Battles

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

• Song Vibe — Shown as a 50-120 score pill top-right on the stat row. It measures how broadly the song lands with an audience and is independent of intensity. A few special songs fall below 50 or above 120, anywhere in the full 0-200 range.
  87

  VIBE 87
• 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
• FX box — An FX name and effect description printed on every card, applied during Resolve effects alongside stacks and matchup modifiers.
  FX

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

• Each DJ tracks their own DJ Vibe score independently — there's no shared gauge to fight over.
• Both scores start at 0 and run to 1,000,000, climbing as the match plays out.
• The battle ends the instant either DJ's own DJ Vibe reaches 1,000,000 — that DJ wins on the spot.

Each bar starts empty at battle start and fills independently toward 1,000,000. First to fill wins.

• Load track list presets — both DJs bring one in (exactly 60 cards).
• Reset DJ Vibe— each DJ's DJ Vibe is set to 0.
• Start on the MP3 Player — the base gear tier, 1 deck slot.
• Resolve opening Queue and first DJ — draw 7 cards each before turn 1 starts.

• Draw — draw 1 card into your Queue.
• Transition phase — cards transitioning in become Playing Songs; cards transitioning out, and any Synergy card played last turn, move to the Crate.
• Play — you may:
  • Cue a Song card — move it from your Queueinto an open deck slot. It doesn't play immediately: it starts transitioning in, and enters play as a Playing Songat the next turn's Transition phase. Exception: with only one deck slot, there is nothing to transition between, so the card is played immediately.
  • Play a Synergy card — move to a genre your current Playing Song doesn't normally permit, for this turn only.
• Resolve effects — stacks, synergies, and matchup modifiers are applied here.
• Score step — each of your Playing Songsthat isn't Silenced adds its Song Vibe to your DJ Vibe.

Every DJ battle is played at a venue — Bedroom, House Party, Club, or Festival — which sets what the battle is worth and who you can face, but never the rules of a turn. Full ladder: Battles — Venues.