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79-420: These games manage all the rules of a CCG, such as tracking the avatar's health, removing damaged creatures from the board, and shuffling decks when necessary. The games are managed on servers to maintain the player's library and any purchases of booster packs and additional cards through either in-game or real-world money. Some games, like Chaotic , Bella Sara , and MapleStory allow online players to enter

158-595: A decade later. Chron X was developed by Genetic Anomalies, Inc, which later developed other DCCG-like games based on licensed content. DCCG games first gained mainstream success in Japan, where online card battle games are a common genre of free-to-play browser games and mobile games . Monster-collecting Japanese RPGs such as Dragon Quest V and Pokémon , and the manga Yu-Gi-Oh , were adapted into successful physical CCG games such as Pokémon Trading Card Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game , which in turn inspired

237-505: A deck and side deck combined, respectively. This list is updated several times annually and is followed in all tournaments that use this format. Traditional format, created in October 2004, is a format where all cards in the advanced format's forbidden list are instead allowed at 1 copy per deck, while all other rules are identical. This format is rarely used in competitive play. The game formerly incorporated worldwide rankings, including

316-538: A deck containing forty to sixty cards, and an optional "extra deck" of up to fifteen cards. There is also an optional fifteen-card side deck , which allows players to swap cards from their main deck and/or extra deck between games. Players are restricted to three of each card per deck and must follow the Forbidden/Limited card list, which restricts selected cards by Konami to be limited to two, one, or zero. Each player starts with 8,000 "life points" (LP) (Though

395-410: A deck with 12 cards each representing a Marvel villain or superhero—and each with their own unique abilities—and compete against other players in short, three-minute face-offs. Digital collectible card games are generally free-to-play but monetized through booster pack purchases. Booster packs have been compared to loot boxes , which are considered part of the compulsion loop of game design, and in

474-410: A description listing the monster's types and any effects or summoning conditions they may have. Monsters are summoned to the field through three main categories of summoning: Normal, Tribute, and Special. Once during a player's main phase, they can choose to normal summon a level 4 or lower normal or effect monster from their hand, in face-up attack position or face-down defense position, or tribute summon

553-432: A jellyfish. The game is played by two players who control an army of creatures. The object of the game is to lower the energy of that player's opponent's creatures to 0 by way of attacks, mugic, or creature abilities. The game can be played with a varying amount of creatures in each army (1vs1, 3vs3, 6vs6, 10vs10) and with a varying amount of complexity. The game can be played in the advanced apprentice ruleset where no mugic

632-449: A larger gameplay mechanism. In such games, the player earns cards as rewards in the game, often following similar rarity systems for distribution, and can customize some type of deck which influences other areas of the game's mechanics. Early example of this hybrid game include Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution (2003), Baten Kaitos (2003), and Metal Gear Acid (2004). Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004)

711-546: A lawsuit against Upper Deck alleging that it had distributed inauthentic Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards made without Konami's authorization. Upper Deck also sued Konami alleging breach of contract and slander. A few months later, a federal court in Los Angeles issued an injunction preventing Upper Deck from acting as the authorized distributor and requiring it to remove the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG from Upper Deck's website. In December 2009,

790-495: A level 5 or higher monster by tributing one or more monsters already on the field. Special summons are performed by utilising card effects or fulfilling the conditions of other summoning methods, such as those used to summon cards from the extra deck, and may be performed as many times as desired if the conditions are met. The game currently features the following types of monster. Also there are subtype monsters with special effects being; Spell cards, green, are magical spells with

869-402: A monster summon and/or the activation of a spell or trap, but at the cost of half of the player's LP) (as chain link 3 to negate Destruction Jammer' s effect). Their opponent decides not to reply to Solemn Judgement , thus the chain is resolved starting with the highest chain link, which achieves this result: A chain can only be created when a card or effect is activated. Summoning or tributing

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948-539: A monster's strength, drawing additional cards, or removing an opponent's cards from the field. Traps are cards that are set on the field in advance and activated in later turns when certain conditions are met, such as when an opponent targets a player's monster. With some exceptions, a typical monster card possesses ATK and DEF points that determine its attack and defense power in battles, a level represented by stars, with more powerful monsters typically being of higher levels, an attribute that certain effects may react to, and

