Waifu TCG Quickstart

Getting into the Waifu TCG is easier than you think!
Let's work through the basics with an example. Let's get you a starting hand and some points to waste.

Your First Cards

To begin, type this in Twitch chat: !redeem NewcomerPack You should see this:

Now click the link that Nepnepbot gave you; it shows you the contents of your booster pack that you just got for free from the !redeem command. You should see something like this:

For every card you want to keep, first click the checkbox above “Keep?”. It is completely your choice whether you do or don't want to keep cards from boosters, but we will need at least one card later on, so please select at least one card.
If nothing happens when you click the checkbox, remember to do that on your booster pack, not the example above.

Selecting the checkboxes does not commit to anything yet, however. At the bottom of the page, you should see a little input box that starts with !booster. That is the command you must copy back into the chat to actually keep the cards.

If you did everything right, you should see something like this (the numbers will vary because every booster pack has different cards):

The numbers after “and: keep” refer to the waifu ID. That's the little number you see on the bottom left of every card.

You can buy booster packs with !booster buy type. You can get a list of booster packs and their prices at any point with !booster list. but the following ones are guaranteed to always exist:

You got 250 points from the NewcomerPack above. If you feel like it, you can buy a standard booster with those points.

If you've tried to keep all the cards from the packs until now, you will see this:

You can only keep a certain amount of cards. When doing !checkhand, you mave have noticed that you can only have “7 total spaces”. If you run into this, you'll have to decide which cards to keep to not go over your hand space limit or to disenchant (get rid of) some cards in your hand.

To disenchant a card, use !de ID, where ID is the waifu ID. Remember, the waifu ID is the little ID in the bottom left for each card.

Over time, your hand space will expand – the more booster packs you buy, the more space you get. Yes, the !redeem commands you've been doing until now count towards it. You can check your progress to the next hand space on your profile (!profile) or like this: !upgrade

This is the final redeem code, which will give you enough points to get your eighth hand space if you don't already have it: !redeem 50kusers

Keep opening boosters until you see this:

You're still with me? I'll give you another redeem code to help expand your hand, then: !redeem TheSafeIsLeaking. You already know what to do.

Hands

So now that you have cards, you also have a hand! Congratulations! Type !checkhand. You should see something like this:

Click the link to see your hand. These are the cards you've kept until now.

You're not the only player of the TCG. Other people have been playing for a while, too. Let's take a look at the hand for, say, Marenthyu. He's the creator of the TCG, so let's see what his hand looks like.

On the page where you see your hand, you should also see a search box on the right of the black navigation bar at the top, with a button that says “Check User” right next to it. Input Marenthyu in the search box, then click “Check User”.

That's a lot of cards! But more importantly, you may notice that many of the cards have little stars (★) in the top right corner. Those cards are promoted.

Promotion

Promotion increases a card's rarity; one star for every rarity the card went up. You've seen rarities on the bottom right of the cards. Promotion happens automatically when you get two of the same card in your hand. Two cards are the same when they have the same waifu ID and the same rarity... Except for Mythical cards, of which you need three to promote to God. It sounds complex, but it'll make sense when you actually do it. You can't promote beyond God. Here's a list for your reference:

“Drop Limit” refers to how many cards of this rarity can co-exist. This includes promoted cards, so that only one person can hold a card promoted to God at a time – the others are stuck at Mythical.

Bounties

At this point you may be wondering, with over 10,000 waifus in the database, how would anyone promote this many cards? The answer lies in bounties. Bounties are a way to obtain cards you want: Whenever someone tries to disenchant a waifu you've got a bounty for, the card will go to you instead of being disenchanted. For example, to bounty [1][Common] Trash from trash, you would use !bounty 1 50. 1 being the waifu ID, 50 being the points amount you bounty the card for.

You have to specify an amount to bounty a card for because others may also bounty on the card. Whoever has the highest amount gets the card. Bounties can go over the maximum bounty, but only if an existing maximum bounty has already been placed. For the reference, these are the prices to bounty cards for:

Bounties take hand space while active. When they fill, the cards will occupy the bounty slot and the bounty will be removed; for promoting cards, you thus need to create multiple bounties.

That's All

You now know the basics of the Waifu TCG – just enough to be dangerous. If you're not tired of learning about the Waifu TCG yet, continue reading the main help documentation (which you can also get through !help).