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Each player chooses one character card at the beginning of the game, and designates her as the lead character. This selection process is simultaneous, so that neither side knows the other's lead character beforehand. Next, each player chooses three more accompanying characters. Duplicate characters are allowed, and in fact required for certain cards. You will tailor your deck based on the character cards that you have chosen. Note that heavy duplication of a particular character (e.g. three Reimus) will allow access to stronger cards, but narrow the range of cards available to you, and vice versa.
Your lead character has certain attributes that will play vital roles throughout the game. Since the attributes of your other characters do not come into play, your lead character will be hereafter referred to as your character.
The most important is your character's Hit Points (体力), or HP, which measures your character's health, located in the top right corner of each character card. You HP goes down if you take damage during the Battle Phase, and you lose the game when your character's HP drops to zero or below. Some cards have the ability to restore some HP, but your HP cannot go above the value written on the card. You will keep track of your HP value using counters.
Another crucial number is the Spell Points (呪力), or SP. At the beginning of the game, your character has 0 SP, but will go up during the replenishing phase. Activating Spell Cards, using Event Cards and equipping Support Cards all require SP. You will keep track of your SP value using counters; you cannot have a negative SP value.
The number below the HP is your Evasion Value (回避), or EV, which conveys your character's dodging abilities. During the Battle Phase, if you opponent declares a Spell Card on you, your EV is compared with your opponent's Spell Card's Hit Value, or HV. If your EV is lower, your character takes a hit, and loses a certain amount of HP, which is determined by whether you're attacking or intercepting. If your EV is higher, your character evaded the spell and suffers no damage. If your EV is the same as your opponent's card's HV, the final attribute, the Border Value, comes into play.
Your character's Border Value (決死判定), or BV, tells you how much SP you need to spend to escape out of a border situation, as described above. If you pay the necessary SP, then your character suffers no damage. If you have insufficient SP, or choose not to pay the necessary SP, your character gets hit and loses HP.
Human Deck
楽園の素敵な巫女 (The Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise)
Reimu Hakurei
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0100
- Designations: Human, Border Manipulator
- Quote: Anyways, I have to punish you a little.
- Artist: Gengorou
- Game Information
- Health Points: 19
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 3
- Special: One of your spell cards gains 1 Focused Movement. Costs 2 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
普通の黒魔術師 (The Ordinary Black Magician)
Marisa Kirisame
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0200
- Designations: Human, Magician
- Quote: Are you an idiot? Danmaku is all about power!
- Artist: His Majesty the Devil
- Game Information
- Health Points: 20
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 4
- Special: One of your spell cards gains 1 Unfocused Movement. Costs 2 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
紅魔館のメイド (The Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion)
Sakuya Izayoi
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0300
- Designations: Human, Scarlet Devil Mansion
- Quote: Come back two hours earlier.
- Artist: Miwa Shimamura
- Game Information
- Health Points: 20
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 3
- Special: One of your own spell cards gains 1 HV. Costs 3 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
半人半霊 (The Half-human Half-ghost)
Youmu Konpaku
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0400
- Designations: Human, Youkai, Hakugyokurou
- Quote: For the time being, I'm here to slash you. That's my story.
- Artist: Makoto Kurasawa
- Game Information
- Health Points: 24
- Evasion Value: 2
- Border Value: 3
- Special: One of your own spell cards gains 1 IV. Costs 3 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
Youkai Deck
境目に潜む妖怪 (The Youkai that Lurks in the Boundary)
Yukari Yakumo
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0500
- Designations: Human, Border Manipulator
- Quote: That's all right, we can play forever some other time......
- Artist: Haniwa
- Game Information
- Health Points: 21
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 3
- Special: Can equip Support Cards during the Event/Special declaration period. Permanent, to be used during the Replenishing Phase, Attacking Side only.
七色の人形遣い (The Seven-Colored Puppeteer)
Alice Margatroid
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0600
- Designations: Youkai, Magician
- Quote: Danmaku is all about brains. That's common sense.
