PDF Rule Book - Chaotic Trading Card Game

Welcome to Chaotic ®
Contents
2) Contents Overview
3) Secrets of the Lost City
4) Apprentice Rules
12) Master Rules
20) Building Your Deck
24) Glossary
32) Online Experience
34) Credits
Secrets of the Lost City TM
...on a cloudless and starry night the culmination of more than a year of
preparation occurred, as the four high muges of Perim convened on the
deck of Captain Arrthoa’s ship, the Ezoa, slowly sailing the moonlit surface
of Lake Ken-I-Po.
As Najarin, Enre-hep, Kopond, and Lore performed the hour-long mugical
ritual, tones of an unworldly beauty rang out over the lake. Ultimately, a
thundering rumble accompanied the ascension of a levitating island that
erupted from the waters of the lake. Atop it perched a magnificent citadel,
sporting four towers – each attuned to one of the elements of Perim. The
high-muges had succeeded in raising the lost City of the Elements. They
knew that the city held powerful secrets and treasures, possibly even the
secret to the Cothica. But who would control this prize?
About Chaotic ®
Every Chaotic Card has a Code, and every Code is unique. Each Code
represents an actual scan of a Creature, Location, Attack, Mugic or
Battlegear at a precise moment in Perim. As things change in Perim, so do
the Creatures, items and places. That’s why no two Codes are the same.
The Codes give you power to do things with Chaotic Cards that you can’t do
with any other trading cards. Upload your Codes to ChaoticGame.com and
you’ll enter a new dimension in gaming. Challenge and battle opponents.
Trade virtual cards. Swap tips, tricks and techniques with fellow players.
Store personal game history. Manage your deck. Watch yourself move up
in the ranking system as you compete with players from around the world.
It’s all possible. Right now. All you have to do is . . . Enter The Code.
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Apprentice Rules
Object of the game:
The object of the game is to defeat all of your opponent’s Creatures.
Setting up a game of Chaotic
1. Lay out your Playmat so that you can read the Chaotic logo.
2. Look at the first three cards in your Preconstructed Deck. These are
Creature Cards. Place them face up in the open spaces on your
Playmat.
3. The next 10 cards are Attack Cards. Shuffle these cards and place
them face down in the space on your Playmat marked “Attack.”
4. The next 5 cards are Location Cards. Shuffle these cards and place
them face down in the space on your Playmat marked “Location.”
5. Your opponent should set up their Deck in the same way, with the
Playmats forming one diamond-shaped Battleboard.
TIP: Do not worry about the other cards in the
deck just yet! Battlegear and Mugic Cards are
covered under the Master Rules section.
Location
Deck
Attack
Deck
Card Type
Disciplines
Mugic Ability
Tribe Icon Name Rarity
Card Ability Chaotic Code Energy
Beginning the Game
Now that your Playmats are set up, you are almost ready to play your first
game of Chaotic.
1. Each player draws the top two cards from their Attack Deck into their
hand.
2. Randomly decide who will take the first turn by flipping a coin, rolling a
die, or playing Rock-Paper-Scissors.
3. In the game rules, the player who is taking a turn is called the Active
Player.
Once you have decided who will go first, you can begin the game.
Elemental
Attack Types
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Apprentice Rules
Playing the Game
Each turn is made up of three main steps: Location Step, Action Step and
End-of-turn Step.
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STEP 1:
LOCATION STEP
The first thing the Active Player does on their turn is reveal the top card of
their Location Deck by turning it face up. This is called the Active Location,
and is where the action will take place during this turn and determines
which Creature will have Initiative in combat – we will get to that in a
minute. Flipping up a new Active Location replaces the previous Active
Location if there is one. The Location also has some other effects that are
covered under the Master Rules, and which aren’t used in the Apprentice
version of Chaotic. When the other player becomes the Active Player, that
player will reveal a new Active Location for their turn.
Now that you have revealed the Location, it is time to get down to business!
