Dragon Cards

Dragon Cards is a Chinese card game.

History
The Dragon Cards were used in China, by a Taoist master as a final test for Feng Shui students. The cards possessed shadow powers. Under the yin yang concept the cards are deemed yin. To avoid disruption, a seal, deemed yang was used to trap the cards creating balance.

Hajime Imori's grandfather came into possession of the sealed cards druing World War II, when he was in Manchura. Years later Imori found them his grandfather's shed and took them to Sugoroku Mutou to ask if he knew anything about them. Sugoroku told his their history and got him to promise not to break the seal.

Imori breaks his promise as he breaks the seal to play a game with Yugi after stealing his Millennium Puzzle in the hopes of taking his shadow powers. He beats Yugi in a game of Dragon Cards, sealing his soul in the pot, but Yugi manages to touch the Millennium Puzzle, turing into Dark Yugi before losing his soul. Dark Yugi defeats Imori in Dragon Cards, returning Yugi's soul and sealing Imori's in the pot.

Rules
There are 75 cards. Each card represents a dragon, which has one of the five Chinese elements, earth, fire, metal, wood and water and a level from 1 to 5. There are 3 copies of each card.

Both players draw 6 cards at the start of a game. Each turn a player draws 1 card and discards 1. A player may pick up the last card their opponent discarded instead of drawing from the Deck. After gathering 2 sets of 3 dragons of the one element, that the player is satisfied with, they may play the two dragons. The opponent continues until they draw the cards they need before playing them. Dragons get stronger each turn that passes after they have been summoned. Once both players have summoned their dragons, they battle with them. The player who defeats their opponent's 2 dragons wins.

Dragons with higher levels are stronger than dragons of lower levels. Each element strenghtens and weakens other elements.