King of Duels is a Yugi-Oh inspired play-to-earn TCG (trading card game) in the Hive ecosystem created by Jose Suarez, a.k.a 
This blog contains a summary of How to Play King of Duels and the basic things you need to know.
Key important needs to be able to play:
- A saved deck with at least 20 cards (NFT or Non-NFT)
- Knowledge on the keywords and how to use the board/cards
- An opponent
Keywords
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Deploy: Place a Creature, Hero or Champion from your hand face-up on the board or flip a face-down Hidden card face-up.
Promote: Deploy a Hero or Champion by replacing one or more friendly Deployed cards on the board that satisfy its Deploy cost.
Fortified: A horizontally (sideways) placed Deployed or Hidden card. Fortified cards prevent the defending player from being damaged when attacked.
Reinforced: Deploy a special mode card in addition to your normal deployment
Hidden: When Deploying a card, you may Hide it by placing it face-down on the board.
Prepare: Place an ambush or Rune from your hand face-down on the board.
Passive: An effect on a Deployed card that is automatically activated by a specific gameplay situation.
React: Activate an ambush card in response to a specific gameplay situation.
Ability: An effect on a Deployed card that can be manually activated during your turn.
The Board
- When you click on a card, all the information will appear here
- Your Hit Points (HP)
- Special cards that do not go in the deck, which can be deployed with rune-type cards
- Your deck
- Space where rune/ambush type cards go
- Space where the champions are deployed
- Your graveyard (where your killed champions are buried)
- Phase of the game (will let you know whose turn it is and how much time you have left) and emojis
- It is the rival field, where your opponent plays his cards the same way you do
- Opponent's HP
Card Types
Champion
Champions are divided into two categories
Heroes: cards with abilities...
...and Creatures: cards without abilities
Paladins
Paladins will often serve as theme enablers or gain conditions within a deck thanks to the above-average power they bring to the board.
These cards are currently not in circulation but in the upcoming expansion, these should be available to use.
Rune/Tactic
Rune cards can be played directly from a player’s hand during their turn, but they don’t React to gameplay situations like Defenses do if Prepared. These cards can immediately be activated when prepared that can result to a wide variety of effects from increasing your HP/Power to lowering down your opponent's HP by a certain number.
Ambush
Ambush cards must be Prepared before they can take effect or React to a specific circumstance or situation (e.g. destroying the champion your opponent used to attack you)
How To Play
This is the actual battlefield.
The goal of this game is to reduce your opponent's HP from 8000 to 0.
Each player will start with 5 random cards from their deck on their hand.
In every turn, a player will take 1 card from their deck and have 100 seconds to either deploy their champions in battle/fortified position, activate rune cards and/or prepare their ambush cards and of course, attack.
This will be the battle loop and will end when one of the players' HP goes down to 0 or if one of them has no remaining cards on their deck.
POW and RES seen on the each card will determine the attack power and the resistance when attacked. The difference of POW from both players will be subtracted from the HP of the player with the lower POW and the champion attacked will be sent to the graveyard so no one is safe until the game is finally over.
There's a wide variety of cards with different abilities and some can even send your champions from the graveyard to the board.
The key to winning here is having good cards on your deck and of course, having the skills to create strategies that will surprise your opponents with moves the would never expect!
There are daily and weekly quests you can complete for you to get rewards such as cards and $KOD you can use to rent and purchase cards in-game.
That's basically all you need to know to start playing KOD. I am also a newbie to this kind of game but I'm learning!
I have uploaded a full review of this game, including one of the games I played.
And if you're interested in playing, you may use my Referral Link and start playing. You can play this for free, should you wish to try. You will be provided with free cards when you register.
Hope you learned a thing or two!
Thanks and see you around!