How to Play · Cookie Run
How to Play Cookie Run: Braverse
Devsisters' Cookie Run: Braverse brings the mobile-game heroes to the table. You pick a Leader Cookie, build a deck around their kingdom, and race to defeat your opponent's Cookie before they take yours down. Fast, colourful, and easy to teach.
IGame Objective
Defeat your opponent's Leader Cookie by reducing its HP to 0, or by meeting an alternate win condition printed on certain cards.
IIBuilding Your Deck
Deck size
1 Leader Cookie + a 50-card Main deck.
Card types
- Leader Cookie
- Your starting hero. Sits in the Leader zone for the whole game with a printed HP and a leader skill.
- Cookie
- Allied units you play to the field to attack and defend.
- Treasure
- Equipment cards that attach to a Cookie to give stats or abilities.
- Magic
- One-shot spell cards with immediate effects.
- Stage
- Persistent location cards with ongoing battlefield effects.
Deck restrictions
- Maximum 4 copies of any card with the same name.
- Cards should follow the colour/kingdom identity rules tied to your Leader Cookie.
- Main deck must be exactly 50 cards.
IIISetting Up the Game
- Place your Leader Cookie face-up in the Leader zone.
- Shuffle your Main deck and present it for a cut.
- Determine the first player.
- Draw your opening hand.
Starting hand
5 cards.
Mulligan
Once per game, before turn 1, you may shuffle your entire starting hand back into your deck and redraw the same number of cards.
IVTurn Flow
- Stand
- Ready all your rested cards.
- Draw
- Draw 1 card. The first player typically skips Draw on turn 1.
- Resource
- Generate the turn's resources (Crystals) used to pay card costs.
- Main
- Play Cookies, attach Treasures, cast Magic, and activate abilities.
- Battle
- Attack with your Cookies and your Leader against the opposing Leader or Cookies.
- End
- Resolve end-of-turn effects and pass.
VGood to Know
- Cookie Run: Braverse is a newer game and product lines are still expanding — always cross-check the latest rulebook for your set.
- Different Leaders enable very different deck archetypes; pick a Leader that matches the play style you want.