Official Rulebook

Getting Started

1. In Discord, use /linkdeck in the SV13 TCG #manage-cards channel. Despite the historical command name, this now creates or refreshes your SV13 TCG player profile and private player links.
2. Use /mycards to open your Collection and /mydeck to open your Deck Builder.
3. Build and save a valid 20–40 card deck if you want to use a saved deck in duels.
4. Use /practice for a bot match or /challenge for competitive PvP when your access level allows it.

Collection / Economy

Your collection tracks both unique cards unlocked and the total number of copies you own. Pack purchases, admin grants, sales, and completed trades all use the persistent server-side collection.

Current sell values

/buycard purchases a real persisted pack and opens its reveal. /sellcard sells owned cards for their rarity value. Daily limits are enforced by the backend, not by the browser UI.

Deck Building

• A saved duel deck must contain 20–40 total cards.
• You may include at most 5 copies of the same card.
• You cannot save more copies of a card than you currently own.
• Use /mydeck to open the player-scoped Deck Builder.
• The server validates the saved deck before accepting it. A failed save does not become your active deck.
• If a sale or trade changes your ownership, your next deck save must still satisfy your current ownership.

How to Duel

Each player starts a duel at 200 HP. The server owns the session state, turn order, card resolution, HP, deck/hand/discard counts, winner, and final summary.

• A coin flip determines the opening turn.
• Play legal cards from your hand during your turn. Card text and server resolution determine damage, healing, defensive effects, traps, and other mechanics.
• Use End Turn when you are finished. The next player then receives control.
• Cards that leave play move into the discard state unless their card effect says otherwise.
• You may forfeit an active duel.
• If both sides reach combat exhaustion with no meaningful play remaining and no cards left to draw, the duel ends instead of passing turns forever; the player with more remaining HP wins.

Reconnect using the same private duel link if the page is refreshed or temporarily disconnected. The browser resumes the server session rather than creating a new authoritative match.

Card Types

The current set uses these gameplay categories. The exact effect printed on each card and the server implementation are authoritative.

Traps

Trap cards are placed face-down and remain hidden until their server-defined trigger condition resolves them. A spectator can see that a face-down card exists, but not its hidden identity.

Trap immunity and equipment interactions are intentionally not listed as verified combos until the final card-by-card effect QA is complete. This prevents metadata-only behavior from being published as guaranteed gameplay.

Practice

• /practice starts a unique duel session against the Practice Bot in #battlefield.
• A linked player profile is required.
• If your saved deck is valid, you may choose Use Saved Deck. You can also choose Use Random Deck.
• Practice is not Supporter/Elite gated in the current command implementation.
• Practice results do not count as competitive PvP wins or losses.

PvP

• /challenge challenges another linked human player from #battlefield.
• The current access gate requires the Supporter or Elite Collector role.
• The opponent receives an Accept / Deny prompt. If accepted, each player receives their own private duel link for the same server session.
• Competitive results are finalized server-side and update PvP wins/losses once.

Trading

• /tradecard starts a trade with another linked player.
• The current access gate requires the Supporter or Elite Collector role.
• Use it from #manage-cards.
• The current initiation limit is 3 trades per day.
• Ownership changes only after the server completes the trade. A browser preview is never authoritative ownership.

Spectating

• /spectate lists live duel sessions from #battlefield.
• A linked profile is required when entering through the Discord command so spectator chat can use your Discord identity.
• Spectators can see public duel state such as HP, public field cards, hand count, deck count, discard count, turn, winner, and revision.
• Hidden hand identities and future deck order are not exposed to spectators.
• Each duel has its own spectator room and spectator chat.

Stats / Leaderboards

• /mystats opens your private Player Stats page from #battlefield.
• /duelstats opens the global Leaderboard from #battlefield.
• /mycoin shows your current authoritative coin balance and a Collection link.
• Player Stats include coins, unique cards collected, total cards owned, competitive wins/losses, and win rate.
• Leaderboard win-rate qualification requires at least 3 completed competitive PvP matches.
• Practice matches are excluded from competitive win/loss ranking.
• Leaderboard ties are resolved by the server.

Commands

The command names below match the supplied current Duel Bot command handlers.

Player profile and collection

Duel and stats

Administrative commands

Verified Combos

No combo is being published as verified until the post-architecture 127-card effect QA is complete.

Historical and metadata-only combo examples have been removed rather than publishing behavior that has not passed the final live card-effect audit. Trap-immunity examples also remain withheld until active-engine behavior is proven.

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