How does the game work?

Before looking for a duel, the player must create a deck of 20 to 30 cards in the Deck tab, choosing freely among the cards he owns. The order of the cards does not matter, since they will be automatically shuffled for each duel.

Each player starts with 5 cards in hand and 8000 Life Points. The objective of the game is to reduce the opponent's Life Points to zero. Players in KOD take turns to perform their actions, each consisting of a few phases. In a simplified way, the main phases you need to know for now are:

1. Draw Phase: the turn player draws a card from his deck.

2. Primary Actions: the turn player can do most actions such as deploying, fortifying and promoting a champion, changing its combat position, activating hero and rune effects, or preparing ambush and rune cards.

3. Combat Loop: the turn player can use his attack position champions to attack his opponent's champions. Each champion can attack once by default. In this phase, what matters for the champion in attack position is his POW, and for the one in defense position his RES. The damage calculation depends on a few points:

- If a champion attacks another champion in attack position, the champion with the lower POW is destroyed (or if equal, both are destroyed) and the controller of the destroyed card receives damage to his Life Points equal to the difference in POW between the champions.
- If a champion attacks a defense position champion and has more POW than the opponent's card has RES, the opposing champion is destroyed, but he takes no damage; if the defense position champion has more RES, then the attacking player receives damage equal to the difference, but neither champion is destroyed. 
- If your opponent has no champions in his Champion Zone, he loses Life Points equal to the total POW of the champion that attacks him directly.

4. End of Turn: change the player's turn.

Play2earn

Check out the whitepaper for more detailed information.

There will be weekly rewards through chests containing NFTs or non-NFT cards and Talismans (item used to craft non-NFT cards into NFTs) or $KOD tokens. How much you will earn depends on two factors:

First one is the Dueling Points. This is the equivalent of the CP in Splinterlands, but only affects the maximum amount of $KOD tokens you can earn per chest. The second factor is your League. There are 5 leagues in KOD: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Emerald and Diamond. The higher leagues have more and better chests, after all, KOD is a play2earn competitive game. To earn, you have to play and play wisely.

But if for some reason you can't or don't want to play, you can still earn by supporting other players as KOD encourages Scholarships. Within the game, you can create a password with which Scholar can log into the game without you having to give him your keys, so you have nothing to worry about your assets.

What should you buy to start playing?

The game is scheduled to be released on September 19, but presale have already begun, and it is possible to purchase Starter Decks, Packs with NFTs, some cosmetics and promotional Packs from partnerships with other Hive communities such as #THGaming and #Hashkings. You may need $KOD to buy most NFT cards.