Rush of Ikorr Rule Book v1.1
No one saw the Ikorr coming. The sky burned as it rained
down as streaks of crimson and gold, a substance unlike
anything on Earth – brimming with power, tumultuous
and untamed. Where it landed, reality itself unraveled as
time fractured, and history collapsed inward. The past,
the present, and the future had all become one.
For ages, each pantheon believed itself solitary and
supreme in its dominion over creation. But the Ikorr
shattered that illusion. Deities of every culture had to
contend with the new reality that they were not alone…
especially in their ambitions for power and domination.
The Ikorr was more than power, it was possibility made
manifest. It infused the land, the people, the very essence
of existence. As its energy twisted the mortal world, it
allowed the gods to summon the greatest warriors and
creatures throughout their culture’s histories. A great cry
rang out through time and space, “O great champions,
gather to us the Ikorr, and reap the benevolence of our
power!” With that call to arms, the gods exert their
influence over their followers to seize this power in their
name. The battle has begun. The Rush of Ikorr is now
upon us.
Game Overview
In Rush of Ikorr™, you will assume the role of a powerful avatar, infusing and summoning legendary champions, building iconic locations, and casting mystical spells to claim your dominance in this battle for ultimate possibility! Join up to two other Avatars to defeat your foes and fight toward a common goal of the Rush of Ikorr™.
Victory Condition
You win the game by securing a specified number of Ikorr. This number may change based on the player count.
• 1v1: Secure 10 Ikorr
• 2v2: Secure 15 Ikorr
• 3v3: Secure 15 Ikorr
Deck Construction
To begin constructing a deck, you will need choose
an avatar. This avatar’s aspects will dictate your
deckbuilding restrictions and will start the game in the
Avatar slot. (Learn more about avatars on page 11.)
Your deck must include:
• A minimum of 40 cards containing a combination
of champions, locations, and spells with an aspect
matching your avatar or without an aspect. Decks
can contain no more than 2 copies of any card.
• Any number of your champions can be customized
with a single infusion. To imbue your champion with
an infusion, you will place 1 infusion on top of your
champion in a sleeve. Decks can contain no more than
2 copies of any infusion, and 1 copy of each “unique”
infusion. (Learn more about infusions on page 15).
You will also need:
• 10 influence cards to form your Influence Deck.
• Ikorr and damage tokens.
Aspects
Each aspect can represent the intention, motivation, or will of the card it is associated with.
AMBITION | Aspire. Demand. Ascend.
The ambition aspect focuses on agile battle tactics to rise above its enemy to expedite a decisive victory.
CURIOSITY | Anticipate. Prepare. Execute.
The curiosity aspect commits to a longer game plan, leaning on clever control and manipulation to achieve the payoff always planned.
DEVOTION | Embrace. Vow. Defend.
The devotion aspect prides itself on selflessness, loyalty, and upholding a greater purpose. Pledged to victory, no matter the sacrifice.
FEAR | Plot. Hunt. Kill. The fear aspect intends to surprise and overwhelm, using unpredictable and even taboo methods to reap the spoils.
INTUITION | See. Scheme. Strike.
The intuition aspect addresses the problems at hand with calculated wit, flexibility, and urgency.
PROPHECY | Live. Die. Repeat. The prophecy aspect accepts the inevitability of the end and the understanding of renewal, believing time is to be manipulated not obeyed.
Setting Up
1. Randomly determine which team will decide who goes first. (Die roll, rock paper scissors, etc.)
2. Place your Avatar and deck face-down in the designated areas. Then draw a hand of 5 cards.
3. You may choose to shuffle any number of cards from your hand back into your deck then draw that many cards.
4. Both teams simultaneously reveal their Avatar.
Turn Phases
1. Start Phase – Consists of two steps.
a. Secure Step – All allied champions secure stored Ikorr. Place this Ikorr into a pile shared by all allied players. This will be further referred to as “secured Ikorr”.
b. Influence Step – Refresh exerted influence and gain 1 influence (max 10). To refresh exerted influence, flip it from exerted state (face-down) to unexerted (face-up). To gain an influence, add 1 influence card from your Influence Deck to your Influence Zone
2. Draw Phase – All allied players draw 1 card from their deck. (This is skipped during the first turn of the game)
3. Action Phase – All allied players may play cards, activate Avatar powers & RUSH abilities, activate
ACTION abilities, declare attacks, and raid for Ikorr. (Champions cannot raid on the first turn of the game)
4. End Phase – “END” abilities trigger.
Action Phase
Play Cards
Summoning a champion, building a location, and casting a spell are 
all ways to “play cards”. To play a card, you must first exert influence equal its cost found in the top left corner of the card.
