How to Play

Every culture on Earth has a monster it swears is real. Portentum puts them all in one deck. You draft cryptids from around the world, build them into a warband, and send them into battles that play out on their own. Your job is everything that happens before the first die lands.

The run

A run is a series of rounds. Each round has two parts: a shop phase you control, and a battle phase that plays out automatically against another player's warband.

1. Shop. Spend coins to play cryptids from your hand, buy mushrooms, and arrange your board of up to five cryptids.
2. Battle. Your board fights an opponent's. Two dice are rolled each turn, abilities fire based on the result, and it runs until one side is gone.
3. Result. Win ten battles to win the run. Lose five and the run is over.

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