Eve Of Midnight

Lore and other documents for the Eve of Midnight game

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Eve of Midnight: Reimagine Calamity - Aurorune Store Value

Status (spec 024): Delivered (data + transactions). The number in a card’s upper-right corner is no longer a play cost — it is an Aurorune monetary value, a shop price shown only in Stores / Sanctums / Forges. The derivation weights are BALANCE.

What the Corner Number Means Now

Previously the upper-right corner held a resource cost (2 Arcane, …) paid to play the card. With the resource economy retired (see The Action Meter), that corner becomes the card’s Aurorune value — what it is worth at a shop.

• It is never shown during a match (it is not a play cost).
• It is shown only in shop / inventory contexts (Stores, Sanctums, Forges).

Which Cards Are Priced

Support cards only — Incantation, Machination, Subterfuge, Cantrip, Sortilege, Relic — carry an Aurorune value and can be bought and sold. Characters / Heroes come from run mechanics (Forge / Sanctum, paid in Lichenor / Solanir), and Worlds / Tokens are never priced.

Derivation

Every support card’s value is derived deterministically at bake from its cost (the former resource cost, now only a pricing seed) and its rarity:

• Monotonic — value never decreases as total cost pips or rarity tier rise.
• Floor of 1 — no card is worth nothing (a free common is still worth 1).
• Shape: value = max(1, totalCostPips · CostWeight + rarityTier · RarityWeight). The weights are BALANCE.

Buying & Selling

• Buy — a store card costs exactly its Aurorune value; the purchase debits the run wallet and fails (without any change) when the wallet is short.
• Sell-back — selling a card pays floor(value × sellBackRate), with a default rate of 50%. The rate is a seam a run modifier can raise or lower. A 1-value card sold at 50% pays 0 — selling the cheapest cards is intentionally unprofitable.

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