I like where this is going.

inb4motorcycles

this is the stupidest shit I've read in years

>>12104048

It's intentionally ridiculous, that's kind of the point.

>>12104048
>this is the most righteously radical shit I've read in years

fix'd

>>12103981
isn't this basically what Yugioh was all about, except you weren't born with a deck, that's just fucking retarded l2DNA.

FUCKING TUBULAR

This setting is badass, sir.
I would like some moar!

>>12104086
>Implying magic cards give a fuck about DNA.

Also not really, the cards weren't inextricably part of the world, they were just a game that some guys happened to cast spells on occasionally. This is LIKE YGO in that people play card games and take them extremely seriously, but it's intentionally as far over the top as is possible.

Do people start out with the decks full?

Or do they build themselves as the persons character develops?

How about instead of being born with the cards. The decks are decoded out of every persons DNA with a supercomputer?

Imagine the industrical capacity of that world! Each woman has a card factory within her vagina!

what happens if you just decline a duel?

What about something like "Your genetic code has a deck encoded on it, people with better genetic code has better decks. The police checks your deck as your genetic identification, and changing the deck means changing your genetic code."

>>12104186

I'd say most people start off with a full, but shitty deck. Maybe a good card here or there. They get better by trading with other people, or doing things that heavily align them with certain a card. IE, if we use MTG as an example, a very angry person would find a lot of Red cards laying around/under their pillow when they wake up/randomly inserted into their deck, thieves and assassins would end up with a lot of Black etc. To someone from our world, it would seem like random chance when people find cards in this way.

I also think it would be pretty cool if there would be a bunch of "WHAT HAS SCIENCE WROUGHT!?!?!!" over people printing new cards. Same technology is used as the real world, but people are horrified and disgusted by it, since it's "unnatural".

>>12104218

Could do. It takes out some of the mysticism, but adds some great SCIENCE! elements. Either one could work with what I'm going for, though.

I LIKE IT

>>12104300
If that were the case wouldn't the people with inferior genetic deck codes basically be inferior people? Would some kind of caste system of strong decks and weak decks be made?

rolled 16, 7 = 23

>>12104300
Retards get only half a deck and it has only basic lands.

>>12104285

No one ever does, as no one has any concept of NOT playing card games. It is just not part of how their minds work.

>>12104327
Yes... YES. FUND IT!

>>12104048
Sorry, typo
What I meant to say was
>This is the most stupendous shit I've read in years
Sorry for the typo

plot could be like, some MADMAN has crafted a card that wins him a duel instnatly when used and makes the loser his unwitting slave.

Are you a bad enough dude to beat the cheating, powergaming asshole?

>>12104335
>>12104327
>>12104300

Sounds interesting. I'm not sure how I feel about changing your deck changing your DNA though. I like the caste system and such, but it seems like getting a new card changing your character's non-card traits would be a good way to piss of players.

Maybe only have it happen if you make vast, major changes to your deck? Like if you stick with a White Soldier deck your whole life, any changes would be negligible, but if you suddenly decide to go White/Black it completely fucks with your appearance and personality.

>>12104389
>but if you suddenly decide to go White/Black it completely fucks with your appearance and personality.

SUDDENLY, GOATEES AND SCARS EVERYWHERE

>>12104389
Maybe some minor short-term effects if you change a card or two, and some major effects if you change your whole deck?

Screwing too much with an opponent deck or with your deck messes up DNA and someone gets cancer or some genetic disease. Also, milling the deck means that your opponent is losing years to live. I'm liking it OP.

Now, one thing I'm not sure about is whether or not I want to design my own card game for the setting, pick an existing one (If this I'd go with MTG most likely) or set it up to be as vague as possible so that players and GM's could pick whatever they want.

I do think most in-game skills will be card related. A player can learn to cheat by secretly drawing two cards instead of one, or doing some shuffling trick or other with the deck. Also, I'd add in a HEART OF THE CARDS mechanic that allows characters who BELIEVE IN THE CARDS to get hilariously specific cards that are perfect for the situation they're in but not many others. Things like that.

Does /tg/ think there should be a skill system for things like climbing/accounting/cooking and various other non-card things, or that such things should all be handwaved or handled with MORE CARDS?

Hmmm, I like this Cardpunk...

I think personally, I'd probably have it be something where at a certain age your DNA is read and you are given a deck based on that. Also, ritualistic gifting and trading among family, and some cards (but not all) survive after you die and are passed on down the family line. These ancestral cards are quite powerful, as you can upgrade cards as you go on.

