Eve Of Midnight

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Eve of Midnight: Reimagine Calamity - Persistent Enhancements (Sortilege & Relic)

Status (spec 024): Design recorded. The former Resource card type is retired and its cards fold into two new persistent-enhancement support kinds. The effect shape below is designed here; the engine execution (continuous modifiers, triggers, attach lifecycle) is a follow-up spec.

The Two New Kinds

Resources no longer pay for cards (see The Action Meter). Their cards are reimagined — in the vein of Magic’s Enchantment / Equipment / Artifact cards — as persistent enhancements that stay in play and augment other cards and effects rather than being mana batteries. They split by flavor:

Sortilege — the mystical persistent enhancers (woven charms, hexes, wards).
Relic — the grounded persistent enhancers (devices, gear, constructs).

Both are Support cards (alongside Incantation / Machination / Subterfuge / Cantrip), classified by their source folder (Supports/Sortileges/, Supports/Relics/). They carry a cost (the pricing seed) and a rarity like any support, and earn a derived Aurorune value.

The Lattice (where they live)

Active persistent enhancements sit in the Lattice zone — the on-board home that replaces the old Reserve zone (see Zones). A destroyed enhancement goes to The Abyss. The Lattice is the “ongoing effects” surface: while a card is in the Lattice, its enhancement applies.

Attach vs. Standalone

Each enhancement declares how it relates to what it enhances:

Attached — binds to a character (equipment / aura style) and shares its host’s fate: if the host leaves play, the attached enhancement goes with it.
Standalone — sits in the Lattice on its own and applies a global or conditional effect (enchantment / field style).

The default is Standalone.

Effect Shape (designed; execution deferred)

Enhancements “enhance other effects,” which the existing one-shot keyword model cannot express. Two shapes are layered over the keyword system:

Continuous modifiers — a static, always-on adjustment while the card is in the Lattice. Example shapes: “+1 to your Deal effects,” “your Incantations draw an extra card,” “your Sortileges cost less Action Meter.” Expressed as a (selector, delta) over the keyword/effect space.
Triggered abilities — event → effect. Example: “whenever you play a Sortilege, draw 1.” The event vocabulary reuses the domain events the match already raises.

In spec 024 these are documented as the target shape; cards author their effect as prose rules text plus any applicable existing keywords. The structured encoding and the engine layering/trigger dispatch are a follow-up.

Authoring (content)

The existing Universal / Advanced / Dual / Multi-archetype resource cards are re-authored as Sortilege or Relic support cards — each assigned an archetype, cost, rarity, effect, and attach/standalone mode. This is deliberate design work (the old resource cards carried none of those), tracked separately from the engine work.

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