| Union Arena TCG Basic Rules FAQ | |||
| S/N | Category | Question | Answer |
| 1 | Card Design | What is the [+] sign next to a Character's BP? | It is a mark to show that it is possible for that Character's BP to be increased by its effect |
| 2 | Card Design | What is the [+] sign next to a card's generated energy? | It is a mark to show that it is possible to increase the number of that card's generated energy by its effect |
| 3 | Card Design | What are those icons in the trigger column? ([GET][DRAW][SPECIAL] etc) | The icons represent their respective types of triggers |
| 4 | Deck Building | Does the deck size of 50 cards include the 3 AP cards? | No it does not. Please prepare the 3 AP cards separate from the 50 cards deck |
| 5 | Deck Building | Can I build a deck using a mix of cards from both [Jujutsu Kaisen] and [HUNTER x HUNTER]? | No you cannot. Cards with different series code (The 3 alphabets after the "/" in the card number) cannot be placed in the same deck |
| 6 | Deck Building | I can only have up to 4 cards with the same name in a deck right? | No, as long as the number after the "/" in the card number is different, you can put up to 4 of each card in the same deck even if they have the same name |
| 7 | Deck Building | Is it possible to put 4 of each Special Triggers ([SPECIAL][COLOR][FINAL]) for a total of 12 Triggers in a deck? | Yes, you can. Additionally, you can have any numbers of non-special triggers as you wish in a deck |
| 8 | Deck Building | Can I put cards of a mix of different colours in my deck? | Yes |
| 9 | Game Preparation | How many Action Points are needed to play the game? | 3 Action Points are required for each player |
| 10 | Game Preparation | When deciding who to go first in the game, does the winner of the Rock-Papers-Scissors go first? Or does the winner get to decide who goes first? | The winner of the Rock-Paper-Scissors can decide which player goes first |
| 11 | Win Condition | What the the winning conditions? | When any of the following happens, you win the game: ① There are 0 cards in your opponent's Life Area ② There are 0 cards in your opponent's Deck, and your opponent is unable to draw a card in their Start Phase |
| 12 | Win Condition | Do I lose the game the moment your life becomes 0 during a Trigger Check? | Even if your life becomes 0, the game is only decided after all the effects activated from the trigger check finishes resolving. If after resolving all effects, including a [FINAL] trigger, and your life is back to or more, you do not lose the game |
| 13 | Win Condition | Do I lose the game if I am unable to draw cards other than during my Start Phase? | No, you do not lose |
| 14 | Win Condition | If my Life is reduced to 0 by card effects during my own turn, do I lose the game? | Yes, you lose |
| 15 | Stand Phase | Can I do an Extra Draw 2 or more times in a turn? | No, you can only do it once per turn。 |
| 16 | Stand Phase | Can the 1st player of the game do an Extra Draw? | Yes |
| 17 | Stand Phase | If I have 0 cards in my deck, can I do an Extra Draw? | No, you cannot |
| 18 | Move Phase | When moving characters between Front Lines and Energy Lines in my Move Phase, is it specified where do I move the cards to? | You can place it anywhere you like when moving into another line. You can also freely change the order of the cards in the same line to make it easier to play |
| 19 | Move Phase | Can I move characters from my Front Line to my Energy line in my Move Phase? | No, you cannot. Only Characters with the [STEP] effect can be moved from the Front Line to the Energy Line |
| 20 | Move Phase | When moving characters in the Move Phase, are all of the Characters moved at the same time? Or are they moved 1 at a time? | Choose all the characters and move them at the same time. If there is a maximum number of cards at the destination, you place the characters there into your Remove Area to make space before moving the character that was moving |
| 21 | Main Phase | Can I play a character in the Front Line? | Yes |
| 22 | Main Phase | If there are already 4 cards in a line, can I still play cards in them? | Yes. If there are already 4 cards, you choose 1 of them to place in the Remove Area, then play your card where the previous card was |
| 23 | Main Phase | When both my Front Line and Energy Line both have the maximum number of 4 cards, can I use event cards? | Yes |
| 24 | Main Phase | (When Energy Line has the maximum number of cards) When placing a card from the energy line to the remove area to play a card in the energy line from my hand, do I count the generated energy of the card that was placed to the remove area? |
Yes |
| 25 | Main Phase | Do cards in rest still generate energy? | Yes |
| 26 | Main Phase | When using cards, do the generated energy get spent? | No they are not. Generated energy remains the same |
| 27 | Main Phase | Do I need to meet the required energy even after playing a card? | No, you only need to meet the energy requirment at the time of playing the card. Even if your generated energy decrease afterwards, it does not affect cards that are already played |
