Play a game

The playmat's guide, play-game: Use when the player wants to play a game against you on the playmat (new_game, play mode), so your opponent's play never uses the player's hidden cards.

Play a full game against your assistant on the board. Give it your decklist (exported from TCG Live) and, if you like, the deck it should play. It sets up both sides, gives you the board link, and you play your turns on the board: drag cards, attack and end your turn there. The assistant plays its turns and tells you what it did.

Your opponent reacts as a real one would. When you play a card like Judge or Iono, its hand is shuffled away and it draws by itself, with no need to tell it. It only stops to think when it has a real choice, such as promoting after a Knock Out, and you can keep playing anything that doesn’t depend on that choice.

It doesn’t peek. The assistant plays its own side only on what that side could see: it never uses your hand or anything you showed it as your coach. Where it can, it plays each of its turns in a separate, fresh helper that is given only its own deck and the public board.

Stadiums played as a pair. Some Stadiums, such as Delta Reign’s Legendary Pyroduct, Summit and Trench, are played as two different cards of the same name together. On the board, drag one half onto the Stadium spot, then drag the other half onto it: both then show in the spot as one Stadium. Until the second half joins, a warning says the first needs its partner, and two copies of the same card warn too. Playing another Stadium over the pair puts both halves in the discard pile, and undo brings both back. The assistant plays both halves in one go.

When the game ends, it offers to review it with you.

Example prompts

Let's play a game. Here's my deck: (paste your TCG Live decklist). You play a deck of your choice.

Let's play. Here's my deck: (paste your decklist). You play this one: (paste the opponent's decklist).

Set up a position where my attacker is Active against your ex with two Energy attached, and let me play it out.