Medarot Card Game

Medarot Card Game (メダロットカードゲーム, Medarotto kaado geemu) is a japanese collectable card game released by Tenky from 1998-1999. It contains only the 60 Medabots from the original Medarot Gameboy game. A Gameboy version of the card game was later made, called Medarot Cardrobottle.

Rules

The card game stays fairly true to the battle system of the video games. Each player has two Medabots which are kept seperate from the deck. Each Medabot consists of 5 cards: head, right arm, left arm, legs, and medal, arranged in a + pattern with the medal in the center. The deck mainly contains spare part cards which can be switched out during battle, energy cards, and Medafighter cards.

Parts

Each part card has it's own HP. Head and arm parts are used for performing actions such as attacking and have an energy cost, whereas leg parts have a number for "speed", which determines the turn order. When a head or arm part's HP reaches 0, it can no longer be used. When a leg part's HP runs out, the Medabot's speed is set to 0, making it last in the turn order.

Energy Cards

There are four energy card types: shooting, grappling, defense, and support. Shooting and grappling energy is used for attacking the enemy, defense energy is used for using defense parts or evading, and support is used for support parts or Medafighter cards. At the beginning of each turn, both players can place one of each type of energy from their hand into their "energy stock", where it can be used. If a player doesn't have enough of the correct energy type to perform an action, they may use one of the other types to count as 1/2 energy.

Medafighters

Medafighter cards produce different effects, much like the trainer cards in Pokemon.

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