Instrument Cards

Every card is written to the same anatomy. Top-down action rail: Traverse → Command → Gesture, with legal timing highlighted. Left and right cost sockets for Goods, Coin, Order, Influence, Momentum, Clue, and prerequisites. Central instrument field for name, rule, target, range, duration, and values. Bottom UV resonance for blacklight lore or Veiled information.

Card-writing rules you can trust

• State timing, cost, target, effect, duration, then exception.
• Use “up to” when zero is legal and “must” when mandatory.
• Never imply creation when an effect is transfer, exchange, storage, or cap exception.
• Preserve separate hit and damage rolls.
• Define reactions and once-per-turn / cycle / Age consistently.

Print standard is poker / MTG trim: 2.5 × 3.5 in (63.5 × 88.9 mm). The current Micro product is 97 gameplay cards: 89 numbered Core plus 8 Encounter cards. Characters 001–020 and the eight Encounters remain in design. The 69 non-character Core cards, 021–089, have visual prototype renders.

Conflict 021–032

Rough draft. Preserved as written; not yet integration-tested or playtest-locked. These are the cards in your hand when the table goes loud.

Infrastructure, Commerce, Diplomacy, Chaos, Discovery, Majors, and Flex modules are catalogued in the Realm Master’s Guide. You may play any card whose timing you legally occupy. You do not need to memorize the whole register to take a turn.