The Bleach Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game from Score Entertainment, and is based on the manga and anime series of the same name. The game received a nomination for Origin's "Game of the Year" and earned a semi-finalist position.
Overview
The Bleach Trading Card Game is played with two people. Each player must have a total of at least eighty-one cards: a Guardian card, a sixty-card 'main deck' and a twenty-card side deck consisting of energy cards determined by the Guardian card. Later expansions allow energy cards to be replaced by other cards in the side deck. There are two ways to win: by reducing an opponent's power (printed on their Guardian card) to zero, or if an opponent is unable to draw or discard a card from their deck.
A standard player's turn in the game consists of three steps: The Resource Step, the Main Step and the End Step. The Resource Step has the player drawing cards and putting Energy cards into play, the Main Step is where a player may attack and play cards other than Energy cards, and the End Step is a formal conclusion to the turn.
Card types
There are six different types of cards in the Bleach Trading Card Game: