Five packs · ten Exiles
The packs
A pack is a complete game for two players: one small box of cards. Inside are two Exiles, the fighters you and the other player become, with a feud between them; the moves and gear each one starts with; their Mantras, training that brings a new move or piece of gear during the game; the Stamina cards you spend to act; and the gear both find along the way. There is no rulebook in the box: the rules, How to play and the Health tracker are free on the website and in the companion apps, and the QR code on the box opens them. Besides the cards you need a way to keep Health: one phone with the tracker, or paper. The two fight differently, so each pack plays differently.
Pack 1 of 5
Kira Vance vs Roach
Kira30 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Kira ›How Kira fights
Fast and exact. Kira throws several cheap, fast attacks in a round, each one a question: block this, or keep your strength for the next one? The first fast attack she makes each round, if it is not blocked, hurts more than its card says.
A masked fighter has been taking Elias Thorne's water convoys apart on the road through the ruins, and the slums have begun to say that his Syndicate can be beaten. So the old water baron rides the next tanker himself, in plain sight. Kira Vance comes down off the broken wall to open its valves into the gutters, for the families his water tax is starving.
The Pack's Gameplay
Speed against a wall that thinks. Kira needs her attacks to land before Elias's first block holds; Elias wants her to commit, to guess, to show her hand. A good pack to learn the game with.
Roach37 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Roach ›How Roach fights
The cards in this pack14 cards
Every card in the box, by name. With the full set, take these 14 and you have this pack.
Kira Vance: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Kira Vance
Roach: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Roach
Mantras by Tier, and the card each grants
- Tier Echoes of the Dojo
- Tier Feral Escalation
- Tier Inheritance of the Secret Heir
- Tier The Algorithm Broken
- Tier Trench Warfare
- Tier Warlord's Brutality
Combat Gear
Tactical Gear
Stamina cards: Kira Vance
- The Gate at Block 9
- The Hidden Journals
- The Road Home
Stamina cards: Roach
- The Seventy-Two Hours
- The Mercy of Silas Locke
- The Unanswered Terms
Pack 2 of 5
Commander Jesse Holt vs Nadia Chen
Jesse Holt39 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Jesse Holt ›How Jesse Holt fights
Toby Vance, a courier boy, sold the scarred giant Tomas Varek a false trail to keep him off the masked fighter's road, and cost him nights of freezing watch in the railyard. Then Toby went back into the yard for the last copy of the dead chronicler Orson's journals, hidden under the boxcar where Tomas now sleeps. Tomas hunts him for both.
The Pack's Gameplay
A liar against a giant. Toby has to keep Tomas guessing and blocking empty air; Tomas only needs one honest swing to land. Every hidden card is a dare.
Nadia32 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Nadia ›How Nadia fights
The cards in this pack14 cards
Every card in the box, by name. With the full set, take these 14 and you have this pack.
Commander Jesse Holt: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Commander Jesse Holt
Nadia Chen: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Nadia Chen
Mantras by Tier, and the card each grants
- Tier Apex Predator of the Caldera
- Tier Militia Standard
- Tier Smuggler's Cunning
- Tier Terminal Discipline
- Tier The Final Order
- Tier Whiteout Navigation
Combat Gear
Tactical Gear
Stamina cards: Commander Jesse Holt
- The First Injection
- The Offer
- Hold Fire Until Struck
Stamina cards: Nadia Chen
- The Missing Valve
- The Terms at the Tap
- The Last Ration Card
Pack 3 of 5
Ines Okoro vs Toby Vance
Ines36 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Ines ›How Ines fights
She waits. Ines blocks, and a block that stops a hidden attack takes the weapon out of the attacker's hand. She rarely attacks first, and she never needs to.
Ines Okoro, a deserter from the border police, took a blade from one of Roach's raiders and let her go with pity. Roach was spared that way once, by a man he has hated ever since. He comes up out of the drains to the burned-out transport she lives in, to strip its armor for the tunnels and to make her mercy break.
The Pack's Gameplay
Everything on one card, against someone who wants to be attacked. Roach must decide how much to risk on each hidden attack; Ines must decide which ones are real. For players who like to read a face.
Toby32 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Toby ›How Toby fights
The cards in this pack14 cards
Every card in the box, by name. With the full set, take these 14 and you have this pack.