| 28 | Main Phase | Please tell me the in which order do I check the meeting of required energy, pay Action Point, and resolve card effects | Do them in the following order ①Check if the required energy is met ②Pay the AP required ③Use the card ④Resolve the effects of the card |
| 29 | Main Phase | Do I need to meet the both the amount and colour of generated energy required in the required energy mark? | Yes, for example if the required energy is 5 Green, you need to have at least 5 Green energy generated in your energy line |
| 30 | Main Phase | Can I activate my [Activate Main] effects during the Attack Phase or during my opponent's turn? | No, you cannot. You can only activate [Activate Main] effects in your own Main Phase |
| 31 | Main Phase | Must a card be in Active to activate its [Activate Main] effect? | No, as long as the condition is met, it can be activated even in Rest |
| 32 | Main Phase | When referring to BP, do I use the value after it has been changed by card effects, or the original value written on the card? | You use the value after it has been changed by card effects |
| 33 | Attack Phase | In a battle, what happens if the attacking character and the blocking character has the same BP value? | The attacking character wins. The blocking character is retired. The attack character is not retired. |
| 34 | Attack Phase | In a battle, what happens if the blocking character has higher BP than the attacking character? | The blocking character wins. Both the attacking and blocking characters are not retired |
| 35 | Attack Phase | When performing multiple trigger checks at the same time, and a card with no trigger and a card with trigger is revealed, do I get to choose the order of placing the card with no trigger into the outside area and resolving the trigger effect? | Yes, you can choose the order of resolving them |
| 36 | Attack Phase | My opponent has 2 Life left, and I deal 2 damage at the same time with [DAMAGE 2], and both cards are checked. If 1 of them is a [FINAL] trigger, does it activate? If both cards are [FINAL] triggers, how are they resolved? | Yes, it activates. If both cards are [FINAL] triggers, your opponent resolves 1 of them and places 1 card from their deck to their Life area, and the other [FINAL] trigger will then fail to activate as your opponent now has 1 Life |
| 37 | Attack Phase | When activating trigger effects, do the other effects on that card also activate? | No, only the trigger effect activates |
| 38 | Attack Phase | When a character is played from a trigger check, does its [When Played] effect activate? If so, does the effect resolution count as part of the trigger check? | Yes, the [When Played] effect activates. If new effects are activated from the card being played. You can choose the order of resolving them, including any trigger effects that are not yet resolved. It is still counted as during the trigger check while resolving those effects |
| 39 | End Phase | Are Action Points put to Active in the End Phase? | No, Action Point cards do not become Active in the End Phase |
| 40 | End Phase | If I have 9 or more cards when it's not the End Phase, do I place cards from my hand to the Remove area until I have 8 cards left? | No, even if you have 9 or more cards in your hand outside the End Phase, you do not need to place cards in your hand to the Remove area until you have 8 cards left |
| 41 | Raid | What is [RAID] | It refers to stacking the card with [RAID] on top of the specified Character or character with the specified traits |
| 42 | Raid | What is a Raid state? | It refers to when a Character with [RAID] is face-up on top of a character card |
| 43 | Raid | When Raiding, do I also count the generated energy of the character specified by the Raid? | Yes |
| 44 | Raid | When Raiding, in which order do I resolve its [Put to Active and can move to the Front Line] and the [When Played] effect? | After resolving [Put to Active and can move to the Front Line], then do you resolve the [When Played] effect |
| 45 | Raid | Can I Raid on an Active character? | Yes |
| 46 | Raid | Can I Raid on a character in the Front Line? | Yes |
| 47 | Raid | After Raiding a character in Rest, is the "Put to Active" mandatory? | Yes, it is mandatory |
| 48 | Raid | After Raiding, is moving to the Front L mandatory? | No, it is up to you |
| 49 | Raid | If the orignal character before Raid has received effects, do those effects remain after Raiding? | No, they do not |
| 50 | Raid | After Raiding, can you activate effects of the original character? | No you cannot |
| 51 | Raid | Can I play a card with [RAID] without performing a Raid? | Yes, you can. However effects in the [RAID] box will become nullified |
| 52 | Raid | Can I play a Character with [RAID] without Raiding, then Raid on top of that card? | No, you cannot. You can only Raid on a character that does not have [RAID] |
| 53 | Raid | Can I Raid on a character that has already been Raided? | No, you cannot |
| 54 | Raid | Can I Raid on a card with a different colour? | Yes, you can. However you must still meet the energy requirement |
| 55 | Raid | How many cards are a Raided card counted as? | It is counted as 1 card |
| 56 | Raid | When a card with [RAID] trigger is flipped open from my Life, and I meet its energy requirement, must I perform the Raid? | No, you can choose to add it to your hand. Also, as triggers are optional, you can choose to not Raid, and not add it to your hand |
