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* HoardingTheProfits: Scourgeling kills in Texas have to be tagged by the adventurer responsible in order to claim the card shards from their hearts. However, Bradley's card power lets him flood an area with opaque poison gas that doesn't affect himself, so when he arrives, everyone else backs off as the scourgelings die -- and then Bradley walks into the cloud, and when it clears, all the scourgelings have his tags on them, and ''everyone else's tags have been removed and piled up in a corner''. Bradley just sneers and claims that since no-one saw what he did in the cloud, no-one can prove anything. Arthur doesn't intend to take that lying down, though.
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* ShoutOut: When Brixaby dives at full speed, Arthur internally notes that "this time he wasn't just [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 falling with style]]."
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* BoobyTrap: The Mind Singer sets a trap for Brixaby. [[spoiler:She sends out a dragon with a card designed to explode if stolen from the heart deck, killing the thief. Fortunately, Brixaby's danger sense warns him away from taking it.]]
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''All The Skills -- A Deckbuilding [=LitRPG=]'' is published on Royal Road [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/55687/all-the-skills-a-deckbuilding-litrpg here]], and on Amazon.
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''All The Skills -- A Deckbuilding [=LitRPG=]'' is published on Royal Road [[https://www.Website/RoyalRoad ([[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/55687/all-the-skills-a-deckbuilding-litrpg here]], here]]), and on Amazon.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Prince Marion [[spoiler:gives up his future sensing card, even knowing he'll be disowned by the king, because he doesn't want the power or stress or responsibility.]]
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* OccamsRazor: Valentina considers the official story of bandits stealing Master of Skills to be far fetched. Presumably the truth, of a wild dragon attacking the carriage, would seem even more outlandish. [[spoiler:Instead, she assumes that Arthur is Baron Kane's illegitimate son and was given the card because of it.]]
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* PowerCopying: The "Counterfeit Siphon" card temporarily grants its holder a copy of any card power or skill used nearby. [[spoiler:Master of Skills can make that copying permanent, for appropriate types of skills.]]
--> New Counterfeit Spell obtained: Ultimate Wind Control\\
Remaining Time: 9 minutes 59 Seconds
--> New Counterfeit Spell obtained: Ultimate Wind Control\\
Remaining Time: 9 minutes 59 Seconds
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--> They were not a real investigative force. Their job was to simply lend weight to whatever the king's objectives already were.
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* ScatterbrainedSenior: [[spoiler:Valentina reveals that the king "was old when I was young" and now has dementia of some sort, making him capricious and erratic. He's still the only Mythic dragon rider, though, so nothing can be directly done about it.]]
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: [[spoiler:After Valentina reveals that she's guessed Arthur's real mother, he thinks she knows all about his origins, but then she goes on to assume that he's Baron Kane's illegitimate child and that's how he has Master of Skills. After a moment's thought, Arthur decides to allow the mistake rather than reveal that he's actually from a prison village and Master of Skills really was stolen.]]
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* ShoulderSizedDragon: Newborn dragons are always small, but Brixaby is even tinier than Common dragons, small enough to be held in two hands. He considers himself to be the perfect size (simply because it's ''his'' size, so it must be perfect).
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* InternalReveal: [[spoiler:When Arthur gets into a semi-friendly duel with his cousin Penn, he discovers that Penn knows -- or at least confidently suspects -- that Arthur has the Master of Body card that was stolen from Penn's family. Penn doesn't realize that Arthur personally stole it, but he does intend to beat some answers out of him.]]
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* InternalReveal: [[spoiler:When Arthur gets into a semi-friendly duel with his cousin Penn, he discovers that Penn knows -- or at least confidently suspects -- that Arthur has the Master of Body card that was stolen from Penn's family. Penn doesn't realize that Arthur personally stole it, but he does intend to beat some answers out of him. Arthur finally persuades him that he was mistaken -- until Arthur publicly reveals Master of Body in order to link with Brixaby the dragon.]]
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* NormalFishInATinyPond: This is part of Arthur's reasoning for sticking with Wolf Moon Hive, even when larger hives would be happy to take him, and he invites Carley along on the same basis. There are potentially more opportunities when there's less competition.