1027-684: A monster, changing position or paying a cost do not represent valid effects. Thus, it is not possible to reply to a chain with these effects. Tournaments are often hosted either by players or by card shops. In addition, Konami , Upper Deck (now no longer part of Yu-Gi-Oh! 's organized play), and Shonen Jump have all organized numerous tournament systems in their respective areas. These tournaments attract hundreds of players to compete for prizes such as rare promotional cards. There are two styles of tournament play called "formats"; each format has its own rules and some restrictions on what cards are allowed to be used during events. The advanced format

1106-649: A number of Japanese developers to produce digital CCG games, including adaptations such as Pokémon Trading Card Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! video games , as well as original DCCG games such as the minigame Triple Triad in Final Fantasy VIII (1999), Tetra Master (2002) which debuted as a minigame in Final Fantasy IX (2000) before becoming an online multiplayer game for the PlayOnline service, and Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge (2003). Within

1185-469: A popular genre in mobile gaming , leading to a number of DCCG games being developed for mobile devices. It was also the first DCCG game to become a major success in the Western world, becoming one of the top-grossing mobile games of 2012. DCCG games with significant populations of players include The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls , Kantai Collection and Million Arthur . In late 2012, Cinderella Girls

1264-545: A rating system called "COSSY" (Konami card game official tournament support system). COSSY was retired on March 23, 2017. With the introduction of the Battle Pack: Epic Dawn, Konami has announced the introduction of drafting tournaments. This continued with a second set for sealed play: Battle Pack: War Of The Giants in 2013. The third and final Battle Pack, Battle Pack 3: monster League, was released on July 25, 2014. Other formats include Speed Duel , which

1343-512: A set of differently themed mini-stories, only a few episodes of which involved the so-called "Lost City". In the Chaotic Trading Card Game there are 5 different types of cards: Creatures, Battlegear , Attacks, Mugic, and Locations. Creatures are the cards players control to do battle. Battlegear is a specific item each creature is equipped with when it starts battle. Attacks are exactly that, they are used to do damage to

1422-410: A significant part of the video game market. SuperData estimated that digital card games will bring over US$ 1.5 billion in 2018, with a quarter of that from Hearthstone , and the potential to grow to US$ 2 billion by 2020. Forbes reported that the global Trading Card Game market size in 2022 was valued at $ 2.99 billion and it is expected to reach $ 4.2 billion by 2028. Chaotic Chaotic

1501-666: A unique alpha-numeric code found on each physical card as to redeem the card in the online version or access other features. In other cases, primarily single player games based on the existing physical property have also been made, such as the Game Boy Color version of the Pokémon Trading Card Game and Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers . Most DCCGs follow rules that exist for real-world implementations of CCGs, simply played out in

1580-650: A variety of devices. By 2015, Hearthstone had an estimated $ 20 million in revenues per month, and by April 2016, had more than 50 million unique players. Hearthstone ' s success led to a number of similar digital-only CCGs in the following years. Wizards of the Coast announced in early 2017 that they plan to create a new studio to adapt the Magic: The Gathering game into a digital format similar to Hearthstone . Titled Magic: The Gathering Arena , it entered closed beta testing in early 2018, and over time

1659-405: A variety of effects, such as reviving destroyed monsters. They can be played from the hand during a player's turn or placed faced down for activation on a later turn. There are six types of Spell Card: Trap cards, dark pink, have to be set on a player's field face-down and can only be activated after the turn they were set has passed, including the opponent's turn. (Quick play spells, when set, have

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1738-515: Is a specialized format of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game which launched worldwide in January 2019. Inspired by the videogame Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links , it features a smaller field and simplified rules, along with a new type of card called Skill card. Skill cards are themed around a particular character of the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. To use a card in Speed Duel it must have the "Speed Duel" symbol on

1817-491: Is a teenager named Tom, whose friend Kaz constantly tells him of his adventures in Chaotic. Tom, who believes that Chaotic is only a card game, thinks that Kaz is making things up, until he entered a password he received from the game, transporting him to the world of Chaotic. It was then Tom knew that Kaz wasn't lying. In Chaotic, he also met some new friends, like the courageous Sarah and the comic Peyton, and new enemies, like