But that's just the direction I'd take it.

>>12104537
In magic the player is a planeswalker, so you could have a card representing yourself, or a close friend.

Hrmm what if you trade decks with someone?

Not individual cards, but your entire deck.

>>12104623

Well, if we go with >>12104300 you BECOME that person genetically and they become you genetically.

Suddenly, trannies. Trannies everywhere.

one big problem is raised

how are the decks used?

Why would I use my deck and not stab you in the fucking throat?

Something has to put the stab choice in check.

>>12104658

Because the people of this universe have no concept of "Stabbing". There minds are incapable of processing the idea of not solving their problems with cards.

>>12104650
plastic surgeons = card traders then.

Actually this could bring up an interesting plot.
Imagine two groups.
Purists, who believe that the deck you are born with is the only ones you should play with.

and the (insert decent name here) who believe that by casting aside your birth deck you can become purer by essentially building yourself from the ground up.

>>12104706
Then there's a handful of new problems: how does the physical world act to this? If I went to slaughter a cow for meat, do I have to play cards with the cow? Do the cards have any magical properties, or do people just submit to them?

What about physics? If a tree falls in the woods and you're under it, does it stop mid-fucking-air and pull its cards out of its ass and say 'i'm not going to kill you until I beat you at cards, so you better get ready'

>>12104780

... Well both of those things sound ridiculous enough for the setting, so I'm having trouble deciding if that would happen or not.

>If a tree falls in the woods and you're under it, does it stop mid-fucking-air and pull its cards out of its ass and say 'i'm not going to kill you until I beat you at cards, so you better get ready'

Because Cards are representatives of the soul, vile card players steal their defeated opponents' decks instead of burning them as is proper, effectually stealing their souls. Most people wouldn't even think of taking a fallen enemies' deck, as doing so is the blackest sin imaginable; even thieves and cutthroats shy away from soul-theft because of the damage it wreaks both on the deceased and the man whose soul was stolen. You begin thinking like the fallen, acting like the fallen, acquiring physical features of the dead. If you go too far, you become an insane composite being, damned by the constant chattering of those you've killed.

Marriage ceremonies involve the ritual trading of the single most important card in the deck to represent the sacred commingling of souls.

>>12104780
You go to a 'butcher' who uses the Meat Cards in his deck to provide you with pre-packaged, chilled meat of your choice.

Then you take it home using your Dad's transportation vehicle card that he loaned you now that you're 16.

Then your Mom makes a meal out of the meat using the cooking cards that she has.

>>12104780
Oh god that would be awesome, get into a enormous car crash, don't die unless the telephone pole you crashed into beats you at cards.

>>12104824
It'd play a colorless artifact deck, the bastards.

>>12104797
I think what you have is an awesome idea and that you should really work on it. I'm not saying that this is a bad idea at all - I do, however, think that it needs worked out. Something needs to make them obey the cards, rather than them being too derpy to figure out knives work faster. Maybe knives do work faster, but stronger people have defensive cards that protect against such things?

I don't know. The possibilities are infinite, and they are yours to grasp bro.

>>12104797
>>12104780
>>12104737
>>12104706
>>12104658
Maybe, you could still kill something non-human, or something without a deck. BUT, you can't really stab or kill a human being that owns a deck, because the deck will regenerate the human until he can't play anymore...
And dying would be something like playing a game against death and losing.

>>12104824
But the faster you were going would probably make the pole's deck even better to the point you couldn't win.

That makes me sad.

I"M SAAAAAD

I can't believe I actually want to play this.

This thread is hilariously delightful.

>a country gets nuked
>cardgame

you eat a sandwich but the sandwich has millions of germs in it. when you eat it, you suddenly have to win millions of card duels or else you get sick and die - eating becomes an impossible ritual where only people who can stay awake for over 20 hours playing cards survive

20 b.c. (before cards) to 492 A.C. = toxic era

captcha: foomers cautious

>>12104901
9/11: Airplane swings with Darksteel Colossus, taking the last of the North Tower's life points.

>>12104901
Oh god. 40,000 people having to battle the nuke's deck at the same time.

PROTIP:
Replace all instances of "cards" in OP's post with "3cm robots" and you have the plot for all Custom Robo games.

I could see accidents resulting in card games where your soul plays against death himself. If you survive it's something you'd only half remember.

Also, the strength of Death's deck depends on how bad the accident was.

>>12104848
Yes, it certainly needs to be fleshed out and worked on. That's why I'm talking to /tg/. It helps with that process.

