Rules

Two players each bring a saved track list into a festival battle. Each player fills their own active slots with songs, builds stacks, and triggers synergies to grow their own Vibescore — there's no shared gauge to fight over. The first player to reach 1,000,000 Vibe wins.

A track list is built from three card types:

• Song — the core collectible.
• Artist — buffs linked songs.
• Special — albums, shiny full-art, and legendary cards.

Songs can appear as variants — remix, cover, live, acoustic, and more — which stack onto their base song without costing an extra active slot. Each player tracks their own Vibe score, starting at 0 and climbing as the match plays out.

Every card exposes four stats that stacking, synergy, and matchup rules read from during resolution:

• Popularity — a 1-9 award-tier rating of reach.
• Intensity— pop, soft, experimental, or hardcore, set by the card's genre or subgenre.
• Advantage / Weakness — the genres this card is strong or weak against.

Your own Vibe gates which intensities you can play: below 100 Vibe, only Pop cards; below 1,000, Pop and Soft; below 10,000, add Experimental; below 100,000, all four — including Hardcore.

Full frame breakdown with all variant art: Cards — Anatomy.

Before battling, players assemble a track list of exactly 60 cards. You can build and name as many track lists as you like, and save deck presets — frozen lineup configurations for different battle contexts — that get validated against your current collection when loaded.

Builder and full spec: Track Lists.

• Both players load one saved track list into the battle.
• The game validates that list against slot and stacking rules, then sets each player's Vibe to 0.
• Opening hand, first player, and any pre-battle effects resolve before turn 1 begins.

Your active slot count is gated by your own Vibe: 1 slot below 100 Vibe, 2 below 1,000, 3 below 10,000, and 4 from 10,000 onward.

Each turn follows a fixed order:

1. Draw
2. Play
3. Resolve effects — stacks, synergies, and matchup modifiers are all applied here.
4. End phase— your own Vibe shifts once, based on the turn's outcome.

Fuller visual walkthrough: Battles — Game turns.

• Lineups gain bonus from coherent genre synergy, artist- or album-linked stacking, and favourable genre matchups.
• Lineups lose points for weak matchups or an incoherent genre spread — genres work like a wheel of advantages and weaknesses.

All of this nets into a shift applied to your own Vibe each turn.

Stat reference: Battles — Card attributes. Full advantage/weakness matrix per genre: Genres — Associations.

The battle ends the instant either player's own Vibe reaches 1,000,000 — that player wins on the spot, with no fixed turn count and no waiting for a track list to run out.