Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 14 - Adjudication Club (Part 2)

Translator: Star River

Proofreader: Rhith

During last season's summary convention, Tang Muzhou suddenly proposed the idea of a one-for-one function card that has the concept of instant death.

It was said that there was a raging debate amongst the professional players at the summary convention, in which people were divided into two parties. One party approved of Legend Tang's idea, that the database should include the cards possessing instant death, while the other opposed it strongly, as they believed it was unreasonable and such cards would break the balance of the game.

Tang Muzhou listed a number of arguments for his idea with a graceful smile, saying in the end, "The instant death cards will greatly enrich the tactics in the competition. Don't you want to create an instant death card and sec-kill my [Thousand-year-old God Tree] unexpectedly?"

Other professional players, "..."

Tang Muzhou managed to provoke them. Anyone whose cards had been strangled by his God Tree wanted to kill this annoying tree immediately.

To everyone's surprise, Nie Yuandao, who had been at odds with Tang Muzhou, supported Legend Tang's idea.

Nie Yuandao explained calmly, "The instant death card won't be as powerful as everyone fears. It will be a one-for-one function card, at most, if the game officials regulate and control its data. Killing others' god cards with instant death cards will introduce more varied tactics into the game. Therefore I agree with Legend Tang."

Qiao Xi, who used cards with the Water attribute, said with a smile, "I think Legend Tang's idea is reasonable. The instant death cards will enable players to win with shock tactics at the critical moment. Otherwise, if I have to compete with someone who is using a card with over 200,000HP, I would would rather give up the competition."

Being mentioned by Qiao Xi , Zheng Feng, who was the representative of players using cards with the Earth attribute, said, "Legend Xi, are you talking about my [White Elephant] that has 200,000HP? Actually, I also think its HP is too abundant, so that my opponents have to spend a long time fighting with it, which makes me embarrassed."

Other players, "Get out of here!"

In order to avoid a fight, the president of the league tried to keep order, immediately saying, "Quiet. We now have to vote."

Finally, Tang Muzhou's proposal was approved by the league professionals attending the convention.

The league submitted his proposal to the game officials, who accepted it, after some consideration.

In order to regulate and control the balance of the instant death card, and determine the limits of its HP, Attack and Defense, the official data team had several meetings and it took them more than half a year to produce a detailed formula inference, before an announcement was promulgated last month.

It stated that the effect "instant death" had been included into the skills database, but the requirements for triggering it were harsh.

Firstly, the instant death card could only haveone instant death skill that was not directed against an extensive range of cards, namely it could be directed against no more than one subcategory of cards. For example, a card having the skill to cause the simultaneous instant death of plants, animals and humans wasn't allowed to be created.

Secondly, any card having the instant death skill effect would be included into the category of disposable function cards, whose Attack and Defense were weak. In other words, after using its skill, the card would be killed immediately, which avoided breaking the balance of the competition.