This describes paying the cost of a card in your hand and using it.

This describes when a Unit enters the battle area or a Base enters the base section of the shield area.

This describes adding the top card of your deck to your hand.

This describes choosing one card in your hand and placing it into your trash.

This describes removing damage from a damaged card. If an effect says "recover 2 HP," remove 2 damage.

This describes placing a Pilot card or a Command card with a Pilot effect beneath a Unit.

Some Units have link requirements, such as Pilot names or traits, listed on them. A Unit paired with a Pilot that satisfies its link requirements is called a Link Unit. Link Units can attack immediately on the turn they are deployed.

A token is anything placed into play from outside the game by an effect. EX Bases and EX Resources placed at the start of the game are also tokens.

The "/" character represents the conjunction "or." If an effect reads "1 (Zeon)/(Neo Zeon) Unit card," you can choose either one (Zeon) Unit card or one (Neo Zeon) Unit card.