The builder, end to end

What a combo is

A combo is a sequence of events grouped into turns. Each event is one beat of the play — a card, an action, a move, or what your opponent does.

Name your combo

Give it a clear title and tags — it's the first thing people see in the feed and in search.

Add your first event

Tap ＋ Add event to drop a beat into the current turn — you'll choose what kind it is next.

Six kinds of event

Every event is one of six kinds — pick the one that fits the beat. You're never locked in; each event can carry a card, a state effect, and triggers.

• Card effect — resolve a card and the effects that fire
• Action — a play like draw, attack, or a resource change
• Move — send a card from one zone to another
• Continuous — an ongoing effect that stays on
• Opponent — what the other player does in response
• Note — a free-text beat for anything else

Search the card pool

When you add a card event, search the game's card pool and pick the card you're playing — its printed effects come in automatically.

Choose which effects fire

A card can do several things — pick just the effect chips that actually trigger in your line, keep the card as-is, or write your own text.

• Effect chips are split by slot so you can pick the exact one
• Prefer a card-only beat? Skip the chips
• No card in mind? Write a free-text beat instead

Pick the art

Cards often have several artworks — choose the variant to show. The first cards you use also become the combo's cover.

Edit or peek a beat

Tap ✎ on a beat to reopen the picker and change the card or its effects. Press and hold any card thumbnail to peek at it full-size.

Recently used

Cards you've already used in this combo sit at the top of every picker, so reusing them is one tap.

Actions from presets

Pick an action from the presets — draw, attack, move a card, change a resource — or write your own. Some actions then ask which card and which zones.

• Presets cover the common plays so you don't retype them
• Zone follow-ups let you say exactly where a card goes
• e.g. in Digimon: hatch, digivolve, suspend

Move a card

A move event sends a card from one zone to another — pick the card (optional) and the From / To zones, and the beat writes itself.

The opponent's turn

Model what the other player does — blocks, passes, counters, plays a card — so readers see the interaction, not just your side.

Track the values that matter

Track any game-state value — a resource counter, life or security, your goal — as a number or text. Digimon starts you with Memory and Security as examples.

Make an event change the state

Give a beat a state effect: nudge a number up or down, or set a text value. The viewer animates the change so readers feel the tempo.

Let the card cost do the math

On a beat that plays or attacks for a cost, open its ⚙ State effect — if there's a cost to spend, a green one-tap suggestion applies it to your resource for you. No mental math.

• Shows on a play / place beat with a costed card, a digivolve, or an attack / security check
• Needs a matching resource variable (e.g. Memory or Security)
• It only suggests — tap Apply to use it, or set the delta yourself

Triggered effects

Real combos cascade: one effect sets off the next. Tap ↳ Triggers on a beat to nest it under the beat that caused it.

Jump to the source

A nested beat shows a 'triggered by' badge — tap it to jump straight to the beat that set it off.

Add a turn

Group your beats into turns with ＋ Turn — each turn becomes its own step in the story.

Move between turns

Swipe (or use ← → / the trackpad) to move between turns — or hold the turn pill and slide to scrub through them fast.

Rename, repeat, reorder

Open the turns menu to rename a turn, repeat it ×N for loops, jump to any turn, or delete one.

Split a line

Real combos have decisions. Split a line into alternates — 'if the opponent has a blocker…' — and readers choose the path.

The split card

On the split card you name each line's condition, give it a colour, jump in to build it, add more lines, or delete a line — or the whole split.

• Each alternate line gets its own warm colour
• 'Build ▸' enters a line to edit it
• Delete one line, or un-split to keep just the main line

Reorder & delete

Drag a beat by its grip to reorder it; tap ✕ to delete one — its triggered beats go with it.

Undo anything

Every change is undoable — step back and forward with the ↶ ↷ buttons (or ⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z, Ctrl on Windows).

Keyboard shortcuts

On desktop the whole builder is keyboard-driven — the essentials are one keystroke away (⌘ on Mac, Ctrl on Windows / Linux).

• E — add event
• T — add turn
• S — split line
• ← / → — previous / next turn
• ⌘Z / Ctrl+Z — undo · ⌘⇧Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z — redo
• ⌘S / Ctrl+S — publish

Preview as a reader

Tap Preview any time to see your combo exactly as readers will — swipe through the beats, branches and all.

Publish & choose who sees it

Publish when it's ready and pick who can see it: public in the feed, unlisted (link-only), or private to you.

Cover, tags & description

Add tags and a description so it's found, and pick up to three cover cards (auto-chosen if you don't).

No account? Share a link

You don't need an account to share — publish a link-only combo instantly, or sign in to post it to the community and keep it in your drafts.