1896-407: Is a tribe which consists of creatures which resemble various monsters. Danians are usually made to resemble ants but there are some creatures based on other insects found within the tribe. Mipedians are a tribe which is made of creatures who resemble various lizards. The M'arrillians are a tribe which resembles various deep sea creatures, some of which have a transparent appearance such as that found in

1975-694: Is a variation of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game which launched in Japan in April 2020 alongside the release of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens anime series. This variation of the game uses a different set of cards from the main OCG/TCG entirely, though certain cards appear in Rush Duel. Rush Duel features reworked rules similar to those introduced in Speed Duels and expanded upon with a more streamlined version of

2054-543: Is advised to not resolve card effects before ensuring that a chain had not been created.(ask for a Response) The player plays Raigeki (a normal spell destroying all of the opponent's monsters) (Starting Chain link 1). As a response to the player’s Raigeki , their opponent plays Destruction Jammer (a counter trap that negates the destruction of a monster by discarding a card) to negate the effects of Raigeki (thus placing Destruction Jammer in chain link 2). The player then plays Solemn Judgement (a counter trap that negates

2133-479: Is as well. There can only be two of the same card in each army, unless specified as otherwise, cards that are limited to one per army are called unique. When the game begins the starting player (which can be chosen by who is the youngest, a coin toss, etc.) starts by flipping their top location card face-up. The other player then can move a creature to an unoccupied space on the mat, or move a creature into an opponent's occupied space. Doing this will initiate combat, this

2212-447: Is expected to replace MTGO as the main online game for Magic tournament play. The digital card game market was expected to be as large as $ 1.4 billion in 2017, according to market analysis firm SuperData. Hearthstone encouraged the release of the digital CCGs Gwent: The Witcher Card Game and The Elder Scrolls: Legends . Shadowverse has also been compared favorably with Hearthstone . In some cases, new elements are added to

2291-421: Is featured. This method allows players to freely summon a monster by deciding how many ATK or DEF points it has, but they receive damage equal to that amount when the monster is destroyed. The Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime series features Speed Duels which use a smaller number of monster and Spell & Trap zones and remove main phase 2 for faster duels. In the anime, characters can activate unique Skills depending on

2370-475: Is supported by its own line of products and has a dedicated card pool; and Time Wizard, a format that relies on the ruleset, card pool and limitations of a specific past date in the trading card game's history. Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Cards are available in Starter decks, Structure decks, booster packs , collectible tins, and occasionally as promotional cards. As in all other trading card games , booster packs are

2449-406: Is the only way to defeat a player's opponent's creatures in advanced apprentice seeing as no mugic or abilities are used. When combat begins the players see which creature has gained initiative, initiative is dependent on the location and the creatures that are battling in that location. Initiative can be anything from a stat to a certain tribe or an element. The player with the initiative gets to play

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2528-407: Is used and combat is only attacks. Masters is the next step up where mugic and activated abilities are used. Masters games take longer and require full knowledge of the rules. The rules of Chaotic are basic; each player starts the game with his creatures face-down and their battlegear face-down as well. When the game begins the creatures are flipped up and the battlegear which indicates to do so

2607-508: Is used in all sanctioned tournaments (with the exception of certain Pegasus League formats). This format follows all the normal rules of the game, but also places a complete ban on certain cards that are deemed too powerful or are unsuitable for tournament play. These cards are on a special list called the forbidden, or banned list. There are also certain cards that are limited or semi-limited to only being allowed 1 or 2 of those cards in

2686-541: The Dragon Ball Carddass series, is considered an early precursor to the DCCG, as it allowed the player to collect, buy and sell cards within the game for use in card battles. Tabletop-based CCGs came about in 1993 with Magic: The Gathering by Wizards of the Coast which became a phenomenon that year in the traditional game market. The CCG craze grew in 1994 onward as a result. This was also approximately

2765-547: The PlayStation Portable video game, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 4 , while Dark Synchro monsters featured in the anime were released as standard Synchro monsters in the real-life game. Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V features Action Cards, spell and trap cards that are picked up in the series' unique Action Duels, which are not possible to perform in the real life game. In the film Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions , an exclusive form of summoning known as Dimension Summoning

