Just bought first deck of cards -Astrid -two astrid character cards in deck. Having read full rules now (several times) cannot see advantage to this -is this just a spare card ? If not how can extra charecter cards be used as identical character cards in the staging area behave as one and character cards cannot be destroyed unless specfified. can a deck have several different characters ?

Thanks,

HH

If I am being really thick asking this question -please do tell me !

HH

Hi there!

I run a deck off of a character called "JJ" in the deck are 4x Astrid and 4x Hilde.

They are 0 Diff Mid Blocks, and 6 checks.

In the post rotation world, having 6 checks and 0 mid blocks are really important, and you'll tend to find yourself running a few characters just for that purpose.

Ah I see so all you are using them for is blocks and control checks (if you are lucky).

HH

Also, some characthers can be based on "stacking" like the upcoming Kazuya from tekken, you then play your extra charachter as a foundation and it then fuses with your starting char during the endphase.

Also if you have several verisions of the same char, (same name different abilities) all abilities on the 2nd played copy gets added to your char.

Or if say you got ahold of a promo **Asterid** you could make that your starting character and have the two in your deck to "stack".

Or you could trade one to someone else for something (many people avidly collect characters, some more then they play the game.)

Dunno why I'm asking, but...suppose you have 1 character as your starter, and another, different one in the deck as a block. Is it possible to change characters between matches while sideboarding, or would the character you want to swap to need to be IN the sideboard?

MegaGeese said:

Allow me to quote the AGR:

5. Beginning the Game
At the start of the game, each player looks through their deck and selects a character card, placing it face down in
front of them. Once both players have selected a character the selected cards are turned face up so that they are
revealed to a player’s opponent. Both players then shuffle their deck so that the cards are in a random order. Then
players may cut or shuffle their opponent’s deck.