Quick Start Guide

In Mythic Palace, you must build a more powerful and glorious palace than your opponent, while attempting to stop them from doing the same. Once an entire palace is constructed, the game ends, and whoever has the highest score wins. If your opponent gains points, you can knock them back down by using your creatures to attack their palace, but to do so, you must make it past their defending creatures.

Gameboard Anatomy

Player's Hand

This is your hand. You will choose the cards you want to deploy, and they will be put on the board if you have enough elements to pay for them. You have a hand of 6 Cards (Bottom Center)

Elements

These will highlight the player’s elements on the bottomright of the game board. You will get a new element each turn, and will use these to pay for cards you want to use.

Palace Tier

This is where you place structures for your palace.

Battle Tier

This is where you place creatures to defend your palace, and to attack your opponent.

Score

This will display your score. When a player’s palace is complete, whoever has the highest score wins.

Turn Instructions

This is where you will be asked to perform turn actions, and to declare that your turn is complete. (RightCenter) “Turn 1: Resource Phase...”

The play field consists of two rows, a Battle Tier where creatures can be deployed, and a Palace Tier, where structures are built.

You build your palace on the Palace Tier using Palace Structures. These make up your kingdom, and define the value of your palace. They also contain many abilities to help you in your quest.

Structures are protected by the Creatures you place in the Battle Tier. Creatures defend your Palace Structures, and attack your opponent’s palace.

Along the way, you’ll be able to play Event cards. Events are actions that happen immediately, and are a good way to change the tide.

As you play, you gain more and more control of the elements.

To play a card, you must pay its cost in elements. The required elements are on the left side of the card. These elements are gained automatically every turn, and through cards in play.

Every turn lets you do two main things, deploy your cards, then attack the opponent. Attacking requires a payment of one of that creature's elements. Once you attack, your turn is over, so make sure you get everything set up the way you want it first. When your opponent attacks, you get a chance to defend with no cost, and you can cast effects on different cards in play.

Card Anatomy

Both the Strength and Victory Point Icons display the color of the elemental influnce of the card (Death above). Deployment Costs may have several elemental resources attached.

Name

The cards name is located above the Card Image (left center) “Hall of Ghosts”

Strength

This represents how powerful a Structure or Creature is. For Structures, this value indicates its defense value (how much damage it can sustain before it is destroyed). For Creatures it represents both the Creature’s Strength (on attack) and its defense value. Events do not have strength values.

Deployment Cost

This indicates how much it will cost in Resources to bring this Card into play (deploy).

Traits

These are inherent abilities/qualities assigned to Sturctures and Creatures. To view all card traits [click here]

Special Abilities

All Special Abilities are listed below the Card Image. All card types may have special abilities. For Structures and Creatures these abilities must be used under the right conditions. For all Events the special ability is activated when the Event’s Deployment Cost is paid. To view all Special Abilities [click here]

Victory Points

All Structures are also worth Victory Points. When in play, these are totaled to give you your score.

Cards can have several factors to consider, with strengths and weaknesses that contribute to interesting relationships with other cards. This opens up many strategies and experiences in the decks you build, so feel free to get creative.