>>12104935

Well, in the case of illness I'd rule that it's your immune system that has to win all those card games. WHITE BLOOD CELL CASTS SHOCK! VIRUS IS DESTROYED!

>>12104935
Okay, this is getting ridiculous. Perhaps we should steal something from Mythology...

Nonhuman things that are over 100 years old develop their own decks and personalities based on their past. Younger things do not have decks, and can be interacted with normally.

>>12104961
So, death by a nuclear bomb is playing against death, and death has a tolarian academy deck or a TEPS deck?
And weapons designers doesn't design weapons, they design new deadly combos for killing people?

>>12104982
THE BBEG FINDS AN INFINITE LOOP.

>>12104852
I'd probably say that Cardpunk god makes you able to deal with anything with your cards. Like, how God made a covenant with man to not destroy the world with a flood, Cardpunk god made a covenant to never destroy man without allowing cards to be involved... yeah, that works!

>>12104946
I just imagine people pooling cards to escape while the military is hitting it with combos to destroy or redirect it. Course, the "nuke" is an absurd card combo based around atom splitting exploits.

Let's get one thing straight.
You and your personality don't depend on the cards you use or get.
The cards you use or get depend on you and your personality.

>baseball is flying at your face
>SUDDENLY CARDS
>baseball is playing a rush deck

>>12105226
raging goblin

I make a fake card and put it into my deck, and remove my opponent from existence.

My deck contains Thrumming Stones and Relentless Rats.

I am the scourge of nations.

Wait what happens if you're being sniped from a mile away? Do you play cards with the sniper or the incoming bullet?

this thread reminds me of some great custom magic cards.
post the crème de la crème

>>12105225
That could lead to some very interesting character development, all discovering new cards in your deck as you change.

Everybody is an AI. We live in a virtual world. We ARE the cards.

>>12105286

>>12105275
Pretty sure the sniper just used his sniper rifle card on you. It allows him to make a long range attack with little fear or reprisal, and he'll use other cards to cover his escape. The bullet might be a card combo with the rifle, and you'd have to be real lucky to have a counter to it.

rolled 20, 16 = 36

Force of will would be incredibly rare. Otherwise, it would break people.

>>12105290
That could lead to some "heart of the cards" deus ex machina bullshit where at the last second a new card appears in his deck and wins the game out of nowhere. But I still agree that it's a cool concept.

tip to understanding this card:
it has 4 positions:
non-flipped non-tapped (0°)
non-flipped tapped (90°)
flipped non-tapped (180°)
flipped tapped (270°)

>>12105275
He's not shooting bullets.
He's shooting cards at you

>>12105338
so it produces 2 colorless mana each turn?
pic related

>>12105338
I really like that card, but would like to think that 2 colorless mana per turn could be better executed. Maybe give the bottom half a second ability, like, (1)(tap); add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Turn it into a land OR 2 mana?

>>12105385
I think it stays tapped so you only get 1 a turn. It just gets flipped around a bunch for silliness.

>>12105332
Or it could lead to horrible diabolus ex machina where the card that they were counting on disappears from their deck.

blue mana acceleration?
yes thank you

>>12105405
You get two a turn.

I'd like to point out this card was made before 300 came out

>>12105407
>BBEG: "You can't win. You never expected to win against me. I wasn't playing fair, you lost even before we started to play."
>MainChar: *Shivers and looks at his hand. The winning card is there.* "Really? I have the card that can defeat you right in my..." *The card disappears.*
>BBEG: "No. You are doubting. You have fear in your heart. Now, fall into the pits of despair as I crush your chances of winning. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
*MainChar becomes depressed and dies.*

black needs response cards like this one, badly.

>>12105471
Oh god, just add the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP and its a generic animu plot.

Sounds like a cool setting, just don't look too far into it. In a bizarre thing like this, you can sometimes use the "Its magic" cop out just to save some face.

Okay, this is enough with the custom Magic cards. Please, PLEASE don't shit up this fairly interesting thread... I'm happy it's already evolved past YuGiOh, so le'ts keep it good.

Suspend makes this card worth all the flavor

>>12105524
But 40.000 people fighting again a massive nuke screams POWER OF FRIENDSHIP all over it...

>>12105485
So it doesn't have to be in the graveyard? It just has to have been put into the graveyard?

So... I can dig this out of my deck?

Or recover a card after my graveyard has been exiled?

Fine, no more custom.
Off to another thread with these I suppose.
>>12105569

>>12105531
Seriously the have like 5 of these threads a day, just go make another one damn.

