Command ancient factions in fast tactical card battles. Play online, progress offline, and unlock history.
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Game Modes
Faction Unlocks
Play matches to unlock new factions, cards and historical battles.
Ancient Duel — Official Trailer
Save Your Campaign
Create an account to keep your progress, rewards, stars, achievements, faction unlocks, and Historical battles across every device.
Ranked
Search for a random opponent. The match affects your ranking.
Log in or create an account to play ranked matches.
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vs AI
Play against an AI opponent. Completed matches count towards faction unlocks — surrenders and tutorials don't. Practice doesn't affect your ranking.
Learn to Play
A guided walkthrough of the game basics. Play against AI with step-by-step instructions.
Select lesson:
Private
Create a private match and share the code with a friend to play together.
Join
Enter a match code to join a friend's private match.
Ancient Duel Awaits
Enter your commander name and begin your training.
Your progress will be saved on this device.
Want to play across devices?
Cloud sync and ranked battles require an online account.
Online features will be available when you reconnect.
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Ranked Battles Locked
Build your deck, unlock all civilizations, and enter ranked battles when you are ready.
Full Game Unlock gives access to competitive features. Ranked still requires faction unlocks through gameplay.
Account
or
Enter your email and we'll send a reset link.
Enter your new password.
Change name
Choose what to sync between this device and your account.
Controller
These settings apply in the browser and in the Windows and macOS builds alike.
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Controls
D-pad / stick
Move between cards and buttons
A
Select
B
Back / cancel
LB / RB
Jump between zones (hand, field, piles)
X
Next phase during a match
Y
Match log
Right stick
Scroll the page
Start
These settings
Those are the positions the game currently believes in. If they are wrong, or your controller prints something else on them, calibrate it: press each control once and say what it says.
TV remote
Arrows
Move between cards and buttons
OK
Select — a card opens with its available actions
Back
Cancel the current step, then leave the page
The whole game is playable with these six keys alone. On a computer the arrow keys, Enter and Escape behave exactly like a remote.
