101. Deck Construction

102. Riftbound is a Trading Card Game where a player must provide their own cards to play against other players.

103. To play Riftbound, a player must have two Decks, a Champion Legend, and a number of Battlefields determined by the Mode of Play.

104. Setup

105. Spaces

106. The Play Area is a collection of logical Zones that are defined by their behaviors and relationships to Players. These Zones are grouped into The Board and Non-Board Zones.

107. The Board

108. Non-Board Zones.

109. All Game Objects in the collective Play Areas are Public Information.

110. Whenever a Game Object changes zones to or from a Non-Board Zone, all Temporary Modifications of all kinds cease to be tracked on it in all capacities. Examples: Damage is cleared. Buffs are removed. Granted Keywords are no longer granted.

111. Setup Process

112. Each player separates their Champion Legend and places it in the Legend Zone.

113. Each player separates their Chosen Champion and places it in the Champion Zone.

114. Each player sets aside their Battlefields.

115. Each player shuffles their decks, separately, then places them into their respective Zones.

116. Determine Turn Order using any fair random method agreed on by all players.

118. In turn order, players perform their Mulligan.

119. Begin play with the First Player taking their turn.

120. Game Objects

121. A Game Object is any game piece that can produce one or more Game Effects or grant prerequisites for players to take Game Actions.

122. A Game Object does not include nor preclude any inherent properties beyond the ability to produce, or act as the prerequisite for, Game Effects and Game Actions.

123. A Game Object can be a literal object or a logical object.

124. Game Objects include, but are not limited to, the following: Main Deck cards in any zone Runes in any zone Legends Battlefields Tokens in any zone Abilities of any type on the chain Buffs and other status markers

125. Cards

126. Riftbound games are composed of players playing the cards in their respective decks.

127. Ownership

128. Privacy

129. Back Side

130. Front Side

131. Cost

132. Name

133. Category

134. Domain

135. Rules Text

136. Effect Text

137. Might Bonus

138. Flavor Text

139. Illustration

140. Units

141. Unit is:

142. Damage is a marked value that is applied to Units.

143. Units have multiple Intrinsic Properties unique to them:

144. Units have the Inherent Ability to perform a Standard Move.

145. Units may have Activated Abilities.

146. Units have a Location. A Unit's Location is the Base or Battlefield it currently occupies. 146.1.

147. Gear

148. Gear are:

149. Gear have several Intrinsic Properties unique to them.

150. Gear may have Activated Abilities.

151. Gear have a Location.

152. Spells

153. Spell is a card type.

154. A spell can be played during an Open State outside of Showdowns on its controller's turn.

155. A spell is controlled by the player who played it.

156. A spell creates a game effect according to its instructions and is then placed in the Trash of the player who owns it.

157. When a spell is successfully played, a player executes the rules text of the spell. This is called Resolving the spell.

158. Certain Keywords on spells are not executable rules text, but instead intrinsic properties of the spell.

159. Runes

160. Rune is a Card Type.

161. Runes produce the resources needed to pay costs.

162. Runes produce Energy and Power.

163. Basic Runes

164. Rune Pools

165. The Rune Pool is a conceptual collection of a player's available Energy and Power available to pay Costs.

166. Every player's Rune Pool empties at the end of each player's draw phase and the end of each player's turn.

167. All Abilities that include the action "Add" are abilities that are adding Energy or Power to the Rune Pool. See rule 429. Add for more information.

168. Battlefields

169. Battlefields are Game Objects.

170. Battlefields are not Permanents.

171. The number of Battlefields on the Board is determined by the Mode of Play.

172. Legends

173. Legends are Game Objects.

174. Legends are not Permanents.

175. Legends may have one or more Domains.

176. Tokens

177. Tokens are Game Objects created by spells and abilities during play.

178. Tokens can be represented by anything. Printed tokens are included in Riftbound booster packs, but they are not required to play a token.

179. A token's controller is the controller of the spell or ability that created it, unless the token's type innately determines control or that spell or ability specifies that a different player is the token's controller.

180. A token's owner is the player who controlled the effect that created it.

181. The effect that creates a token may specify the conditions or circumstances under which it enters the board. These stipulations may alter the usual steps for playing a card.

182. Tokens are not cards.

183. Tokens are Created on the board or the Chain and cannot exist elsewhere.

184. The spell or ability that Creates a token specifies some of its characteristics. It may have other characteristics, as listed below.

185. Control

186. Control is the concept of a player having influence of a Game Object and applies differently to different card types.

117. Players each draw 4.

187. Battlefields

188. Everything Else

189. When a game effect or rules text refers to the Controller of a specific object, it can be referring to either context interchangeably.