✦ Edison Chronicle

Your first duel

Nothing is installed and nothing is registered. Open the page, and the game runs in the browser you already have.

Step by step

  1. Open the game. The start page gathers the chronicles, the card shop, the duel club, cards & decks, side missions and your appearance.
  2. Pick your language. Settings offer nine interface languages; the choice is remembered in this browser.
  3. Create your duelist. Choose a portrait and a name. Your appearance is independent of decks and campaign progress.
  4. Take a free starter deck. Eleven historical starter decks up to April 2010 are available; the first one you choose costs nothing. You can look through every card before you decide.
  5. Begin a chronicle — or duel right away. Encounters unlock one after another, and each first victory pays out cards and coins.

Open the game

Ways to duel

Against the AI Choose a deck and start. The opponent plays with the same rules and an ordinary player's view; difficulty and thinking speed are separate settings.
With a friend One player creates a room and shares the room code, the other joins it. Both confirm they are ready, a coin toss decides who picks the starting player.
Ranked The queue pairs you with a real opponent close to your rating, which starts at 1000. Leaving the queue or closing the dialog cancels the search.

Building decks

Cards & Decks holds your collection and your own decks. The workshop searches the full pool, marks forbidden cards, shows copy limits, and explains where a missing card can be obtained — from boosters, prebuilt decks or side missions. Finished decks travel as deck codes or YDK files, so a deck built elsewhere can be brought in.

Keeping your progress

Your collection and campaign belong to a private profile key in your browser, not to an account. Use “Back up & transfer profile” to reveal that key and restore the profile on another device. Clearing your browser data without that key loses the progress.

What you need

A current browser on a desktop computer, tablet or phone. The arena uses 3D graphics where the hardware allows it and falls back to a plain 2D board otherwise. Duels run over a WebSocket connection to the server, so a stable connection helps; if a tab loses its connection the duel waits and reconnects.