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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.

Players2 players
Play Time15–30 minutes
DifficultyBeginner-friendly

Defeat your opponent's Leader Cookie by reducing its HP to 0, or by meeting an alternate win condition printed on certain cards.

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.
  1. Place your Leader Cookie face-up in the Leader zone.
  2. Shuffle your Main deck and present it for a cut.
  3. Determine the first player.
  4. 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.

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.
  • 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.