🐍 Beat the Basilisk

A card battle of wits and sacrifice. Tip the scale in your favor — or be devoured.

⚔️ How to Play

1. Choose a deck — Each round, draw from Main for attackers, spells, defensive walls, and stronger threats; draw from Sacrifice for free fodder/blockers.
2. Sacrifice creatures — Tap Sacrifice Mode, then click your own creatures on the board or in hand. Each sacrifice gives blood this turn and +1 bone permanently. Some creatures give extra blood.
3. Play creatures — Select a card from your hand, then click an empty lane. Some cards cost blood, bones, or both.
4. Cast spells — Rituals and curses fire instantly. Targeted spells require clicking a Basilisk creature.
5. End your turn — Click "End Turn" to let the Basilisk respond.
6. Combat — After both sides act, lane fights resolve. Blocked damage kills creatures; unblocked, Flying, and special attacks move the scale.

⚖️ Winning

• Push the scale to +5 to win. The Basilisk wins at -5. Same goal at every difficulty — harder difficulty means a smarter opponent, not a steeper climb.
• Difficulty controls intelligence: Easy is noisy instinct, Medium scores likely moves, Hard adds sharper combat foresight, and Apex chooses the best-scored move with mood/archetype bonuses and browser memory.
• Cards block normal damage completely. Damage reaches the scale through empty lanes, Flying over non-Guard blockers, or special multi-lane attacks.
• Run out of cards? Fatigue deals escalating scale damage each round.

✨ Sigils (Special Abilities)

🦅 Flying	Attacks past blockers unless the defender has Guard.
💀 Deathtouch	Chance to instantly kill a creature it damages. Tier is shown in inspection.
🛡️ Guard	Blocks Flying. Creatures must fight this first.
🦴 Bone Lord	Spawns a Skeleton when it dies.
💪 Blood Lust	Gains +1 power each time it kills an enemy.
💨 Sprinter	Attacks twice — but dies after 2 rounds of sprinting.
🌊 Waterborne	Can only be damaged by Flying creatures.
🧟 Regen	Heals 1 HP after combat.
⚜️ Spiky	Deals 1 damage back to a creature that hits it.
☠️ Poisonous	Chance to kill a creature that hits it. Tier is shown in inspection.
🕳️ Burrow	Hidden underground until it attacks. Can't be targeted while burrowed.
🔪 Bifurcated	Attacks adjacent lanes as well.
🔱 Trifurcated	Attacks left, center, and right lanes.
☠️ Bone Horde	Summons a Skeleton into a random empty lane each turn.
🦨 Stinky	Weakens all enemy creatures in its lane by −1 power.
💥 Mighty Leap	Deals 1 damage to all enemies when this creature is played.
🐇 Hive	Summons a 1/1 copy when this creature is played.
♾️ Unkillable	Returns to your hand on death, costing 1 blood less.

📜 Card Types

• Creatures — Place in a lane. Blood costs are paid by sacrificing your own creatures.
• Rituals / curses — Instant effects. Some target enemy creatures; others draw, summon, heal, burn, weaken, or reset the board.
• Sacrifice deck cards — Free squirrels, rabbits, gecks, mites, and saplings for blocking or sacrifice fuel.
• Bone cards — Spend accumulated 🦴 bones instead of, or alongside, blood.

💡 Tips

• Sacrifice weak or dying creatures to fuel stronger ones and build bones.
• If the board is scary, draw Sacrifice deck for free blockers, then trade them for blood and bones.
• Guard stops Flying. Use Guard to keep the Basilisk from slipping damage past your blockers.
• The Basilisk scores creature lanes and spells, then layers Inscryption-inspired archetypes — sacrifice, predator, defender, evasion, death, swarm, ritual, curse — through moods like Hungry, Cruel, Cornered, and Ecstatic.
• Don't let lanes stay empty — direct hits to the scale add up fast.
• When your deck runs out, fatigue damage accelerates. Finish the fight!

⚔️ Back to Duel

All cards by type, with costs, stats, sigils, and quick reference notes.

✕ Exit Wiki

✕ Exit Log

✕ Exit Inspection

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Scale: 0

Scoring: unblocked creature power moves the scale. You win at +5. Basilisk wins at -5.

Pick Easy first. Play a free creature, sacrifice it for blood, then summon something stronger.

Combat events will appear here one at a time.