Use Avatar Powers
Each Avatar will have an Avatar power. These can be activated any time during your Action Phase when the queue is empty, and only once per turn. To activate this ability, first pay the designated cost (shown with this symbol X), then resolve the effect.
Use RUSH Abilities
Each Avatar will also have a RUSH ability. These can be activated anytime during your Action when the queue is empty, and only once per game. To activate this ability, you must destroy secured Ikorr equal to the number following “RUSH”, then resolve the effect.
Activate ACTION Abilities
Some Champions and Locations have an “ACTION” ability. These abilities which can be activated anytime during your Action Phase while you have priority, and only once per turn. To activate this ability, you must declare the activation, pay any additional costs, then resolve the effect.
Attack with Champions
Champions cannot attack during the turn they
are summoned.
All champions have an attack and health value in
the bottom left corner. Attack determines how much
damage a champion deals when it strikes and Health
determines how much damage they can take before
they die.
You may declare an attack anytime during your Action
Phase while you have priority. To declare an attack,
choose a champion you control and an opposing
champion within targeted range. The two champions
strike and deal damage to each other (track damage
with tokens or dice). Champions can either attack or
raid once per turn.
Note: Damage is not removed unless it is healed by a card effect.
Raid with Champions
Champions CAN raid for Ikorr during the turn they are summoned.
Most champions have a raid value in the bottom right corner of the card. This value is determined by the number of Ikorr symbols found here. If no Ikorr symbols are found here, that champion cannot raid for Ikorr.
You may declare a raid anytime during your Action Phase while you have priority. To declare a raid, choose the raiding champion and store Ikorr on that champion
equal to their raid value (track Ikorr with tokens or dice). Champions can attack or raid once per turn.
Note: Securing Ikorr is how you win the game!
Card Types
Avatars:
Embody the power of the divine avatars! Avatars serve as the leader of your deck, dictating your deck building restrictions and possessing powerful abilities.
Champions & Fabled Champions:
Summon legendary champions to the battlefield to fight
in your name and raid for the sacred Ikorr!
You can summon a champion by paying their cost. You
may only control six champions on the battlefield at any time. You cannot attempt to summon another champion
if you are at the limit. Champions can be placed in any position when being summoned but cannot be moved once they are placed. Champions cannot attack the turn they are summoned. However, champions can raid the turn they are summoned. You cannot attack and raid
with the same champion during the same turn.
Champions can also have the “Fabled” trait. You may
only control one fabled champion with the same name
at a time. No player can attempt to summon a fabled
champion to your battlefield with the same name as a
fabled champion you control.
Locations and Fabled Locations:
Build iconic locations and bring their wonder and
secrets to the battlefield!
You may play a location into your location slot by
paying its cost. You have only one location slot on your
battlefield, however some abilities may allow you to
play additional locations into champion slots. If you
wish to play a location while you already control one
in your location slot, you may send the one in your
location slot to the discard and play the new location
by paying its cost as normal.
Locations can also have the “Fabled” trait. You may
only control one Fabled Location with the same name
at a time.
Spells:
Cast mystical spells and command the power of the unknown!
You may cast a spell by paying its cost. When you cast a spell, resolve its ability, then send it to your graveyard.
Infusions:
Infusions imbue champions with the mysterious power
of Ikorr!
Infusions are added to champions during deck
construction. Infusions grant champions with additional
abilities and those abilities work as if they were printed
on the champion card itself.
Infusions can be added to any champion with an Infusion Allowance value. The Infusion Requirement on the Infusion must be equal to or less than the Infusion Allowance on the champion.
Some Infusions have the “Unique” trait which is marked by the symbol of the three feathers under the infusion allowance. You may have only one copy maximum of a Unique Infusion in your deck.
Card Abilities:
Activated Abilities:
Activated abilities include Avatar Powers, RUSH Abilities, and ACTION Abilities.
