Player Pointers

[At school…]

"Did you guys hear this?" asked Ace. There's some new card game out.

"What is it?" asked Lancer.

"I've heard it's called Point Battles," said Teddy.

"Where can we find it?" asked Lancer.

"I've seen it at one of the school sales we had here recently," said Ace. We should go check it out. They sell packs of the stuff at Bulls Eye. *Ms Hackney enters*

"Hello class," said Hackney. Today I'll be talking about rock climbing safety. Although probably not all of you will become mountain climbers when you grow up, it'd be good to know the ropes so to speak so that you can help someone in trouble if they need it. With rock climbing, there is some training required as you need to be careful around places in the rock since they can and sometimes do slip out from underneath you. [After school…]

"Let's go check out that store," said Ace. *He, Lancer and Teddy rush over*

"Boys and their silly things," said Melody.

"Yeah, we can just do something else like get our hair done at the salon," said Bright Eyes. *They walk over to the salon* [At the store…]

"Check out these packs," said Lancer. They have Metal Invasion, Legend of the Dragon Slayer and even Magic Owner.

"Cool," said Ace. *They get their packs and open them*

"Awesome, I got Skull Skeleton," said Lancer.

"That card is pretty rare," said Ace. Look at the lettering, it's a yellowish gold and it's a pretty powerful M card.

"What's MIV?" asked Teddy.

"That's what pack the card came from, or Metal Invasion," said Ace.

"We should find out how to play this game," said Lancer.

"You can get beginner decks that have rulebooks and mats to put your cards on," said Ace. I bought one not too long ago and I can help you play," said Ace. [At Ace's house…] What you need to do is put your deck in the Card Stack Zone here. You put M cards in the M Card Zone and S and T cards in the S and T Zone. Special S cards called Terrain S Cards go here in the Terrain Card Zone. If you have any Combiner M cards, they go in this purple space.

"Sounds easy," said Teddy.

"What's next?" asked Lancer.

"Well, we'll start by drawing 4 cards," said Ace. Then, if you have any M cards with 1 to 4 points, you can play them in Battle Mode or set them in Defend Mode like this. I play Weapon Stealer with 17 Battle Points. You can also at this point or in 2nd Core Phase, set your T cards face down or activate them if they were set one turn earlier. I'll set 1 other card face down here. When you can't do anything else during your turn, you enter your Stop Phase, where your turn ends. Now it's your turn.

"Okay," said Lancer. Um, I play my Skull Skeleton with 25 Battle points in Battle Mode.

"That's a 6-point monster," said Ace. You have to send a monster you already posses on the field to a burial first.

"Oh, sorry," said Lancer.

"It's okay," said Ace. I was new to this at some point. It just takes practice.

"Okay I bring out my Giant Rock Soldier with 13 Battle Points," said Lancer. That's it for me.

"I'll play Personality Change," said Ace. It's an S card that lets me claim possession of your monster. Now I can send it to a burial to bring out Metal Man with 24 Battle Points in Battle Mode. Since you don't posses any M cards, I can attack your Score directly and when I do, you subtract the Battle Points of my monster from your Score and you start with 80 Score.

"Okay that's 24 and 17 so I'm left with….," thought Lancer.

"37," said Ace. It's just simple math, Lancer. I end.

"I set an M card in Defend Mode and end," said Lancer.

"I now use my Lightning Streak S card," said Ace. It take out all M cards you possess. You now send your M cards as a burial. *Lancer puts his monsters as a burial* I attack your Score directly and I win. Good try, Lancer.

"I'd better get going," said Lancer. Thanks for introducing this game to me. *he leaves* Man what a cool game. I have to learn how to get better at it.