HOW TO PLAY — LET'S SUMMON DEMONS (in 5 steps)
1) Prepare your starting “circle”: 3 Demons in hand and 1 Candle
Mix theDemon Deckand theBlock Deck, distribute to each playera Starting CandleAnd3 Demon cards: These are the spirits you will have to summon during the game.
In the center of the table it is formedthe BLOCK, a lively market made up of5 cards always available(kids, animals, and innocent little souls… more or less). Your ultimate goal?Summon all 3 Demons in your handbefore the others.
2) Each turn you roll the dice and activate the “neighborhood children”… if they answer the call
On your turn you roll the dice:
if the sum corresponds to the values reported onanyplayer card, those cards areactivate,
most activations give yousoul tokens, the cursed currency used to buy more cards.
The more cards you have → more potential activations → more souls you collect.
Combos are key: building an engine is the key to dominating the game.
3) With 3 soul tokens you buy from the BLOCK & build increasingly sick combos
The BLOCK always costs3 soul tokens per card, and contains tons of characters with ingenious abilities.
Each card you take:
fuels new combos,
increases the chance of activating on the next dice roll,
speed up your soul collection.
The engine grows and the summoning race becomes increasingly vicious.
4) Discard 3 cards to summon a Demon: the most powerful part of the game
When you have gathered the energy (and courage), you candiscard 3 cardsfrom your tableau forSUMMON ONEof the initial Demons.
Demons are the strongest and rarest cards in the game: each has devastating effects or game-changing abilities.
You need themthree evocationsto get you closer to victory.
5) You win if you summon your 3 DemonsAndyou have at least 10 souls remaining
The game ends immediately when a player:
he evokedall three Demons from his starting hand,
ownsat least 10 soul tokensin his pool.
At that point it's official: you're theSupreme Demon Summonerand the most evil in the neighborhood.
Given the variety of the 20 Demon cards and the madness of the BLOCK, every game completely changes pace and strategy.