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Card Guide
Every card in the beta set — what it does and how it ruins your friends' night.
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Reaction - Partial Block
Reaction · V3.5 · 2 copies. Reduce damage from one incoming Attack or Attack Beast by 2, to a minimum of 0. Draw before reacting; discard and refill normally. It uses your reaction turn and protects only against that incoming attack, not future hits. Damage is calculated first, then reduced. Non-damage effects and existing reaction restrictions stay unchanged.
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Curse Their Attack
Game Play · V3.5 · 1 copy. Choose your target. Their Attack Beast cards deal 1 less damage during their next 2 turns, never below zero. In two-player games the opponent is targeted automatically. Block cancels it; Mirror Chaos redirects it. Protection and damage-only reactions cannot stop this Gameplay effect. Each copy stacks with its own two-turn duration. Subtract per beast before Double Trouble doubles damage; Beast Blessing’s +1 cancels one Bane. A turn already in progress does not count. Reactions, skipped and extra turns follow the normal turn rules. Stack Breaker removes effects on its target; Break Shield does not.
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Your Life for Mine!
Attack · 1 copy. Swap your current life total with your target’s, including totals above 10. Rod 3, Arena 12 becomes Rod 12, Arena 3. This is not damage or healing and cannot be doubled. Normal turn only. Block, Protection and active Immortal Moment stop it; Mirror Chaos cancels the swap. In a Double Attack pair, resolve cards in played order; lethal damage stops later effects. Mimic can copy it, with each copy swapping once. Damage reactions only affect paired damage, never the exchange.
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Strike of Thunder
Thunder Ape is a raging beast powered by lightning itself. When played, it smashes a target with a thunderous strike, dealing 2 Lives of damage. Fast, brutal, and impossible to ignore.
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You're Mine Now
Choose a player and lock onto them for the next 3 turns. During this time, you may only attack that player, but all of your attacks deal +2 damage. Perfect for settling scores.
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Humiliation
The target must speak using a funny accent for the next 3 turns. Failure to keep the accent result in loss of 1 Life. A guaranteed way to create chaos and laughter.
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Unsteady Punishment
The target must stand on one leg for 3 turns. If both feet touch the ground, they immediately lose 3 Lives. Balance becomes a matter of survival.
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Spell of Recovery
If successful you wield an enchanted hammer able to make any card already discarded. Flip a coin: Heads: The spell succeeds. Tails: The spell fails. If successful search the Gameplay discard pile and choose any card.
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Double Trouble
On your next turn, you may play two Attack cards (same type either Attack Beast or Attack but not a combination of both) instead of one. Ideal for massive combos and surprise knockouts.
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Invulnerable Shield
Protect yourself from Attack and Attack Beast effects for the next 2 opponent turns. Cannot stop Rage Quit. Play normally or as a reaction; the incoming attack stopped by a reaction does not count toward the two further opponent turns. Break Shield and Stack Breaker remove it. Replaying Protection resets its duration to two rather than stacking.
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Refuse to Die
If you would be eliminated, return to the game with 1 Life remaining. Sometimes one last chance is all you need.
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Sit There and Suffer
Choose a target player. They cannot play any cards for 2 turns. A devastating control card that can completely disrupt a strategy.
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The Tables Have Turned
Cancel any Attack card (except Rage Quit) played against you. Simple, reliable, and often the difference between victory and defeat.
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Fate in the Flip
The target must correctly call a coin flip. Wrong once: Lose 3 Health. Wrong twice: Lose 4 Health. A risky card where luck decides everything.
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Good Boy
Your loyal dragon unleashes a blast of fire at a target player, dealing 2 Lives of damage. Cute, until it breathes fire.
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Execution Mode
The target becomes a zombie for 3 turns. They must speak and act like a zombie at all times or lose 5 Lives. One of the funniest punishment cards in the arena.
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Out of Time
The target immediately loses their next turn. They cannot play cards, attack, defend, or take any actions until their following turn. No reaction phase.
