Deck building rules: 50 cards, 10 Souls and two colors

Main Deck and Soul Deck are separate

Your Main Deck contains Pals, Gear, Events and Structures. It must contain exactly 50 cards. The Soul Deck contains exactly 10 Soul cards and does not count toward the 50.

Choose up to two colors

A Main Deck may use up to two of Red, Blue, Green and Purple. Colorless cards can be included with any chosen colors. The rule limits colors in deck construction; it does not require an even split.

The four-copy rule uses the full card name

You may include up to four cards with the same card name in total, even when the card number, artwork or rarity differs. The official Q&A defines the Main Name as the portion before the “–”, but the deck copy limit applies to the complete printed card name.

Lucky icon limit

A legal 50-card Main Deck may include up to eight cards with the Lucky icon. The normal same-name copy limit still applies, so eight Lucky cards cannot all be copies of one name.

There is no required card-type ratio

The official Q&A confirms that a deck may use any number of Pal, Gear, Structure and Event cards as long as all construction rules are followed. A 50-Pal deck is technically legal, but legal does not mean consistent.

A beginner-friendly starting structure

There is no official required ratio, so treat this as an editorial testing framework rather than a rule:

• Early plays: enough cost 2-4 cards to avoid passing the first useful turns.
• Engines: cards that draw, create Materials or Ingredients, or repeatedly improve the Base.
• Interaction: damage, resting, removal, Quick or Interrupt cards.
• Finishers: a smaller group of expensive cards that end a game or swing a board.

Five checks before saving a deck

1. Is the Main Deck exactly 50 cards?
2. Did you choose no more than two non-Colorless colors?
3. Are there no more than four copies of each full card name?
4. Are there no more than eight Lucky-icon cards?
5. Can the opening hand usually play something before the expensive finishers?