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I think those are the two major resources - this game doesn't have an energy or mana system, and there isn't a cost to playing cards. That said, there are a few other resources.

One is available Lost Souls. If there are no souls in an opponent's Land of Bondage, then your turns are less valuable because you can't actually make a rescue attempt. This is an odd one because at face value this is something your opponent has more control over than you do, but it can be impacted by capture mechanics, soul generators, or soul removal.

Another resource is artifact slots. Normally players get one each - their artifact pile - but some cards can create more, and some artifacts can be activated elsewhere. Having two or three artifacts active instead of one can be very powerful.

While they're more of a metagame thing, there are deckbuilding resources as well. The number of Lost Souls in your deck determines not only its size - the number of cards you can include - but also the number of dominants you can run. This may seem less important, but the number of cards in your deck (even ones in the same soul range) is hugely important, and there are a lot of very solid dominants that just aren't run in T1 because you only have room for seven.

Really good discussion and valuable insights! Hope this one continues with more useful contributions!

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How about initiative? Is that a resource, or something else ?

Hmm, maybe depending on how you define resources in TCGs in general and in Redemption especially. If it is a "cost" you need to pay to get a benefit (i.e. spending a card slot for getting the benefit of putting e.g. a battle winner in)? Then ini could be thought about it in some manner like: Including a small numbered guy without banding abilities to get hopefully initiative while being vulnerable to AotL or CM - or putting in a big numbered guy with a strong SA and/or maybe even banding while most probably giving away initiative then (well if you do not manage to win the battle by that big numbered guy's SA or by banding in sufficient other characters). - Just my thoughts though.

Indeed. Payment for ini is more or less "indirect" IMO - as I try to pointed out. 

Well I just came across this 😂

http://landofredemption.com/?p=2479