Card game blueprint
Core rules, faction engines, and card registry for Alignment — Jacob Pendant's original competitive card game.
The Sinking Oppression · The Ascending Radiance
The Corruption · The Redemption
Neutral slates for Seven-Tier transformation decks.
| Unit | Stats | Baseline for |
|---|---|---|
| Rejected Nerd | 100 ATK / 300 DEF | Wrath or Envy |
| Foolish Party-Goer | 300 ATK / 100 DEF | Gluttony or Lust |
| Poor Unfortunate Soul | 0 ATK / 500 DEF | Sloth or Greed |
| Ambitious Student | 200 ATK / 400 DEF | Pride or Diligence |
Seven-Tier and Nine-Tier faction rosters.
7,000 starting LP
Two-Fold Choice on Spells: sacrifice a Human vessel on field, OR pay 1500 LP to send a Human vessel from Deck to Graveyard to cheat out a Tier 2 unit.
Scaling: Monsters scale stronger based on variety of uniquely named Sin cards across field and Graveyard.
[Field Offering]: Sacrifice Ambitious Student or Rejected Nerd on field; Special Summon Vain Myrmidon (Demon Warrior) from hand/deck. OR [Blood Pact]: Pay 1500 LP. Send either human from Deck to GY; Special Summon Vain Myrmidon. GY Bonus: Banish from GY to mill top 3 cards of your deck.
Exempts player from 10-card hand limit. All Sin monsters gain +200 ATK for every card held above 10.
2500 ATK / 2000 DEF
Summon: Tribute 1 Demon Warrior or Demon Mage.
[Summoning Sickness]. Gains +300 ATK for each unique Sin card in play/GY. When it destroys a monster, banish that monster and gain LP equal to its ATK.
7,000 starting LP
Reactive tug-of-war. Prayers as Quick-Play spells hijack enemy Human Vessels or convert destroyed opposing cards into Holy defenders.
Scaling: Monsters scale on volume of played/spent Prayers and Traps.
[Redeem Soul]: Target any Human Vessel on field, send to GY; Special Summon Cloistered Zealot (Holy Mage) to your field. OR [Divine Intervention]: Pay 1500 LP. Send 1 Human from Main Deck to GY; Special Summon Cloistered Zealot. GY Bonus: Banish from GY to return 1 Human from GY to Main Deck.
Exempts player from 10-card hand limit. If holding 10+ cards during Draw Phase, skip draw to look at opponent's face-down cards and hand.
2000 ATK / 2800 DEF
Summon: Tribute 1 Holy Warrior or Holy Mage.
[Summoning Sickness]. Gains +200 DEF for every Trap/Prayer in play/GY. While in DEF, negates passive burn and caps incoming battle damage from a single attack at 1500 LP.
9,000 starting LP
Passive field debuffs, burns opponent's 10-card hand, and locks down the field.
Exempts player from hand limit. Discarded cards can be placed face-up in the River zone. Enemy monsters lose 300 ATK per card in the River.
Pay 2000 LP. Advance Realm tracker by 2 Tiers. You cannot attack this turn.
Activate before Realm Shift. Freeze your active Tier tracker for the turn. Force enemy monsters to attack your highest-ATK unit.
Circle buff: Circle units gain +500 DEF. Face-down DEF units cannot be targeted by enemy spells.
400 ATK / 1800 DEF
When attacked in DEF position, forces the attacker into DEF position at end of combat.
1900 ATK / 1200 DEF
On summon, target an enemy monster; it loses 500 ATK for every card in opponent's hand.
2400 ATK / 2000 DEF
Taunt — enemies must attack this first. Once per turn, discard 1 card to reduce an attacker's ATK to 0.
Circle buff: Opponent takes 500 burn whenever they draw outside Draw Phase.
2200 ATK / 2200 DEF
Once per turn, force opponent to discard 2 cards or take a direct LP hit.
Circle buff: All face-up monsters must attack. DEF stats reduced to 0.
100 ATK / 3000 DEF
Attackers permanently lose 1000 ATK after combat.
Circle buff: Cards sent to opponent's GY are Banished instead.
2600 ATK / 1800 DEF
On summon, look at opponent's 10-card hand and banish 1 Spell/Trap.
Circle buff: When a monster is destroyed by battle, inflict burn equal to its original ATK.
2800 ATK / 1200 DEF
Can attack twice per Battle Phase. Immune to enemy Spells.
Circle buff: Once per turn, redirect target of opponent's activated Spell/Trap to another valid target.
3000 ATK / 2500 DEF
Once per turn, copy effects and text of an enemy monster and gain +500 ATK.
0 ATK / 2500 DEF
Summon: Free from Extra Deck at Tier 1 (Limbo).
Gains +1000 ATK per active Tier Circle. Once per turn, freeze an enemy unit (cannot change positions or attack). At Tier 5 (Wrath), human reason fails — return Virgil to Extra Deck. Protects controller from passive self-burn while in Extra Deck.
4000 ATK / 4000 DEF
Summon: Requires Tier 9 (Treachery) and an empty field.
Fortress: spawns Tower of Babel token on summon — Absolute Invulnerability and freezes your LP pool. Tower crumbles after opponent resolves 3 card effects/damages. True Form: when Tower crumbles, Lucifer sheds shell and permanently gains ATK equal to combined current LP of both players.
9,000 starting LP
Absolute defense, immense card draw, and interconnected multipliers.
Circle buff: Once per turn, the first time a Sphere monster would be destroyed by battle, it survives.
1200 ATK / 1200 DEF
On Turn 1 summon, scry and rearrange top 3 cards of your deck.
1500 ATK / 1500 DEF
When attacking, draw 1 card. If it's a Spell, reveal it to gain 1000 LP.
2100 ATK / 2200 DEF
Gains +300 ATK per face-up Sphere card you control. On kill, revive a Tier 1 Sphere monster from GY in DEF.
Circle buff: Once per turn, reveal top deck card; if Holy, summon it for free in DEF.
1800 ATK / 2400 DEF
While in DEF, your other Sphere monsters are immune to enemy monster effects.
Circle buff: All your active monsters gain +500 ATK per card in your hand.
2500 ATK / 2000 DEF
Deals piercing battle damage when striking DEF position monsters.
Circle buff: Opponent must pay 500 LP to declare an attack.
2700 ATK / 2500 DEF
When an enemy attacks, redirect attack target to any monster you control.
Circle buff: Skip Battle Phase to draw 2 cards and gain 1500 LP.
0 ATK / 3500 DEF
Indestructible by battle or card effects. Must be placed face-up DEF.
Circle buff: Your LP cannot drop below 1000 while you control a Tier 8 monster.
3200 ATK / 3000 DEF
On summon, recycle all Banished Sphere cards back into Main Deck.
0 ATK / 2500 DEF
Summon: Free from Extra Deck at Tier 4 (The Sun).
Aura of Revelation: reduce all enemy Circle monsters' ATK by 1000 per active Sphere Tier (e.g. −4000 ATK to Virgil at Tier 4). Stores 1 Purification Counter per 1000 ATK stripped. If Beatrice leaves field, remove counters to heal 1000 LP each.
0 ATK / 0 DEF (dynamic)
Summon: Requires Tier 9 (Primum Mobile).
Clockwork: ATK/DEF always equal to total cards across both hands, fields, and GY × 100. Negates all active enemy cards when declaring an attack. If it would leave field, shuffle board and hands into decks (except active Realms). Last Hope: once per Main Phase, resurrect any monster from either GY — permanently absorb its ATK; at end of turn banish it and take direct LP damage equal to absorbed ATK.