Gold, shards and rubies

Town of Duels has three currencies. Gold is everyday money, shards make the exact card you want, and rubies buy looks. Nothing you can pay for makes you stronger.

Gold

You start with 750 gold. A battle win pays 60 gold on Low, 90 on Medium and 120 on High, and a loss still pays 25. Your first win of the day adds 100 gold. Battle gold is capped at 400 a day, so your town is the other half of your income.

Gold also buys buildings, themed decks at 8,000 gold each, three board styles and the daily market, which offers three cards a day.

Shards

Duplicate cards turn into shards, and Ateliers, Fountains and battle wins add more. A win pays 5 shards, up to 25 a day. Spend shards at the forge to make any card you choose.

Rubies

Rubies are won in the game: you earn 10 every 5 renown levels, and some town goals pay them too. Soon they can also be bought with real money. Either way, rubies only unlock cosmetics such as Crimson frames (150 rubies) and the two finest boards. They cannot buy cards, levels or anything else that makes you stronger.

The free daily card

Once a day the shop gives you a free card. If you have characters in your deck that can still grow, about half the time it will be one of them, which helps you level up the team you actually play.

Card levels

Extra copies of a character become replicas, and replicas plus gold raise it through levels up to 10, for about 30% more strength in total. Levels count against the computer, but they never count in online 1v1, where both players fight with even cards.

Mastery frames

Win with a character and it earns a frame. Frames are only for show, and each one also pays shards:

Weekly missions

Each week brings five missions that pay 100 to 300 gold, and finishing all five adds 300 more.