Chaotic Code
Card Type
Initiative
Location Icon Name
Rarity
Card Ability
STEP 2:
ACTION STEP: MOVEMENT & START COMBAT
Movement
1. You must move at least one Creature each turn.
2. Each Creature may move one space per turn in any direction, unless
stated otherwise on a card.
3. You may not move a Creature into a space occupied by another Creature
you control.
4. If your Creature moves into a space occupied by an opponent’s Creature,
you start combat.
5. You may only start one combat per turn (the first turn of any game
usually starts a combat since all the spaces on the Battleboard are
occupied.)
Available Moves
Available moves that
will start combat
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Apprentice Rules
ACTION STEP: INITIATIVE
The first thing you do once combat begins is determine which Creature has
Initiative. Look at the Initiative line on your Location.
If the Initiative line indicates a Discipline, like Courage or Speed, the
Creature with the highest value in that Discipline will have Initiative. The
same goes for initiatives that count other traits, like the number of Mugic
counters on Creatures. If the Initiative line indicates an Element or Tribe,
and only one Creature has that Element or is of that Tribe, then that
Creature wins Initiative. In any case where it is a tie, the Active Player’s
Creature wins Initiative.
Disciplines Elements Tribes
ACTION STEP: STRIKING
The Creature with Initiative attacks first. In Chaotic, playing an attack is
called striking. Now that it is clear which Creature will strike first, it is time
to play an attack.
1. The player whose Creature is striking draws the top card from their
Attack Deck. That player should now have three Attack Cards in hand.
2. That player chooses one of the Attack Cards in hand and plays it.
3. Calculate how much damage the Attack Card deals. (See page 10)
4. Place the Attack Card into the attack discard pile.
Card Type
Base Damage
Card Ability
Build Points Name Rarity
Chaotic Code
Elemental
Damage
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Apprentice Rules
Attack Card Damage:
To figure out how much damage an Attack Card deals to the opponent’s
Creature:
1. First look at the Base Damage. All Creatures deal this damage.
2. Next look at the Elemental Damage: Compare the Elemental symbols on
the played Attack Card with the Elemental symbols on the Creature
playing the Attack Card. For each matching symbol, deal the damage
listed next to the symbol on the Attack Card.
3. All damage dealt by an Attack Card is dealt at the same time.
Whenever a Creature takes damage, subtract that much from its Current
Energy. Use the Energy trackers on your Playmat to record how much
Energy your Creature in combat has left.
Some Attack Cards have other game effects. We will teach you how to use
these effects in the Master Rules.
5+ 5+ 5 = 15
FINISHING COMBAT:
Now it is the other player’s chance to Strike. Follow the same steps (1-4)
explained in “Action Step: Striking.” Both players alternate striking until one
of the Creatures in combat is defeated. A Creature is defeated when it has
taken damage equal to or greater than its Energy. When that happens, put
the defeated Creature into its owner’s general discard pile. If the winning
Creature was trying to move into an occupied space, it will take the place of
the losing Creature. If the winning Creature successfully defended a space
it already occupied, it stays in the space it started in. If at any point a player
needs to draw an Attack Card and has none remaining in their Attack
Deck, reshuffle that player’s attack discard pile. That becomes that player’s
Attack Deck.
ACTION STEP: ADDITIONAL MOVEMENT
Once combat is finished, the Active Player can continue moving any Creatures
they control that have not yet moved this turn. Creatures can only move into
open spaces at this point because you may only start one combat per turn.
On later turns, remember you can choose to move Creatures before or
after combat.
STEP 3:
End-of-Turn Step:
After you have moved at least one Creature, then you may end your turn.
At this point all damage is removed from all Creatures. All effects that last
until end of turn, or do not specify a duration, also end at this point. The
other player then begins their turn starting with Step 1.
Alternate taking turns and battling until one
player has no Creatures remaining. When
you have the only Creatures left, you win!
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Master Rules
The Apprentice Rules just
of Chaotic.
The Master Rules explain how to play like an expert.
