Every match you start costs one Declaration of War. That covers online lobbies,
Correspondence, the Ranked queue,
Tournaments and Single Player against bots.
The tutorial is free. Your count is shown on the ⚔ button at the top left of the main
screen; click it to see how long until the next one.
- One on your first login each day (the day resets at midnight UTC).
- Then one every 4 hours, but only while you're in the game. Time spent offline never
builds up: come back after three days away and you get that day's one, not a backlog.
- You can hold up to 10 free ones. The daily one, the 4-hour ones and ad rewards stop while
you're at 10.
- On Android, iPhone and iPad, you can watch an ad for one. Tap Watch an ad (+1) to watch a short video
and earn a Declaration, up to 3 a day. It's always optional: no ad ever plays unless you
tap the button. There are no ads on PC, and Premium members never see the
button.
- Buy them with gold: 3 for 100 gold or 20 for 500 gold, from
the Buy Gold section of the Store or from the "out of Declarations" message. Bought
Declarations can take you past 10, and the free ones keep anything above 10 you already
have.
- Joining a lobby holds a Declaration. It's only used when the first player's turn
begins.
- You get it back if you leave the lobby, or if the match never starts.
- If a lobby you're in has been waiting for over 2 hours and you join something else, you're
taken out of the old lobby so your Declaration can move with you.
- Free: rejoining a match you already paid for, a match an admin restarts, and the
Moderator seat in Rigged Capitals.
- Single Player needs you to be signed in, unless you're a Premium member
(Premium can play Single Player signed out). Picking up a saved game where you left off is
free.
You can't create or join a lobby, queue for Ranked, or start a Single Player match until you
earn or buy another. Single Player shows a message where you can buy Declarations with
gold or open the store. On Android and iOS, the same message offers Watch an ad (+1) if you have
ads left today. Premium members
never run out.
Tournament games are the exception: you can still play them with none left.
If you have a Declaration, the game uses it as normal.