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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A Video Game trope where the game's setting (e.g. combat system) doesn't involve actual cards, but the mechanics the game uses to implement its system use cards anyway. In other words, these cards exist outside the universe's Fourth Wall, and are invisible to the in-universe characters; who are still clashing swords and summoning spells, not slapping cards down on some table. Expect to see one character with full Medium Awareness of the subject, solely to teach the player how the battle system works. After that, the card system is (almost) never explicitly mentioned again. Now this doesn't always work just like a Collectible Card Game; as sometimes you have access to the entire deck at once and merely have to pick the best card for a given situation. Running out can cost you precious time (i.e. reloading your deck leaves you open to attack) or even cause a Game Over. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })A Sister Trope to Card Battle Game. Not to be confused with Death Dealer, when a fighter uses the cards themselves as a weapon. Examples: |
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Wizard 101 has spells as cards, but there is no real 'collectible' element to making a spell deck. You unlock spells for your school as you advance in level, and the only limit to the number of copies of a particular spell is determined by your deck-box, a piece of equipment that you trade for better versions as usual. You do however get a limited number of 'training points' you can use to get spells from outside your school, but since you need to acquire them linearly you're usually just better off focusing on one extra school. | |
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Averted in one the strangest ways possible in The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang. The main character fights using a variety of cards and said use of cards affects the progression of plot and puzzles. However, the actual gameplay is a top-down action game, the game has little to do with the traditional aspects of a collectible card game, functioning more like a glorified inventory. | |
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Bleach: Blade of Fate had a fairly tight card system, although the cards in question only gave a Status Buff. | |
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Sigma Harmonics, in a way similar to the above. | |
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The Duelist class from 7th Dragon III: Code VFD fights using decks of playing cards, using different combinations of elemental cards to lay traps and summon monsters. | |
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Not involving cards, but Puzzle Quest has the same idea; you and your enemies do damage and collect mana by matching stones on a puzzle board, even though you're just fighting monsters according to the storyline. | |
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Dead Rising 2 (and the related Case Zero prequel game) allows you to combine ordinary items to form super weapons (bat plus box of nails equals spiky bat; shotgun plus pitchfork equals boomstick). But your ability to use these to their fullest is goverened by whether you've collected the associated "combo card." If not, you gain less experience from using the weapon, and you are unable to use the weapon's "strong attack" variant. Combo cards are non-diegetic rewards — you earn them when you level up, defeat bosses, and do other plot-related things. | |
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Baten Kaitos mostly averts this trope. The story revolves around 5 cards containing an evil god. It's also implied that everyone in-universe uses Magnus cards to carry things around, as each of them can carry an item or an elemental essence, but they're not mentioned often by the people you meet probably in the same manner that you say you buy some pasta and not a box of pasta. They're so ubiquitous that their application is redundant in a conversation. The battle system is less consistent with its universe, though. It has you drawing Magnus cards from your shuffled deck. These contain a weapon, an item, a piece of armor, or a special attack and selecting them makes your character use them once to attack, defend or heal. While having many different tools to fight with during battle is immensely useful, there's no reason why your characters would not just keep their best weapons and armor for the whole fight and even less justification for why your deck is shuffled, why you have to use cards for special attacks and how your items like potions and food always stay full after use. The second game fits this trope straight-up, as weapons are instead replaced with generic attacks which can be used by everyone in your party. Magnus cards are not made to hold such things at all. |
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Mobius Final Fantasy uses equippable 'cards' for your magic and attacks, but these do not act mechanically like cards. What does act like cards is the orb-drawing mechanic, which lets you 'draw' an orb for every attack you make and put it into your hand, which can then be used to pay for one of your 'card' abilities. | |
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Sonic Battle used a card system to edit stats while playing like a typical fighter. | |
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Sticker Star's battling system extends to the next Paper Mario game, Paper Mario: Color Splash, only this time, Mario is directly using a deck of cards to battle with. | |
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The entire Wrestle Angels series has you controlling female wrestlers with cards. | |
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In Guild of Dungeoneering, characters start out with a deck of cards based in their classes, and gain more based off what loot they collect. | |