Triggered Abilities:
Triggered abilities trigger automatically when a specific
game action, phase, or timing occurs. These specific
game actions, phases, and timing are in bold and in all
capital letters at the beginning of an ability.
ATTACK: An ATTACK ability triggers when that
champion takes the attack action during your
Action Phase.
DEATH: A DEATH ability triggers when that
champion dies.
END: An END ability triggers during the End Phase of
your turn.
RAID: A RAID ability triggers when that
champion raids.
SECURE: A SECURE ability triggers when that champion
secures Ikorr.
SUMMON: A SUMMON ability triggers when that
champion is summoned.
Keyword Abilities:
Keyword abilities appear in bold at the beginning of a card’s ability. All Keywords have specific rules, which
can be found in the Glossary.
Passive Abilities:
Passive abilities are active as long as the card is on the battlefield. These abilities are clearly written and have no particular styling.
Abilities that Target:
Some card abilities may require a designated target. When an ability requires a target, the controller of that ability chooses the designated recipient of that ability. In this example, you are required to target a player:
You may only target players, champions, or locations in a targetable range. They must be either the opposing player directly across from you, or the allied player(s) adjacent to you. See the chart below to see who each player can target.
Drawing with No Cards in Deck
If you must draw while you have no cards in your deck, the opposing team automatically secures an Ikorr. This triggers for each allied player who cannot draw a card.
Golden Rules:
• Can’t Beats Can
• Whenever a card, ability, or effect states that something “can” happen or directs that thing to happen, but another card, ability, or effect states
that the same thing “can’t” happen, the “can’t” effect will take precedence.
• Card Text Always Take Precedence Over Game Rules
• Whenever card text contradicts the game’s rules, the card text takes precedence.
Glossary:
Action: During your action phase this card ability may be activated
Ability: Activated, triggered, or passive text that checks for specific cost, allowances, or occurrences be met in order to apply effect.
Allied: All players, cards, and zones on your team.
Attack: Declare a strike on an opposing champion. Initiates battle.
Avatar Power: Avatar ability which requires a cost be paid to activate. Once per turn.
Battle: When an active player declares an attack on an opposing champion. Those two champions simultaneously strike each other. Ends after both strike or one/both die.
Battlefield: Where champions and locations exist after being summoned or built. Made up of the champion and location zones.
Death: Triggers when the champion dies.
Destroy: Send cards to the graveyard. If that card is a champion, it dies.
Dies/Died: Is put into the graveyard from the battlefield or destroying from hand.
Discard: Send card from your hand to the graveyard. If that card is a champion, nothing happens.
Effect: Actions taken as a result of card or ability resolving.
End: Triggers during the end phase.
Exert: Flipping over influence cards in order to pay a card or ability cost.
Fabled: Only 1 copy can be on an individual player board at a time. Can’t play if one of the same name is on your battlefield.
Fury: Can attack any number of times during your turn. (Including attacking the same target multiple times.)
Heal: Remove damage counters from a champion.
Influence Cost: Printed value of the cost in the top left corner of a card.
Lethal: When striking, any damage dealt is enough to destroy the other champion
Nonstrike Damage: Damage not dealt during battle or from effects that have champions “strike”.
Opposing: All players, cards, and zones on your opponent’s team.
Private Knowledge: Knowledge which is private to at least one player. The cards in your deck and hand are private knowledge.
Public Knowledge: Knowledge which is known to all players. The numbers of cards in your deck, discard, void, and hand, as well as face up cards in your discard, void, and face up in play are public knowledge.
Priority: The ability to take a game action.
Quick Strike: When attacking, strikes first. (If the attack destroys the target, then this card will not take damage back)
Raid: Action of storing Ikorr on a card equal to its raid value.
Reanimate: When this champion dies, summon it from your graveyard during the next end phase. The next time this champion would die, void it instead.
Retreat: Return to its owner’s hand from the battlefield.
Rush Ability: Avatar ability that requires collected Ikorr to be spent to activate. Once per game.
Sacrifice: Send a permanent under your control to the graveyard. If it’s a champion, it dies.
Search: Search your deck for the designated card. If you are searching for a specific card/card type. You must show the card to your opponent. You always shuffle your deck after searching.
Secure (Ikorr): Add a number of Ikorr to your secured Ikorr.
