Split Tactics

Split Tactics is a card game about choosing spells and tactics to defeat an opponent while staying alive. You face explored enemies and traps, using raw attacks or elemental effects that can damage, control or make enemies more vulnerable. You win by reaching level 25 or reducing your opponent’s life points to 0.

Elements and spells

The game has 13 elements: six basic elements—Fire, Ice, Poison, Dark, Light and Curse—and seven combinations: Chaos (Fire+Dark), Reflection (Ice+Light), Toxic Mist (Poison+Dark), Madness (Dark+Curse), Fume Gas (Fire+Poison), Horror Breath (Ice+Dark) and Divine Flame (Light+Fire). Each element has its own effects when applied to an enemy. You choose spells for their effectiveness against creatures, while also avoiding giving your opponent the chance to become the next most powerful mage. Strategic balance is needed to overcome your opponent and survive for the duration of the game.

Raw attacks use your level, shown in the top-right corner of the screen, to attack any explored enemy. Elemental attacks are less direct and powerful, but can apply effects over time, add to total damage, control enemies or make them extremely vulnerable. Each element type also has a special spell that deals heavy damage, such as an explosion, or has a drastic effect on gameplay; these spells have visual effects that show their impact.

Cards and equipment

At the start of the game, each player draws 5 cards from the reward card pile, and the first enemy or trap is revealed from the explore card pile. You can recycle 2 cards from your hand to draw a new one and gain 3 life points. This can disrupt your opponent by discarding valuable cards for them, or help you seek a better option for your plays.

A reward card can be cast or equipped, except for crystal cards. Equipment can strengthen elemental attacks, and equipping a card lets you draw another card of the same element type to enable more combos. Crystals can be cast for immediate effects: they can provide an area-of-effect attack that destroys remaining enemies for quick loot, or add to total damage. They can also be used as equipment.

Turn limits

Each turn, you can cast or equip up to 1 card from your hand. You can also cast or equip 1 crystal per turn in addition to that limit.