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How to read a card
Every mark on a Nomling card means something. Here’s the key.
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The card at a glance
Each number on this card matches a step below. Tap any of your cards in the Nomdex to see yours up close; double-tap to flip it to the back.
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Glow finishes, effect skins and Pure (steps 5, 6 and 12) have their own cards below.
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Name and kind
Its name (yours if you renamed it), then the name of its form and its kind of Nomling, like "Piggy Bank · Pig".
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Rarity and diamonds
The label says how rare it was when it was caught: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic or Legendary. The diamonds count up with it, one for Common to five for Legendary. Evolving never changes its rarity.
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The frame
The frame follows the rarity: cream, green, silver, violet and gold. A Nomling born with a glow finish gets that finish’s own frame instead, and the rarity label stays.
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Glow finishes
About 1 in 75 Nomlings is born glowing: Ice, Candy, Zombling, Crystal, Lava, Rainbow, Gilded, Diamond, Galaxy or Hologram. A Legendary catch glows more often, about 1 in 25. Each finish has its own frame: frost, stripes, stitches, facets, glowing cracks, a rainbow edge, gold leaf, sparkles, stars or a hologram sheen.
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Candy
Zombling
Crystal
Lava
Rainbow
Gilded
Diamond
Galaxy
Hologram
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Effect skins
About 1 in 40 Nomlings is born with an effect skin (Neon, Magma, Aurora, Pixel glitch…). Its card gets a thin trim in the skin’s colours inside the rarity frame.
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Ghost and Obsidian coats
The rarest coats. About 1 in 1,200 Nomlings is born with each one, and its card is Legendary.
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Legendary auras
Every Legendary kind of Nomling is born with a Legendary aura: Halo glow, Starfall or Ember wisps. No other Nomling ever has one. A Pure stays plain.
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Style
The small tag beside the kind is its style, like Sleepy, Happy or Cool.
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Battle stats
HP, Attack, Defense and Speed are the numbers it really fights with, the same ones the battle uses. They grow as it levels up and evolves.
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Serial number
Every Nomling is one of a kind. The serial on the footer is its own, and it keeps it when it evolves or is traded.
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Evolution dots
The footer shows the name of its form and four dots: filled up to how far it has evolved (●●○○ is evolution 2 of 4). An Ascended Nomling has all four and a star.
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FIRST 10
The first 10 of each kind ever caught carry a FIRST 10 plate on the footer. It never comes off.
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Pure
A Pure Nomling is born with nothing extra: the kind’s plain look. There are only 10 of each kind, and the footer is engraved with its number, like "Pure 3 of 10". Its owner can show it on the clean Pure card or the Showcase frame.
Clean
Showcase
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