2844-696: The Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime and its subsequent spin-off series, produced by 4Kids Entertainment and later Konami Cross Media NY , edit the appearance of cards to differentiate them from their real-life counterparts in accordance with U.S. Federal Communications Commission regulations in concerning program-length commercials , as well as to make the show more marketable across non-English speaking countries. These cards are edited to only display their background, illustration, level/rank, and ATK/DEF points. From March 2002 to December 2008, Konami's trading cards were distributed in territories outside of Asia by The Upper Deck Company . In December 2008, Konami filed

2923-583: The manga franchise Yu-Gi-Oh! and is the central plot device throughout its various anime adaptations and spinoff series. The trading card game was launched by Konami in 1999 in Japan and March 2002 in North America. It was named the top selling trading card game in the world by Guinness World Records on July 7, 2009, having sold over 22 billion cards worldwide. As of March 31, 2011, Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. Japan sold 25.2 billion cards globally since 1999. As of January 2021 ,

3002-614: The real-time strategy or sports management genres, with some diversion into action RPGs. Players can purchase starter decks for most games separately, and after each play session, the machines will commonly dispense more cards for players to expand their decks. Examples include World Club Champion Football (2002), Mushiking: The King of Beetles (2003), Oshare Majo: Love and Berry (2004), Dinosaur King (2005), Sangokushi Taisen (2005), Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road (2007), and Lord of Vermilion (2008). Related, many video games have adopted CCG-type mechanics as part of

3081-489: The 2010s, been compared to gambling and have faced potential governmental actions. Physical CCG's like Magic: The Gathering had yet to see any legal actions over their booster packs, though certain packaging methods such as chase cards had been ruled illegal for sports card trading. The ESRB had originally compared loot boxes and digital booster packs to physical CCGs as to defend their practice in 2017, but later adopted new advisory labels for video games to notify consumers of

3160-504: The Chaotic game to North America and to the world. Gannon created Chaotic USA Entertainment Group and, in August 2005, licensed the patented technology, (US Patents 5,810,666 & 5,954,332) from Cornerstone Patent Technologies, LLC to bring the property up to the standards required for a global brand. He teamed with John Milito and in 2006, 4Kids Entertainment signed a Joint Marketing Agreement with Chaotic USA Entertainment (CUSA) to produce

3239-541: The CyberCode matrix technology. It allows real cards bought in stores to be scanned with the PlayStation Eye and brought into the game with 3D creatures, animations, spell animations, etc. as representations. Hearthstone uses mechanics that would be difficult or impossible to recreate in a physical setting, such as cards that allow players to draw a random card from the entire card library currently supported by

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3318-460: The Japanese meta game, two or more original sets were combined into one. Now, more recent Upper Deck sets have simply duplicated the original set. Some booster sets are reprinted/reissued (e.g. Dark Beginnings Volume 1 and 2). This type of set usually contains a larger number of cards (around 200 to 250), and they contain twelve cards along with one tip card rather than the normal five or nine. Since

3397-437: The U.S. and Canada. Each card comes with a unique code which the owner can upload onto the Chaotic website. This allows the owner to trade and play online using their own card collection. The game was well known to be the only game with a TV show, an online game, and a TCG that were all integrated. However, the online game is currently closed. The rights have since defaulted to Bryan C. Gannon, who's leading an effort to revive

3476-465: The United States, Wizards of the Coast had seen the success of games like Chron X and Sanctum , and initially with the help of a small development firm Leaping Lizard, built out Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO), an online multiplayer client for Magic first released in 2002 which players could spend money and win games to build out card collections. MTGO had a number of growing pains over

3555-399: The arrogant duo Klay and Krystella. Players in Chaotic go to Perim, scan new creatures and use them to battle. In Perim, Tom also got to meet many creatures, including his favorite, Maxxor. The battles between players take place in dromes, which are virtual battles where players become the creatures they choose and fight for the right to battle against the drome master (code master). In Perim,