A complete game of Chaotic plays just like the basic game with two new
card types - Battlegear and Mugic - and a few additional rules:
Battlegear:
Battlegear Icon Name Rarity
Card Type
Card Ability
Chaotic Code
Battlegear are weapons, armor and gear that give Creatures extra powers,
usually in combat. There are three Battlegear Cards in each Starter Deck.
You may equip only one Battlegear Card to each of your Creatures.
Battlegear is placed face down under the Creature at the start of the
game. Battlegear that is turned face down is “turned off” and has no
game effect until it is turned face up. Battlegear is turned face up when
the Creature that the Battlegear is equipped to becomes Engaged (enters
combat) or at the beginning of the game if the Battlegear Card has the
“Reveal at Beginning of Game” ability. You may look at your own face down
Battlegear at any time during the game, but not your opponent’s face down
Battlegear.
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Master Rules
Mugic Affiliation
Mugic:
Card Type
Mugic Cost
Card Ability
Mugic Icon Name Rarity
Chaotic Code
The Creatures of Perim are able to cast Mugic spells by channeling the
spirits of powerful and ancient Mugicians. This is represented by Mugic
counters placed on Creature Cards at the start of the game. Each Creature
receives a number of counters equal to their Mugic ability at the beginning
of the game. They may use them to play Mugic Cards and to activate
abilities. There are three Mugic Cards in each Starter Deck.
Include one Mugic Card for each Creature in your army. All of your Mugic
Cards start the game held in your hand. Mugic Cards are played by paying
Mugic counters from Creatures you control. There are specific Mugic
Cards for each Tribe, as well as “Generic Mugic” that can be used by any
Tribe.
To play a Mugic Card, first check to see if it has a tribal affiliation. If it
does, then remove Mugic counters from a Creature you control of the
corresponding Tribe equal to the number of Mugic symbols on the card.
If the Mugic Card is Generic, you may remove the appropriate number of
Mugic counters from a Creature of any Tribe.
Master Rules Additions:
When you play Chaotic at the Master level, include these new rules:
Setup:
Set up a Master level game as follows:
1. Place all Creature and Battlegear Cards face down.
2. After both players have finished setting up, reveal all your Creature
Cards and any Battlegear Cards which have the “Reveal at beginning of
game” ability.
3. Leave any other Battlegear Cards face down.
4. Once all Creatures have been revealed, place
Mugic counters on your Creatures equal to
their Mugic Ability.
5. Each player draws the top two cards from
their Attack Deck into their hand.
6. Decide who will take the first turn.
Creature Abilities:
Creature’s Mugic Ability
Many Creatures have special abilities. These abilities come in three types:
1. Innate: Innate Abilities are always on. You cannot choose whether or
not to use them.
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Master Rules
2. Activated: Activated Abilities are those which allow you to choose when
to play them. These abilities usually have a cost to play the ability. This
cost might be to remove one or more Mugic counters or to sacrifice a
Creature by removing it from play. If you cannot pay the cost, you
cannot use the ability.
3. Triggered: Triggered Abilities tell you when they occur. There is a
condition or trigger that causes them to happen - if the trigger occurs,
the ability occurs.
The Burst:
The Burst allows both players to respond to abilities/effects in the game.
1. A Burst begins when an ability/effect occurs in the game. This happens
whenever a player plays an Attack Card, Mugic Card or uses a Creature
or Battlegear ability. Innate Abilities do not start a Burst, but Triggered
Abilities can start a Burst.
2. After you start a Burst, your opponent may respond to the ability or
effect which started the Burst with their own ability or effect.
EXCEPTION: When you play an Attack Card, you are able to
respond to your own Attack Card first.
This is a diagram of a Burst.
From bottom to top [and the order they
were added to the Burst]
A. Nauthilax plays Clean Slide attack
B. Nauthilax’s Recklessness ability
C. Donmar’s Healing ability
D. Counterpoint of Chaos
E. Anthem of Stone
Both players decline to add anything new
to the Burst. The effects then resolve
in the opposite order that they were
played, starting from E and ending on A.
