#advanced rules

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Element's characteristic: water

Focus after the magic reflux.

Water element's characteristic is a great way to have another chance of getting the element you need. Normally you could do that in your turn, but the action of focusing will prevent you from using any attack spell that turn.

With the water elements's characteristic you can focus without losing the opportunity to attack during your turn!

By repeatedly using water as a characteristic in your spells, you will be able to focus multiple times before your turn comes, so that you end up with a much better hand to attack your opponents.

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Advanced rules: element of spells

The game is called ELEMENTAL right? So obviously there is a rule for elemental weaknesses and strengths!

Here is the classic weakness/strength cycle:

water is strong against fire and weak to earth

fire is strong against air and weak to water

air is strong against earth and weak to fire

earth is strong against water and weak to air

And here is how you can use that at you own advantage: if a player plays a spell with a base element that is weak against the base element of the opposing spell, that player cannot use that element during his next turn. This effect still apply even if the spell with the strong base element is neutralized or reflected.

Eg:

Attack:

Base

Trigger

Defense:

Base

Trigger

In this case water is strong against fire. The attack spell is neutralized and the attacking player will not be able to use the fire element during his next turn.

That's a huge incentive to use a base element for a spell that is strong against the base element of the opposing spell because you will know that that player is not going to use a particular element during his next turn. Obviously there is always a downside and a choice to be made: maybe if you use an element as a base because of his elemental strength you will not be able to defend against all damage of a spell, or maybe you will not be able to characterize your spell with that element. It's up to you to decide what will benefit you the most!

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Element's characteristic: air

Remove one characterization of the opposing spell.

Air element's characteristic allows you to play safely and remove one characteristic from the opposing spell. Since you cannot stack a characteristic of a element more than once on a spell, you have to choose carefully which opposing spell's characteristic to remove, if there is more then one on that spell.

If both attack and defense spells have an air characterization, they neutralize each other.

Air element it also essential to avoid the sneaky damage of the fire's characterization which could otherwise kill you.

For when you want to avoid unwanted surprises. Air element. It got your back.

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Element's characteristic: fire

The spell always deals at least one damage.

So you're telling me my defense is useless?

Not really. Fire element's characteristic allows you to deal at least one damage, even if the defender neutralized or reflected all the damage of the attack spell. The defense is not useless, it's just less effective.

Fire's characteristic is especially useful when trying to finish off an opponent with a single life point. His only chance to survive is to remove the fire characterization by using the air element's characteristic (or another characteristic of an extra element you could have created).

Pro Tip: fire's characteristic can be applied to defense spells too, for a unpredictable strike!

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Advanced rules: characterization

Each element has its own specific characteristic in ELEMENTAL. It's an effect that can be added to any spell.

Damaging the opponent is fine, but wouldn't it be nice if he were to discard a card or couldn't attack for a turn?

You can do that by adding an element to your spell as a characteristic. Elements played as a characteristic are played face-down on attack spells, and are revealed after the attacked players play their spells.

Characteristics can be added also to healing spells, but be careful not to hurt yourself or your allies!

Characteristics are found at the bottom part of each element's card.

A spell can have any number of characteristics, but it can't be characterized with the same element more than once.

Normally you would be able to add up to 2 characteristics per spell, because the limit of cards in hand is 4 and you need at least 2 elements to cast a spell, but if you play with the team variant or with the overcharge variant of the game, you could be able to add all of the characteristics to a spell. It would be unstoppable!

Because characteristics effects still apply even if the spell is neutralized or reflected, characterization is a great way to twist the game flow, to break opponents' defenses and add a lot of tactical options to your gameplay.

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Advanced rules: Power levels

With the power levels advanced rules, your spells can deal more than one single point of damage.

Power levels can be added to spells as additional trigger elements.

First you choose the base element of your spell. Then you choose the trigger element. When playing with power levels advanced rules, you can add additional cards of the same element of the trigger element. For each card thus added, which is also called trigger, your spell deal one more damage.

The example below shows a spell with base fire, trigger water and two additional water trigger elements. It’s a power level 3 spell, which deals 3 damage.

This spell does triple damage of a regular spell.

Pro Tip: be careful when adding power levels. Opponents may have the right elements in their hands to reflect back to you not just one but all the damage directed to them!

But it’s not over! When playing with more than two players, each damage of your empowered attack spell can have a different target! Players target of additional damage can defend themselves as they were directly attacked. Players can defend only the damage directed to them.

Note that all the characterization effects applied to an empowered spell are directed toward the first target.

Eg: Mario plays a spell with power level 3. Mario directs 2 damage to Luigi and one damage to Ezio. Luigi can play a defense spell to defend himself from 2 damage, while Ezio can defend only the single damage directed to him.

Defense spell can gain power levels as well, to defend from more than one damage at a time. Don’t worry if you don’t have all the right elements to defend yourself from all the damage. You can also defend one or two damage and let the remaining hit you.

Attack:

Base

Trigger

Neutralize:

Base

Trigger

OR Base

Trigger

Reflect:

Base

Trigger

OR Base

Trigger

The life element can be used to add one or more power levels to a defense spell, by choosing the same element of the trigger of that spell.

Healing spells can be empowered too, by adding additional life element cards.