3634-466: The card economy to be driven by players. Gods Unchained by Immutable uses digital cards that are individually tied to blockchain elements ( NFTs ). While these cards cannot be updated, players can use blockchain transactions to buy, sell, and trade the cards with other players while online and enabling their use offline. In October 2022 Marvel Snap was released. Marvel Snap is a mobile and PC-playable collectible card game that allows players to build

3713-490: The card. Cards without the symbol are not legal in Speed Duel format, but Speed Duel cards can be used in all other formats of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. Skill Cards may only be used in Speed Duel. Speed Duel games are known for its rapid duels, averaging on 10 minutes. The Speed Duel format follows the same rules as advanced format, with the following differences: Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel ( 遊戯王ラッシュデュエル , Yū-Gi-Ō Rasshu Dueru )

3792-422: The cartoon and bring the property to market, both on TV and for licensed products. When 4Kids Entertainment teamed with CUSA, the work of CUSA was continued and included many additional improvements. The original cards were redesigned (and some renamed) along with the online game platform to give it a more mature look as well as the creation of a new animated series (with redesigned versions of Tom and Kaz) to promote

3871-424: The digital CCG to improve the experience that cannot be recreated physically. The online card games Sanctum and Star Chamber include, e.g.: game boards, animations and sound effects for some of their cards. The NOKs , on the other hand, offer talking figures and action-arcade game play. In a different case, The Eye of Judgment , a CCG that has been combined with a PlayStation 3 game, bringing innovation with

3950-430: The first attack. Each player starts the game with an attack deck of 20 attacks and the game is started with 2 of these attacks in the hand, at the beginning of each player's turn during combat an attack is drawn. The attack cards each have build points which when added up equal 20. This prevents the hogging of good cards. During a player's turn they must play an attack, which sends it to the discard pile. By playing attacks

4029-631: The four tribes are currently at war for the Cothica, the power that controls all of Perim. In the second season, the fifth tribe, the M'arrillians, escapes from the Doors of the Deepmines and takes over the other four tribes by brainwashing other creatures. The second season featured true cel animation and manga/anime-styled artwork. Season three, although subtitled "Secrets of the Lost City," was actually

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4108-579: The game for modern audiences by licensing the franchise to Epic Story Media. Chaotic started out as a trading card game known as "Grolls and Gorks" and an idea for a cartoon series of the same name co-authored by Merlin P. Mann, co-author of the Taynikma graphic novels, in December 2000 as 20 years, to be produced by Solit Entertainment. The name of the manuscript was changed to Chaotic in early 2001. Before any episodes were made, Dracco Company Ltd. bought

4187-413: The game is estimated to have sold about 35 billion cards worldwide. Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel , a faster and simplified version of the game, was launched worldwide in January 2019. Another faster-paced variation, Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel , launched in Japan in April 2020. In the trading card game, players draw cards from their respective decks and take turns playing cards onto "the field". Each player uses

4266-464: The game. Developers have also looked for other revenue models for offering digital CCGs to players. Valve 's Artifact is heavily based on their multiplayer online battle arena game Dota 2 , and thus features three boards (called "lanes") instead of the usual one. Instead of purchasing boosters with random cards, players purchased specific cards for Artifact from the Steam storefront, allowing

4345-421: The game. If the effect of a card is activated, the opponent always has the possibility to reply with an effect of their own cards. Each player can then continue to add effects to the chain. The chain ends when the players wish to not play any more cards. Should this happen, the chain is resolved: the resolution is performed in reverse order of play, starting with the effect of the most recently played card. It

4424-461: The game. CUSA has been developing the online game experience for Chaotic named [1] . A video game called Chaotic: Shadow Warriors was released on 30 December 2009. Sam Murakami, a 4Kids employee, and Martin Rauff, the original designer with Bryan C Gannon and TC Digital Games, adapted the card game to the U.S. The TV series is based on the storyline of the original Chaotic TCG. The main protagonist

4503-467: The legality of these systems relative to the CCG's copyright is dubious. Such systems are often used to play copyrighted games whose manufacturers are no longer publishing the game, most notably Decipher 's Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Precedence ’s Babylon 5 Collectible Card Game . Most of these systems do not have the CCG's ruleset programmed into the game, and instead require players to perform