3. Both players then alternate adding effects and abilities to the Burst.
However, a player may choose not to add additional abilities or effects
to a Burst.
4. Once both players consecutively choose not to add anything new to the
Burst, then the Burst starts resolving one at a time in reverse order,
with the last item added resolving first.
5. Other effects may not be played while a Burst is resolving. The only
exception to this is triggered effects created by something on the Burst,
which are added to the Burst, which is then re-opened and proceeds
from step 3 again.
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Master Rules
Attack Cards:
In addition to Base Damage and Elemental Damage, some Attack Cards
have other effects. Some common effects on Attack Cards are Elemental
Checks, Stat Checks, and Challenges.
Elemental Checks look to see if the Creature playing the attack has a
particular Element or combination of Elements.
Elemental Check
Stat Checks ask you to see if the Courage, Power, Wisdom or Speed on the
Creature playing the Attack Card is at least a certain number.
Stat Check
Challenges ask you to compare the same stat on the two Creatures in
combat and see if the stat on the Creature playing the Attack Card is
greater than the opposing Creature’s stat by at least a certain amount.
Challenge
In all of these cases, there will be an effect listed after a colon.
This effect happens if the Check or Challenge is met.
Location Abilities:
In addition to determining the Creature that will win Initiative, Locations
have other abilities that affect the game. Be sure to read each Location
Card when it becomes the active Location.
The Showdown:
At the end of a player’s Action Step, check to see if a Creature controlled
by that player has done battle this turn, on his opponent’s last turn or on
the player’s previous turn. If no Creature controlled by that player has been
involved in combat during those three turns, then a Showdown occurs:
1. The Active Player selects one Creature controlled by the Non-Active
Player.
2. The Non-Active Player selects one Creature controlled by the Active
Player.
3. The Active player’s Creature is relocated into the space of the Creature
controlled by the Non-Active player, and the two Creatures become
Engaged.
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Building Your Deck
3 vs. 3
set up
6 vs. 6
set up
First, choose the number of Creatures in your deck:
1. You can play Chaotic with decks of different sizes: 3 and 6 Creature
decks are the most common sizes.
2. Both you and your opponent will play a deck with the same number of
Creatures.
3. The Chaotic Battleboard accomodates the size of the game.
RULE OF TWO: You can only have up to two copies of any
card in your deck, unless the card itself says otherwise.
Once you have chosen the number of Creatures in your deck, the rest is
easy!
1. For each Creature Card, also select one Battlegear Card and one Mugic
Card.
2. Create a 5 card Location Deck (Use 10 Location Cards for a 6 Creature
Army). You can use any 5 Location Cards you want as long as you stick
to the rule of two and do not have multiple copies of Unique cards. Also,
only one Legendary card may be included in the entire deck.
3. Create a 10 card Attack Deck (Use
20 Attack Cards not exceeding 20
Build Points for a 6 Creature Army).
The 10 Attack Cards you choose
must not exceed a total of 10 Build
Points.
Build Points of an
Attack Card
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Building Your Deck
Deck Building Tips
• To start out, try building decks using Creatures from the same Tribe.
• Make sure your Creatures have enough Mugic counters to play the
Mugic in your hand and to use any abilities they may have.
• Creatures with high Energy are usually better in the front row, as are
Creatures with special abilities that give them advantages in combat.
• Creatures with low Energy and lots of Mugic Ability should usually be
protected in your back rows.
• You will need to play some Attacks with lower Build Points if
you want to play high Build Point cards.
• Try to play attacks with Element and Discipline
Checks and Challenges that match the
Elemental Types and high Disciplines of
your high Energy creatures to take the
most advantage of your Attack Cards.
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Glossary
Activated Ability: Activated Abilities have a cost to activate such as the
removal of a Mugic counter. Activated Abilities are written in the format
Pay (cost): to do (effect). Unless an Activated Ability specifies otherwise,
its effects end at the end of the turn during which the Activated Ability
resolved.