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Everything on the Line
Gameplay card. Flip a coin: Heads: Gain 3 Lives. Tails: Lose 4 Lives. Play it on your turn or as a reaction — as a reaction it uses your turn, the incoming card hits first, then you flip.
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Total Chaos
Every player discards their entire hand. Once discarded, each player draws 3 new cards. Great for resetting the game or destroying a winning strategy.
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Untouchable
For the next 2 turns, you cannot be targeted and cannot take damage. A miraculous moment of complete protection. Starts after the reaction phase.
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Chaotic Multi-Headed Demon
One of the most dangerous beasts in Rage Bait Arena™. The Demon Hydra deals a massive 7 Lives of damage to a target. If this monster hits, everyone notices.
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Burn Everything
Unleash a wave of fire that deals 2 Lives of damage to a target player. A straightforward attack card that never goes out of style.
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One Card to Ruin an Entire Plan
Gameplay. On your turn, remove the opponent's ongoing effects, including Protection, Pain Loop and Beast Blessing. As a reaction, draw first and cancel an unresolved linked chain of two or more played cards: Pet Dragon → Revenge, longer Mirror Chaos/Revenge chains, or a Double Attack pair. Cancel all still-pending chain effects, including caster follow-ups; never undo completed damage, healing, costs or draws. Unrelated cards in Cards in Play do not count. Cannot stop a single attack, Rage Quit or a forbidden reaction window. Discard and refill normally; your turn is used and nobody reacts to the cancellation. Mimic may copy Stack Breaker only on a normal turn.
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Triple Strike
Launch three brutal hits in quick succession. Triple Hit deals 3 Lives damage, making it especially dangerous against players trying to survive by a thread.
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Blood for Blood
Pay 5 Lives to summon this legendary chaos card, then deal 5 Lives of damage to any target. A savage trade that can destroy an opponent or drag everyone deeper into disaster.
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The Tables Have Turned
Force your target to reveal their full hand, then steal any one card from it. Perfect for exposing a player's plan and turning their best option into your own weapon.
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And Now It's Personal
An Attack card with a reaction ability. When another player attacks you, Revenge sends it right back with double the damage at the attacker. A perfect punishment for players who swing first and think later.
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Twice the Pain
Your next attack is doubled instantly. A fast power spike that can turn an ordinary hit into a devastating blow with almost no warning.
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Momentum
Pick up three cards and immediately play one of them. Triple Play keeps your options open while building momentum in the same turn.
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Suffer. Bleed. Regret.
The target player takes 1 damage at the start of each of their turns for 5 turns. Slow, relentless, and excellent for wearing someone down over time.
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Total Collapse
Drop a target to 1 Life instantly. If the coin flip succeeds they bounce back to 3 Life, but if it fails they're left hanging on the edge. No block. No reverse. Pure panic.
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Backfire
An Attack card with a reaction ability. All actions backfire on the chosen player, causing their own effects to hit them instead. It turns confidence into disaster and makes every move dangerous.
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Puppet Master
Take control of a target player for 2 turns. One of the nastiest gameplay cards in the set, it lets you steer their choices and create chaos from inside their own turn.
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Undead Spider of Doom
An undead horror summoned from the Arena's graveyards. Bone Spider deals 4 Lives of damage to a target — a heavy monster hit that can swing a tight game in one play.
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Penetrate = Destruction
Shatter your target's shield instantly. Any defensive card protecting them is destroyed, leaving them wide open for whatever comes next.
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Total Destruction
Your target must destroy every card in their hand and draw a brand new one. A devastating reset that wipes out plans, combos, and saved counters in a single move.
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Towering Fiery Destruction
A massive demon wreathed in flame. Infernal Behemoth deals a brutal 5 Lives of damage to a target — one of the Arena's most feared finishers.
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Nae'th's Wrath
Attack Beast · 1 copy. One swing. Shattered armour. Frozen bones. A colossal frost giant crashes down on a target for 5 Lives of damage — the Arena's coldest finisher.
