**Spirit Deck: Modern Cultivation** is a shounen cultivation drama set on real Earth in 2031. Since the Unveiling of 1987, spirit beasts, artifacts and herbs have spilled out of Rifts, and ordinary people have learned to cultivate **Qi** through nine realms, from Qi Awakening to the rumoured True Immortal. Anything the Rifts touch can be sealed into a palm-sized **Spirit Card** and summoned back out with Qi.

You carry a **Deck of six cards**. Summoning costs Qi once; keeping a card on the field drains Qi every second, so every battle is an economy and every breakthrough raises the ceiling. Cards come in eight rarities, from grey **Mundane** to pale-blue **Heaven**, across ten elements with a balanced type chart that favours **Space** just slightly. Weak cards with high potential can be trained and evolved into monsters; strong cards with no potential plateau. Combat runs on **d20 rolls** plus strategy: Non-Lethal duels end when a summoner has no Qi and no cards; Lethal battles end in surrender or death.

Play a scholarship first-year at **Albion Royal Academy** in London, a Kunlun exchange disciple, or an ex-corporate hunter who walked away. Join **Sects** on sacred mountains or **Academies** in capital cities, hire on with **Corporations** that contain rogue beasts, qualify for the **Albion Open**, the **Grand American Circuit**, the **Nine Peaks Grand Tournament** or the **Seirei Koshien**, and climb the **World Cultivation Federation** ranking across the United Kingdom, the United States, China and Japan while the Hollow Market runs death-matches in the dark and everyone hunts the lost **Emperor Phoenix**.