Store (Ikorr): Place an Ikorr on the designated subject.
Strike: Deal damage equal to its attack.
Stun: Until the end of the next turn, that champion can’t attack, raid, or secure Ikorr.
Summon: When this champion enters the battlefield.
Support: During your Action Phase, you may activate this champion’s Support Ability and give this champion’s attack value to a target champion until the end of the turn. For example, “Support Greek” would give target Greek champion additional attack. When a champion supports, it cannot attack or raid that same turn, neither before nor after.
Swift: May attack the turn it was summoned.
Target: Select a card.
Trigger: Abilities that trigger automatically when a specific game action occurs.
Unique: Infusions that are limited to 1 copy per deck, instead of 2.
Void (it): Send designated card to the void.
Credits
Game Design: Bobby Coovert, Ryan Martin
Senior Director of Game Product Development: Bubby Johanson
Senior Game Developer: Mark Shaunessy
Game Development Coordinator: Ryan Martin
Additional Development: Upper Deck’s Design and Development Team (Alfredo Correa, Bree Horstkamp, Case Lopez, Josephine Hanson, Maximillian Dennis, Ryan Garcia, Thomas Kitchell, Zack Stevens)
Art Acquisition: Andrew Ballesteros, Erika Klock, Nicholas Phillips
Graphic Design: Jean MacLeod, Krista Timberlake
Director of Entertainment Brands: Travis Rhea
Brand Manager: Simon Sangpukdee
Project Managers: Keli Lewis, Danny Montejo
Production Artists: Adam Calderon, April Wilkinson, Jonathan Balcon, Michael Guthrie
Sr. V.P. of Production and Logistics: Suzanne Lombardi
President, Upper Deck Company: Jason Masherah
Cultural Consultants: Kaitlyn Ugoretz (Japan), Kate Meng Brassel (Greece), Julia Guernsey and Michael Love (Maya), Rita Lucarelli (Egypt)
Additional Game Design: Geek Dynasty (Anthony Ortega, David Freeman, Luke Peterschmidt), Ryan Miller
Playtesters: Adrian Miller, Anthony Shine, Bari Gonzalez, Benjamin Brozene, Brian Gustin, Bryce Comeaux, Cam Scanner, Casey Willaims, Christopher Higashi, Corey Mease, David Runyon, Denise LeBlonc, Dennis Perlstein, Derek Haddock, Derrick Taylor, Erwin Blake Becker, Glenn Carrere, Henry Hogan, James Altman, Jason Schueller, Jayme Francis Turner Valentino, John Stonebraker, Jonathan DelToro, Joseph Gordon, Justin Sabo, Kalani Robinson, Kenneth Raymond, Kevin Blaze Smith II, Lam Nyugen, Linh Nguyen, Marcellus Hendricks, Mark Hofferman, Marshall Auckland, Matt Fuller, Matthew Parrell, Michael Day, Michael Ruibal, Nayeem Islam, Oshuan Alvarez, Peter van Groning, Richard Berg, Rob Ford, Sean Wood, Stephan Cameron, Tevon Campbell, Theodore Coyer, Thomas Conmy, Thomas MacDonald, Vito Munoz, Willaim Lieske, William Roper, William Young, Wyatt Boyer
Turn Phases
1. Start Phase – Consists of two steps.
a. Secure Step – All allied champions secure stored Ikorr. Place this Ikorr into a pile shared by all allied players. This will be furhter referred to as your “secured Ikorr”.
b. Influence Step – Refresh exerted influence and gain 1 influence (max 10). To refresh exerted influence, flip it from its exerted state (face-down) to unexerted (face-up). To gain an influence, add 1 influence card from your Influence Deck to your Influence Zone.
2. Draw Phase – All allied players draw 1 card from
their deck. (This is skipped during the first turn of the game)
3. Action Phase – All allied players may play cards,
activate Avatar powers & RUSH abilities, activate ACTION abilities, declare attacks, and raid for Ikorr. (Champions cannot raid on the first turn of the game)
4. End Phase – “END” abilities trigger.
Victory Condition:
You win the game by securing a specified number
of Ikorr.
• 1v1: Secure 10 Ikorr
• 2v2: Secure 15 Ikorr
• 3v3: Secure 15 Ikorr