4582-477: The manga and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime series, more structured rules such as tribute requirements were introduced to the story, with the series falling more in line with the rules of the real life card-game by the time its spin-off series began. From the Duel Monsters anime onwards, characters use cards which resemble their real life counterparts, though some monsters or effects differ between that of

4661-490: The necessary actions as required by the physical game's rules. Blizzard Entertainment released Hearthstone in 2014. Loosely based on the World of Warcraft CCG , Hearthstone features one-on-one match between players with custom made decks, built from a player's collection of digital cards. The game was designed to eliminate reactions by the opposing player during your turn to speed up the game and allow it to be played across

4740-548: The opponent's creatures. Mugic is a combination of music and magic, it is used by creatures who have mugic counters. Locations are the places where creatures can battle at, they are all places in Perim. There are five tribes of creatures in Chaotic: OverWorld, UnderWorld, Danian, Mipedian and M'arrillian. The OverWorld is a tribe made of various humanoid creatures and creatures which resemble real animals. The UnderWorld

4819-547: The original to make the game faster. In its original incarnation in Kazuki Takahashi 's Yu-Gi-Oh! manga series, Duel Monsters , originally known as Magic & Wizards , had a rather basic structure, not featuring many of the restricting rules introduced later on and often featuring peculiar exceptions to the rulings in the interest of providing a more engrossing story. Beginning with the Battle City arc of

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4898-429: The player decreases the energy of the opponent's creature. This is the key to winning the game. Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is a collectible card game developed and published by Konami . It is based on the fictional game of Duel Monsters (also known as Magic & Wizards in the manga) created by manga artist Kazuki Takahashi , which appears in portions of

4977-402: The players can decide to start with more or less in casual games), with the main aim of the game to use monster attacks (and sometimes card effects) to reduce the opponent's life points. The game ends upon reaching one of the following conditions: Cards are laid out in the following manner: Each player's turn contains six phases that take place in the following order: At the start of a game,

5056-471: The primary avenue of card distribution. In Konami's distribution areas, five or nine random cards are found in each booster pack depending on the set and each set contains around one hundred different cards. However, in Upper Deck's areas, early booster packs contained a random assortment of nine cards (rarity and value varies), with the whole set ranging around one hundred and thirty cards. To catch up with

5135-486: The real life trading card game and the manga and anime's Duel Monsters , with some cards created exclusively for those mediums. Some of those anime original cards have been printed since, usually through various side sets, with their effects being adjusted for the real card came. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's featured an anime-original card type known as Dark Synchro, which involved using "Dark Tuners" to summon Dark Synchro monsters with negative levels. Dark Synchro cards were featured in

5214-520: The release of Tactical Evolution in 2007, all booster packs that have a Holographic/Ghost Rare card, will also contain a rare. Current sets have 100 different cards per set. There are also special booster packs that are given to those who attend a tournament. These sets change each time there is a different tournament and have fewer cards than a typical booster pack. There are eight Tournament Packs, eight Champion Packs, and 10 Turbo Packs. Duelist packs are similar to booster packs, albeit are focused around

5293-504: The rights to Chaotic from Solit Entertainment. The original storyline featured Tom Majors and Kaz Kalinkas , who were enemies, instead of friends as in the 4Kids animated series. Dracco Company Ltd. with Apex Marketing then created the online version of the game and established the basic universe of Chaotic. In September 2003 trading card Executive Bryan C. Gannon signed a worldwide Licensing and Distribution agreement with Henrik Andersen and his brother Jacob Anderson at Dracco to bring

5372-412: The same rule.) They are generally used to stop or counter the opponent's moves, and come in three varieties. A chain is a stack of card effects activated one after the other. It exists for the management of multiple card effects. A chain is created when the effects of One or more card are activated at the same time, or when a player activates an effect after a card is played, but before the card impacts

5451-707: The same time that widespread availability of the Internet was beginning. DCCGs evolved out of the ability for CCG players to challenge each other online rather than in person, as well as to provide computerized opponents so that players could play these CCGs by themselves. The first DCCG games eventually appeared in the late 1990s. Early examples of DCCG games include Magic: The Gathering (1997), Chron X (1997), Pokémon Trading Card Game (1998), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (1998), and Sanctum (1998). Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon Trading Card Game were based on their physical CCG counterparts, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