- Artist: Touya
- Game Information
- Health Points: 21
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 4
- Ability: Can equip as many Dolls as she wants.
- Special: All your cards that require Alice gain X AV and X IV, where X is half the number of Dolls you have, rounded down. Permanent, to be used during the Battle Phase.
紅い悪魔 (The Scarlet Devil)
Remilia Scarlet
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0700
- Designations: Youkai, Vampire, Scarlet Devil Mansion
- Quote: ......Well, behave yourself.
- Artist: Wakky
- Game Information
- Health Points: 18
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 2
- Special: One of your own spell cards gains 1 AV. Costs 3 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
華胥の亡霊 (The Dreaming Ghost)
Yuyuko Saigyouji
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0800
- Designations: Youkai, Hakugyokurou
- Quote: Hm, haven't you heard the phrase, "more haste, less speed"?
- Artist: Mitsuru Herada
- Game Information
- Health Points: 23
- Evasion Value: 2
- Border Value: 4
- Special: Your lead character gains 1 DV. Costs 2 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
Red Deck
悪魔の妹 (The Sister of the Devil)
Flandre Scarlet
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 0900
- Designations: Youkai, Vampire, Magician, Scarlet Devil Mansion
- Quote: Will you play with me?
- Artist: Hirafumi
- Game Information
- Health Points: 17
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 3
- Special: One of your spellcards that possesses no basic ability gains 1 AV. Costs one hand card, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
知識と日陰の少女 (The Girl of Knowledge and Shadow)
Patchouli Knowledge
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 1000
- Designations: Youkai, Magician, Scarlet Mansion
- Quote: ......Rat posion, rat poison.
- Artist: Yukitarou
- Game Information
- Health Points: 17
- Evasion Value: 2
- Border Value: 2
- Special 1: Your opponent's event cards and special abilities have no effect on your lead character. Permanent, to be used during the Replenishing and Battle Phase.
- Special 2: One of your opponent's spell cards loses 1 AV. Costs 1 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, Intercept Side only, can only be used once per turn.
華人小娘 (The Chinese Girl)
Hong Meiling
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 1100
- Designations: Youkai, Scarlet Devil Mansion
- Quote: Just because I'm a door guard doesn't mean that all I do is ambush.
- Artist: Hato Kannadzuki
- Game Information
- Health Points: 20
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 4
- Special 1: If your opponent's lead character lives at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, your lead character loses 2 EV. Permanent, to be used during the Battle Phase.
- Special 2: One of your spell cards gains 1 Protection. Costs 3 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
Night Deck
永遠と須臾の罪人 (The Eternal and Brief Criminal)
Kaguya Houraisan
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 1200
- Designations: Lunarian, Eientei
- Quote: Worry not, for I will show you... the miasma of the true moon!
- Artist: Sou
- Game Information
- Health Points: 25
- Evasion Value: 2
- Border Value: 4
- Special: Look at the top two cards of your deck. Choose one of them and move it to the bottom, and leave the other one at the top. Costs two SP, to be used during the Battle Phase.
月の頭脳 (The Brain of the Moon)
Eirin Yagokoro
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 1300
- Designations: Lunarian, Eientei
- Quote: And by the way... drugs can be used to attack, too!
- Artist: Tako
- Game Information
- Health Points: 22
- Evasion Value: 2
- Border Value: 3
- Special: One of your spellcards that has basic abilities gains 1 HV. Costs 2 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, can only be used once per turn.
狂気の月の兎 (The Lunatic Moon Rabbit)
Reisen Udongein Inaba
- Basic Information
- Card Number: 1400
- Designations: Youkai, Eientei
- Quote: I'll show you everything I've got - the Lunar Insanity!
- Artist: Nenehisa Akiyama
- Game Information
- Health Points: 19
- Evasion Value: 3
- Border Value: 3
- Special: The spellcard that your opponent chooses to use loses 1 HV. Costs 3 SP, to be used during the Battle Phase, Intercept Side only, can only be used once per turn.