Follow a simple first-game plan
What to focus on in each stage of your first few games.
After this lesson you can stick to one plan from the first round to the last.
Before the game
Before you start, pick one team plan to try: the units, traits and items you aim to collect. You can take one from the Boards page on this site, from a guide, or from a player you've watched. Learn one or two plans well before you try to adapt to every game, and branch out once they feel easy.
Picture of the game · units from a recommended board
Play with the picture. Tap each stage to read what to focus on.
The shop. Bottom of the screen. 5 units to buy each round. Press a unit to buy it; drag a unit back onto the shop to sell it.
Your turn: buy, drag and sell
- Blossom, 2 units, not active
- Juggernaut, 1 unit, not active
- Spellweaver, 1 unit, not active
- Summoner, 1 unit, not active
- Player 294 health
- Player 388 health
- 81 health, you
- Player 472 health, you fight them next
- Player 566 health
- Player 651 health
- Player 738 health
- Player 817 health
Lvl 40/10 experience
Shop odds at level 4: 1-cost units 55%2-cost units 30%3-cost units 15%4-cost units 0%5-cost units 0%
Press a shop card to buy it. Drag a unit to move it or onto the shop to sell it, and drag an item onto a unit.
How the practice round differs
A practice round with units from a recommended board in the current set (Solar with Karma). It is not a real game and never reads one.
- Shop: which costs show up at each level follows the game's own odds, but every unit of a cost is equally likely (the shared pool of copies is not counted).
- No fights, rounds or income, and the clock stands still: gold only changes when you spend it or sell.
Question 1 of 3
In a real game
Roll with a purpose: know which units you're looking for before you spend gold.
As a rule of thumb, the big spending moments come at the start of stage 3, the start of stage 4 and around 5-1, with saving in between.
Between rounds, look at other players' boards. If several of them want the same units as you, think about switching.
Watch out for this
Changing your plan every round leaves you with no real plan at all. Stick with one instead, unless the game clearly offers something better.
The whole screen, item recipes, traits and units.