>>12105417

I really like this one.

>>12105570
>put into a graveyard from play this turn
does that answer your question?
I'll be posting more cards in the new thread
>>12105569

>>12105454
Does the lack of a casting cost mean you can only play it when you discard it?

>>12105590
>>put into a graveyard from play this turn
>does that answer your question?
No.

>>12105524

Well mainly what I was trying to do with the setting was make YGO Abridged: The Game. It's supposed to take the "I CHALLENGE YOU TO A CHILDREN'S CARD GAME!" thing to the most ridiculous extreme possible.

So I can certainly see a place for things like THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP and THE HEART OF THE CARDS. Just taken as far as possible.

Yeeeeeeeessssss. I can see how this would unfold now, using Magic....


Teacher: SURPRISE EXAM TODAY!
Students: FUCK.
*Teacher whips out Archenemy deck*
*Flips over first scheme*
Teacher: SOMEONE NEEDS TO DEFINE X IN THIS PROBLEM OR YOU ALL FLUNK.
StudentA: HA! I CAST CRIB NOTES! WE GET TO SKIP IT!
Teacher: NOOOOOO!!!!! YOU PAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!
*Teacher's desk explodes, flinging him out the window in a shower of glass and smoke. Students are all given passing grades.*
-later at home-
*Dad bursts through door, cape flapping dramatically.*
Dad: DAMNED MECHANIC WANTS FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS TO REPLACE THE DAMNED BUMPER THAT SUV MANGLED LAST WEEK. LUCKILY, HE HAD A SHITTY DECK, SO I MANAGED TO BUMP THE PRICE DOWN TO A HUNDRED AND FIFTY. HOW WAS YOUR DAY AT SHOOL, SON?
StudentA: BORING AS USUAL.

>>12105724

Yes. This. This so much.

>>12105724
And everyone is shouting because that's how things work.

>>12105724
I love the fact that the father in that scenario is wearing a cape. And that the teacher inexplicably flies out the window.

Buying booster packs seems like such a better investment when getting a great card could end up improving your success in all areas of life.

I imagine booster packs would be really expensive, and act almost like the lottery- a government funded way to better your standing in life...

We need to figure some basic generic mechanics, and then make an rpg based off the rules for making all the custom cards you'll need (along with lots of generic ones for everyday use). Though expansions would be rulebooks AND new boosters. This is a very money hungry idea... I want in!

>>12104901
Hitler had an amazing deck.

>>12105763
>>12105724
This immediately comes to mind.

>>12105811
Err. Forgot the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhNFSX5KEJ0&feature=related

>>12105791

Ok, we need to build Hitler's deck.

White/Black, for starters.

>>12105791
Is Winston Churchhill yugi in this scenerio?

>>12105785
"Your request has been approved, and you've been allowed one government issue class B booster pack."

"Awww, Class B? That's mostly basic nutrition and cure minor illness cards! Can't I have a Class C at least, I need some money saver cards and debt relief combos!"

"If you like you can submit another request, or duel my supervisor."

...damn, forgot to put it all in caps.

This thread is so delightfully funny, I love it.

Uh, how rare is the Black Lotus again? I've been using it, Channel, and Fireball to great effect. Odd how I have nothing but 15 copies of each and Force of Will in my deck.

>>12105791
He plays a Vintage deck. Kills you with Storm cards.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12103981/

Yo. I figured this thread was good enough to archive. First thread I've ever done that with, actually.

>>12106005
I agree OP. this thread was BURNING PASSION and also diamonds.

>>12105791
>>12105829

I made a B/W deck using those Catholic Church analogue guys from Ravnica once. I'd say that would fit Hitler pretty well. He did claim that he was killing the Jews because it was "God's Will" and blathered on about his Catholicism fairly regularly.

op thizz is a fag idea ur a fag

THIS IS A GREAT SETTING.

>Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series: The Role-Playing-Game
>Magic: The Gathering
WITH MY INFINITE SHAHRAZAD COMBO, I TAKE THIS GAME TO THE SHADOW REALM!
No! Urge...to endure...sapping...(YUGI! YOU MUST FIGHT IT) No...infinite...subgames...douche...(YUGI!)

>>12109690
Most obnoxious card in the history of ever. If I had a billion dollars I would buy every single one in circulation and burn them.

Bumpity.

>>12109734
You'll never get my playset.

>>12106628
wow what retard made this comic

I'll play a plains and Swords that idiot, or 0 mana accelerator+Swamp and Doom Blade, or etc etc and then just play the game up 6 cards.

