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The narrative details how his low-rank Dealer limits refills, how card resonances and vitality govern what he can summon, and why pressure-themed options are scarce in his environment. Racing against the dragon’s strength and the need to build his Library before island championships, Alley chooses cards, manages costs, and risks the chain-and-boulder trap to survive.","For all the Tropes I've loved…..and several I haven't.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPART ONE: THE DEADMAN'S HAND  \nOCEANOFPDF.COM  \nCHAPTER ONE: GO FISH  \nAlabaster  \nThe beast burst out of the rushing river with an audible slap. The water split and rushed back together as it was displaced by its enormous bulk. Somewhere between an eel and a dragon, the creature was about as wide as two adult men side by side and many times as long.  \nA forarm hook running to a chain of nigh-unbreakable coresteel protruded through the creature's cheek. It was a MuckDwell River Dragon, a descendant of the great serpentine dragon TerraNulis.  \nThe beast began to thrash wildly. Its strength was great enough to rip trees from the shoreline, which is why Alabaster \"Alley\" Roe had run the coresteel chain around a jagged boulder that was half underground. He still needed to act quickly. It might not be able to break the chain, but the MuckDwell Dragon would tear the boulder loose given enough time.  \nAlley burst from his hiding place among the reeds. His black hair shone almost blue in the bright mid-morning sun. The young man raised his left arm to activate his Dealer.  \nIt was a simple silver bracelet with two small gems, called Vials, embedded on the top. The gems seemed red but were, in fact, clear, filling while he slept with the vibrant red glow of his own life energy. As a twelfth-rank, the lowest, Alley's Dealer only had two such gems. And they would take a whole day each to refill, vastly limiting his ability to Manifest powerful Cards.  \nIt may be weak, but a Deck was a Deck, and Alley's was about to become one MuckDwell River Dragon stronger.  \nWith a mental push, he called his Hand into existence. Five ethereal cards appeared, hovering before him. These were just reflections of the true Cards themselves. Those were safely contained within a pocket reality the Dealer generated.  \nWhen Alley chose to play one, it would release the Power of the true Card, Manifesting the creature, spell, or relic contained within the Card into reality. Unlike the cards in his Hand, these manifestations were almost as real as he was. They could and did interact with the world around them. Each of the floating cards showed an image of what could be Manifested, accompanied by the Card's name, how great its Power was, and how deep its Vitality went. Finally, a set of three runes at the bottom of the Card denoted the Card's Resonances.  \nAlley had gotten this Deck two years ago, on his fifteenth birthday. It was a gift his mother had brought back to the island as part of her haul of prizes for being the Regional Champion. Since then, he had devoted every minute of downtime he had to filling his Deck. Alley didn't have enough copies of any single card to evolve anything in his Library, but that didn't mean he couldn't work towards it. Alley would be seventeen in a month, just in time for the all-island championships.  \nHis mother had taken him to the event every year since he was eight. This, however, would be the first time he was old enough to compete. With the fall storms closing in, Alley didn't have many chores around his parents'homestead, and he intended to use every second of that free time to strengthen his Library before the tournament.  \nWhen he first received it, Alley was disappointed that his Deck held different resonances from his mother's own 'King of Rushing Waters' Deck. They were still both fundamentally water-beast decks, something Alley had become grateful for. The dealer artifacts themselves set the resonances, not the cards in the Library; even having two of three resonances match was a stroke of luck. The difference still made things tricky for him. His mother's Deck could also use Earth cards without penalty, as that was its third Resonance. While it was unusual to see two elemental resonances in one Deck, it wasn't unheard of.  \nThe third Resonance of Alley's 'Aegis of the Fisher Lord' was pressure. Usually, that would be fine. 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