Battles

Every playable card surfaces four values on the frame. Battle rules and card text refer to them when applying modifiers, checks, and resolution.

• Popularity — Shown as 1-9 award symbols on the stat row (gold, platinum, then diamond tiers). It measures how broadly the track lands with an audience and is independent of intensity.
  🏆🏆🏆NOTE 9
• Intensity — The triangle gauge encodes one of four levels: pop, soft, experimental, or hardcore. With a subgenre, intensity follows that subgenre; on a genre-only card it follows the parent genre mapping.
  75%
• Advantage — The matchup strip (green side) names genres this card is strong against, each with a colour diamond taken from the genre palette.
  Hip-HopMetal
• Weakness — The same strip (red side) names genres this card is weak against, again with matching diamonds.
  Disco/FunkVintage

Full advantage and weakness columns per genre: Genres — Associations.

• The score is a single Vibe gauge, not a detached number on its own.
• The gauge runs from 100% on player 1's side to 100% on player 2's side, with a smooth progressive gradient between the two.
• At the start of the match it reads 0 - neutral (no lead). The indicator then shifts along the bar as Vibe changes.

Centre mark = 0 at battle start. The fill or needle moves from there toward one player or the other.

• Both players load one saved track list (exactly 60 cards).
• The game validates the list, then sets the Vibe gauge at 0 (neutral centre).
• Opening hand, first player, and any pre-battle effects are resolved before turn 1 starts.

• Each turn follows a fixed order: draw, play, resolve effects, then end phase.
• Stacks, synergies, and matchup modifiers are applied during effect resolution.
• Vibe shifts after each resolution window based on the turn outcome.