History of Card Duel
A card game in which two players fight with creatures and spells – a young kind of game that goes back to the 1990s.
Cards with their own rules
Playing cards have existed for centuries, but cards that each carry their own rules text are much younger. In 1993 a card game appeared in the United States that is usually regarded as the first collectible card game: each player put together a deck from cards bought in packs, and many cards changed the rules a little. In the years that followed, many games of this kind appeared.
Ready-made decks and screens
Ready-made starter decks, which can be played straight away without collecting, existed early on. Since the 2010s, games of this kind are often played on screens, where the computer keeps track of power, life and damage.
Card Duel in PaperGames
Card Duel keeps the basic idea – two mages, creatures and spells that cost power – but has its own rules for power, the hand and the deck, and four fixed decks with its own figures, names and terms. Nothing has to be bought or collected. The decks were balanced in thousands of computer games so that each wins about half of its games against every other deck.