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Swamp Ambusher
A filthy goblin that erupts from the muck to bite a target for 2 Lives of damage. Quick, ugly, and always hungry.
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Graveyard Slash
A jagged skeletal claw swipes at a target, dealing 3 Lives of damage. Simple, sharp, and straight from the grave.
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Renewal
Bathe in mystical waters and restore All Lives. A rare second wind that can pull you back from the brink.
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Top Up
Drink this bubbling brew to restore 2 Lives. No flair, no risk — just the health you need when the Arena gets rough.
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Burning Pursuit
Unleash a flaming hound that chases down a target and deals 5 Lives of damage. It never stops, and it never misses its mark.
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Unstoppable Charge
A hulking armoured beast that charges a target for 5 Lives of damage. When the Iron Minotaur starts moving, the only choice is where to fall.
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Boomerang Beast
This strange creature bounces between players, dealing 3 Lives of damage to a target and 1 Life to the player on their left.
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Swarm Decay
A swarm of rats overwhelms every player, dealing 2 Life of damage to all opponents. Small bites add up fast.
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Primal Pounce
A prehistoric predator lunges at a target for 3 Lives of damage. Fast, fierce, and impossible to outrun.
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Oozing Doom
A creeping slime envelops a target, dealing 3 Lives of damage and slowing their next draw by one card.
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Living Bulwark
A stone guardian hits for 4 Lives damage aimed at you. When it crumbles, it crumbles for you.
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Ancient Wrath
Awaken an old deity to smite a target for 7 Lives of damage. Power this great does not come quietly.
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Deep Cave Bruiser
A lumbering troll climbs from the depths and clubs a target for 4 Lives of damage. Slow, soggy, and savage.
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Shot from the Shadows
The Dark Elf draws her bow and looses an arrow at a target for 4 Lives of damage. Silent, precise, and gone before you can answer.
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Your Problem Now
Swap your entire hand with the target player. Lives, seats and effects stay put — only the cards change hands. Block can stop it, and Mirror Chaos reflects it, but a symmetrical swap still swaps once.
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Copycat Beast
Mimic becomes the card played immediately before it — fresh coin flips, your own bonuses, none of the previous player's leftovers. Played first, it does nothing. Copied Rage Quit stays unblockable.
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Aussie Ambush
A Drop Bear plummets from the trees and clobbers a target with a rock for 3 Lives of damage. Never look up. Actually, always look up.
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Life Drain Bite
A rotting fang sinks into a target for 3 Lives of damage, and the attacker gains 3 Lives. A successful Damage Dodge cuts the hit to 1, and the attacker only drains 1. A failed Dodge lets the full 3 through.
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Not Today
A Defence reaction. Flip a coin when damage comes your way: Heads: the hit shrinks to 1 damage. Tails: you cop the full hit. Either way your turn is used. It can't answer Rage Quit or Gameplay cards.
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The Demigod of Discard
Discard one other card from your hand, then draw one card from the deck. No coin, no reaction — just a ruthless hand tidy-up that uses your turn.
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Awaken the Fury
Gameplay · 2 copies. Your Attack Beasts gain +1 damage during your next 2 turns. Cast on yourself after drawing; no reaction window. The casting turn does not count. Reactions and skipped or extra turns count, even without attacking. Recasting refreshes rather than stacks. Add +1 to each beast before Double Trouble doubles damage. Mimic qualifies only when copying an Attack Beast; copied Attack or Gameplay damage is unchanged. Decaying Fang still gains 3 lives on a full hit (normal doubling and Dodge rules apply). Stack Breaker removes the blessing; Break Shield does not.
The Online Beta
Rage Bait Arena™ is still being developed, and that's exactly what makes this special. Play the online beta, break it, and tell Sam what V4 should be.
Solo against the Arena or online with a friend. No download, no deck.
The Arena handles the rules in solo games. Playing a friend? You enforce the rules together.
Tell Sam what works, what doesn't and what should change for V4.
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