Advanced Strategy

The Deeper Game

You know the rules. These are the edges the best players use to win the roda.

Every movement card tells you two things. The ofá mark at the bottom of the colored bar shows its caminho — the path it travels, read from the bold limb. The color names the Orixá it feeds: within a deck, the Attack, Quebra, and Passada of one caminho share one color. But each deck paints its caminhos with its own colors — so the same caminho looks different depending on whose card it is (see below).
CaminhoAttackQuebraPassadaColor by deck
RetoGolpeFintaLateralA · P · G
RodadoFloreioGiroPulaA · P · G
de ChãoQuedaDesafioCostasA · P · G
Learn this and the whole board becomes readable at a glance — blocks, buffs, and blessings all run on these three caminhos.