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The ensuing battle with Sam featured her Order deck in full force, but she didn’t make it very hard. She often played defensively and used the power of her resource cards to destroy my creatures rather than battling them with her own. The final score was a little closer, but still it was lopsided. Rather than be discouraged, though, Sam took the sound thrashing as an indication that she needed to practice. She knew she wasn’t ready to jump into the tournament yet, but now she was dedicated to sharpening her skills to become tournament ready. For beating Sam Potts, Ralsu earned a single-striped shirt.

A woman of her word, Sam was ready to start practicing her card dueling skills. In the meantime, she had already signed up for the tournament and asked me to fill in for her. I needed to check the tournament board near Sam to find that her slated opponent was Jili, who worked in Jacque’s Café on the east side of town under the Pixiewood sign.

Jili used a Chaos deck (red cards), which is geared toward fast strikes but has poor defense. She played the Michi hero card, allowing her to ready a Chaos ally every time Michi won a battle. The key to beating Jili was to hit her early and to attack her creatures with poor defense as soon as I played a creature of my own.  It took me two tries, but I bested her, a feat she attributed to luck. Ralsu was not a level three card duelist, and the victory earned him a pair of Bermuda shorts.

The Cardie Crew

Jili felt confident my luck would run out against a seasoned card duelist like Poe Tatters, a blacksmith across the street from Sam Potts. When I met him, Poe waxed nostalgic about his glory days in the Cardie Crew (CC) and wanted me to ask around town about the tales of the CC.

I first spoke to Posey, who hangs out at the tournament board near Sam Potts. Posey told me the CC was a group of the four best card duelists ever. Each used one of the four elemental decks, and they never competed with each other. The rules back then limited duelists to only one deck, but Sheldon convinced Ari to play a Nature deck like Maple Sugarleaf. The two competed for top honors. When Ari lost, the CC disbanded.

I next spoke to Buzz, who cited Sheldon as his favorite member of the CC. He revealed that Sheldon started using the alias Shifty the Shuffler once the wedge he drove between Ari and Maple wrecked the CC.

I then went to meet Nirvi, who advised against asking too many questions. She told me that Ari went “whacky” and left a trail of wreckage along the Lavender Coast after leaving the CC.

Finally I spoke with Guard Banee. He told me the CC was made up of Poe, Ari, Maple and Shifty. His view of things was that Ari’s ego had led to the demise of the group.

When I returned to Poe, he explained that he wanted to start a new CC with me as the first player. Of course, I would need to beat him in a practice round to prove my skills and earn some cards from him.