I like the idea OP, I think Universal Fighting System would be a good basis for this shit seeing as its based on 2 people actually fighting instead of two wizards summoning monsters to fight for them. I'll see if I can find the rules for it, game kinda died though...

Wouldn't the really good cardgamers in this setting be practically immortal? Just beat Death at the game and you're back to full health.

>>12112523
Read this.
>>12104982

>>12112523
I imagine Death gets a custom uber deck depending on how likely you are to die. Also, aging will likely replace your cards with shitty ones.

Hey OP:
>Chaosic Rune

So the man living with AIDS would be the best in existence. I HAVE DUELED AND DEFEATED EVERY DISEASE KNOWN TO MAN. WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY DO TO DEFEAT ME?

ops a fagt

OP is why /tg/ is great; he might not necessarily be a genius himself, but all it takes is one post with a single idea.

nice.

except that I'd burn my cards and punch people in a face if they tried to pull a card game on me.

i'm essentialy free to do anything.

setting and the idea are stupid because it assumes that humans beings are illogical and have no brains; while true of some of us, I presume that lack of logic and brain does not make for a truly believable human being in any setting.

>>12114208
hey look, suspension of disbelief. Besides, it's a simple work around: you commit suicide like that. It's not hard to force world rules on people, stop thinking you're some almighty genius because you think you can break a theoretical game system.

>>12114208

Oh hey, this thread is still around? Wow.

This guy's missing the point. It's supposed to be a silly, over the top kind of game. Everything doesn't have to be W40k. Grimderp is all well and good, but that isn't what we're going for here. Realism is also great, but again, not what we're going for.

>>12114208
and let me guess you'd prefer a "REALISTIC" or "GRIMDARK" setting full of an overly grimdark generic FANATASY wargame IN SPESS to something a little more lighthearted involving character acting and mocking tropes

I could imagine like a fistfight is an actual fistfight with the cards being played determining the actions.. joe's natural brawling deck has things like dodge, block, jab, uppercut, roundhouse, and they're all "played" in the instant that the action is performed, either in a sort of mental card duel the combatants are doing. kinda like their conciousness/souls/DECKSOULS are having a card duel while their bodies are acting it out.

i think this thread is glorious. and might work as an RPG as long as "cards" are played fast and loose in the game. and not like MAGIC THE GATHERING, where EVERY CARD IS DESCRIBED AND ACCOUNTED FOR. you do a punch and one of your "punch/fist attack" cards gets played. or well. you play a punch/fist attack cards and a punch happens. or something...

>rishmu PLACE

>>12114562
rather, every time you loose a hand(or life points get attacked), you act like you got punched, if you win, you'll heal back up

>>12114585
sortakinda like decks/fighting was in kingdom hearts: chain of memories.

>>12114562
>>12114585
MISSING THE POINT

No.

they just settle it with a kids card game.

That's all.

WATCH FUCKING YUGIOH.
LIKE THAT.
BUT FOR DAFT THINGS LIKE WHO WILL TAKE OUT THE TRASH TONIGHT.
WITH ALL THE SAME RETARDICULOUS LEVELS OF DRAMA.
"OH NO!! MY LIFEPOINTS ARE BELOW 5800!!!"
"YES AND NEXT TURN MY PUMMELING PENISBOAR, SCION OF THE DARK MASTER, WILL ATTACK YOUR LIFEPOINTS DIRECTLY!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!"

yeah yeah, sound much better than my idea

but can we please call it something other than cardpunk, im soo sick of 'punk

>>12114650
HARD DECKINGS
THE GAME OF FUCKING DUELS

>>12114674

HOLYFUCKTHISISAWESOME.jpg

(I don't have any happy reaction images)

bump

It's kind of like a feedback loop, then? As your life changes, the cards in your deck change, and as you change the cards in your deck, it changes the path your life takes?

For instance, you buy a few Magical Filing Cabinet because you want to get ahead in your law firm. Suddenly, you find yourself being a bit more organized. Then you duel someone and you draw a card you've never seen before: Everything In Its Place. When you go home, you start to schedule your family's activities down to the minute.

Flash forward a few months, and you're leading a street gang called The Organizers, full of formerly aimless punks who you forcibly converted to The Way Of CONTROL with your cards, which was easy since their decks were just mishmashes of cards they saw on TV.

>Each and every human being is born with a deck of trading cards clutched to their chest.

YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKED THE HEART OF THE CARDS, SO WE MADE CARDS COME OUT OF YOUR HEART

bumping this thread

>>12115042
That sounds like a Shintaro Kago comic.