Active Player: The player whose turn it currently is.
Attack Damage: The damage dealt as the result of the resolution of an
Attack Card.
Battleboard: An arrangement of game spaces composed of two opposing
triangles joined at their bases upon which a game of Chaotic is played. At
the beginning of the game, each space on the Battleboard will be occupied
by a Creature. The spaces that your Creatures occupied at the start of the
game are considered your “side” of the Battleboard. The spaces occupied
by your opponent’s Creatures are considered the opponent’s side of the
Battleboard.
Burst: One or more unresolved Mugic or card abilities. A Burst is started
each time a player plays Mugic, an activated ability or an Attack Card.
Bursts may also begin from Triggered Abilities generating effects.
Challenge (Characteristic) “X”: A comparison of the values of the indicated
characteristics between two Creatures, typically in combat with each
other. To win a Challenge, a Creature must have a value in the indicated
characteristic that is greater than the characteristic of the opposing
Creature by at least the amount “X.”
Current Energy: The Energy value of a Creature minus the amount of
damage on that Creature. When a Creature’s Current Energy is zero, that
Creature is destroyed.
Damage: Damage dealt by Attack Cards, Mugic or other abilities is
combined to form the total damage on a Creature. Any damage value
less than 0 is treated as 0. Damage remains on a Creature until the end
of each turn, unless it is healed. At this time all surviving Creatures on
the Battleboard have all damage removed. When the total damage on
a Creature is equal to or greater than its Energy, then that Creature is
defeated and placed in the general discard pile.
Defender (Characteristic): Defender is an Innate Ability that allows a
Creature to exchange places with an adjacent Creature that is attacked on
the Battleboard. The Defender ability may have a characteristic associated
with it, which restricts its use to a subset of Creatures that have that
characteristic. For example, “Defender: Danian” means that the Creature
may only use its Defender ability to take the place of a Danian Creature.
If there is no stated condition the Creature may exchange places with any
adjacent Creature. The process of using the Defender ability is referred to
as “intercepting” an attack. Multiple copies of Defender on a Creature use
the least restrictive condition and are otherwise redundant.
Destroy: An effect that places a card directly into the appropriate discard
pile. If a Creature is destroyed, then any attached Battlegear is also placed
into the general discard pile.
Disarm: A Triggered Ability. At the start of combat, Battlegear equipped to
Creatures engaged with a Creature with Disarm lose all abilities.
Discipline: One or more of a Creature’s non-Energy statistics. Courage,
Power, Wisdom and Speed are a Creature’s Disciplines. When a card
refers to “all Disciplines,” it is referring to Courage, Power, Wisdom and
Speed together.
Discipline Attack: An Attack Card which contains a Stat Check, Challenge
or Stat Fail is considered a “Discipline Attack.” A Discipline Attack is
successful if you won any Stat Check, Challenge or Stat Fail on that Attack
Card.
Element X: This Innate Ability indicates that the Creature deals an
additional X damage when it deals attack damage of the indicated Elemental
Type. Multiple instances of this ability on a card are cumulative.
Elementproof X: A Triggered Ability. A Creature with this ability gains X
Energy at the start of combat when engaged with a Creature that has the
indicated Elemental Type.
Elemental Attack: Any Attack Card with an Elemental Type is considered
an Elemental Attack of the associated type (or types). See “Elemental Type”
for more details.
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Elemental Damage: The Elemental damage dealt by an attack is based on
the Elemental Type of an attack and the Elemental Types of the Creature.
An attack is considered to do a particular damage type if both it and the
Creature playing it have that Elemental Type.
Elemental Type: Fire, Air, Earth and Water. Elemental Type on a Creature
Card allow that Creature to do bonus damage or other effects with Attack
Cards that share an Elemental Type. The Elemental Type(s) of an Attack
Card defines bonus damage and other effects that occur when the attack
is used by a Creature with the indicated Elemental Type. In addition, cards
may be affected by game abilities based on their Elemental Type (for
example see “Element X”). When a card refers to “All Elemental Types” it is
referring to Fire, Air, Earth and Water.