Ines Okoro: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Ines Okoro
Toby Vance: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Toby Vance
Mantras by Tier, and the card each grants
- Tier Alleyway Ghost
- Tier Orson's Legacy
- Tier Rules of Engagement
- Tier Taiho-Jutsu
- Tier The Ash Finch Flies
- Tier The Lowered Weapon
Combat Gear
Tactical Gear
Stamina cards: Ines Okoro
- The Cordon
- The Oath
- The Forms
Stamina cards: Toby Vance
- The Dumbwaiter
- The Counterweight
- The Liar in the Yard
Pack 4 of 5
Dr. Wei Lin vs Tomas Varek
Wei Lin30 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Wei Lin ›How Wei Lin fights
The mine that took Soren Croft's arm lay on a railyard spur that Commander Jesse Holt had marked on his own chart of the old minefields, a chart he never gave her people. This spring her crew took a copy off one of his patrols. She calls him out to the spur alone to make him say why he kept it. He comes, he will not strike first, and he will not say it was a hard choice.
The Pack's Gameplay
A knife against a man who will not move. Soren has to strike, and every strike gives Holt his answer; Holt has to survive long enough to give it. Brutal, and quickly decided.
Tomas34 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Tomas ›How Tomas fights
The cards in this pack14 cards
Every card in the box, by name. With the full set, take these 14 and you have this pack.
Dr. Wei Lin: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Dr. Wei Lin
Tomas Varek: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Tomas Varek
Mantras by Tier, and the card each grants
- Tier Disarm the World
- Tier Outlast Everything
- Tier Pain is Weakness
- Tier Shattered Reflection
- Tier The Monster Unleashed
- Tier The Wound That Feeds
Combat Gear
Tactical Gear
Stamina cards: Dr. Wei Lin
- The Hundredth Year
- The Green Vault
- The Girl on the Chalk Floor
Stamina cards: Tomas Varek
- The Lead Student
- The Unscarred Face
- The Spent Injector
Pack 5 of 5
Soren Croft vs Elias Thorne
Soren28 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Soren ›How Soren fights
For years the smuggler Nadia Chen carried the old doctor's medicine to the shelters where children cough black. Now Dr. Wei Lin has stopped sending it, to keep his hidden garden from being found a third time. Nadia climbs down into the garden with empty crates to fill them herself.
The Pack's Gameplay
A sniper against a wall of thorns. Nadia wants to keep her distance and wear him down; an attack that meets Wei Lin's guard can cost her more than it costs him. Patient, tense rounds where neither wants to strike first.
Elias32 Health · 8 StaminaAbout Elias ›How Elias fights
The cards in this pack14 cards
Every card in the box, by name. With the full set, take these 14 and you have this pack.
Soren Croft: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Soren Croft
Elias Thorne: Exile and 0 loadout cards
- Elias Thorne
Mantras by Tier, and the card each grants
- Tier No One Strikes Twice
- Tier Phantom Vengeance
- Tier Read Like a Ledger
- Tier Sewer Scavenger
- Tier The Jackal's Bite
- Tier The Stare Down
Combat Gear
Tactical Gear
Stamina cards: Soren Croft
- The Ramps
- The Name in the Shafts
- The Eastern Spur
Stamina cards: Elias Thorne
- The Rounding Error
- The Cisterns
- The Ghost on the Spur
Every pack
Three ways to play
Beginners
The recommended setup
Each player takes one of the pack's two Exiles and that Exile's three recommended Mantras, the training it unlocks during the game. The only choice is which of you plays which fighter. How to play lists the three Mantras for each Exile of your pack.
One pack, played again
Pick in turns
One player chooses an Exile; the other gets the one that is left and picks the first Mantra. Then you take the pack's six Mantras in turns, until each of you holds one of each of the three Tiers, so the same two fighters can meet with different training: eight ways to split the six.
More than one pack, or the full set
Mix and match
Any Exile with any Mantras from any pack: one of each of the three Tiers, kept hidden until unlocked. One player brings the gear both find along the way: 6 gear cards of each Tier and 12 Stamina cards, shuffled without looking, or chosen and shown to both players before you choose your fighters. With all five packs, ten Exiles and ten Mantras of each Tier make 10,000 unique combinations to choose from, and a way of fighting that is yours.
All 280 cards in one box
The full set
You can also get the whole edition at once: all 280 cards of the five packs, all ten Exiles and all thirty Mantras, in one box. Any two of the ten can fight: the five feuds, and forty pairings no pack offers.
The full set ›New to the game? How to play.