| 57 | Raid | When I Raid from the effect of a [RAID] trigger, do I have to pay the AP required? | No, you do not have to pay the AP. However you must still meet the energy requirement |
| 58 | Raid | After Raiding from a [RAID] trigger, that card is moved from the Energy Lin to the Front Line. Can that card block during that turn? | Yes |
| 59 | Raid | If a character that has already blocked this turn that is in Rest, is Raided from a [RAID] trigger and is put to Active, can that card block again? | Yes |
| 60 | Raid | If a card in Raid state is retired, what happens to the Raid source card? | Raid source cards are placed in the outside area |
| 61 | Raid | If a card in Raid state is placed in the Remove area, what happens to the Raid source card? | Raid source cards are placed in the outside area |
| 62 | Raid | If a card in Raid state is returned to hand or deck, what happens to the Raid source card? | Only the card on top is returned to hand or deck, the Raid source card is placed in the outside area |
| 63 | Keyword Effect | During the Move Phase, after a character with [STEP] moved from the Front Line to the Energy Line, can it move from the Energy Line to the Front Line again? | No, it cannot. Cards can only be moved once during Move Phase |
| 64 | Keyword Effect | During the Move Phase, if I want to move a character with [STEP] from the Front Line to the Energy Line, but there is already a maximum of 4 cards in the Energy Line, can I place a card from my Energy Line to the Remove area to move that character? | Yes, you can |
| 65 | Keyword Effect | When a character with [SNIPE] and [IMPACT 1] attacks a targetted character by [SNIPE]m does [IMPACT 1] activate? | Yes, if it won the battle, [IMPACT 1] activates |
| 66 | Keyword Effect | When attacking a targetted character by [SNIPE], does [When Attacking] effects activate? | Yes |
| 67 | Keyword Effect | Can a character targetted by [SNIPE] activate its [When Blocking] effects? | No |
| 68 | Keyword Effect | When attacking a character with [2 Times Block] targetted by [SNIPE], does "When blocking for the first time" happen? Does [When blocking for the first time, put this to Active] from [2 Times Block] activate? | No, as the character being attacked by [SNIPE] is not blocking, it does not activate |
| 69 | Keyword Effect | If the character being targetted by [SNIPE] is in Active, can it be put to Rest to block that attack? | No, even if the character being targetted by [SNIPE] is in Active state, it cannot block |
| 70 | Keyword Effect | Blocking does not happen for [SNIPE], but does battle happen? Do the effects that trigger when winning/losing a battle activate? | A battle happens. Effects that trigger when winning/losing battles also activate |
| 71 | Keyword Effect | If my character with [DAMAGE 2] and [IMPACT 1] wins my opponent's character in battle, how many damage does my opponent take? | 1 Damage |
| 72 | Keyword Effect | My opponent has 1 Life, and my character with [DAMAGE 2] deals damage to my opponent, and a [FINAL] trigger is flipped open from the trigger check. How is this resolved? | Only 1 card is checked, and the Life becomes 1 from the effect of the [FINAL] trigger, and the trigger check ends |
| 73 | Keyword Effect | How is trigger check performed when dealing mulitple damage due to [DAMAGE 2] etc? | The same number of cards as the damage dealt is flipped open at the same time, and check if there are any triggers. If there are multipe triggers, they can be activated in any order. After a card's trigger is resolved, it is placed in the outside area before you continue activating the next trigger |
| 74 | Keyword Effect | When my character with [IMPACT 1] wins my opponent's character in battle, is my opponent's character retired first, or does the trigger check happen first? | Resolve in the following order: ①Retire the character that lost the battle (Blocker) ②Resolve any [When Retired] effects or effects that trigger when a character is retired ③Resolve effects of [IMPACT 1] and any other effects that trigger [When you win the battle] |
| 75 | Keyword Effect | When my character with [IMPACT 2] attacks the player, how many damage is dealt? | As Impact do not activate when attacking players, if the character does not have [DAMAGE2], only 1 Damage is dealt as per normal |
| 76 | Keyword Effect | Does the [IMPACT +1] effect stack? | Yes |
| 77 | Keyword Effect | If the attack of a character with [IMPACT 1] that is given [IMPACT +1] by another card's effect, is blocked by a character with [IMPACT NULLIFICATION] that loses the battle, what happens? | The character with [IMPACT NULLIFICATION] that lost the battle is retired, and no damage is dealt as [IMPACT] was lost due to [IMPACT NULLIFICATION] |
| 78 | Keyword Effect | In the 1st attack of a character with [2 Times Attack] and [IMPACT 1], it battles character with [IMPACT NULLIFICATION]. Does the [IMPACT ] activate in the 2nd attack? | Yes, it does. [IMPACT NULLIFICATION] only activates for that battle |
| 79 | Keyword Effect | For [2 Times Attack] and [2 Times Block], at what timing are the characters put to Active? | An attack/block is declared with the character with [2 Times Attack] or [2 Times Block], put to Rest, then put to Active |
