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Upgrade a card: Permanently add +1 to any side you choose. Raise its total enough and it levels up.Earn coins by winning player vs player matches: show mercy instead of claiming a card and you earn 50 (up to 500 a day).
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Drag the corners of your drawing to move, turn or resize it.
Background
Its level and stats are rolled when it's printed.
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Battle
Practice
Play the computer, best of three like the real thing. Nothing to lose.
Top players
Player vs Player
Best of three rounds. The winner may claim one card from their opponent, for keeps.
Guide
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Draw
Draw and name your card. The game rolls its level and four stats.
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Battle
Practice
Build a strategy and test your cards without any risk of losing them.
Player vs Player
Battle against other online scribblers. Best of three, winner picks and steals one card from their opponent.
Your profile and the tabs
- Profile Your picture, name, battle record and highlighted cards. Below them is your collection: every card you own, with your deck (the 12 cards you battle with) kept at the top. Your gallery shows the cards you created. Upgrade a card spends coins to upgrade the stats of a card you own. Profiles are public.
- Create Draw a new card (up to 3 a day).
- Cards Every card drawn on Scribia, with a featured artist each day. Filter by artist or level.
- Packs This week's pool and when the next packs go out.
- Battle The leaderboard and your match history. Practice against the computer, or create or accept a PvP challenge.
How to battle
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Players take turns placing cards on empty spaces of a 4×4 board. When a card is placed, the number on each side is compared with the facing number of any opponent card next to it. If your number is higher, you capture. A tie or lower does nothing.
Chain captures: a captured card immediately checks its own neighbors and can capture them too, so one move can sweep the board.
The wall: every round, one brass wall stands between two squares somewhere on the board. The cards on either side of it never touch, so nothing is captured across it and chains stop there. Each round gets a new wall. (No wall in Sudden Death.)
Boost: once a round, pick a card and tap Boost. One of its four sides, chosen at random, gets +1 for the rest of that round. Then place it anywhere. Each new round you get a fresh boost, and last round's +1 is gone. No boosts in Sudden Death.
When the board is full, the player with the most cards wins the round. Each match is 3 rounds. A tied round goes to Sudden Death: a 3×3 board with fresh cards, and its winner takes the round.
New to Scribia? Playing against the computer costs nothing and there's nothing to lose. It's the best way to learn which cards and placements work before you risk your deck in PvP. (You need an account and a deck of 12 cards to battle. Each new player receives 1 starter pack containing 12 cards.)
Player vs Player
- Each round you place 8 cards, so a few always sit out.
- Before the match, each player selects up to 3 cards to protect. If you lose, those cards are safe from your opponent's claim.
- The winner of the match picks one: claim 1 card from the loser's deck, for keeps, or show mercy: leave their cards alone and earn 50 coins instead. The winner has 60 seconds to choose; if time runs out, it counts as mercy. You can earn up to 500 coins a day from battles.
- Coins come from your first 3 matches a day against the same opponent, to discourage farming.
Cards & rarity
When you create a card, it receives a random level from 1 to 10. About 1 in 4 cards is Lv.1, while a Lv.10 Masterpiece is created about once in 500.
CommonLv.1–2
UncommonLv.3–4
RareLv.5–6 · foil shine
EpicLv.7–8 · foil shine
LegendaryLv.9 · foil + sparkles
MasterpieceLv.10 · rainbow
The small tally marks printed in a card's top-left corner count its level.
Level sets the total. Levels dictate how many points a card's four stats add up to.
Making cards
- Draw up to 3 cards per day. The cards you create are added to Scribia and dealt out to other players in the weekly packs. You always keep the first edition of any card you create, unless you lose it in battle later.
- Cards are permanent: once saved, a card cannot be deleted, so take your time before you print it.
- Each new player receives a starter pack of 12 cards, which serve as your first deck.
Upgrading with coins
- Stat upgrade: +1 to one side of your choice. Each upgrade costs more the higher the card's level: 15 coins at Lv.1, 60 at Lv.2, 135 at Lv.3, 240 at Lv.4, up to 735 at Lv.7.
- Level up: when a card's stat total reaches the next level's range, it levels up and gets that level's rarity.
- Upgrading stops at Lv.8 (Epic), and a side can be upgraded up to 8, meaning Legendary and Masterpiece cards can only come from card creation.
- Upgrades are permanent and stay with that copy of the card, whoever owns it. If an upgraded card is claimed by an opponent in battle, its upgrades and level go with it.
Weekly packs
Every Sunday night (Monday 00:05 UTC), packs are dealt out to players. You must draw at least 1 card during the week to receive a pack. Packs are made of the cards added to Scribia by all other players that week. Your pack holds 5 cards:
Lv.1–2common
Lv.1–2common
Lv.1–2common
Lv.3–4uncommon
Lv.4–8lucky
Lucky slot odds: Lv.4 55% · Lv.5 25% · Lv.6 12% · Lv.7 6% · Lv.8 2%.
Legendary and Masterpiece cards are only printed as first editions and are never dealt out.
The pool of cards the packs pull from resets every week. You won't receive your own cards, and packs won't include duplicates.
Print runs
Each card has a limited number of copies, set by its level:
Lv.110
Lv.28
Lv.36
Lv.45
Lv.54
Lv.63
Lv.7–82
Lv.9–101
Editions are set when packs go out, based on how many copies of a card were dealt in that week's packs. Copies that weren't dealt go out of print for good. For example, a Lv.4 “Examplemon Shield” can have 5 copies. If only 3 are pulled into packs, its final edition size is 4: the creator's first edition plus the 3 dealt, numbered 1/4 to 4/4.
You may receive a pack with a +1 bonus creation. It lets you draw one extra card any time, past the daily limit. These are only given when the weekly packs can't fill every slot. You can hold up to 3, and they don't expire.
Account & recovery
- Username and password only: no email or personal information. Your username is public; you can change it once every 30 days in Settings.
- Scribia never sees your password and has no email to reset it with. Your password and security answer are the only way back in. Write them down.
- Change your name and password in Settings (the gear). Your picture and book color have their own buttons beside it.
Community rules
Scribia is for players 13 and up. No hateful or sexual content, no harassing or targeting real people, and no threats or encouraging self-harm.
We may remove any card at our discretion. A removed card gives its creator a strike: 3 strikes in 12 months pauses card creation for 7 days, and a strike after that is a permanent ban.
You must be at least 13 to use Scribia. See the Terms and Privacy Policy.