How SPAM Works — Game Mechanics and Keywords

• 4cards per deck, all on the board from turn one
• 0cards in hand: no draw, no mana
• 50/50coin flip for who starts; the second player's cooldowns start one turn shorter
• 80 sturn timer with 4 cards alive (15 s per card + 20 s)
• 0enemy cards left = you win; both at 0 = draw
• 3slots per card, shared by its abilities and Tox

Data: SPAM game client v1.20 · extracted Oct 7, 2026 · How we calculate this

What happens, in order, when your turn starts:

1. Your Luck goes up by 1.
2. From round 20, overtime damages each of your cards.
3. The opponent's Shield Tox recharge.
4. Your cards are ready to act again.
5. You gain Spamtons: the round number plus the income of every card you still have.
6. Start-of-turn effects fire: Hearts add element points, Poison ticks, healing Tox restore HP.
7. On even turns the Tox Shop opens with 3 offers.
8. You cast any ready abilities, in any order; most abilities don't end your turn, so every ready one can be used.
9. At the end of your turn every cooldown ticks down by 1.

An ability's cooldown starts one below its number and ticks down at the end of each of your turns.

The player who goes second has every cooldown one turn shorter at the start.

How a hit is calculated, step by step (the same order the game uses):

1. Roll: a whole number between the ability's minimum and maximum (always the maximum with the Optimization Tox), plus any base-damage bonus.
2. Element points: +10% per point of the hit's element, plus 5 points if the arena terrain matches; the Multiplier Tox doubles the points for that card.
3. Critical hit: if it crits, multiply by the ability's critical power (×2 for most).
4. Berserk: your Berserk Tox add their percentages together.
5. Shield: the target's Shield reduces the first hit it takes each turn.
6. Resistance: the target takes that much % less damage of that element (negative = more). The Brutal Tox ignores resistances; Ether damage has none to ignore.

Worked example

Artisan of Hours's Flash deals 35 Light damage. Suppose you have 6 Light points and +25% Berserk, and the target is Weaver of Words, which resists Light by 35%. Artisan of Hours · Weaver of Words

1. 35 × 1.6 (for 6 points) = 56
2. 56 × 1.25 (Berserk) = 70
3. 70 × (1 − 35%) = 46 damage

Try this hit in the damage calculator →

Element points

Element points (the in-game "element bonus") are the main way damage grows during a match.

• Abilities add them (for example "Fire bonus (+1)"), every time they are cast.
• Heart Tox add points every turn: a Legendary Heart is +8 a turn.
• The arena terrain gives +5 points of its element to both players.
• The Multiplier Tox doubles the element bonus for the card that holds it.
• Points last for the whole match, so a deck that stacks one or two elements hits harder every turn.
• Ether (the divine element) has no resistance on any card, so Ether damage always lands in full.

Elements →

Resistances

Every card has a resistance for each of the six elements.

• Resistances are percentages: 10% Fire resistance means 10% less Fire damage.
• Buffs and debuffs can push a resistance to at most +50% and at least −50%.
• A negative resistance is a weakness: −20% means 20% more damage.
• The Brutal Tox makes a card's damage ignore resistances.
• The Paradox talent flips the sign of resistances.

Critical hits, accuracy and Echo

• Most abilities have a 1% critical chance; talents, Tox and some abilities raise it, and some abilities can't crit at all.
• A critical hit multiplies the damage by the ability's critical power, ×2 for most abilities and up to ×6.
• Accuracy is the chance to hit: most abilities never miss, but some gamble with 10–50% accuracy for big damage.
• Echo is a chance to get the ability back right after using it.

Spamtons are the in-match currency for the Tox Shop; Luck decides how rare its offers are.

• Turn + incomeSpamtons each turn: the round number plus the income on every card you still have
• +50Spamtons when one of your own cards is destroyed — a built-in comeback
• +10Spamtons for skipping a shop
• +1Luck every turn, plus Lucky Tox and some talents

Tox Shop →

From round 20, at the start of each of your turns every one of your cards loses 10% of its max HP, growing by 50% of that per round. Damage per card per turn:

Timers

Ranked opens after 3 casual matches and starts with a 30-second talent draft.

Every keyword that appears in card, Tox and talent text, with the game's own definition.

Absorb

Kills the targeted card and gains HP and max HP equal to its own

Accuracy

Chance for an attack to hit its target

AOE II

Only applies the on-impact effects of damage and healing abilities

Area damage

Only applies the on-impact effects of damage and healing abilities

Bonus

Additional damage not affected by elemental bonuses, but affected by Berserk and resistances

Choice

The player chooses among several offered options

Cost

What the ability consumes in order to be used

Critical

Chance for an ability's damage or healing to be critical

Critical Power

Multiplier applied to critical damage and healing

Echo

Percentage chance to recover the ability after use

Erosion

Reduces the target's max HP in proportion to the damage dealt

Eternity

Increases the target's cooldowns by 1

Freeze

Freeze by the opponent, a card cannot act during its next turn; Freeze by its own side, until the end of the opponent's next turn. Damage, a heal or a new Tox shatters the ice and deals thaw damage to it

Limited Use

Uses remaining out of the allowed total

Luck

Improve your chances of getting better TOXS during the purchase phase.

Poison

A poisoned card takes poison damage at the start of its turn, based on its max HP at the time of poisoning

Random

The target or effect is picked at random

Random enemies

Targets are picked at random among enemy cards

Resistance

Percentage of damage reduced for each element

Single use

The effect is consumed after it triggers once

Smoked

Enshrouds the allied field after using an attack or a heal

Spamtons

Currency used during the purchase phase.

Stun

A stunned target cannot use abilities

Taunt

A Taunt forces the opponent's targeting but does not constrain allied targeting

Temporality

Decreases the target's cooldowns by 1

Vampirism

Heals the caster for an amount tied to the damage dealt

Vanish

Removes the target's last passive