Eve Of Midnight

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Eve of Midnight: Reimagine Calamity - Quick Reference Cheat Sheet

Single-player roguelike (you vs. the AI Encounter). Updated for Spec 007: no end-of-turn discard, deck-out is harmless, and the run is lost only when your heroes are gone.

Turn structure

Start of turn

Re-channel (ready) your Reserve resources — they persist between turns.
Resolve start-of-turn effects.

Main phase

Play 1 resource into the Reserve (unless modified).
Play cards (Support, Incantation, Machination, Subterfuge) — effects resolve on the Stack (LIFO).
Deploy characters to your side of The Wastes; use hero abilities; engage World Tasks.

End of turn

Maintain your hand at 5: draw up toward 5 from the Archive (reshuffling The Abyss if it empties).
5 is a floor, not a cap — a hand pushed above 5 is not trimmed. There is no discard step.
The Encounter then takes its turn.

Zones

The Archive Repository — your deck; face-down, drawn top-first; not inspectable/reorderable except by effect.
Hand — cards held; hidden from the Encounter.
Reserve — channeled, persistent resources.
The Wastes — the shared battlefield (your side + the enemy side); deployed characters live here.
The Abyss — discard; reshuffles into the Archive when it empties.
The Void — permanent removal; cards never return on their own.
Hero zone — your heroes (a distinct entity type, not cards); 3 player slots, permadeath.
Task Zone — shared World Tasks.

Key rules

Reshuffle: Abyss → new Archive when the Archive empties (deterministic; The Void is excluded).
Mill-out: drawing with both the Archive and Abyss empty is a no-op — deck-out is not a loss.
Loss: the only loss is your Hero zone reaching zero (heroes are permadeath, per run).
Resources: re-channeled each turn; a destroyed resource goes to The Abyss.

Run map (between matches)

Sanctums (3) — shift the run’s rates / grant boons; spend Solanir to reroll a floor’s boss into a floor-themed alternative. (Umbral Genesis, Apophic Cruelty, Gloom Discernment.)
Forges (4) — build or modify run content (decks, heroes, effects); spend Lichenor to swap a fallen hero out for a fresh one (living heroes are protected; the dead slot is reused). (The Scorpion’s Sting, The Sea-Goat’s Discipline, The Centaur’s Rage, The Twin Harmonies.)
These seven are rare, fixed, named, and not guaranteed to appear.

Currencies (run economy — spec 009)

Aurorune — the standard (“gold”) currency, always earned from combat victories. Spent in shops and to bypass an ordinary floor encounter at an escalating cost (cumulative + floor-scaled, geometric past floor 1; bosses can’t be bypassed).
Lichenor — a rare combat drop; spent at Forges to swap a fallen hero (cost rises per swap).
Solanir — a rare combat drop; spent at Sanctums to reroll a boss (cost rises per reroll).
Balances never go negative; the wallet and its escalation counters persist on the run save.

Key terms

The Stack — effects resolve last-in, first-out.
Heroes — your run-long champions; lose them all and the run ends.
Rates — four bipolar run dials (Ambition↔Morality, Ferocity↔Restraint, Collaboration↔Disaffiliation, Obstructive↔Permissive) that tune rewards and enemy AI.