Battles

Every playable card surfaces four values on the frame. Battle rules and card text refer to them when applying modifiers, checks, and resolution.

• Song Vibe — Shown as a 50-120 score pill top-right on the stat row. It measures how broadly the track lands with an audience and is independent of intensity. A few special tracks fall outside this range, from as low as 0 up to 200.
  87

  VIBE 87
• Intensity — The triangle gauge encodes one of four levels: pop, soft, experimental, or hardcore. With a subgenre, intensity follows that subgenre; on a genre-only card it follows the parent genre mapping.
  75%
• Advantage — The matchup strip (green side) names genres this card is strong against, each with a colour diamond taken from the genre palette.
  Hip-HopMetal
• Weakness — The same strip (red side) names genres this card is weak against, again with matching diamonds.
  Disco/FunkVintage

Full advantage and weakness columns per genre: Genres — Associations.

• Each player tracks their own Player Vibescore independently — there's no shared gauge to fight over.
• Both scores start at 0 and run to 1,000,000, climbing as the match plays out.
• The battle ends the instant either player's own Player Vibe reaches 1,000,000 — that player wins on the spot.

Each bar starts empty at battle start and fills independently toward 1,000,000. First to fill wins.

• Both players load one saved track list (exactly 60 cards).
• The game validates the list, then sets each player's Player Vibe to 0.
• Opening hand, first player, and any pre-battle effects are resolved before turn 1 starts.

• Each turn follows a fixed order: draw, play, resolve effects, then end phase.
• Stacks, synergies, and matchup modifiers are applied during effect resolution.
• Player Vibe shifts after each resolution window based on the turn outcome.