| 80 | Keyword Effect | What happens if a character with [2 Times Block] loses in the first battle? | It is put to Active, then enters battle, and is retired while in Active |
| 81 | Card Effect | Are effects with [When Played] timing mandatory to activate as long as the activation timing is met? | All effects must activate. Depending on the text written for the effects, you are able to choose not to resolve parts of an effect, as per the following: ●Optional ・Effects written as [You may XX] or [You can XX] ・Effects written as [Choose up to X cards] (You can choose 0 for this effect) ●Mandatory ・Effects written as [Do XX] ・Effects written as [Choose X number of cards] (You must choose the specified amount of cards) |
| 82 | Card Effect | What happens if there are not enough cards in my deck for effects like [Look at the top 5 cards of your deck] etc? | You look all of the remaining cards, and resolve the effect. If you are unable to resolve the entire effect due to any reason, resolve as much as you can |
| 83 | Card Effect | If an effect says [Choose up to 1 XX], can I choose 0? | Yes, you can |
| 84 | Card Effect | If an effect says [Choose 1 XX], can I choose 0? | No, you must choose 1 |
| 85 | Card Effect | What does [Does not become Active the next 1 time] mean? | The card will remain in Rest for that next 1 time it is supposed to be put to Active during your Start Phase, End Phase, or by effects |
| 86 | Card Effect | If a card receives the effects [Does not become Activate the next time] twice, does it become [Does not become Active the next 2 times]? | No, it does not |
| 87 | Card Effect | Where are [Card Name is treated as <XX>] effects valid? | It is valid in all areas like Hand, deck, outside area, in the field, remove area |
| 88 | Card Effect | If a When Attacking effect doesn’t have [1 Per turn] written, can it activate multiple times in the same turn? | Yes, it can activate each time that character attacks |
| 89 | Card Effect | If an effect has both [When Played] and [When Attacking] timing, does that effect only activate once whichever timing is met first? | No, it can activate both when played, and when attacking |
| 90 | Card Effect | Do [When Played] effects activate if the character is played in the Front Line? | If it is not specified on the effect, it can activate when played either in the Front Line or Energy Line. If the activation condition says "If it is in the Front Line", then that condition must be met to activate the effect |
| 91 | Card Effect | For effects that say [Put a card to Active] or [Put a card to Rest], can the effect activate by choosing a card that is already in that state? | Yes, it can |
| 92 | Card Effect | For effects with activation conditions, must all of the conditions be met? | Yes, all conditions written must be met to activate the effect |
| 93 | Card Effect | Do field card effects stack? | Yes, they stack |
| 94 | Others | What happens to a character if its BP is reduced to 0 or less by card effects? | It is retired |
| 95 | Others | If a card in my Life is flipped open and placed in the outside area by an effect, does trigger effect activate? | No, it does not |
| 96 | Others | Who decides which Life to flip open when my Life is decreased by something other than damage? | If it is not specified, the player whose Life is being decreased chooses |
| 97 | Others | During a match, can me and my opponent look at the following? ・Number of cards in Life ・Number of cards left in Deck ・Contents of cards in outside area ・Contents of cards in remove area |
Yes, you can. As they are public information, you can ask your opponent to verify them |
| 98 | Others | Can I return to a previous phase? | No, you cannot |
| 99 | Trigger | During a trigger check, if the card that is flipped open has a trigger, is the trigger mandatory to activate? | No, trigger effects are optional. You can choose not to activate it, and place it in your outside area as it is |
| 100 | Trigger | Can the trigger effect "[COLOR] Play a Green character card with required energy of 2 or less and 1 AP cost from your hand on your field in Active" play a character card in my hand that has its required energy reduced to 2 or less from effects like "[If there are Purple or Red cards in your opponent's field, the required energy of this card in your hand is reduced by X]" ? | Yes, you can. You refer to the required energy of the card after it has been modified by effects |
| 101 | Trigger | For the trigger effect "[ACTIVE] Choose 1 character in your field and put it to Active, it gets +3000BP during this turn", can I choose a character that is already in Active? | Yes, you can |
| 102 | Trigger | If a character is under the effect of "[cannot be put to Active the next 1 time]", what happens if I choose that character to receive the trigger effect of "[ACTIVE] Choose 1 character in your field and put it to Active, it gets +3000BP during this turn"? | Due to the effects of "[cannot be put to Active the next 1 time], the character is not put to Active from the trigger's effect, and stays in Rest. Then, the next time that it would be put to Active again, it will be able to become Active |
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