MBC Introduction #1- Character Cards & Field

Yoho everyone, JJP here!

I'm the unique shopkeeper you see most of the time flapping his huge belly when he is bored at Shin-Sekai. Just like my authors, I play every Bushiroad Game there is. Really, I mean everything which includes Alice X Cross. Also said to be the most weakest player in the entire world and I have an award for it :p. Since the Bushiroad games are covered by my other peers, I will be scoping on a Trading Card Game that we were the first to bring in. Heard of Miracle Battle Carddass? Kinky name, I know but its the entire Bushiroad TCGs chunked together in MTG-style play that BANDAI has developed. When I say BANDAI, you can expect totally meta shounen series.

Now Miracle Battle Carddass (MBC for short) began its development by using the mainstream anime titles from the famous "SHONEN JUMP" company. In 2009, they released their first two series known as "DRAGON BALL KAI" and "ONE PIECE". See what I mean by meta? XD. Why it isn't heard of in Singapore is simply because the game is not released outside of Japan. JUMP companies makes their own stuff Japan exclusive. Why do you think they don't have any JUMP STORES outside Japan? Selfish, I know :p Well actually they just don't intend to get the license for it.

So far for MBC, only 5 titles have been released. Considering the 2 new titles that they had released this year (2012) which is NARUTO SHIPPUDEN and HUNTER X HUNTER, they also had TORIKO released in 2010. Enough of the history, I will now explain a Character Card's properties:

1 - COST
Pay the energy equal to the cost to summon this card. You pay energies by setting it as "DOWN" (Tapped)

2 - COSTLESS
If you have up to the number of the indicated coloured cards in play, you may minus the total number of the indicated coloured cards from your summoning cost to play this card down. For example, the COSTLESS of the card above is 2 Green Cards. So if you have any 2 Green Cards in your field, the summoning cost of the above card will be 6-2 = 4. As such, you DOWN 4 energies to summon this card instead of 6.

3 - CHARACTER NAME
The name of the character in this card. Do note that you can only have 1 character of the same name in your field.

4 - REQUIRED JUMP POWER
To activate an ability or the BP of this card, the JUMP POWER (JP for short) is required. In the above card, it shows that you have BP 6000 by default for having 0 JP on it.

5 - BATTLE POINT
Damage power dealt to opponent's character during a Battle Point (BP for Short) Battle.

6 - CARD NAME
The name of the card. You can only put up to 3 copies of the same card in your deck.

7 - SERIES INDICATION
The series this card belongs to, Dragon Ball Kai in this case.

8 - CHARACTERISTICS
The traits that this character contains. Usually used in conjunction with other abilities.

9 - MIRACLE ABILITY
Miracles activates when you are taking this card as a Damage from the Deck. When activated, you can resolve it's ability. Eg, Destroy opponent's field, Heal this damage to Energy or Hand, Put this Damage to play, etc..

10 - CARD ABILITY
Description of said card's ability. Do take note that not all cards have abilities.


As for your Play Field, You have:

-FIELD
Your area to play down Character Cards

-TRASH
Waiting Room, Graveyard, Drop Zone or Discard Pile, call it whichever.

-DECK
The area you put your Deck. A deck contains 40 - 60 cards, 3 copies of the same cards.

-ENERGY ZONE
This area is where you place your Energy. During your Energy Phase, you may play an Energy by taking the top card of your deck and placing it to your Energy Zone faced down. You will never know what it is unless via abilities.

-DAMAGE ZONE
Take the 5th damage here and you lose.

-DRAMATIC ZONE
The area where you play your Dramatic Cards. It will permanently stay unless it is retired or being replaced. Dramatic cards are in landscape layout like Climax Cards in Weiss Schwarz. However it affects both your field and your opponent's field. In other words, Stadium Card.


The uniqueness of this game is that every series has a totally different gameplay mechanic. I will introduce them on my next post. For now to get a glimpse of the gameplay, you can watch MBC's very own gameplay teaching song trailer below:

Chiaoz~
-JJP