Overlay Points 3, Unique. Ability: "This champion can both attack and raid."

Card Abilities

Activated Abilities: Activated abilities include Avatar Powers, RUSH Abilities, and ACTION Abilities. These are described in more detail on Pages 7-8.

Triggered Abilities: Triggered abilities trigger automatically when a specific game action, phase, or timing occurs. These specific game actions, phases, and timing are in bold and in all capital letters at the beginning of an ability.

• ATTACK: An ATTACK ability triggers when that champion takes the attack action during your Action Phase.
• DEATH: A DEATH ability triggers when that champion dies.
• END: An END ability triggers during the End Phase of your turn.
• RAID: A RAID ability triggers when that champion raids.
• SECURE: A SECURE ability triggers when that champion secures Ikorr.
• SUMMON: A SUMMON ability triggers when that champion is summoned.

Keyword Abilities: Keyword abilities appear in bold at the beginning of a card's ability. All Keywords have specific rules, which can be found in the Glossary on Pages 19-21.

Example: Amazonian Gladiator's keyword is Quick Strike, shown above "ACTION — (2 Influence): Deal 1 damage to a champion."

Passive Abilities: Passive abilities are active as long as the card is on the battlefield. These abilities are clearly written and have no particular styling.

Example: Troublesome Tanuki (ROI-026 C), Champion, Egyptian, Human Artificer, Attack 2, Health 2. Passive ability: "Egyptian champions you control have +1 attack."

Abilities that Target: Some card abilities may require a designated target. When an ability requires a target, the controller of that ability chooses the designated recipient of that ability. In this example, you are required to target a player:

Example: Champion, Japanese, Beast Yōkai (ROI-090 C), SUMMON — "Target player draws a card, then discards a card at random." Flavor text: "He could have sworn he heard giggling coming from his teapot."

You may only target players, champions, or locations in a targetable range. They must be either the opposing player directly across from you, or the allied player(s) adjacent to you. See the chart below to see who each player can target.

The rulebook shows a seating chart for a 3v3 table with targetable-range arrows between players. The chart image is omitted here; the range rules are stated in the text above.

Drawing with No Cards in Deck

If you must draw while you have no cards in your deck, the opposing team automatically secures an Ikorr. This triggers for each allied player who cannot draw a card.

Golden Rules

• Can't Beats Can. Whenever a card, ability, or effect states that something "can" happen or directs that thing to happen, but another card, ability, or effect states that the same thing "can't" happen, the "can't" effect will take precedence.
• Card Text Always Takes Precedence Over Game Rules. Whenever card text contradicts the game's rules, the card text takes precedence.

Glossary

• Action: During your action phase this card ability may be activated.
• Ability: Activated, triggered, or passive text that checks for specific cost, allowances, or occurrences be met in order to apply effect.
• Allied: All players, cards, and zones on your team.
• Attack: Declare a strike on an opposing champion. Initiates battle.
• Avatar Power: Avatar ability which requires a cost be paid to activate. Once per turn.
• Battle: When an active player declares an attack on an opposing champion. Those two champions simultaneously strike each other. Ends after both strike or one/both die.
• Battlefield: Where champions and locations exist after being summoned or built. Made up of the champion and location zones.
• Death: Triggers when the champion dies.
• Destroy: Send cards to the graveyard. If that card is a champion, it dies.
• Dies/Died: Is put into the graveyard from the battlefield or destroying from hand.
• Discard: Send card from your hand to the graveyard. If that card is a champion, nothing happens.
• Effect: Actions taken as a result of card or ability resolving.