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Calamandara is an abstract and competitive strategy board game. The objective of the game is to be the first player to reach the central space of the board, the Dimensional Rift, with your traveler token. To do this, players use cards and tokens to navigate the board and block their opponents. Read on for a summary of how to play Calamandara!

The first step to playing Calamandara is to prepare the game. To do this, follow these steps:

Choosing Boards and Tokens:
Each player chooses an individual traveler board (Dogmatic Lands), a traveler token and a playboard. The playboards are organized with the Dogmatic Symbol tokens.
Distribution of Symbol Cards:
The 36 Symbol Cards are shuffled and divided equally among the players, who place them face up on their respective boards.
Distribution of Memory Cards:
The 72 Memory Cards are shuffled and divided equally among the players. The contents of the cards are kept secret. Each player may acquire up to 5 cards from the top of their Memory Card deck to form their starting hand.
Selecting Starting Dogmatic Symbols:
Each player chooses 2 Dogmatic Symbols to begin the game.
Drawing the First Traveler:
Players draw the First Traveler Marker to determine who starts the game.

Calamandara is played in turns, with each turn divided into 4 phases:

Acquiring Dogmatic Symbols:
The player looks at the Symbol Card at the top of their deck and acquires the center symbol and one of the bottom symbols, placing them in their Symbol Pool.
Insert Dogmatic Symbols:
The player may insert 1 to 4 Dogmatic Symbols from their reserve onto their board or onto other players' boards, according to the rules for each symbol.
Move Traveler Token:
The player may move their traveler token across the Footprint symbols placed on their board.
Reserve / Discard / Acquire Memory Cards:
The player may reserve Memory Cards from the Final Reserve, discard a Memory Card, or acquire Memory Cards from the top of their deck.

Each Dogmatic Symbol has a specific function in the game, such as:

Footprint:
Allows the player's token to advance across the board.
Mountain:
Obstructs spaces on the board.
Cave:
Allows diagonals on the board.
Wing:
Allows the player to jump across an entire line on the board.
Tower:
Prevents certain symbols from being placed in the same row and protects against the effects of Memory Cards.
Mirror:
Makes an opposing player move back one space.
Star:
Allows symbols to be relocated in the same row or column.
Waterfall:
Can be transformed into a Footprint, Tower or Mountain on the player's next turn.
Fire:
Destroys other symbols (except Footprint with traveler token, Waterfall and Fire)

Memory Cards provide special abilities that can be used at any time during the game, even outside the player's turn. They have two types of effects:

The End Zone is the central area of the board. Upon entering the End Zone:

The Memory Cards in the player's hand are placed back in the main deck (L).
The Memory Cards set aside in the End Reserve are moved to the player's hand.
The player loses the 4th phase of the turn and can no longer acquire, discard or set aside Memory Cards.
The player may only use Souvenir Cards that were set aside in the End Reserve.

The first player to place their traveler token in the Dimensional Rift wins the game.
To reach the Dimensional Rift, the player must place a Footprint symbol on the center point of the board and, on top of it, their traveler token.