Energy: Amount of damage that Creature can take before it is destroyed.
The Energy of a Creature is given by its Scanned Energy value modified by
any Battlegear, Location effects, Mugic and card abilities that state they
alter a Creature’s Energy.
Engaged: A Creature currently involved in a combat is considered engaged.
Exhaust (Discipline) X: A Triggered Ability. When an engaged Creature with
Exhaust plays an Attack Card, Exhaust reduces the indicated Discipline of
the Creature by X when it resolves. Multiple instances of this ability on a
card are cumulative.
Expend (Elemental Type): Expend (Elemental Type) indicates an Activated
Ability with a cost of losing the indicated Elemental Type. A Creature without
the indicated Elemental Type cannot play an Expend ability.
Generic Mugic: Mugic Cards without an affiliation (usually tribe) are known
as “Generic” Mugic and may be played by Creatures of any Tribe.
Heal X: Removes X damage from a Creature.
Hive: During a game Hive will either be “On” or “Off”. If Hive is “On,” then
all abilities of the form Hive (effect) are active (see next page). Unless
otherwise indicated, Hive turns “Off” at the end of any turn. Hive begins the
game with the “Off” status.
Hive (effect): A keyword conditional Innate Ability. It grants the indicated
effect to a Creature if Hive has been activated. The effect remains until the
Hive ability ends. Multiple copies of a Hive ability are cumulative.
Infect: Any ability which places a Parasite onto a Creature. A Creature that
has a Parasite is referred to as “Infected.”
Innate Ability: Abilities that do not have an associated cost to perform.
These abilities are always in effect. Element X, Swift X, and Range are
examples of Innate Abilities.
Intimidate (statistic) X: A Triggered Ability that means “At the beginning of
combat, Creatures engaged with this lose X to the indicated statistic.”
Invisibility (effect): An Innate Ability that means the Creature has the
indicated ability against Creatures without Invisibility.
Legendary: A deckbuilding restriction. A player may include no more than
one card with the Legendary keyword in a deck.
Loyal: A deckbuilding restriction. All Creatures in an army with a Creature
with Loyal must share the same tribe as that Creature or have the
specified characteristics. For example, Erak’tabb is Loyal – M’arrillians or
Minions, and may only be played with Creatures that are either M’arrillians
or Minions.
Mirage: This ability is only found on Location Cards with the Mirage
subtype. When a Mirage Location is the Active location its Mirage ability is
not active. When a Mirage Location would normally be put on the bottom
of the Location Deck it is instead put into a space on the Battleboard.
While the Location is on the Battleboard only its Mirage ability is used (its
normal ability has no effect). This Mirage ability only applies to the space
the Mirage Location is in. Only one Location with Mirage can be on the
Battleboard at a time. When another Location with Mirage is placed on the
Battleboard, any other Mirage Location on the Battleboard is returned to
the bottom of its owner’s Location Deck.
Mugic Counter: Mugic counters are counters used to pay costs for Mugic
and abilities. Creatures begin the game with a number of Mugic counters
equal to their Mugic ability (found in the lower left of the Creature Card).
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Negate: An attack, Mugic or ability that is negated has no effect and is
removed from the Burst.
Opposing Creature: A Creature that is controlled by your opponent. Note
that this term applies to all Creatures controlled by your opponent, including
the one currently involved in Combat.
Outperform (Discipline) X: An Innate Ability. Creatures with this ability deal
an additional X damage with successful Discipline Attacks of the indicated
Discipline. Winning multiple Challenges, Stat Checks or Stat Fails on the
same Attack Card does not increase the additional damage. Multiple
instances of this ability on a card are cumulative.
Range: An Innate Ability that allows the Creature to move through occupied
Battleboard spaces during its move. Multiple copies of Range on a Creature
are redundant.
