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Players use action cards to sow and harvest crops (carrots, hay, oats, corn) to feed their livestock (sheep, pigs, cow, horse) and earn victory points. On each player's board, a rotating wheel indicates where and when actions can take place, and another central wheel that affects all players indicates what yields they can expect. These wheels change over time, creating constantly shifting situations that players must navigate.

There are six factions in Tooth & Nail: Factions contains six factions – Aeon Walkers, Red Claw, The Pride, Enrodenta, Marauders, and Ostra Voltura – each with its own unique deck that includes Troops, Totems, and a Faction Tactics card. In the Standard game (for 2-4 players), each player takes a single faction, whereas in the two-player Alliance game, each player combines two factions.

Troops can be played into the player's Command Zone or his War Zone. Troops in the Command Zone increase a player's resources, grant him powerful abilities, and increase the potential size of his War Zone; troops in the War Zone are used to attack another player. Additionally, Troops in a player's hand can be used to boost his attacks or activate the abilities of his Command Zone Troops.

Totems are faction specific cards that have a powerful ability tied to the number of Troops in the player's War Zone. They can also be used as "wild cards" for activating special abilities.

Tactics Cards are two-sided, and offer the player faction-specific attack formations or a faction-specific bonus ability.

There are no victory points to be achieved, no areas to control. Your deck is the game clock, when it gets to zero cards, you lose. Of course, if you get your opponent's deck to zero first, you win.

•Helmsman, plotting the ship's course through asteroid fields and nebulae.
•Engineer, using dominoes to get enough power to each system.
•Weapons Officer, completing puzzles to load the torpedoes and flicking a disc down a track to launch them.
•Shield Officer, using tiles to form poker hands to get the strongest shields.
•Sensor Officer, using your sense of touch to scan and lock on enemy targets.
•Captain, setting the plan and making sure that everyone stays focused and does their job.