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Mawlock from the Shining Force remake, Resurrection of the Dark Dragon, whose specialty lies in using character cards to change the tide of battle. Cards are obtained through various arbitrary methods, such as talking to a certain character a number of times at your home base, or using a certain character to deliver a killing blow on a boss. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons edition 3.5, the Tome of Battle supplement came with online "maneuver cards" which could be printed out for quick reference of the effects of different martial techniques. Given that the Crusader class from said supplement had a limited pool of maneuvers which expanded randomly on each turn, it was extremely common for Crusader players to keep a deck of maneuver cards which they could draw from and shuffle. | |
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Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D Revolution (since the rest of the Phantasy Star series doesn't use cards like this) | |
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And the sequel series, Mega Man Star Force, even more so, since the "Battle Chip" cards of Battle Network are swapped out for actual cards. In both, the explanation is that all the battles are virtual and the "cards" have attack data for you to use. Though that doesn't really explain why you need to select your attacks from a randomly selected hand, or why you discard attack data after using them once. |
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Paladins has three types of cards utilised in its gameplay. A "loadout" deck which provides extra power and cooldown reductions to a champion and their abilities (20 cards for each champion, 5 each for their main three abilities, and the last 5 for their main weapon and passive armor effects) which are unique for each hero, and 16 cards that are bought in-battle (Think like the equipment in a MOBA.) with four types: Defense, Utility, Healing, and Offence. There are also "Talent" cards, with one only available when a character comes out, but more unlock as you level them up. Talent cards compliment your loadout and massively change the gameplay style of the character. | |
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Paper Mario: Sticker Star's stickers function like action cards: Any action Mario takes in a battle must be done using a sticker, including staples like jumping. Mario can also turn objects (or even living things) into stickers, which can then be summoned mid-battle when played. | |
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In Second Life, there is a popular card game called En Garde, which emulates a swordfight (complete with animations): only the players see the cards, spectators see a (slow-motion) duel. | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, each Servant has five attack cards that fall into one of three different categories: Buster (red, inflicts extra damage), Quick (green, inflicts multiple hits and raises the rate at which you reap Critical Stars that are applied to the next turn), and Arts (blue, raises their Noble Phantasm gauge). In battle, all of your frontline Servants' (up to three) cards are placed into a deck of up to 15, five are dealt at a time, and you pick three cards that determine which Servants attack and what type of attacks they use. Picking three cards that belong to the same Servant grants them an Extra Attack, and picking three cards of the same type gives a bonus: three Buster cards grants additional damage, three Quick cards adds 10 Critical Stars, and three Arts cards gives instant NP gauge boosts to everyone whose cards were picked. Once the deck is emptied (1-3 turns, depending on how many Servants are in battle), the deck is refilled and reshuffled. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: In Battlemage. Between battles you select cards to your deck, including individuals who have agreed to join your side. Combats are fought in RTS style. Lands create a mana pool, that acts like traditional resource pool and units either attack towards the enemy or stand in front of you and defend. Your choice of actions is limited by your "hand", a selection of seven cards from your deck. Inverted in Shandalar (part of the original MTG PC game). Instead of an RPG that used cards for the combat mechanics, it was a port of the card game with an RPG as the Framing Device. This even applies in the proper card game, as the cards just represent wizards dueling with spells, summoning and attacking with monsters, and drawing power from the land. |
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Endless Space uses cards to represent battle tactics. | |
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Metal Gear Ac!d and its sequel. | |
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The tabletop RPG Deadlands uses ordinary playing cards for a lot of mechanics including initiative, spellcasting and weird science gadgetry. | |
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Touhou 10.5 - Scarlet Weather Rhapsody requires each character to equip a 20-cards deck (each character has its own personal pool to choose from); you "draw" a card by filling a super meter. There are three kinds of cards: "System", relatively simple effects that can be used by all characters; "Skill", which can improve your current special attacks or swap them with other specials of the same category; and "Spell", super moves that almost always consume multiple cards at once. | |
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Mega Man Battle Network And the sequel series, Mega Man Star Force, even more so, since the "Battle Chip" cards of Battle Network are swapped out for actual cards. In both, the explanation is that all the battles are virtual and the "cards" have attack data for you to use. Though that doesn't really explain why you need to select your attacks from a randomly selected hand, or why you discard attack data after using them once. |
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Dragon Ball Z has a series of games that play like this. | |
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The SNES port of Princess Maker. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories sort of qualifies. Even though the tutorial character explicitly says that the castle you enter is governed by cards, characters are seen to fight normally in cutscenes. The fact that Sora's abilities are locked into cards leads to a very dangerous move from the Final Boss, where he blows the cards out of your deck and scatters them, so you have to pick them up while dodging attacks before you can fight again. |
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