Recklessness X: A Triggered Ability that triggers when an engaged
Creature with Recklessness plays an Attack Card. This ability does X
damage to the Creature with Recklessness when it resolves.
Relocate: Changing the Battleboard space a Creature occupies. Relocate
is not a move action, and the Relocation of a Creature is not modified by
abilities which affect move actions during the Action Phase.
Removed from Game: A card is set aside and can no longer affect or be
affected by the current Chaotic game. At the conclusion of the game the
card is returned to the player’s deck.
Replacement Ability: Causes a given action to happen “instead” of another
game event. Replacement abilities always use the word “instead” in their
text.
Sacrifice: A cost or an effect which results in the loss of a card you
control. That card is immediately placed into the appropriate discard pile.
If the sacrificed card was a Creature, then any equipped Battlegear is also
discarded. A sacrifice may not be prevented by other game effects. You
may not sacrifice a card you do not control.
Scanned (statistic): The value as it appears on the Creature Card. The
Scanned value of a statistic is not modified by Battlegear or other game
effects.
Stat Check (Discipline) “X”: A comparison between “X” and the current
value of the indicated Discipline of the Creature which controlled the ability
generating the Check (typically an Attack Card controlled by your engaged
Creature). To win the Check, this value must be equal to or greater than
the indicated value “X”. If you win the Check, then the effect indicated in the
ability occurs.
Stat Fail (Discipline) “X”: A comparison between “X” and the current value
of the indicated Discipline of the Opposing engaged Creature. To win the
Stat Fail, this value must be less than the indicated value “X.” If you win the
Stat Fail, then the effect indicated in the ability occurs.
Strike X: A Creature with this ability deals +X damage during its first attack
in any given battle. Strike is an Innate Ability and multiple copies of strike
are cumulative.
Support (statistic) X: An Innate Ability. The value of the indicated statistic
is increased by X for every Creature controlled by the same player that
has the same tribal designation and is adjacent to that Creature on the
Battleboard.
Surprise: An Innate Ability. The Creature wins Initiative in combat.
Swift X: An Innate Ability. If a move action is selected for a Creature with
Swift then that Creature may be moved an additional X spaces on the
Battleboard. For example, a Creature with “Swift 1” may move a total of 2
spaces on the Battleboard. A Creature with Swift is still restricted to only
moving through unoccupied spaces.
Target: Whenever a Mugic or ability says “target [something],” where
[something] is a word or phrase that indicates a card type, effect or player,
the controller of the card chooses something that matches the indicated
word or phrase. The choice of Mugic or ability’s targets is made when it
is played. A targeted Mugic or ability cannot be played if there is no legal
target to select. An activated or Triggered Ability is targeted if it uses the
phrase “target [something].”
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Tribe: Most Creatures in the game have an associated tribal designation.
Currently, there are five different Tribes in the game of Chaotic. These are
OverWorld, UnderWorld, Danian, Mipedian, and M’arrillian. In
addition, other cards in the game, such as Mugic, may also have a tribal
designation. Creatures without a listed tribe designation are considered
“Tribeless.” They do not belong to any tribe nor play tribal Mugic.
Triggered Abilities: A Triggered Ability is one that gives a specific time
or event which causes the ability to occur, using the words “when” or
“whenever.” When the indicated time or event occurs, these abilities are
placed on the Burst. If more than one ability is triggered by the same
game event, then the Active Player adds his or her abilities to the
Burst first in any order. Then, the Non-Active Player adds Triggered
Abilities in a similar manner.
Unique: A deckbuilding restriction. No more than one copy of
a card with this name may be included in a player’s deck. Two
Creatures with the same name
but different versions counts as
the same card for purposes of
Uniqueness.
Untargetable: An Innate Ability. This card cannot be chosen as the target
of Mugic or abilities that require a target. If a Mugic or ability requires a
selection but does not use the word target, then an Untargetable card can
be chosen for that selection.
Version: The version of a card is found immediately underneath the name.