5530-614: The situation (for example, the protagonist Yusaku can draw a random monster when his life points are below 1000) once per duel. A similar ruleset is featured in the Duel Terminal arcade machine series and the Duel Links mobile game. With the exception of the films Pyramid of Light and The Dark Side of Dimensions , which base the card's appearance on the English version of the real-life card game, all Western releases of

5609-421: The starting player cannot enter the draw or battle phases during their first turn. Gameplay revolves around three types of cards: monster, spell, and trap cards. Monster cards are monsters used to attack and defend against the opposing player, mainly for the purpose of damaging an opponent's life points. Spells, which can either be played from the hand or set for later use, provide various effects such as altering

5688-548: The types of cards used by characters in the various anime series. Cards in each pack are reduced from nine to five. Some cards in the TCG have been released by other means, such as inclusion in video games, movies, and Shonen Jump Magazine issues . These cards often are exclusive and have a special type of rarity or are never-before-seen to the public. Occasionally, cards like Elemental Hero Stratos and Chimeratech Fortress Dragon have been re-released as revisions. Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel

5767-519: The use of booster packs in games by 2020. A 2022 report by the Norwegian Consumer Council called loot boxes (including booster packs) as "predatory" and can "foster addiction" in players. The report was backed by government consumer groups in 16 other European counties, urging regulations in upcoming European Union regulations to address the matter. With the growth of mobile gaming and streaming viewerships, digital card games are

5846-783: The virtual space. However, some games like Hearthstone have gameplay elements that would be impractical or impossible to perform in a real-world game but is easily done within the digital game. For example, Hearthstone has a "Discover" keyword that lets players temporarily obtain cards from across the entire Hearthstone library for the duration of a match, even if they do not own that card yet. Prior to DCCGs, video games had used both card-based mechanics (such as Dragon Ball: Daimaō Fukkatsu in 1988) and collection-based mechanics (such as Megami Tensei (1987), Dragon Quest V (1992) and Pokémon (1996), all based on collecting monsters). The Super Famicom card-battle/role-playing game Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu (1992), based on

5925-482: The years, but remains an active service that is used as one point for entry for several of the main live Magic: The Gathering tournaments. In Japan, CCGs that are played on arcade game machines with physical card sets came into vogue in the early 2000s, which provided a boost to arcade profits and have been a mainstay in many game centers since. Arcade games of this type have been developed by companies such as Sega , Square Enix and Taito , and are most commonly of

6004-550: Was a role-playing game where the combat mechanic was based on attacks pulled from a deck of cards constructed outside of the combat rounds. Similarly, Phantom Dust (2004) was a third-person shooter , but where the player's attack and defense abilities were randomly selected from a customized "arsenal" of powers that they collected through the course of the game. Other examples of CCG-hybrid games include Forced: Showdown , Hand of Fate , and Card Hunter . The success of Cygames ' Rage of Bahamut established DCCG games as

6083-472: Was based on the fictional CCG from the manga Yu-Gi-Oh! (1996), and Chron X and Sanctum were original DCCG games with no physical CCG counterpart. There have been CCGs developed solely for computer play and not based on any physical product. The first online CCGs were Sanctum and Chron X , both developed in 1997. Sanctum was taken offline in 2010, but has since returned due to fan intervention; Chron X still exists, producing new expansions over

6162-431: Was earning over one billion yen in revenue monthly, whilst Kantai Collection has grown to more than one million players throughout Japan. Unofficial ways to play some digital versions of CCGs also exist, such as brand specific programs like Magic Workstation . The bulk of DCCG programs however are not specific to any brand, such as LackeyCCG and Gccg or general game simulators like Tabletop Simulator , though

6241-579: Was originally a Danish trading card game . It expanded to an online game in America which then became a television program based on the game. The program aired on 4Kids TV (Fox affiliates, nationwide), Jetix , The CW4Kids , Cartoon Network and Disney XD . It was brought over to the United States from Denmark by Bryan C. Gannon and Chaotic USA Entertainment Group, and produced by Chaotic USA Entertainment Group, 4Kids Productions and Bardel Entertainment . The trading card game came out 6 September 2006 in

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