Legends:Getting Started

The Elder Scrolls: Legends is a very different genre compared to previous Elder Scrolls games. This guide is intended to provide information on how to start playing the game on the right foot.

Game Modes

The game features several game modes:

• Arena — A mode involving consecutive matches and deck building
• Play — A single round using pre-constructed decks
• Story — A story mode that involves facing off against the AI

Decks and Cards

Cards

For a detailed breakdown of what the icons mean on each card, check out the Card Breakdown page.

Cards can be obtained in many ways: rewards for leveling up, rewards for finishing story mode battles, crafting them via Soul Summoning, and from card packs either won or bought. The player's avatar, or race, influences which cards they will collect most quickly.

Card packs are available in Core Set and Heroes of Skyrim versions, which contain cards from those specific card sets. When opening packs, the lowest amount of rarities that can be found are 5 Commons and 1 Rare. In the most exceptional cases, there are packs that contain 6 Legendary cards.

Decks

Decks can be constructed out of cards from up to two of the five attributes. The attributes chosen will determine the deck's class; each class has its own playstyle. Note that neutral cards can always be added to your deck, and will be the default type of deck if no regular attribute cards are added.

For a list of pre-made decks that you can obtain and the rules for deckbuilding, check out the Decks page.

Gameplay

In a battle, both will start with a set amount of health. In normal Play or Ranked mode, battles begin with both sides at 30 health, though this may vary in Story mode. At the start of the match, three cards will be drawn and the second player starts with the Ring of Magicka. If these cards are unfavorable, then any or all of the cards may be redrawn. From then on, each player draws a card at the start of their turn (including the first turn of the starting player), can play cards equal to the amount of Magicka they have at their disposal, and pass the turn over to the opponent. The aim of the game is to use creature, action, item, and support cards to reduce your opponent's health to 0 or less before they do the same to you.

Magicka

Magicka is the currency used to play your cards. Every turn your magicka replenishes and is increased by one until the maximum of 12 is reached. Only certain cards like Tree Minder can increase your max magicka, while others like Brynjolf can increase the current amount temporarily. Leftover magicka will not carry over to the next turn.

Lanes

In most games, the board is divided into two "lanes". Creatures can only attack other creatures within the same lane, or the other player. Typically the left lane has no special rules, while the right lane is a shadow lane: the other player's creatures cannot attack yours until after your next turn (although they can still be affected by actions). In some game modes the lanes may have different conditions or restrictions, such as boosting creatures' stats or preventing more powerful creatures from being summoned.

Runes

There are five blue "runes" around each player's avatar. The first time a player is reduced to 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5 health, a rune will disappear, and a card is drawn from the top of their deck. If the card has the "Prophecy" keyword, they will be able to play it immediately during the other player's turn for free. Some cards also have abilities triggered by runes breaking.

Mulligan

At the start of every match you can view the top three cards of your deck which will be your starting hand. You can select any cards you don't want to keep in your hand and they will be redrawn. You can redraw the exact same you just selected for the mulligan, although this does not happen often. Redrawing the same card selected during the mulligan does not apply for other additional copies in your deck. Further, as your deck is then reshuffled in a random order it can be possible to get a selected card as your first draw.