ReksikCards 5.0.0

ReksikCards is a 220-card pack built for long, heavily stacked ROUNDS matches. Culture cards now lead with strong permanent ROUNDS stats, while their custom mechanics act as supplemental build texture.

What is inside

• 22 hand-written cards with bespoke mechanics, progression and cross-card Bonds.
• 198 Culture cards inspired by eight approved works.
• 22 Legendary cards out of 220 total: exactly 10%.
• 19 headline Culture Legendaries, each with embedded portrait art and one distinct signature rule.
• Every Culture card has exactly four permanent vanilla-compatible stats.
• All 179 non-Legendary Culture cards have a visible drawback as part of their profile.
• All 198 Culture cards have separately authored stat profiles; exact profile duplicates are rejected before packaging.
• Every Culture card belongs to a semantic role family based on its character, event, artifact or idea.

Classroom of the Elite is treated as one source covering seasons 1-4. Its families describe roles such as hidden genius, class leadership, social influence, special exams, the White Room and first-year pressure. Seasons do not define mechanics.

Headline cards

Major characters and concepts receive purpose-built permanent profiles as well as signatures. Each of the 19 headline Culture cards has exactly one signature rule that changes how its power is prepared, stored or released. The bespoke rule is the only executor for that signature, so it is not silently doubled by a generic effect. Their mechanic count is equal; their coefficients and play patterns are not.

Kiyotaka Ayanokoji is the strongest Culture card: +100% health, +100% damage, +50% attack speed and -50% block cooldown. He also has the strongest headline signature, building Calculation from combat actions and converting it into stored offensive power on block.

Card readability

Culture card faces show their 3-4 real permanent stats. They do not print copy counts, family implementation details or lore paragraphs. Most shared mechanics remain supplemental and hidden from the compact card face; headline and selected event behavior is surfaced only when it is important to understand the pick.

Stacking

• Permanent stats stack through the normal ROUNDS stat pipeline.
• Exact duplicate Culture mechanics preserve quadratic self-growth: two copies resolve as 2^2, three as 3^2, and so on.
• Different cards in the same semantic family add a smaller linear family bonus.
• Hand-written cards retain their own bespoke stacking behavior, including additional area, charges, targets, duration or stored power.
• Host mechanic power is a direct multiplier; it does not change card counts or replace the stacking rules.

This keeps repeated picks exciting in a 220-card pool while still rewarding builds assembled from related cards.

Host controls

The room host can synchronize:

• Marathon, Balanced, Chaos and Legacy presets;
• Bonds on or off;
• global mechanic power and VFX intensity;
• Culture mechanics and Culture combat VFX;
• the shared Culture update rate from 1 to 30 Hz;
• Common, Uncommon, Rare and Legendary draw-weight multipliers;
• optional diagnostic text above players.

Settings display persistent [ON] and [OFF] states. Clients are read-only while online and receive the host's active values. Text above players is disabled by default to keep long matches readable.

Deterministic presentation

The 19 headline Legendaries use embedded portrait art; the rest of the Culture roster uses shared static source art. Animated preview files are not included. Runtime effects derive a deterministic visual identity from card ID, source, mechanic and rarity, varying palette, shape, accent, scale and motion without adding unbounded effect systems. Projectile trails, pulses, shockwaves, retaliation rings and the shared low-health aura remain bounded.

Dependencies

• BepInExPack_ROUNDS
• UnboundLib
• ModdingUtils
• CardChoiceSpawnUniqueCardPatch
• RarityLib

All players in a lobby should use the same package and dependency versions.