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- 1 How I Became the Strongest with Hearthstone Cards 关于我用炉石卡牌成为最强这件事 The protagonist is decisive and ruthless, never gets dumbed down, and never suffers needlessly. The only problem is that he's terribly unlucky with his card draws! Si Wei accidentally transmigrates to Blue Star while opening the pre-order card packs for the latest version of Hearthstone. This is a world with supernatural powers. On his eighteenth birthday, Si Wei awakens as a professional and unexpectedly becomes a Card Master. From that day onward, legends of cards spread across Blue Star... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Global Card Game: Bound to a Mythic Red Card from the Start! 全球卡牌：开局绑定神话红卡！ [Invincible Overpowering + Global Card Game Arrives + High-Martial World + Ruthless and Decisive + Heart-Pounding Power Fantasy] His missing father suddenly returned, leaving behind a red card and a letter full of nonsense. But before Lin Mo could do anything, his younger brother tossed these seemingly useless things at him in the hospital room. “You can have the junk that old geezer left behind. The house is mine!” A few days later, the letter’s words came true, and the card his father had left 243Reads6.6Score201Shelves
- 3 I Entered a Card-Game World and Became a Beauty Card of No Use 穿进卡牌世界，我成了废卡美人牌 (Slow burn. The heroine appears in the middle or later part of the story; the early chapters focus on the hero and are told from his perspective.) Schemes, face-slapping, one-on-one. She transmigrates into a card world as a beautiful, worthless card. Nianmubao says: “I have no idea! The transmigration deity didn’t tell me!” But as compensation, she gets a golden finger! A small convenience-store space. At Caster School of Magic, a summoning ceremony is underway. Xiao Shenshi, who has always rank 1.4kReads6.4Score167Shelves
- 4 His Card Plays Are So Wild, I Can't Take It! 他卡牌玩得好花，我不能接受！ A heavy-shield knight with a poisoned dagger? An elemental summoner with a necromancer? A torment build? A unit-spam build? What kind of nonsense is this? We Star Card Masters strive to steamroll our way through everything, not mess around with flashy tricks like these! What? The secret realm we couldn't clear no matter how many times we tried, and he wiped it out with just two Star Cards: Swamp Poison Fog and Ignite? No! I refuse to accept this! 344Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 5 Starting Out as a Card Maker, I Spent Five Years Looking for One Core Card 开局制卡师，一张核心找五年 Others mocked him for being afraid to die and ridiculed him for wasting his time. He was an exceptionally gifted professional card maker, yet he spent every day in a daze. Even his one chance to take the entrance exam for the only advanced academy for professionals kept getting postponed. He didn't take it until a full five years later... The difficulty doubled with every year he delayed. Now his exam was thirty-two times harder than an ordinary person's! Only Lin Yu knew... It was all worth it! 23.1kReads5.4Score2.7kShelves
- 6 Cards: I Asked You to Roll Dice, Not Slay a God! 卡牌：让你扔骰子，你弑杀神明？ Liu Shun transmigrates to a world of cards and becomes an eccentric card designer. While others direct their cards in battle, he tosses dice instead. Every enemy he defeats is convinced it was nothing but luck. Until the day Liu Shun uses dice to slay a god, leaving the entire world speechless. 3.9kReads8.8Score231Shelves
- 7 Card Monster Summoner: Goblins Carry Me to Victory 卡牌怪物召唤师，被哥布林带飞 [A magical world invades, summoner, light-novel style and everyday storytelling, easygoing comedy, and all kinds of summoned monsters causing trouble...] Monsters from a magical world invade as visions merge with reality and become polluted zones. Protected by bizarre rules, these zones keep encroaching on humanity's shrinking habitable lands. The world's concentration of magic keeps rising, while demonic cultists and evil gods begin appearing one after another... Zhao Huanshi unexpectedly acqui 70.3kReads8.7Score6.3kShelves
- 8 The Card Game World: My Deck Crushes Everyone 卡牌世界，我的构筑碾压全场 I arrived in a world where cards ruled everything. There were all kinds of affixes, a wide variety of combat styles, and card-game rules everywhere you looked. Jiang Zhi thought this was a world full of hidden experts, but it turned out everyone around him was a lovable disaster. What could be more appealing to a card-game fan than a world where you can freely make your own cards and use them in duels? 27.9kReads8.3Score2.6kShelves
- 9 You Asked Me to Make Cards, So Why Am I Playing Hearthstone? 让你制卡，你炉石传说？ (Card crafting, behind-the-scenes, ensemble cast, logical.) After the stars fell, all kinds of monsters appeared across the continent. Protecting humanity on this continent were the Star Card Masters, who came into being alongside the monsters. After five hundred years of development, Star Cards had gradually become commonplace. Then one day, a soul from another world arrived on the continent. While everyone else pursued “bigger, faster, stronger,” one sneaky fellow had his eyes on other people’ 11.1kReads8.7Score981Shelves
