The playing field is a 3 × 5 grid where the player can position their units by using "mana," a special resource that is accumulated during battle after killing monsters.

When the player kills monsters in PvP battles, they are transferred to the opponent's side of the battlefield.

At the end of every wave, all the remaining monsters left on the battlefield are destroyed and a boss appears.

All players start with the same hero, the Trainer, who creates straw dummies that stop monsters and explode after a certain time.

All cards and heroes in the game have a level of rarity: regular, rare, epic and legendary.

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