I've decided to call the game Flux out of the story, since that just makes it easy to talk about. And it feels fitting.

Conditions of the Game

A Summoner's Health is determined by their Monarch's Health. When a Monarch's Health reaches 0, that Summoner loses the match. Summons must be destroyed before the Summoner's Idle Monarch can be attacked. Active Monarchs can be attacked at any time.

At the beginning of the match, each Summoner draws 6 cards.

At the beginning of each Summoner's turn, that Summoner draws a card. A Summoner cannot have more than 9 cards in their hand at the end of their turn and must discard until they have 9 if they are over.

The active Summoner gains Mana based on their Monarch's Mana Contract. Mana does not dissipate between turns.

If a Summoner runs out of cards, they take half of their Monarch's total Health as damage and reshuffle their deck.

Card Types

Summons are summoned by expending the required Mana. They cannot attack the turn they are Summoned.

Each turn, Summons generate Res of up to six different kinds. Summoners collect this Res and store it.

Summons have Strength and Health stats. Strength is the damage they do to other Summons and Monarchs, whereas Health is the total amount of damage they can take. A Summon does not regenerate Health.

Spells are cast by paying the required Res cost and channeling that spell through a Summon as specified on the spell card. (Example: Dragonfire is channeled through Dragon Summons only.)

(More details on different card types will be added here as new card types are introduced in the story.)

Monarchs

Monarchs have three unique stats: Affinities, Aversions, and Loyalty Cost.

Affinities are elements (Res) that the Monarch is associated with.

Aversions are elements that the Monarch is opposed to.

Affinity Res are counted as positive Loyalty, while Aversion Res are counted as negative Loyatly. The net total of Loyalty must be equal to the Monarch's Loyalty Cost in order to summon that Monarch.

When a Monarch takes an Active form, it is summoned to the battlefield with its remaining Health. The Active form card is now used.