- 10 Card World: Awakening Absolute Luck from the Start 卡牌世界，开局觉醒绝对幸运 In the world of cards, fusion is widely recognized as the best way to upgrade cards, but it’s also the riskiest. Before awakening absolute luck: The main card, Yellow Turban Soldier, combined with Bull’s Strength and a Recovery Card, has a 12.5% chance of successful fusion. A successful fusion has a 1% chance of upgrading the card, while a failed fusion has a 97% chance of destroying the original card. After awakening: The success rate is 100%, and the chance of upgrading the card is 100%! 12.4kReads8.0Score943Shelves
- 11 My Cards Are a Little Outrageous 我的卡牌比较离谱 [Cards + Beast Taming + Light Comedy + Satisfying Power Fantasy] “Your card slots have an innate flaw. You’ll never become a powerful Card Tamer...” “Is that a Skeleton Mage? How can a pet beast be that outrageous?!” “Armor up!” “Why are there card slots on the weapon? Why did the belt turn into armor?” “That’s... a Giant of Light!” “Lend me your light!” “I have lots of card slots!” “I have more skills than you.” 17kReads8.9Score1.4kShelves
- 12 Demon-Sealing Card Master: Sealing Demons Makes Me Stronger 封魔卡师：封印魔物就变强 [Beast Taming + Fusion + No Female Lead + No System] Blue Star has suffered constant invasions by demonic creatures. During one such invasion, Zhao Mo unexpectedly awakens a special ability: he becomes a Demon-Sealing Cardmaster. By killing demonic creatures, he seals them into cards and uses them to fight. By fusing cards, he can improve their level and quality, while their species may also change. Humanity’s nine lines of defense grow more dangerous with each one! Three-Headed Demon Dragon? Mo 4.8kReads8.0Score337Shelves
- 13 Survive by Drawing Cards: One Legendary Card a Day for Everyone 全民抽卡求生，每天一张传说卡 [Survival + Ensemble Cast + Cards + Sane Values + Chinese-Style Incubus + Growing Protagonist + Classic Heroic Adventure] The Endless Road opened, and the entire world was plunged into an unstoppable death march. Monsters were everywhere, danger lurked at every turn, puzzles arose in desperate situations, and madness stretched on without end. It was a road to hell with no end, walked on foot as the sun and moon turned, year after year. Forward! Keep moving forward! Don't stop! Stop, and you die! 79.3kReads8.4Score9kShelves
- 14 National Fate Survival: I Use Sign-In Rewards to Return Ten Thousandfold to the Dragon Kingdom 国运求生：我靠签到万倍返还龙国 [National Fortune + Livestream + No Heroines + Wilderness Survival] Blue Star’s resources are running out, and civilization stands on the brink of collapse! A wilderness survival livestream, with the fate of every nation at stake, suddenly begins! One hundred representatives are randomly selected from each country and sent to an unknown wilderness teeming with danger. The supplies they obtain while surviving will be multiplied a thousandfold and returned to their country. Their final rankings wi 141kReads8.1Score16.1kShelves
- 15 Mythic Star Card Master: I Love Collecting, Not Showing My Hand 神话星卡师，爱收藏不爱摊牌 [Cards + Status Panel + Mythology + Collector + Interstellar Travels] That year, facing an alliance of foreign races, evil god apostles, and an endless tide of beasts... A passing Star Card Master sighed and took out a stack of multicolored cards, spreading them out. “Tell me, who do you want to challenge?” “The Dragon King of the Celestial River, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the True Lord Erlang, the Third Prince, Tang Sanzang... or the Sage of the Heavens?” In the Star Card era, the cr 14.6kReads8.0Score1.3kShelves
- 16 It's Crazy! The Whole World Is Obsessed with Huaxia-Style Cards 疯了！全球被华夏流卡牌疯狂种草 [Cards + card creators + Huaxia + secret realms + no romance] The Eighteen Levels of Hell + the Ten Great Underworld Officers + the Four Great Beauties + Li Bai and Du Fu + the Ten Great Gods of Wealth... A worn-out old horse with a dying candle in its eyes transforms into [An Old Horse Knows the Way]. Now Mom never has to worry about me getting lost again. Don’t ask me why I’m holding green plums in the desert. I’ll never have to worry about dying of thirst again. [Quench Thirst by Gazing at Pl 12.3kReads7.9Score1.2kShelves
- 17 An Emperor's Card-Making System, Starting with Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng 帝王系制卡，从始皇帝嬴政开始 [Cards have arrived, demons invade, Chinese emperors sweep across the universe, invincible throughout the heavens] This is a world where immortals and Buddhas are no more, civilization has been lost, and demons run rampant. The only thing people can rely on is cards filled with mysterious power. Xu Zhixian transmigrates into a card-based world, but a defect in his mental powers leaves him unable to create or control cards. Homeroom teacher: “You’re being forcibly transferred to an ordinary schoo 43.9kReads8.5Score5.3kShelves
