First things first, you have to create an account before you can enter
Sanctum. Once you’ve got your account all set up, the next thing to do is build your deck. There are 12 houses to pick from, each containing two specific mana types for that house. Each one has its pros and cons, and you can get information about them through the Help Sections. So, after your house is selected, you have to give yourself a deck to work with. You’ll start off with a deck of 60 cards, and you can upgrade these later by buying cards from Digital Addiction. Plus, it’s best that when you’re selecting your cards to consider a third mana to use during the game. Now save your deck. You can have as many decks as you want. Now onto the fun stuff.
When you enter the game, you’ll be placed into the Hero’s Gate room where you can choose to challenge another player or wait until someone challenges you. You can accept the challenge, decline the challenge, or give them a counter offer as to which playing field type you like. There’s everything from forests to ice to lava.
O.k., so Sanctum is underway now. You start off with eight minions in your home base, and you can have up to eight minions per group. The object is to take some of the towns on the board and the opponent’s home base. With your home base, you can either choose to extract more men from it or use the men to create mana which you need to cast your cards. Each card has a description of what it does and how much mana is needed to cast it. I’m not going to explain each card because there are just too many of them. Now about that third mana I told you to include when considering your deck -- with each town you capture, you can assign it a particular mana type. And with each town you obtain, the more of that mana you can have.
The board itself is divided up into squares. You can move each group only one square at a time. However, you can cast up to five cards at a time depending on your mana status. The cards will be replaced each time one is cast until you’re out of cards. So that’s the basic gist of it, and most of the game is learning as you go.
