COURTLY GRACES RULESET
Courtly Graces
A CARD GAME OF MANAGING COURTROOM CUSTOMS AND POLITICS
How to Play
In Courtly Graces, players compete to
maintain the perfect royal court in the
Kingdom of the Isles while managing a host
of disagreeable members and fending off
influences of foreign Isle kingdoms.
At the start of the game, be sure that each
player has one of each card provided that
come with Courtly Graces (40 cards in total).
Shuffle each deck and then allow your
opponent the curtesy to shuffle your deck
again. Reveal the bottom card of each players
deck. The player with the highest honor value
on bottom goes first. If two players tie, go
with the card that most players would prefer
to dance with. Each player then draws 4
cards.
A players turn acts out as follows:
1. Check for victory
2. Start of turn effects
3. Play a card from hand into court
4. End of turn effects
5. Draw a card.
A player achieves the perfect royal court if
the total honor by all members in their court
totals exactly 11. There is no penalty for
going over 11, however players can only win
by having their total honor equal exactly 11.
While any player may ask the total honor a
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player has at any time, the player is not
required to announce when he will win on his
following turn. If all players run out of cards
and no one has reached 11 exactly, the
closest to 11 wins. Draws can occur if two
players tie.
A cards honor values can be read in the red
circle at the top left card circle. Some cards
will have effects that can change the honor
value a card can have. Other cards might have
negative value.
When a card is destroyed or discarded, place
it in your graveyard, Cards has no effect in
the graveyard, but some cards may pull cards
out of the graveyard.
Some cards have abilities that reference
character types such as Prince and Witch.
The cards that are affected by these abilities
are all cards with the declared type in their
name. For instance, a card that kills Witch
cards could kill Witch of Shadows. Still,
some other cards change what card type your
cards might be considered, and its your
responsibility to keep track of what card is
currently a Witch or a Princess.