- 18 EN Abandoned as R-Rank, I Became an SSR: Why the Tears? R卡被抛弃，我成SSR你哭什么 [School Beauty Contract + I Became a Card-Pool Character + The Ultimate Power Ceiling in a Shape-Shifting Crossover + A Fresh New Concept] “How unlucky!” “An R-rank spirit card? You wasted my 180-pull pity!” “A useless character like you thinks you’re worthy of a contract?” Jiang Li, a spirit-card summoner, turns livid and angrily dissolves the contract. She snarls, “A trash character like you can just disappear!” Xia Yuan transmigrates into the card pool as its lowest-tier R-rank character. The 66.6kReads8.4Score5.9kShelves
- 19 Cards for Everyone: I'm a Red Card Player from the Closed Beta 全民卡牌：我是内测红卡玩家 [Everyone Thinks Strategically] + [Cards] + [Heroes Vie for Supremacy] + [Yu-Gi-Oh!-Inspired] + [Twelve Talismans] + [Game Invasion] + [Fishing] + [One Heroine] A rain of cards ushered humanity into the Age of Cards. On top of a building, a young man fiddling with a red card spreads his arms to welcome it. Welcome to the age of Card Masters! The next moment, countless white cards and a handful of green ones rain from the sky. A voice rings out above them. “[Card Domain] has officially logged in 115kReads8.6Score6.8kShelves
- 20 A Stunning NPC Accidentally Joins the Players' Side 神级貌美npc，误入玩家阵营 [Boys’ love! + 1v1 + character fragments + NPC + game + pseudo-infinite?] Xie Jue had always thought he was just an ordinary person. He went through life by the book and worked by the book. Then one day, he found a phone displaying the loading screen of a game. [Loading character... Character loaded successfully...] [Ding! Welcome, Player Xie Jue, to the game.] From then on, the door to a new world opened for Xie Jue... Once Xie Jue stepped inside, there was no going back. The golden canary, 6.2kReads9.4Score742Shelves
- 21 EN Survival for All, Obtaining the D-Class Personnel Simulator 全民求生，获得D级人员模拟器 Everyone transmigrates into an apocalyptic world, where each person starts with a shelter and a unique talent. Lin Ye gains the D-rank Personnel Simulator ability, which lets him enter other worlds and simulate being D-rank personnel. Lin Ye: ??? 147.9kReads8.9Score11.4kShelves
- 22 Oh No! Is the Evil Side Character Going to Be Locked Away Too? 坏了！恶毒炮灰也要被关小黑屋吗 [Sweet romance, quick transmigration, 1v1] After overcoming one challenge after another, Song Shaoyan finally secured a position in the quick transmigration department. Assigned to the Cannon Fodder Division, he planned to take it easy and lie flat. But... is something wrong with all these male leads? [World One: Song Shaoyan, who was just trying to coast through life, becomes a small-time thug sent to threaten the male lead into paying his debts. As soon as he enters the story, the gang boss or 15.2kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
- 23 I Have a Joker Card 我有一张小丑牌 They say that on the day some people turn eighteen, the gods grant them a playing card with a supernatural ability. There are 52 playing cards and 52 different abilities. Those who receive a supernatural playing card are allowed to attend the best ability-user school. The campus belle: “I have the Queen of Spades. I can conjure all kinds of weapons!” The rich kid: “My dad has the Jack of Diamonds. He can get unlimited money!” Meanwhile, somewhere, a boy took his own playing card and used all 52 157.4kReads8.9Score24.5kShelves
- 24 Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世 [Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a 144.5kReads9.0Score12.6kShelves
- 25 Everyone Draws Cards to Change Classes, but One Draw Gives Me Max Stats! 全民抽卡转职，我一抽满命！ In this world, gacha rules! When people turn eighteen, they each get one chance to draw a card and change careers. Some poor students draw combat classes and rise to the top overnight. Some top students draw civilian classes and lose any chance of adventure and battle. In this gacha era, drawing a combat class is called pulling a gold. The world rewards you with another draw, and duplicate classes are converted into constellation levels. However, there is no pity system. On the day of his draw, 152kReads9.0Score12.4kShelves
- 26 Going Viral Starts with Calling the Cops 爆红从报警开始 Microdrama style, silly and lighthearted. The protagonist has no romantic pairings, male or female. Actor Mo Fei gets a Role System. From a holy monk, he gains an ability to attract criminals; from a serial killer, he learns human anatomy; from a detective, he learns to talk to cats; from a master thief, he learns sleight of hand... To everyone else, all of this seems downright bizarre. Would a normal actor radiate murderous intent? Would a normal actor know the human body so well? Would a norma 58.9kReads9.5Score7.9kShelves
- 27 Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切 [Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a 266.5kReads9.5Score22kShelves
- 28 EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 [Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w 998kReads9.5Score85.8kShelves
