How to Play Guide for Duel of Summoners

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This page will serve as a basic **how to play guide for *Duel of Summoners***. While there is very little information available at this time, we urge you to check back often, as new information is being added all the time! Feel free to edit this guide with any tips, tricks, and suggestions.

## Controls

Drag and drop cards or Click and select cards to use, and click resource wheel to gain resource

## Terminology

A

* AI: Artificial Intelligence
* AI Deck: Decks that ran by an AI in Draft arena, Weekly arena and Event Arena.
* AI wins: The total amount of wins your Deck wins while being registered in Draft arena, Weekly arena or Event Arena.
* AoE/Area of Effect: An effect that targets a specific arena on the battlefield

B

* Battlefield: The 5 lane arena where you and your opponent place creatures
* Booster: Packs which you gain cards from, typically giving you the total of 5 cards
* Bronze: The Lowest Rank tier in arenas

C

* Cards Exchanger: The NPC exchanger which you exchange Cards for Gold (currency)
* Champion: The Highest Rank Tier in all Arenas
* COM: The card generation for cards used in story mode. Some cards in story mode may have different effects than ones outside of story mode
* Creature: Cards that are summoned to the battlefield
* Continuous Effect: Effects by Creatures that are constantly in effect

D:

* Defense: The amount of armor a creature has. When the creature is damage, the total number of damage to the be from 1 - full damage if the damage is lower than the creature’s armor value but will always do full damage if the damage value is higher than the armor value
* Disappear: the act of creature cards being removed from the battlefield while not being destroyed, cards such as Paralyzing Bomb, and Rock does this as part of their effect
* Duel Coins: Currency purchased with real money that can be used for boosters, cards in merchant cat’s shop or hero skins
* Duel: a match between two summoners(you and someone else)

E

* Event Arena: An Arena with special rules that only occur during events

F

* Face Damage: Damage your creature cause by direct attacks to the opponent hero

G

* Gems: in game Currency earn from Missions, arenas, roulette wheel, daily log ins, and external social media events
* Ghost: Player’s AIs in arenas
* Gold (currency): in game money earn by missions, and arena. Used for cards in the player market, merchant cat’s shop or hero skins
* Gold (Resource): one of the 5 resource types for cards, also known as red resource
* Gold (Rank Tier): the fourth highest reward tiers for arena
* Grave: where used spell and destroyed creature cards go
* Grave cost: the additional cost each cards gains from entering the grave

H

* HP: the current amount of health a hero has
* Max HP: The cap on the amount of health a hero can have

I

* IGN: In game name

L

* Light: one of the 5 resource types for cards, also known as white resouce

M

* Mana: one of the 5 resource types for cards, also known as blue resouce
* Maximum price: the highest amount you can set cards in the personal shop
* Meta: the current shape of the game in what decks are used
* Minimum Price: the lowest amount you can set cards in the personal shop
* Missions/quests : daily/weekly/etc tasks that give rewards upon completion

N

* Nature: one of the 5 resource types for cards, also known as green resource

P

* Platinum: the third highest reward tier in arenas
* Playing Deck: Deck that consists of 1-12 card used to play the game
* Points: what determines your rank in all arenas based on your performance
* PvE: Player vs Enemy, when the player plays against NPCs/AI
* PvP: PLayer vs Player, when a players go head to head in real time duels

R

* Rank: your individual rank from every other player in arena
* Rank tier: The general rank in arena
* Registration deck: Decks that registered for the used of a certain arena
* Removal: a spell card with the purpose of removing creatures from the battlefield
* Resource: the requirement used for summon creatures and use spells
* Reward tiers: the rewards you gain for the rank tier you’re in
* RNG: Random number generator, the system used in digital games to create luck aspects

S

* Sacrifice: the action of creatures being sent to the grave without being destroyed. Creatures such as Demon:Calamus use this effect
* SE: Special edition. Card that have alternative art from their usual ones
* Shop code: the code you purchase for your personal shop, to sell cards to people outside your friend’s list
* Shop page: where you buy boosters, hero skins and browse the the player market
* Silver: the fifth highest rank tier in arena
* Soul: one of the 5 resource types for cards, also known as dark resource
* Staples: cards that are a major part of the meta and the standard goto cards
* Stars: rarity of the card
* Stats: the attack, defense, hp and effect of a card
* Streak: the amount of wins you have in a row
* Summon: placing a creature card onto the battlefield

T

* Top 10: the second highest rank tier
* Transformation: the action of a card changing into another card.

U

* Unsummon: the act of a card returning to your hand with its resource

## See also

* Deck Guide
* Release date
* System requirements