Basic-Effect-Building.md

+# What are effects
+
+Effects are what make cards do things and be playable.
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+Effects are found in the card editor pane of every card. Click on a card to open its card editing screen.
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+![](https://ddx5i92cqts4o.cloudfront.net/images/1bjbmhvam_sunrise.png)
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+Towards the bottom of the screenshot there is a place to edit the effect description, that's the human-readable effect text, and below that are the card effects for effect building.
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+Clicking on the add effect button will bring up the effect builder. With the effect builder you can make cards do anything.
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+Everything in the effect builder is extensively explained in the tooltips. Make sure to read the tooltips carefully to really understand what each option really does.
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+# Building an effect
+
+To make a card effect first write down what the card does in the effect description.
+
+In this example we have the Sunrise Event card with the description:
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+    Gain 1 mana.
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+When played it gives the player character 1 mana.
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+To make this effect, think about our action and our target. For the action think about what we're doing, and for the target think about what we're doing it to.
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+In this case we're increasing something (the action), and the thing that we're increasing is the owner player's mana (the target).
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+In the action column find the modify stats action. That action will allow us to change the property of any target. In our example, we want to increase the property, so under OPERATION, we choose + plus, and under CHANGE BY OR CHANGE TO click on custom value to input our own value. Input 1.
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+For the target of we choose a player, the owner. Next we choose the player property mana.
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+![](https://ddx5i92cqts4o.cloudfront.net/images/1bjbnukn2_Screen_Shot_2017-06-23_at_8.27.27_PM.png)
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+And that's it!
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