Card Duel
Card Duel is an event that PNS brings in to rotation every few months. It is a card game where you want to beat your opponents hand, to the point they have no cards left.
Rewards: What can you win from this event?
This is a great event to earn a march skin from. It takes little investment, besides time. You earn the Exchanger Shop coins by completing Duels, completing quests and by ranking up through the various grades by winning matches.
Your cards:
It is highly recommended on day 1, if you spend on the game, to buy 1-2 packs of the Card Packs, to give you an advantage against your competitors. You will have higher ranked cards, and it will be easier to get a win. If you can’t buy one, that’s okay too. You can still win, it just may take a few more matches to earn the points for rewards!
You can view your available cards by clicking “My Card”. These are the cards you have available to use. As you play ad complete quests, you will earn card packs to have more available cards to use.
This photo shows the default cards everyone starts out with.
Note: The cards are reset every Card Duel, so if you buy Card Packs, they will not be kept for the next event. They are only present for the 6 day period.
If you click “My Card Deck” you will be able to see which of your cards are selected for battle. You can only have 10 cards selected.
I recommend using “Auto Select”. It will select your top 10 highest level cards, which is a great starting point.
If you click on “Open Pack”, you will be able to open the packs you either won through quests, or purchased. These packs will give you the chance to earn new hero cards to use in your duels.
If you draw a duplicate of a card you already have, you will earn “Salvage points”. Salvage points can be used to purchase heroes you do not have. It’s recommended to save these are buy strong, more rare hero cards to use, which will help you win more challenges. The higher level the duplicate, the more salvage points you will earn.
Back in the “My Card” section, you can see all the hero cards available, and how many salvage points it would cost to unlock the cards you still need.
You can also look at the Card and/or Field Skill some cards have, by clicking on them. Take these skills into consideration when building your deck, and choosing what hero to unlock next.
When you’ve chosen what hero card you want to spend your salvage points on, click them, and then click the “Fuse” button. Then you will have to go back to the “My Card Deck” area and add them to your 10 cards selected for battle.
How to play:
Now that you’ve got your deck set up, you are ready to play! Click the “Match” button, and wait to be matched to an opponent.
The goal: To win, make opponent lose all their cards. You will also win if the player quits the match.
How a round works:
- Select a card from your deck, to play against your opponent.
- If the card attack level is equal, both cards will disappear.
- If your card attack level is higher, the card you played will disappear (just for the match), but you will get to keep your opponents card for the match.
- If your card attack level is lower, the card you played will go to your opponent, and the card they played will disappear.
- There will be a random battlefield buff activated each round. These may potentially increase your attack level, which could be beneficial to winning the round.
Some key things to keep in mind:
- Don’t use all your highest level cards right away.
- You want to try to predict what card they will use. Most players try to get rid of their lowest cards first.
- You want to ideally beat them with the lowest card possible. For example, if they play a 31, you want to use a 32 versus a 50, as you could have saved the 50 for something else.
- Try to utilize the battle field buff to your advantage. The inflated attack level could make that car a lot more useful.
Quests:
There are two types of quests – Daily & Adv. Quests. By completing quests, you will earn Card Packs, to unlock better hero cards. Daily Quests you can complete once per day, whereas Adv. Quests can only be completed once during the event duration.
Daily Quests:
- Total Participation Times
- Victories Achieved
- Win Streak
Adv. Quests:
- Domination (# of times won with ≥ 5 cards remaining)
- Win 1x = 1 Card Pack
- Win 5x = 2 Card Packs
- Win 10x = 3 Card Packs
- Narrow Victory (# of times won with ≤ 2 cards remaining)
- Win 1x = 1 Card Pack
- Win 5x = 2 Card Packs
- Win 10x = 3 Card Packs
- Point Master (Your ranking level)
- Achieve 2000 points = 1 Card Pack
- Achieve 3000 points = 2 Card Packs
- Achieve 5000 points = 3 Card Packs
- Big Spender (Buy Challenge Attempts)
- Buy 20 challenge attempts = 1 Card Pack
- Buy 30 challenge attempts = 2 Card Packs
- Buy 50 challenge attempts = 3 Card Packs
It is highly recommended if you are going for the top rewards in this event, to buy the 50 challenge attempts right at the start, as this will grant you 6 card packs, which will allow you to have a better hero card line up. Each challenge attempt costs 200 diamonds, so 50 attempts will cost you 10,000 diamonds. The purchased attempts will not reset every day, but will disappear if you do not use them by the end of the event.
Ranking:
To earn and unlock the rewards for the Point Master quest, you need to progress through the ranking. Each new rank level also comes with its own rewards to use in the shop.
| Grade | Total Points | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Rookie | 0 | N/A |
| Amateur | 1200 | 120 Duel Coins 20 Gear Enhancer Material 20 Chip Enhancer Material |
| Duelist | 1500 | 300 Duel Coins 80 Gear Enhancer Material 80 Chip Enhancer Material |
| Adept | 2000 | 600 Duel Coins 120 Gear Enhancer Material 120 Chip Enhancer Material 120 Module Enhancer Material |
| Duel Expert | 2500 | 800 Duel Coins 200 Gear Enhancer Material 200 Chip Enhancer Material 200 Module Enhancer Material |
| Duel Master | 3000 | 1000 Duel Coins 250 Gear Enhancer Material 250 Chip Enhancer Material 250 Module Enhancer Material 250 Cube Enhancer Material |
| Duel King | 4000 | 2000 Duel Coins 400 Gear Enhancer Material 400 Chip Enhancer Material 400 Module Enhancer Material 400 Cube Enhancer Material |
| Duel Legend | 5000 | 3000 Duel Coins 650 Gear Enhancer Material 650 Chip Enhancer Material 650 Module Enhancer Material 650 Cube Enhancer Material Duel Legend Frame (30-day) |
There is also an overall event ranking Leaderboard, where you are compared against all other commanders in the game. There are a variety of different rewards, based on what ranking you achieve by the end of the event.
Each round won, you will receive 60 duel coins. Each round lost, you will receive 30 duel coins.
You need 10,000 duel coins to earn the top reward, which is the Permanent march skin. If you make it to Legends rank, you will only need to win 37 matches to each the rest of the duel coins needed (which you would have done to get to that rank anyway).