A game by Ross Kelso and Gavin Lamb

Setup

• Each player’s starting hand is the 2, 3 and 4 of money (♠/♣)
• Each player has a deck, hand and discard pile
  • Initially the decks and discard piles will be empty
• Set aside the Aces of money (♠/♣)
• Each player starts with 30 health
• Shuffle the remaining deck, deal the first 5 cards from the top of the deck to form the supply row

The game should look like this:

Aim of the Game

The aim of the game is to reduce your opponent’s health to zero

Playing a Turn

• Play 3 cards from your hand
• Resolve the resulting actions
• Draw back up to 5 cards

If no cards remain in your deck shuffle your discard pile to form a new deck

If there are 3 or more money cards or 3 or more special cards you may scrap and replace the supply row, but only once per turn

Standard Card Abilities

• Playing defence cards (♥) creates a defensive barrier that stays in play
  • The strength of the defensive barrier is the total of the value of the defence cards played
• Playing attack cards (♦) contribute to a pool of attack points worth the sum of the cards’ values
  • If your opponent has a barrier in play then they cannot be attacked directly
  • A barrier can be destroyed by removing attack points totalling the strength of the barrier from the pool
  • If your opponent has no barriers in play then the remaining attack points in the pool is subtracted from their health
• Playing money cards (♠/♣) contribute to a pool of money points worth the sum of the cards’ values
  • Any card in the supply row can be bought by spending money points from the pool equalling that cards cost
    • That card is then added to the to player’s discard pile
    • Refill the supply row by drawing from the supply deck
  • Face cards, aces and jokers cost 15 points
  • All other cards have cost corresponding to their value

Special Card Abilities

• Ace (Suit ability value: 1)
  • Optionally scrap a card from your hand
    • The card moves to the scrap pile
• Jack (Suit ability value: 1)
  • Your opponent must discard one card and play one less card on their next turn
• Queen (Suit ability value: 10)
  • Draw another card, then play an extra card
• King (Suit ability value: 10)
  • Gain 5 health points

Tweaks

This game is tinkered with and tweaked everytime I play it.

• Queens have 10 suit ability
• Jacks have 10 suit ability: choose 1 card from your opponents hand, it is discarded, they still play 3.