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— Basic Rules of the Game —
 This card game is for two players. It’s easy to grasp
if you are familiar with baseball. Here’s an overview of how it works:

 

  1. Remove the 22 Major Arcana cards. (These cards are numbered 0-21.) Both teams will use these as their defensive cards in the field throughout the game.
  2. To choose the home team, shuffle these 22 cards and have each player pick a card. The lower number will be the visiting team and will bat first. Put all 22 cards aside.
  3. Take the remaining 56 Minor Arcana (suit) cards, shuffle them and deal them out face-down to each player. These 28 cards will be each team’s offensive stack when at-bat. These are the line-ups. Neither player should look at their cards.
  4. The home team takes the field and shuffles the defensive stack (see rule 1 above). Holding it face-down, this player turns over the top nine cards one at a time, and places them on the field, like this:
  5. The visiting team shuffles his/her offensive stack before coming to bat for the inning, then does not shuffle it any more until the next inning. The top card is turned over, so that it lies face-up next to the catcher card. That’s the first at-bat.
  6. The Offensive Card Hitting Chart is then consulted to see the result of the at-bat. For a single or a walk, this card is placed on 1st base. For a double, it’s placed on 2nd base, etc. Other runners advance accordingly. Outs are placed face-down off the field.
  7. At the end of each half-inning, the team that was just retired gathers up the cards that came to bat and adds them back to the rest of his/her offensive stack. The same player then gathers all the defensive cards from the playing surface, adds them back to the stack, shuffles it, and takes the field.
  8. Baseball rules apply, so three outs to an inning, nine innings to a game, etc.

If you're ready to learn the full rules, those are here.