CTF Print and Play

CTF’s print and play feature and its deck editor are one and the same! Use the tools below to build your deck and generate a PDF suitable for home printers and US letter sized paper.

In addition to a deck, each player needs a layer track to advance their team card along. This PDF has two tracks, some helpful markings for other game zones, and a helpful link to the rules page.

How to Build a Deck

The deck builder has three sections:

• Deck Info, which has fields for a deck name, author, and description. These may be helpful when sharing the deck with others.
• Tools, which has a series of links that manipulate the deck.
• Deck List, which contains the cards you’ve added to the deck.

Adding cards to the deck

To add your team card, use the choose_team() tool, and click the select() button below the team card you want. To add a reload card, use the add("reload") tool and click the add() button below the reload card image.

To add a program card, use the search() tool. It opens a search field that scans the full text of every card. If you already have a team card in your deck, programs that match your team’s disciplines appear higher in the list than those that don’t. To add a card from the search results, click the add() button under it.

Removing cards from the deck

To remove a card, click the remove() button below it in the deck list.

Validating the deck

To check whether your deck is legal, use the validate() tool. If your deck is invalid, it’ll explain why. Note that invalid decks may still be printed and shared; the tool just checks that the list follows the rules of the game.

Printing the deck

To generate a printable PDF, use the create_pdf() tool. The PDF generated by this tool will have US letter-sized pages with 9 cards per page (which means a valid deck will print entirely on one page!). The cards themselves are 2.5×3.5 inches (~63.5×88.9 mm). Pages also have crop marks around the edges to make cutting easier.

To play with these cards, I recommend printing them on regular copy paper, then sleeving them in standard-sized trading card sleeves with a more rigid card from another game behind them. If you know any Magic: the Gathering players, they’ll have enough spares of both to help you out.

Saving and sharing decks

To save or share a deck, use the share() tool.

You can copy a deck link, though note that for technical reasons (portability across browsers and length of URLs) while deck links include the name and author, they strip away the description.

If you want to keep the description, use the plain text version generated by the share() tool.

Loading a deck from plain text

You can load a decklist that was previously exported as plain text by copying it to the clipboard then using the import from clipboard button in the share() tool.