Genshin TCG Guide: Genius Invokation Unlock, Rules and Card Farming

What Genius Invokation TCG Is

Genius Invokation TCG is a permanent card game mode added in Version 3.3, located at the Cat's Tail tavern in Mondstadt. It is not a time-limited event: it has its own Player Level, its own currency (Lucky Coins) and a continuously growing card pool, much like the Serenitea Pot.

The most practical point: it pays Primogems. Every Player Level grants Primogems, and collecting them all adds up to a meaningful total.

How to Unlock It

Requirement	Detail
Adventure Rank	32
Main story	Complete Archon Quest Prologue: Act III — Song of the Dragon and Freedom
Tutorial quest	Complete the world quest "Battlefield of Dice, Cats, and Cards" (triggered at the Cat's Tail)

Once all three are met, follow the tutorial quest to the end and you will receive the Casket of Tomes — the item used to edit decks and see who you can challenge. The tutorial also hands you Diluc, Kaeya, Sucrose and Fischl, enough to play the first several matches.

How Decks Are Built

A deck is always 33 cards:

• 3 Character Cards — the pieces on the board, each with HP, an element and three abilities (Normal Attack, Elemental Skill, Elemental Burst).
• 30 Action Cards — equipment, support and event cards that provide buffs, healing, utility and burst damage.

Deck slots unlock as your Player Level rises, so higher levels let you save more decks.

How a Match Plays Out: Four Phases

Phase	What happens
1. Preparation	Both players draw 5 cards and may replace any number of them once.
2. Roll Phase	Roll 8 Elemental Dice and reroll any of them once.
3. Action Phase	Spend dice on skills and cards, alternating turns with your opponent.
4. End Phase	Passive effects resolve, both players draw 2 cards, then the next round's Roll Phase begins.

The win condition is simple: defeat all of your opponent's Character Cards. There is no aggregate health pool and no turn limit — whoever clears the board first wins.

Elemental Dice: The Core Resource

There are 8 types of Elemental Dice: Pyro, Hydro, Electro, Cryo, Dendro, Anemo, Geo, plus Omni dice. Omni dice count as any element and are the ideal roll.

Three rules you must know:

• 8 dice per round, one reroll. Swap out the ones you do not need.
• Elemental Tuning fixes bad rolls: discard 1 card from your hand to convert 1 die into any element. This is the key play when your dice do not cooperate.
• Playing cards from hand is a Fast Action and does not end your turn, while using a skill, switching characters or declaring the round over are Combat Actions that pass the turn. Understanding that difference is where the skill ceiling lives.

Card Types

Group	Subtype	Effect
Equipment	Weapon	Equipped to boost damage or lower skill cost
	Artifact	Based on artifacts and sets, provides lasting buffs
	Talent	Based on talents and constellations, strengthens a specific character
	Technique	Grants the attached character a technique
Support	Location / Companion / Item	Placed in the Support Zone for ongoing effects (max 4)
	Elemental Resonance	Requires two Character Cards of the same element in the deck
Event	Standard Event	One-time effect the moment it is played
	Food	Buffs the character that eats it
	Arcane Legend	Usable once per match and always appears in your starting hand

There is also a Summons Zone, which likewise holds up to 4 summons.

How to Get Cards

• Tutorial quest: gives Diluc, Kaeya, Sucrose and Fischl outright.
• Tavern Challenges: win on Friendly Fracas difficulty against a specific opponent to unlock that Character Card.
• Invitations: invite a character, then win on Friendly Fracas difficulty to unlock their card.
• The Cat's Tail shop: spend Lucky Coins directly on Action Cards and some Character Cards.
• Player Level rewards: leveling up also grants cards and Match Invitation Letters.

Player Level and Rewards

Player Level caps at 10, raised by earning EXP from matches. Every level grants a flat 60 Primogems plus 1 Match Invitation Letter and Lucky Coins. Across all sources the currency adds up roughly as follows:

Source	Lucky Coins
Stage challenges (excluding Weekly Guest Challenges)	about 287,950
Player's Manual match rewards	about 23,600
Player Level rewards	500
Total	about 312,000

Stages also provide roughly 9,390 Player EXP in total, enough to push your level a long way.

Practical Tips

• PvE pays, PvP does not. Farm NPC challenges for Primogems and Lucky Coins; matches against friends are for fun only.
• Weekly Guest Challenges reset every Monday — a steady source of EXP and currency. Do not skip them.
• Higher levels require completing an Ascension Challenge; simply accumulating EXP is not enough.
• Check the difficulty marker on an opponent before the match. Ordinary NPCs can be beaten by attrition; elite opponents require planning your elemental reactions in advance.
• Mulligan for cards that generate extra dice or reduce costs — they set the ceiling on how many actions you get this game.
• Your Character Cards' elements determine whether Elemental Resonance cards are usable, so decide which reaction you are built around before you finish the deck.

More in Reference Guides

• Glossary
• Achievements
• Namecards
• Daily Commissions
• Primogem Farming
• Friendship Level Guide