Magic Card: CZ12

Magic Card: CZ12 is a competitive card game set in 2099, when AI robots have replaced most industries and even the animals in zoos. You play as the director of a traditional zoo, leading the traditional Chinese zodiac animals against AI and seeking to become the world’s richest man. Before your first battle, set your personal image in the gear-icon settings and collect welfare coins; you need 1,000 coins to enter a battle.

Card types

The game has animal, fruit and skill cards. Its library contains 12 animal types, each in orange, yellow and blue, for 36 animal cards in total. Each animal card has a desired value shown at its bottom left. The fruit library also has 12 types in those three colors, for 36 fruit cards.

Skill cards can be used once per turn. They include wizards, schemers, summoners, artifacts and peepers; all are used by clicking except the peeper, which you drag and drop.

Battle rounds

The player who wins the most coins at the start goes first. Both players begin by drawing 20 cards from the 36-card library to form their card pools. For the animal rounds, each player draws five cards from their pool, then draws one animal card per turn. Two rounds of animal cards flow out from both sides, each lasting 180 seconds. During them, players can use wizard and strategy skill cards; the reputation values of the two rounds are added together.

The fruit cards then flow out, with 180 seconds to play them. Each round, players randomly draw five fruit cards from their 20-card pool. During this part, they can use summoning, immortal artifact and peeping mirror skill cards.

Camouflage and scoring

After an animal card is played, the opponent can see it. You can use the camouflage button and select an animal card to disguise it as a larger or smaller card. The opponent sees the disguised card. You can also drag the sight glass to the opponent’s fruit-card area in the upper right to view one of their fruit cards.

An animal card’s reputation value appears above your personal image. A yellow background marks a disguised value, while a white background shows the true value. When the fruit round begins, the game displays the combined reputation from both animal rounds. After both sides play skill cards and then fruit cards, matching fruit cards—by name, regardless of color—cause the two sides’ total reputation values to be exchanged. The starting win-or-loss base is 100 and increases with the player’s rank.

Opponent skill cards

The opponent’s skill-card options depend on your rank. Below rank 20, it uses only wizard cards. Above 20 and below 50, it uses Witcher and Strategy cards; above 50 and below 100, it also uses Summon cards. Above rank 100, it receives skill cards such as Wizards, Conspiracy, Summoners and Immortal Artifacts.