The Spewnicorn

The Spewnicorn is a card-based combat game in which you travel through the Dark Forest and fight your way to either the Frost Forest or the Flame Forest. To reach one, you must defeat the Guardian at the Ice Gate or the Fire Gate, after proving your worth by winning at least two Arenas and unlocking the gates.

Essences and Stances

Fighting enemies increases your Sparkle, Shimmer or Aura essence. Essences let you enter Stances, each of which has its own powerful effects. Magic Fountains and Quests can also aid you on your journey.

Cards and combat

In combat, Speed determines how many cards you can draw per turn, while Mana is used to play cards. Some cards can be combined without spending Mana. Each attack card you play increases your Crit percentage by 1, which sets the chance of an attack landing a critical hit for 1.5 times its damage. Crit percentage resets to 0 after a critical hit.

Block completely mitigates incoming damage, while armor absorbs 50% of it; you can combine both to withstand attacks. Playing cards also charges your Magic Rainbow. When it fills, it activates and damages your foes according to the magic type summoned:

• Rainbow magic damages all monsters.
• Elemental magic damages all monsters, ignoring block.
• Dark magic damages all monsters, ignoring armor.
• Chaos magic deals triple damage to a random monster.
• Muddled magic damages a single random monster. Mixing magic types makes your magic Muddled.

Markets and rewards

Winning combats earns Courage Coins, which you can spend at the market on consumable candies, permanent treasures, random cards from the four card types, or upgrades for special Weapon cards traded in there. After each battle, you have a chance to receive a Treasure, Essences, Shards and a Candy. These chances increase with each battle, and your current reward chances appear at the bottom of the screen.

Rising aggro

Aggro increases by 1 after each combat, and creating more aggro makes its level rise faster. Each level increases monster blocks in the Frost Forest and monster attacks in the Flame Forest, while also greatly increasing attacks from Arenas and Guardians.

Difficulty levels

The game has five difficulty levels, each making it exponentially harder. The highest challenge is defeating The Singularity on Nightmare difficulty.