What is a Persona?<\/strong><\/p>\n Personas are an incredible power individuals use to face life’s hardships. They are commonly referred to as “the other self.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Each copy of\u00a0Persona VS\u00a0<\/em>should include the following:<\/p>\n 3 Player cards (1 for each protagonist from Persona 3, 4, and 5)<\/p>\n 1\u00a0Persona 5<\/em> deck (40 cards) 001-025<\/p>\n 1\u00a0Persona 4<\/em> deck (40 cards) 026-050<\/p>\n 1\u00a0Persona 3<\/em> deck (40 cards) 051-071<\/p>\n 2 sets of “Turn Summary” cards<\/p>\n 2. Both players then draw from their decks until they have 5 cards in their hand, but don’t look at the cards until turn order has been decided.<\/p>\n 3. Both players set their starting HP to 30. Life can be tracked with a note pad or digitally on a phone.<\/p>\n 4. Determine who goes first. You can play “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” roll dice, or use whatever method both players agree on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The game is over when one of the following conditions is met:<\/p>\n -A player’s HP is reduced to “0”<\/strong><\/p>\n -A player cannot draw the required number of cards to fill their hand in the Draw Step<\/strong><\/p>\n When a match is over, the winning player may flip their Player card over and read the epilogue written on the back. ATLUS kindly asks that you do not share the epilogues on social media to keep the stories a surprise for other players.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Similar to the video games, this card game is also turn-based. The current turn player goes through 3 different steps in a specific order. Once they’ve finished all 3 steps, the turn is passed to the opposing player.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 3 steps are:<\/p>\n Planning Step > Skill Step > Draw Step<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Planning Step is where a player prepares their field for their Skill Step. You can do several actions during the Planning Step, as long as the conditions for those actions can be met.<\/p>\n A. Summoning a Persona (Playing a Persona card from hand)<\/strong><\/p>\n B. Fusing a Persona (Combing 1 or more Personas on the field into a stronger one from hand)<\/strong><\/p>\n C. Changing Personas (Swapping your main Persona with one of your sub-Personas)<\/strong><\/p>\n D. Playing a Supporter (Playing a Support card from hand)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can play a Persona card from your hand by discarding cards from your hand equal to that Persona’s cost. The cost is the number in the top left corner. You can also send Persona cards already in your play area to the discard pile to pay for the cost. Sending an in-play persona will only count as 1 tribute, unless an effect says otherwise (ex. You can play the 3-cost “Alice” by sending an “Ars\u00e8ne” you already control to the discard pile and discarding 2 more cards from your hand).<\/p>\n Main Personas and Sub-Personas<\/strong><\/p>\n Each player is allowed to control 1 main Persona and up to 2 sub-Personas.\u00a0All Personas come with a mix of abilities and skills. Abilities are in white boxes, and can be used as long as the ability conditions are met, regardless of being on a main or sub-Persona. Skills are in black boxes, and can only be used by main Personas in the Skill Step unless a player has entered a “1 more.”<\/p>\n Main Personas are also used to determine weaknesses when attacking or being attacked. You can see what type of skill a Persona is weak too in the top right corner of the card and on the left side of the card, right above its skill\/ability text.<\/p>\n All skills have a damage type listed to the left of the skill name.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Persona VS<\/em> currently uses 5 damage types:<\/p>\n (I wasn’t able to find the image files used in the original, and decided to go with the original “Persona 5” element icons. The rasterized icons were done by my friend, Trevor Verges. You can find more of his work at his website.<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n Main Personas are played in the play area directly below the Player card. Sub-Personas are placed to the left and right of the main Persona.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To fuse, take a Persona card from your hand and place it on top of another Persona card in your play area. You must still pay the play cost on the card you wish to fuse into to successfully fuse it. A fused Persona gains all the abilities and skills of its fusion materials, so make sure you place your new Persona so that you can still see the skill and ability text on its previous incarnation. You can fuse any number of Personas you control into a single new Persona.<\/p>\n Be careful, though. If your opponent is able to remove your fused Persona by either sending it to the discard pile or returning it to your hand, all Personas stacked underneath it are sent to the discard pile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During your Planning Step you can swap your main Persona with one of your sub-Personas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Support cards can only be played from your hand. They have various strong abilities to aid you and disrupt your opponent. There is no limit to how many Support cards you can play in a single turn.<\/p>\n Support cards have blue backgrounds and can only be played during the Planning Step (unless an effect would say otherwise). Some Support cards have “10 HP or less” effects. If your HP is 10 or lower, the effect of the card becomes the text inside the black box instead of its normal effect in the white box.<\/p>\nContents and Game Setup<\/h2>\n
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GAME STEPS<\/h1>\n
Planning Step<\/h1>\n
A. Summoning a Persona<\/h2>\n
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C. Changing Personas<\/h2>\n
D. Playing a Support Card<\/h2>\n
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