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{{short description|Japanese collectible card game}}
{{Infobox game
| subject_name= ''Lycèe Trading Card Game''
| image_link= [[File:Lycee logo.png|200px]]
| image_caption = The ''Lycèe Trading Card Game'' logo.
| designer= [[Silver Blitz]]
| publisher= [[Broccoli (company)|Broccoli]]
| players= 2
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| random_chance= Some
| skills= [[Collectible card game|Card playing]]
}}
The '''''Lycèe Trading Card Game''''' is a Japanese [[collectible card game]] developed by [[Silver Blitz]] and published by [[Broccoli (company)|Broccoli]] that uses characters from a variety of (mostly) [[visual novel]] [[computer game]]s. ''[[Lycée]]'' is a [[French language|French]] word roughly meaning '[[high school]]'. Most of the cards are given unique, fanmade artwork.<ref>The exception is only for most promotional and lucky cards.</ref> The object of the game is to get one's opponent's sixty card deck down to zero, which is mostly done by attacking with character cards.

There are five rarities of cards: common, uncommon, rare, promotional and lucky. The 'lucky' cards are the most valuable, and may sold for as much as 9,800 [[Japanese yen|yen]] on Japanese secondary markets.<ref>Example price obtained from highest prices for single ''Lycèe'' cards at [http://project-core.ocnk.net/product-list/184 Card Hobby Project Core] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105132528/http://project-core.ocnk.net/product-list/184 |date=2007-01-05 }}. Retrieved on January 10, 2007.</ref> By contrast, 'rare' cards sell for between 50 and 1200 yen.<ref>[http://project-core.ocnk.net/product/2659 Bottom range.]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [http://project-core.ocnk.net/product/3980 Upper range.]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Few 'rare' cards are worth more than 500 yen.</ref>

==Gameplay==
There are four different card 'types': character, event, item and area.

In addition, each card is one of five 'elements':  {{Nihongo|'''snow'''|雪|yuki}},  {{Nihongo|'''moon'''|月|tsuki}},  {{Nihongo|'''flower'''|花|hana}},  {{Nihongo|'''void'''<ref>More accurately, 宙 means '[[Outer space|(outer) space]]'. 'Void' has been chosen for being a similar, less ambiguous word. Also, due to the symbol for 宙 looking like a lightning bolt, it is also called the 'lightning' element by English players to simplify things.</ref>  |宙|sora}}, and  {{Nihongo|'''sun'''|日|hi}}. There are also {{Nihongo|elementless|無|mu}} cards symbolized by a star, which can only pay for other elementless cards, but any element can pay for an elementless' cost.

Cards are played by discarding other cards from one's own hand to pay for a card's cost. For example: the Yumemi card pictured is worth  if she is discarded ( is her type as shown in the upper-left corner and her worth, 2, is directly below her type) and costs  to be played (the cost is shown over the field limitation icon, the six red dots on the left hand side).

==List of games with characters appearing in ''Lycèe''==
[[File:Promo yumemi.jpg|thumb|Promo character card of Yumemi from ''[[Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet]]''. While most cards are given original, fanmade artwork, this card uses the official artwork due to being a promotional card.]]
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* ''Maid-san Spirits!'' (by Sirius)
* ''[[Air (visual novel)|Air]]'' (by [[Key (company)|Key]])
* ''Akumu'' (by StudioMebius)
* ''Alma'' (by Bonbee)
* ''Atlach-Nacha'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''Banyōn'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''[[Binary Pot]]'' (by [[August (company)|August]])
* ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' (by [[Key (company)|Key]])
* ''[[Comic Party]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''[[Daiakuji]]'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''[[December When There Is No Angel]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''DR2 Night Janki'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'' (by [[Type-Moon]])
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' (by [[Type-Moon]])
* ''Fushigi no Kuni no Kanojo'' (by [[Saga Planets]])
* ''Galzoo Island'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''Hajimete no Orusuban'' (by Zero)
* ''[[Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni]]'' (by [[07th Expansion]])
* ''Kanojo-tachi no Ryūgi'' (by 130&nbsp;cm)
* ''[[Kanon (visual novel)|Kanon]]'' (by [[Key (company)|Key]])
* ''[[Kizuato]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''Koigokoro'' (by [[Ram (company)|Ram]])
* ''Kurenai-hime: Kou Ki'' (by [[Saga Planets]])
* ''[[Kusari]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''Mamahaha Chōkyō'' (by Giant Panda)
* ''Mamatoto'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''Magical Love Lesson'' (by Giant Panda)
* ''Mahō wa Ameiro?'' (by Sirius)
* ''Maō to Odore!'' (by Catwalk)
* ''[[Melty Blood]]'' (by [[Type-Moon]])
* ''[[Moon (1997 video game)|Moon]]'' (by Tactics)
* ''Negai'' (by [[Ram (company)|Ram]])
* ''Ōbanchō'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''[[One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e]]'' (by Tactics)
* ''Only You: ReCross'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''Osananajimi na Kanojo'' (by Ego)
* ''Pastel Chime Continue'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
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* ''[[Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet]]'' (by [[Key (company)|Key]])
* ''Princess Brave!'' (by 130&nbsp;cm)
* ''[[Princess Holiday]]'' (by [[August (company)|August]])
* ''[[Prism Ark]]'' (by Pencil Production)
* ''[[Really? Really!]]'' (by [[Navel (company)|Navel]])
* ''Rance VI: Zezu Hōkai'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''[[Rewrite (visual novel)|Rewrite]]'' (by Key)
* ''Ribbon2'' (by Bonbee)
* ''Ribbon95'' (by Bonbee)
* ''Sanoba Witch'' (by Yuzusoft)
* ''Senren Banka'' (by Yuzusoft)
* ''[[Shizuku (video game)|Shizuku]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''Shoya Kenjō'' (by Giant Panda)
* ''[[Shuffle!]]'' (by [[Navel (company)|Navel]])
* ''[[Snow (video game)|Snow]]'' (by [[Studio Mebius]])
* ''[[Soul Link]]'' (by [[Navel (company)|Navel]])
* ''Tasogare'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''[[Tears to Tiara]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''Tenerezza'' (by [[Aquaplus]])
* ''Tenshin Ranman'' (by Yuzusoft)
* ''[[Tick! Tack!]]'' (by [[Navel (company)|Navel]])
* ''Tōshin Toshi'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''[[To Heart]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''[[To Heart 2]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''Tomodachi Ijō Koibito Miman'' (by [[Studio Mebius]])
* ''[[Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life]]'' (by [[Key (company)|Key]])
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'' (by [[Type-Moon]])
* ''[[Tsuki wa Higashi ni Hi wa Nishi ni: Operation Sanctuary]]'' (by [[August (company)|August]])
* ''Uchi no Imōto no Baai'' (by Ego)
* ''Ultra Mahō Shōjo Manana'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' (by [[07th Expansion]])
* ''Usotsuki wa Tenshi no Hajimari'' (by [[Saga Planets]])
* ''[[Utawarerumono]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''[[White Album (game)|White Album]]'' (by [[Leaf (company)|Leaf]])
* ''[[Yoake Mae yori Ruri Iro na]]'' (by [[August (company)|August]])
* ''Yoru ga Kuru!'' (by [[AliceSoft]])
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==See also==
* ''[[Ani-Mayhem]]''

==Notes and references==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.lycee-tcg.com/ Official website] {{in lang|ja}}

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