let me start by saying that i'm brand new to DM and TCG's in general. i bought the shadowclash collectors tin so that i could play the game with my son. this may be an obvious question but again, i'm brand new. some of the cards in the light deck have the effect of tapping untapped creatures in the battle zone. what is the advantage of this? is it simply that by doing so you can negate a blocker's effects?

One reason is to stop a blocker from blocking. Another reason would be to tap your opponents creatures so that you are able to attack them.

Remember, you can only attack tapped creatures (unless you have a card which specifies otherwise ... as in Aeris who can attack untapped darkness creatures) or the player.

ah-ha! i see the advantage - i didn't even realize that you could only attack tapped creatures! thank you! i have so much to learn....

That ability is particularly useful for Light, because there are a number of Light blockers that are "overpowered" (in the sense that you get a 3 attack for 2 mana and so on) that can't attack players.

So tapping your opponents creatures and then using these blockers to destroy them is a useful play.

The Ability of Light is to tap all of your opponites creatures so that you can attack them with yours...It can also meen that you can break sheild easier and geting rid of those blockers.

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hey, thanks for all the help/info. we played again last night, my boy was using a fire deck and i was using the light deck. i was really discouraged at first because with the fire deck he was able to just come out with the guns blazing and take me out before i could even put up a fight. after a few games, i started to figure out that if i could stop that initial fire-storm, so to speak, i could beat him every time. it was just a matter of holding him off until i could do some damage to him. it was very apparent how important the ability to tap untapped creatures is to the light deck.

AquaKnight - i wasn't sure where to email you. there's no @whatever with your email addy. i do have one question though - is there a really comprehensive DM rule book online somewhere? there were a lot of little questions that came up that we just kind of played around. i don't want to post a whole lot of silly questions if there is a source out there somewhere that could answer them for me.

thanks again everyone!

www.duelmasters.com

It's a flash site, which can make it a little confusing to navigate. But if you click on the Trading Card Game link, then you should see a box that has a rules and strategy link. This is the location of the main FAQ, and there are also FAQ about each set of Duel Masters.

Nothing about Shadowclash yet, which is unfortunate ... and many of the questions you'll have are likely to be about Shadowclash I'd guess.