WELCOME TO THE BROKEN HALO

HEXFEINT

Build your formation. Predict their move. Break two Seals.

FIELD MANUAL

Master the feint. Break the Seal.

Build your formation, predict your opponent, and break two Seals. Ready one spent rune each turn, then choose one action.

YOUR FIRST MATCH

Build a neighboring rune with Inscribe.
Ready a spent rune with Focus.
Attack with Surge and defend with Ward.
Predict their action with Foretelling.
Break two enemy Seals to win.

01

Start

Round 1 skips Foretelling. From Turn 3 onward, the active player privately locks one Exhausted rune to Ready while the defender secretly locks a Foretelling. Only the readied rune is revealed at turn start.

02

Foretelling

Foretelling reveals as soon as a Rite is declared. Haste predicts Inscribe or Focus and grants an additional Ready selection next turn. Discern predicts Surge and publicly adds +1 Ward Power before the attacker commits.

03

Inscribe & Focus

Inscribe exhausts a Ready anchor rune to place an Exhausted rune in an adjacent empty site. Focus instead readies one additional owned Exhausted rune.

04

Surge

Target an enemy rune using an adjacent Ready starter. The Foretelling then reveals before you secretly commit contributors and optional Dark Magic. Each committed Ready rune adds +1 Surge Power and becomes Exhausted.

05

Ward

The defender exhausts Ready runes to add +1 Ward Power each. Higher Ward Power repels the Surge. On a tie, Surge wins if the targeted rune was Exhausted at start; Ward wins if it was Ready.

06

Dark Magic

During a clash, either player may sacrifice one eligible non-target rune for +1 Power. A Dark Rite defeats a normal Rite on a tie; if both sides are Dark, the target's recorded state decides.

07

Combat Phase

The attacker locks Surge Power and Dark Magic in secret. The defender then selects Ward Power and Dark Magic in secret before the attacker's final Power is revealed.

08

Victory

Capturing an enemy Seal or inscribing into an enemy Seal site permanently fractures it. Win by fracturing two distinct enemy Seals, eliminating all opposing runes, or by opponent forfeit.