Elestrals

If you have Elestrals in Attack Position, you can battle your opponent’s Elestrals! Elestrals can attack up to one time each turn. Follow these steps:

1. Choose which Elestral is attacking, and which of your opponent’s Elestrals is being attacked. If they have none you attack their Spirit Deck.
2. Effects “when [an Elestral] declares an attack ...” activate, and players can chain Counters.
3. If the attack isn’t legal anymore, you can declare a new attack or do something else. Otherwise, those Elestrals enter battle! Until the battle is over, their Positions cannot be changed by effects.
4. Effects “when [an Elestral] enters battle [with] ...” activate, and players can chain Counters.
5. If both Elestrals are still on the field, compare their stats to determine the outcome of the battle *(see the next page)*. If either is missing, then the Elestral that’s still there is battling the opposing Spirit Deck.
6. Process the results. Usually, Elestrals are destroyed and players Expend Spirits.

An Elestral with 0 Attack deals no damage: it can’t destroy an Elestral - even if it has 0 Attack too - and can’t make a player Expend Spirits.

**If your opponent’s Elestral is in:**

**Attack Position**

* Compare both Elestrals’ Attacks. If they’re equal, destroy both. If one is smaller, destroy it.
* If a destroyed Elestral had fewer Enchanting Spirits than the other, its controller Expends Spirits equal to the difference, even if both were destroyed.

**Defense Position**

* Compare your Elestral’s Attack to the Defense of theirs. If theirs is smaller, destroy it, but if they’re equal or theirs is higher, nothing happens.
* No Spirits are Expended even if the defender is destroyed. Some effects can modify this.

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When an Elestral battles a player’s Spirit Deck, they Expend Spirits equal to how many Spirits are Enchanting that Elestral. It’s rare but possible for a Defense Position Elestral to battle a player’s Spirit Deck; usually this happens if it’s attacked, but the attacking Elestral leaves the field before the battle is over. No Spirits are Expended in that case.

After battle, effects can activate “when [an Elestral] destroys ...” or “is destroyed”. This happens before declaring more battles.

End Phase

Main Phase

Playing Elestrals

Battle Phase

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