How to play
My Guy Trump Cards are not only collectable, but playable!
...sorta
How to win:
- Simply buy a set of My Guy Trump Cards and become a winner in our eyes. Thank you, loyal patriot.
How to Play:
- Create a deck of My Guy Trump Cards. We recommend getting the full set for the optimal experience. The deck can be of any size.
- Gather with 1 to many of your friends, family, political party, staffers, secret service, adoring fans, patriots, patriotic zealots, political rivals, or strangers who also have a deck of My Guy Trump Cards.
- Keep your playing field as follows: a draw deck, a discard pile, a battle field and your hand.
- All players draw 3 cards.
- If there is an incumbent winner, they decide who goes first. If no incumbent, flip a beautiful American coin to decide who goes first.
- The play loop is as follows: Draw a card from the draw deck > play 1 card then as many cards as you wish, following through with the actions of the cards > when your turn is over say, "What do you have to say about that?"
- Players take their turns clockwise from the person who went first. Feel free to change places during the game at any time to make things interesting.
- The game ends when a president is elected: All other players concede, you steal the election by declaring victory and force the other players to agree with you, or you win the election by holding the most cards at the end of the game.
- Players who run out of cards no longer have campaign funds and are removed from the game.
- Play nice, civil and peaceful. However, cheating, lying, manipulation, extortion, coercion, dark money donors, and smear campaigns are all fair. That's politics, baby!
Give America a good show!
Status Effects:
- Accountable - Be judged for your actions.
- Adoration - Think fondly of the character who inflicted this status.
- Afraid - Only play 1 card on the next turn.
- A little slut for America - Become a wild groupie for patriotism.
- Arrested - Get in the back of a squad car and sit in jail until bond is posted.
- Ashamed - Refuse to take your next few turns until other players talk you out of your shame.
- Bleed(ing) - Discard a card from the top of the deck every turn.
- Buff - Have huge muscles. Every turn flex or smash something.
- Charred - Turn into a pillar of ash.
- Clear Brush - Tidy up around the game area.
- Confound - Your brain becomes unable to comprehend the world before your eyes.
- Cross the Line - Break an unspoken truce.
- Cursed - You and your family are now haunted by a terrifying spirit until the curse is broken.
- Diseased - Give a card to another player every turn in an attempt to give away your possessions before your untimely passing.
- Eagle's Wing - A flying elbow drop finishing move. A player is removed from the game if hit by this attack.
- Emotional Bond - When this is increased you feel as though the card is an extension of your mind.
- Enchant - Apply magic effect to a weapon.
- Essential Worker - Play a card on everyone else's turn.
- Feeble-Minded - Those of weak brain.
- Flammable - Prone to catching fire.
- Full - Cannot be moved. If attacked flip a coin to determine if you burst.
- Gambling Addiction - Ruin your life chasing riches.
- Gored - Put a hole through your deck.
- Greedy - Draw 3 cards every turn.
- High - Experience euphoria.
- Home Field Advantage - Locals may come to your aid.
- Hone - Sit up straight.
- Horny - 😉
- Hustle - Pretend you don't know what you are doing to swindle another player.
- Hydrate - Have a drink of water.
- Hyped - Become totally psyched!
- Inspired - Become filled with aimless ambition.
- Knocked Down - Lie on the ground until your next turn.
- Loved for who you are - The game becomes a safe space.
- Lubed - You are immune to being grasped and prone to slipping.
- Luxurious - Talk down to all other players with less cards.
- Married - Become legally bound to another player.
- Microscopic Ghoul - Shrink yourself as tiny as you can, growl and snarl until your next turn.
- Mosquito Bites - If playing outside, mosquitos are allowed to take your turn if they land on you.
- Muted - Unable to talk.
- Nourished - Talk about how good you feel.
- Party - Stop the game and get funky for a while 🎉.
- Poisoned - Discard a card from your deck every turn.
- Pray - Demonic influence has no effect while channeling prayer.
- Preserve - Become shelf stable. Don't play any cards for 5 turns.
- Pride/Proud - Beam with self-fulfillment, insults have a reduced effect.
- Private Conversation - Talk to another player 1 on 1 in private.
- Proclaim Divinity - Become a God.
- Really Good - A weapon with this status is now really good.
- Relieved - Exhale away your anxiety.
- Relax - Care a little less about the game.
- Repeal - Get rid of a rule.
- Respected - Players refer to you as Sir or Madam and hesitate to attack you.
- Revered - Players submit and concede to you.
- Reversed - Undo that last turn in order.
- Righteousness - Deliver any statement as a fact.
- Seasick - Grab a bucket and try not to lose your lunch every turn.
- Seasonal Glee - Take a deep breath and enjoy the moment. It won't be back until a year from now.
- Sharpen - Make a weapon also do slashing damage.
- Sloppy - Players do not want to touch you. You leave a mess everywhere you go.
- Smooth Silk - Players who touch you marvel at how nice you feel.
- Sticky - Dunk your hand in maple syrup, honey, or a sugary beverage.
- Stink - Let a hot one fly.
- Stunned - Lose a turn.
- Stung by Bees - Draw welts all over your body.
- Surround - Player is attacked if they attack.
- Terror - All players scream and cower when you look at them.
- The old fashion way - Take longer and ask for help, systemic cultural racism may slip out.
- Tranquillity - Determines your joy within a reality plagued by unending chaos.
- Twist Reality - Bend space and time (future, present and past) to your will.
- Unholy Offering - *************** (There are no human words to describe this).
- Warm - Turn up the heat or turn down the AC.
- Well Fed - Grunt a little more every time you move.
- Well Read - Talk about something no one else has context of as if everyone cares.
- Well Regarded - Players will remember you when they see you later after the game. They may or may not say hi.
- Well-Seasoned - Players will remark how good it now smells in here.
- Wet - Piss yourself.
- Winning Shot - If you sink it you win the game.
- Wisely - Use your best judgment.
- Woke - Find something problematic with everything.
- Youthful Glow - You are able to lie about your age.
