Like previous comments said, a tutorial would be really useful 😁
Also, adding more iconography with detailed hover descriptions could help - it would make the experience feel more gamified compared to reading plain text descriptions.
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You could add simple icons to break up the wall of text and make everything more readable.
For example, 💧 instead of mana, or 🌖🌘 instead of phases.
They can appear next to the text or instead of the text in some places, and the full explanations can stay in the tooltips (e.g., ‘Mana’, ‘Advance to Midnight’).