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* HourOfPower: The "Counterfeit Siphon" card copies powers used nearby and grants them to the holder for a fixed amount of time depending on the rank of the power, eg just one second for a copied Mythic power, but twelve hours for an Uncommon. [[spoiler:When copying a skill, Master of Skills can activate, giving three bonus levels immediately and making it permanent.]]
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* DragonRider: Dragons are sapient, and each is born with a card at his/her heart, which can bond with someone whose heart deck holds a compatible card, resulting in a third card power formed from their synergy. Dragon riders are an important strategic asset in fighting back scourge infestations.
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* DragonRider: Dragons are sapient, and each is born with a card at his/her heart, which can bond with someone whose heart deck holds a compatible card, resulting in a third card power formed from their synergy. Dragon riders are an important strategic asset in fighting back scourge infestations. [[spoiler:Arthur bonds with a Legendary dragon, but the newborn dragon is shoulder-sized, not immediately ridable. Still, their combined card powers are potent, allowing them to temporarily copy powers used nearby -- and Master of Skills can sometimes make the copy permanent.]]
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* KillerRabbit: Brixaby the dragon is tiny enough to perch on a human's shoulder like a parrot, and his four wings let him flit around playfully like a hummingbird. [[spoiler:His core card lets him pluck cards out of other people's heart decks and consume their power, and he's callous and arrogant enough to freely use it.]]
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* ClingyMacguffin: Any card, once added to a person's heart deck, becomes part of them. They ''can'' remove it, but it leaves an aching void inside them until it's put back. Arthur encounters this with [[spoiler:his Return to Start card, which is so two-edged that he needs to take it out, but he feels wounded afterward until he finds a solution that lets him restore it]]. Furthermore, no one else can remove a card from a heart deck without first killing the owner. For this reason, card anchors have been created that allow most cards to be used without adding them to a heart deck and becoming attached to them; however, anchors don't get the protection from theft.
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* ClingyMacguffin: Any card, once added to a person's heart deck, becomes part of them. They ''can'' remove it, but it leaves an aching void inside them until it's put back. Arthur encounters this with [[spoiler:his Return to Start card, which is so two-edged that he needs to take it out, but he feels wounded afterward until he finds a solution that lets him restore it]]. Furthermore, no one else can remove a card from a heart deck without first killing the owner. [[spoiler:Or, at least, that was the common wisdom, until Brixaby proves to have a Legendary power that allows card theft. Typically this results in the victim collapsing on the ground from the rip in their heart.]] For this reason, card anchors have been created that allow most cards to be used without adding them to a heart deck and becoming attached to them; however, anchors don't get the protection from theft.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: It's regrettable but normal for the power and presence of a new Legendary dragon egg to be overwhelming to the prospective riders, even to the point of being lethal. Thus, there are shields, clearly marked danger zones, and opportunities to back away from presenting oneself for linking. But [[spoiler:no one expected a newly hatched dragon to go on a rampage, stealing cards from the hearts of all the recruits instead of linking with one.]]
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* PowerParasite: [[spoiler:Brixaby the Legendary dragon turns out to have the power to rip cards out of people's hearts -- and it's greedy. And there's a room full of Legendary card holders who were hoping to link with it, which means a smorgasbord.]]
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* PentUpPowerPeril: Spell cards need to regularly spend time in a heart deck or at least an anchor, or else their power will rot, forming scourgelings with the card powers. [[spoiler:Arthur and Cressida visit a scholar's guild to look for cards worth stealing, but discover that many of them have already rotted -- including Rare cards that form scourgelings with intelligence and MindControl magic.]]
--> He made an inarticulate sound of protest, hand jerking away. It was too late. That light touch was enough. In a moment, the card was dust.\\
The smell that came up from it was death.
--> He made an inarticulate sound of protest, hand jerking away. It was too late. That light touch was enough. In a moment, the card was dust.\\
The smell that came up from it was death.
