#loveca

A Member card has:

Energy cost, ticket in the top right - how much it costs to bring this Member onto the Stage

Penlight icons in the top left - if this Member is on Stage when attempting a Live Show, you can draw this many cards from your deck as Support

Hearts (top left, normal orientation, below Penlights) - the hearts this Member contributes to Live Shows when on Stage. These come in six types based on the attribute colours from SIF All Stars

Support Heart (top left, sideways, above Penlights) - the heart this Member contributes if pulled as a Support

Any number of Skills - we haven't seen them in action during the stream, but they seem to have similar triggers as SIC cards

A Live Show card has:

Requirement, the hearts on the note staff - you need this many hearts to successfully clear this Live Show

Score, top right - a difficulty rating for this Live Show card's requirement, used to decide rounds where both players clear a Live Show

Support Effect (bottom left) - comes into effect when drawn as a Support, can be an extra heart or increase score

Preparing the game:

Start with 6 cards on your hand, drawn from the main pile

Redraw as many as you want, shuffle unwanted cards back into the deck

Start with three Energy cards in your Energy row

Initial player order decided by Rock-Paper-Scissors, winner gets to choose

Rounds:

Each round has two phases: Main Phase and Live Phase

Use the Main Phase to bring Members onto your Stage, then bet on what Live Shows you can clear for the Live Phase

Perform a higher scoring Live Show than your opponent to win the round!

Main Phase:

Turn all your inactive Energy (sideways) to active position (upright)

Draw one Energy from your Energy pile into your Energy row. That means that every turn, you'll have one more Energy available naturally, to enter stronger and stronger Member cards

Also, draw one card from your main pile to your hand (if the draw pile runs out at any point, shuffle your Waiting Room and make that your new main pile)

Then, in any order and as many times as you like:

a) Enter a Member card onto the Stage from your hand using your drawn Energy - mark the amount of Energy cards needed inactive (by turning them sideways)

b) Use Activatable Skills (light blue) from Members you have entered

You may not want to use all of your Energy to enter Members, as there are some Skills that you can only activate by paying Energy

You can also do a Baton Pass: move a Member cards already on the Stage (for at least one turn) to the Waiting Room. This allows you to enter a more expensive Member card, by reducing its Energy cost by the Energy cost of the removed Member

Once Player 1 is done with their Main Phase, Player 2 plays through their Main Phase, then go to the Live Phase

Live Phase:

Unlike the Main Phase, the Live Phase is played step by step between the two players

Step 1: Put as many cards from your hand as you want face-down in the front row of the Stage, and draw as many cards as you put down from the main pile. They don't have to be Live Show cards

Step 2: After both players put their cards down, they reveal them at the same time, and move all non-Live Show cards to their Waiting Room

(Members discarded this way have no effect - it's just a chance to discard and redraw cards in your hand, or to trick your opponent into thinking you're playing multiple Live cards)

Players who have Live cards in their front row after this go to Step 3, otherwise skip it

Live Phase, Step 3 - The Performance:

Attempt the Live Show you set up by fulfilling the Heart requirements of the leftover cards

First, for each Penlight on your Member cards on the Stage, draw a Support card from your main pile. If they have Support Hearts or Effects, they can be used for the Performance

Match the Heart requirements on the Live Show cards with those on the Member cards on the Stage and the Support cards you drew

If the required Hearts are colored and have symbols, only that type of Heart can match the requirement

Some Support Hearts say "ALL" - they are wildcards and can match any requirement

Some Live Show cards have grey, symbol-less Heart requirements - they can be matched with any kind of Heart

If you can meet all the Hearts requirement of all your Live Show cards in the front row, the Performance is successful!

Member cards on the Stage are not discarded after the Live Phase, but any cards drawn as Support are moved to the Waiting Room

Scoring:

If only one player has successfully cleared their Live Shows, they automatically win the round

If both player cleared their Live Shows, sum up the scores of the Live cards, the player with the higher score wins the round

If the players were successful, but tied in score, both get a point - unless you are one away from winning. You must score your final point with a clean win, not a tie!

The winner(s) move(s) a Live Show card into their point counter stack. If they have reached the required amount of points, they have won the game!

Otherwise, a new round begins back at the Main Phase. If the last round was not a tie, the winner of the last round goes first this time.

If you notice something off in the stream compared to these rules, or don't understand something, let me know and I'll check it out!