Creatures with the same name but different version are considered the
same card for purposes of the Rule of Two and Uniqueness.
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Online Experience
The Chaotic® Online Experience is a massive online community of registered
Chaotic players, collectors, storytellers, strategists, adventurers, explorers
and other fans. It lets you play the Chaotic Trading Card Game, trade
cards, maintain your collection and make friends with other Chaotic
enthusiasts. The Chaotic Online Experience has been translated in multiple
languages to provide better accessibility for users around the world.
All you need to do to become part of the Chaotic Online Experience is to
register at ChaoticGame.com and upload your cards. Every month, new
league seasons start in the Chaotic Battledromes. The Battledromes are
designed to allow you to play against other players at your own level, no
matter if you are a beginner or expert player. Please make sure you visit
ChaoticGame.com to register, upload and protect your Chaotic Card codes.
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Credits
Credits & Production Notes
Game Design and Development:
Martin “MRN” Rauff
Lead Game Design: David Baumgartner
Lead Development: Brian Kibler
Design and Development: Adam Wessels, Jason Kennedy,
Anders Rauff-Nielsen and Steven Terry.
Art Design and Development:
4Kids Entertainment, Inc.
Card Art Director: Jason Narváez
Graphic Designers: Jennifer Obrotka and Kana Hashimoto
TC Digital Games, LLC
Graphic Designers: Azita Aparicio and Robert Barber
TC Digital Games LLC:
CEO and President: Bryan C. Gannon
Executive Vice President: John T. Milito
Vice President of Development and Creative Director: Rob Robbers
Vice President of Product Marketing: Robert C. Gamboa
Organized Play Manager: Brian Fahmie
Sales and Special Projects: Drew Nipper and Mike Gardner
Senior Systems Administrator: Hung Tran
Senior Project Manager (Production): Jennifer Auble
Senior Project Manager (Web): Jennifer Schmaltz
© 2009 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. and Chaotic USA Entertainment Group, Inc. Chaotic is a trademark of Home Focus Development
Limited. All other Chaotic related trademarks, logos, names, characters and designs are the trademarks and property of 4Kids, Chaotic
USA and/or TC Digital Games LLC. U.S. Pat 5810666 and 5954332 and other pending patent applications. All Rights Reserved.
Set content subject to change. Stated odds reflect an average of the entire production run; no ratio is guaranteed to exist within an
individual box or case. Manufactured by TC Digital Games LLC. Printed in the USA. 4Kids is a registered U.S. trademark and © of
4Kids Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Original Game Engine Design:
Martin “MRN” Rauff, Arthur “Sam” Murakami, TBC LLC, Jason Kennedy
and Joseph Cho.
ChaoticGame.com:
TC Websites, LCC and TC Digital Games, LLC.
Chaotic Website and Video Game:
Lead Client Engineer (Game): Ian Natzmer
Lead Server Engineer (Software): Martin Linenweber
Lead Software Engineer (Web): Tim Alvis
Quality Assurance Manager: Brian Dumlao
Creative Designer (UI): Josh Marlar
Database Architect: Aaron Gravos
Cummunity Manager/Customer Service Manager: Chris Evans
The Customer Service Team
Chaotic Animated Series:
Norman Grossfeld, Michael Haigney, Arthur “Sam” Murakami, John Touhey
and Carole Weitzman.
Special thanks to:
Alfred R. Kahn, Samuel R. Newborn, Bruce Foster, Carlin West, Kristen
Gray, Lauren Johnson, Marisa Arvonio, Tina Burke and
Sarah Dupont of 4Kids Entertainment, Inc.

Cover art: Chaotic Location card
En t E r t h E Co d E
Up l o a d y o U r C o d E s a s s o o n a s y o U C a n .
th i s w a y y o U r C a r d C o d E s a r E r E g i s tE r E d
t o y o U r p r o f i lE a n d y o U r digital C a r d s a r E
a v a i l a b lE i m mE d i a tE l y .