Today: The strange tale of Doctor Natoi. Once a tall, handsome doctor, when he began to deliver babies he began to resemble one himself. With each baby he delivered, he began to act and look a little more like a baby. Eventually the hospital board investigated his records, and discovered that nearly every baby he delivered had 59 Card Syndrome. Natoi was arrested, and examination of his deck revealed that nearly every card was secretly stolen from an infant he delivered. He was found guilty, but managed to defeat the judge with the Rattle-Pacifier combo and was set free.

>>12114674
>Hard Decking
I don't know if it's because I've spent too much time on /tg/, or because I've seen every episode of Yu-gi-oh 5Ds and it's affecting my brain, but I like it.

Mugger: YO, BITCH, GIMME YOUR WALLET! GET OUT YOUR DECK!

Some Guy: HAHAHAHAHA! LITTLE DID YOU KNOW, BUT YOU ACCIDENTALLY CHALLENGED THE REGIONAL CHAMPION OF HARD DECKINGS!

Mugger: DAMN! BUT NOW THAT I'VE CHALLENGED YOU, I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CONTINUE THE GAME!

SOME GUY: I PLAY THREE ULTRA-MEGA-BLASTARDS USING MY "CHEATING" SPECIAL ABILITY ON THE FIRST ROUND AND ATTACK YOUR LIFE POINTS DIRECTLY!

MUGGER: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*is consumed by an infinite pillar of blinding light that incinerates him*

Tommorow Obama and McCain will have their Presidential Duel. McCain is expected to use his trademark Maverick tribal cards while exploiting Obama's lack of foreign policy cards to hammer Obama's polling points. However, Obama's Change cards have proven a powerful defense in past debates. Tune in for the most exciting duel of the decade!

>>12115917

See, that would make for a way more interesting election. Voting day could be a mass card battle between the 2 (or more) parties and their supporters!

One day, a small child is born. Her deck is all serene, peaceful areas. She is the only one in the world who speaks without shouting, and she never challenges anyone to a card game, but when she gets challenged by someone else, it's just one serene card after another...and eventually the enemy gives up, weeping tears of a joy.

>>12116020
What happens when a new edition is released?
>sconing GEM
somehow related, I'm sure

Those having fact debates would run Science: The Hypothesis decks.

It'd be cool if everyone had a deck for every card game and the game that's played is randomly determined. That way changing around even an entire deck doesn't completely change who you are.

Didn't anyone here watch Yu-Gi-Oh GX?

... Don't answer that. But in GX they have a tendency to go to the spirit world, where card effects actually play out in reality, and in the dark world end with the loser dying. The inhabitants are all monsters from the cards, and all use decks pretty much themed around themselves, often going as far as to summon copies of themselves (pic related).

This idea reminds me a lot of that stuff, and now I actually want to run some kind of game with this idea by having my players build actual yugioh decks and having them duel gimmicky decks I create for the npcs.

Thank you OP for this awesome idea.

>>12116084

Honestly I'd more say that they use vaguely science-themed cards from whatever game ends up being the primary one in the setting. Having specific games for specific scenarios undermines the Taking A Trading Card Game Entirely Too Seriously theme. Scientific debates decided via Yu-Gi-Oh and screaming would be funnier than scientific debates decided by a science-themed card game.

>>12116084
Silly enough to work.

There exists a cult that believes that the cards do nothing on their own, but merely call on a greater power that exists in a realm beyond comprehension. In their research, they have found what they believe to be a ritual that will either summon the Supreme Judge, or kill it: a specific 23-card game state that is impossible to resolve under the rules. They have already assembled 21 of the cards they need. The 22nd is held miles below the earth, in a secret military complex.

You just drew the 23rd.

>>12115884
"It looks like you... uh..."
"It looks like I what?"
"I'll tell you as soon as I draw my Punglasses!"

>>12116306

*Cue PC's being assaulted by cultists and then duelling their way through a military base populated by hilarious military stereotypes with goofy theme decks*

>>12116306
So they're cultists. Trying to capture cards. For chaos.

>>12116443

Cultist-chan uses a Demon deck.

"WARNING DUELISTS: If you come upon two people who have been engaged in battle for an unusually long time, do not attempt to interfere. It is likely that one or both of them is caught in an infinite loop, and if you attempt to join the duel without a deck specialized for loop-breaking you will end up caught in it."

archive this shit before it four-oh-fours

>>12118691

Already been done like yesterday.