How cards are costed

Everything on a card is counted in points: stats, keywords and abilities. 2 points are worth 1 mana.

• A Minion, Action or Reaction gets 2 points per mana, plus 1. A 3-mana Minion has 7 points to spend.
• Equipment gets 2 more, because it is lost with the minion wearing it.
• A Location's repeating abilities are counted for 3 turns, then priced like one card.
• An ability that waits for something to happen is counted at how often that is expected to happen. Your third card in a turn is rare and cheap, and any minion dying is common and dear.

The form counts the mana cost as you fill it in. You can set your own, and a curator reads the difference.

A deck master costs nothing as a card. Its Signature is priced like a hero power: the mana you pay each time it fires.

• A small Signature can be free: up to 1 point a turn for one that happens every turn, or 2 points for a one-off.
• Above that, it costs its points at the card rate, rounded up, plus 1 mana because it is there every match without being drawn.
• Deal 1 damage to anything costs 2. Deal 1 damage to every enemy minion costs 3.
• Gaining mana every turn counts 2 points a mana, so it is never free and costs more than it gives. Gaining mana once is fine.

The form shows the suggested cost under the Signature. A Signature cheaper than that is not refused; a curator decides.

An automatic Signature that costs mana fires whenever you can pay and takes the mana first. One with a cost usually works better as manual, so you choose the turn.