English Monster Rancher Battle Cards (Fan-made to look official)
OK! So! Wondering what Monster Rancher Battle Card is? Well, it’s a card game I love, that almost went completely extinct. Long story short, back in 1999, MRBC was a trading card game that came into existence and then died out just 2 years later with almost no following or digital trace. I really loved it, and I wanted to be able to play it.
a page of original monster cards
I made this post a while back, highlighting the progress I had made at that time in recreating the game. (You may notice I’ve stolen a lot of text from that post for this post. I spent a lot of time making these cards, so please excuse me if this post itself is brief. :P)
However, the game barely existed physically, and a lot of the cards were never translated into English, except digitally.
a page of Suezo’s skills
At that point, I was more trying to recreate the game and enhance it for physical play. I was going off the aesthetic style of the Gameboy game (my favorite look of MRBC) and making my own changes based on game balance and usability.
a rare Tiger holo card
Hop back to now, and I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on an almost complete set of Series 1 of MRBC. (In total, there’s 4 series, and some promo cards here and there. Series 1 covers about 40% of the total cards, including all the key cards for the game.)
a cleaned, translated card
So I scanned and cleaned all those cards then made some neato-templates so that I could lay all the information, now in English, back onto the cards.
a Photoshop template
I finished inputting all the data, and now they’re ready to go! You can play with these, the rules, and maybe a few counters.
Here’s everything needed: