Aether Chronicles

Aether Chronicles

A dark fantasy card game. Build a deck from six elements, hold three lanes, and break your rival's Soul.

Free on the web, iPhone, iPad and Windows. No download needed to play in your browser.

Six cards, one from each element. Hover or tap a card to read it.

One duel, three lanes

Two players, two decks of 30 cards, and 30 Soul Points each. Every match is a few minutes of deciding where to fight.

Spend Aether
You start with 3 Aether and gain 1 more every turn, up to 10. Play small early and save your biggest cards for later.
Hold the lanes
Each unit fights the enemy standing directly across from it. The left lane adds 1 Attack, the right lane adds 1 Defense.
Break their Soul
A unit with no one in front of it strikes your rival's Soul. Bring them to zero and the duel is yours.
A duel on a phone: your rival's three units fill the top row, two of yours hold the bottom row, the left lane is marked +1 Attack and the right +1 Defense, and your hand of six cards waits at the bottom.
Your turn, mid-match. The rival's row is above, yours below, with your hand ready.

Six elements

Every card belongs to one element. Four of them form a wheel where each beats the next. Light and Shadow stand apart and tear at each other.

Strike the element yours beats and you deal 1.25× damage, so the order you play your cards in matters as much as the cards themselves.

Fire Wind Earth Water Light Shadow
Fire beats Wind, Wind beats Earth, Earth beats Water, and Water beats Fire. Light and Shadow beat each other.

A story to play through

Four chapters follow a world that turns every soul it touches into a card, from the fall of Aetherfall to the rise of the World-Ember. A fifth chapter is on its way.

Every battle puts a new foe across the table. Clear them to win mythics and Chronicle cards that no pack contains.

More ways to play

Free to play, fair to collect

Look up any card

All 1,210 cards across 25 sets, searchable by name, rules text, element, rarity and cost.

Or start with the new player guide, the keyword list and four tested decks you can paste straight into the game.

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