どうぶつトレカ (Animal Trading Card) (2018)

どうぶつトレカ (Animal Trading Card) is a two player card game with light easy rules. The players are battling each other using decks of cards with animals. One player has daytime animals, the other has nocturnal animals (some animals are both). Each player has seven stars. The first to take the seventh star off their opponent is the winner (you can vary this to make the game shorter). The game is deliberately designed to be easy for new gamers to play a trading-card style game (like Magic: the Gathering) by learning deck-building. The theme, artwork and gameplay make this an easy introduction into deck building and combative style TCGs. But there is no actual trading involved. The game includes all the cards you need. Each player's deck has various animals, from large and strong to small and weak. Each animal needs food and players collect enough food to be able to send the animal of their choice into combat on the player mat. Animals have values for strength and heart, the animal with stronger or equal values defeats the other. But food is consumed as they attack, and if the player exhausts their food supply, they lose. -user summary The publisher says "Easy to play! Easy to start!". They say the game is for children and adults who would not normally try a TCG-style game like this. The simple illustrations and easy rules make it a good introduction. The game has 80 cards, 2 play sheets and 1 instruction sheet in Japanese. There is some Japanese text on the cards.