🐍 Beat the Basilisk

A card battle of wits and sacrifice. Tip the scale in your favor — or be devoured.

⚔️ How to Play

1. Choose a deck — Each round, draw from Main for attackers/spells or Sacrifice for fodder, trees, boulders, and walls.
2. Sacrifice creatures — Click your own creatures on the board. Each sacrifice gives 1 blood this turn and +1 bone permanently.
3. Play creatures — Select a card from your hand, then click an empty lane. Some cards cost blood, bones, or both.
4. Cast spells — Some cards are rituals or curses. Targeted spells require clicking a Basilisk creature.
5. End your turn — Click "End Turn" to let the Basilisk respond.
6. Combat — After both sides act, creatures in each lane fight. Surviving creatures push the scale toward their side.

⚖️ Winning

• Push the scale to +5 (Easy), +5 (Medium), or +5 (Hard) to win.
• If the Basilisk pushes it below −8 (Easy), −7 (Medium), or −6 (Hard), you lose.
• Cards block damage completely. Damage only reaches the scale through empty lanes, Flying, or special direct attacks.
• Run out of cards? Fatigue deals escalating scale damage each round.
• No sacrifice fodder? A free creature joins your hand as an emergency safety valve.

✨ Sigils (Special Abilities)

🦅 Flying	Attacks past blockers unless the defender has Guard.
☠️ Deathtouch	Kills anything it damages, regardless of HP.
🛡️ Guard	Blocks Flying. Creatures must fight this first.
🦴 Bone King	Spawns a Skeleton when it dies.
💪 Blood Lust	Gains +1 power each time it kills an enemy.
💨 Sprinter	Attacks twice — but dies after 2 rounds of sprinting.
🌊 Waterborne	Can only be damaged by Flying creatures.
🧟 Regen	Heals 1 HP after combat.
💀 Touch of Death	Kills any creature that attacks this one.
🕳️ Burrow	Hidden underground until it attacks. Can't be targeted while burrowed.
🔪 Bifurcated	Attacks adjacent lanes as well.
🦨 Stinky	Weakens all enemy creatures in its lane by −1 power.

📜 Card Types

• Creatures — Place in a lane. Costs blood (paid by sacrificing your own creatures).
• Spells — Instant effects. Some target enemy creatures.
• Sacrifice deck cards — Rabbits, trees, boulders, walls, goats. Mostly defensive or sacrificial.
• Bone cards — Spend accumulated 🦴 bones instead of, or alongside, blood.

💡 Tips

• Sacrifice weak or dying creatures to fuel stronger ones and build bones.
• If the board is scary, draw Sacrifice deck and block with trees/boulders.
• Guard + Flying is a powerful combo — you block and hit past their blockers.
• The Basilisk is smarter on harder difficulties — it plays more aggressively and builds bigger creatures.
• Don't let lanes stay empty — direct hits to the scale add up fast.
• When your deck runs out, fatigue damage accelerates. Finish the fight!

⚔️ Back to Duel

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Scale: 0

Scoring: unblocked creature power moves the scale. You win at +5. Basilisk wins at -5.

Pick Easy first. Play a free creature, sacrifice it for blood, then summon something stronger.