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* ThrowingTheFight: Arthur deliberately loses [[spoiler:his duel against Prince Marion]] in exchange for [[spoiler:borrowing Marion's ''Instant Competence'' card again so he can grab skills for all manner of tools. Marion just wanted to move far enough up the rankings to be able to help his sister if needed.]]
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** Master of Skills also turns out to have excellent synergy with [[spoiler:Prince Marion's "Instant Tool and Weapon Competence" card. Master of Skills does nothing for weapons, but for tools, it adds an extra three levels on top of Instance Competence's ten, and makes all thirteen levels permanent even after Instant Competence is removed.]]
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** Master of Skills also turns out to have excellent synergy with [[spoiler:Prince Marion's "Instant Tool and Weapon Competence" card. Master of Skills does nothing for weapons, but for tools, tools it adds an extra three levels on top of Instance Instant Competence's ten, and makes all thirteen levels permanent even after Instant Competence is removed.]]
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* FailedASpotCheck: Despite Valentina nudging him with the resemblances between "Ernest Kane" and Lottie Rowantree, Whitaker still doesn't catch on to the fact that Arthur is Lottie's son.
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* {{Doppelganger}}: The Echo card allows its holder to shapeshift into a copy of someone else -- even including card powers, although without getting full information about exactly what those powers are, only a general feel. For example, copying Master of Combat gives a sense of "some kind of fighting card".
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* YearInsideHourOutside: [[spoiler:When Arthur uses his combined card set power to visit his Personal Space, time doesn't pass in the outside world. He can examine his belongings, make plans, read books, even train skills, in zero linear time -- but staying there for too long results in a headache when he returns to his body and has to basically re-sync with it.]]
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* DoomedHometown: Subverted. It's teased several times that Arthur's village could be destroyed; the red dragon threatens to, and the Baron bluffs that he'll do it. But the dragon will only attack if the Baron gets Arthur's card, and the Baron [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou can't lose an entire village of workers for no good reason]]. In the end, Arthur is sent away, but the village is fine. [[spoiler:When he returns years later, things are a bit worse, but his father and most of the people he knows are still alive.
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* DoomedHometown: Subverted. It's teased several times that Arthur's village could be destroyed; the red dragon threatens to, and the Baron bluffs that he'll do it. But the dragon will only attack if the Baron gets Arthur's card, and the Baron [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou can't lose an entire village of workers for no good reason]]. In the end, Arthur is sent away, but the village is fine. [[spoiler:When he returns years later, things are a bit worse, but his father and most of the people he knows are still alive.alive]].
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* DoomedHometown: Subverted. It's teased several times that Arthur's village could be destroyed; the red dragon threatens to, and the Baron bluffs that he'll do it. But the dragon will only attack if the Baron gets Arthur's card, and the Baron [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou can't lose an entire village of workers for no good reason]]. In the end, Arthur is sent away, but the village is fine. [[spoiler:When he returns years later, things are a bit worse, but his father and most of the people he knows are still alive.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Arthur's father refuses to take a new card because he swore not to. He signed a MagicallyBindingContract with other stipulations, but the cards are only on his honor.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: Arthur's father swore an oath "on the king's own Card" to never leave the village without express permission. Most of the adults made similar oaths, though usually to lesser cards or with fewer restrictions. This is one of the main reasons that Calvan can't leave the village, and Arthur tries to find a way around it.
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* RichesToRags: Arthur lives in a prison village at the edge of the kingdom, where all the adults are condemned to death. He soon discovers that his father used to be a ''duke'', but he was sentenced and exiled for a crime that had all his lands and titles stripped from him. It's implied that his father was betrayed and scapegoated for political reasons. Arthur barely remembers the time before the village.
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* YourMom: Arthur deliberately provokes an attack by pretending to explain [[spoiler:how he obtained his body enhancement card]] as "I was having dinner with your mother the other day…" Sure enough, a moment later he's being beaten up hard enough to level up his Blunt Damage Resistance.
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* VictoryByEndurance: Arthur can't hope to directly beat someone holding the Master of Combat card, but his strategy is to just hang on and keep taking the hits -- leveling up his body enhancement skills in the process -- until his opponent is worn out.
