Gather up the Stacks cards and give them a good shuffle. Then deal one to each player.

Next, do the same with the Sleeve cards, shuffle them and deal one to both players.

Players combine these two cards to make their fighters for this game.

Using the stats of their fighter, players assemble their own decks of cards. Both players should also receive 2 Feint and 2 Weave cards and shuffle their decks thoroughly.

Each player should place their deck face down within easy reach leaving space for a discard pile and draw 7 cards into their hand.

Players should decide which one of them will start, we find an arm wrestle is a great way to determine this although other methods are available.

From their opening hand, the start player plays an Attack card face up in front of them forming their discard pile. They then draw a new card to replace the one just played.

Their opponent must now respond with their own Attack card, but with equal Strength or higher - if they don’t have an Attack card, they can attempt to Block.

Each Player then takes turns playing cards until one of them is unable to respond to an incoming Attack, at this point, they become Staggered and must place a card from their hand face down in front of them.

Players continue this back and forth until one player becomes Staggered, but no longer has any cards in their hand - they have been defeated and the other player is declared the winner.