NIKKE Trading Card Game – Nivel Arena

Nivel Arena is a TCG based on the popular Goddess of Victory: NIKKE mobile game launched in Korea on October 29, 2024. Gemblo Company worked with NIKKE’s developer Shift Up to feature the characters, skills, and items from the mobile game into the new card game. 

The original Nivel Arena product release included three Starter Decks and one Booster Pack. Since then, two more Starter Decks and a second Booster Pack have been released, with the third announced for May 23, 2025.

It’s been speculated that, similar to Weiß Schwarz, Nivel Arena will feature other games besides Goddess of Victory: NIKKE. Since NIKKE is the only game included so far, many players refer to Nivel Arena as Nikketak or Nikke card game. NIKKE has also been released in Weiß Schwarz last April 2025, which became the first Korean version of the older TCG.

Nivel Arena TCG Basics

Here’s a brief rundown on how to play the NIKKE TCG Nivel Arena.

Deck Requirements

In Nivel Arena, players battle each other with 40-card decks plus 1 Leader card. All cards in the deck must share the same attribute (color) as the Leader card. You can only have up to 3 copies of a card (sharing the same ID number).

Victory Condition

The first player to deal 10 damage to their opponent wins. Additionally, having no cards to draw from their deck will cause that player to lose the game.

Card Layout

Card Attributes and Types

Cards in Nivel Arena have one of the five attributes or colors: Flame (red), Earth (green), Storm (purple), Wave (blue), and Lightning (yellow).

There are four card types so far: Leader, Unit, Skill, and Item.

Play Area

Legend:

1. Level zone: The Leader is placed here. Each turn, the Leader’s level increases by 1.
2. Damage zone: When a Unit deals Hit damage to you, place the top card of your deck face up into this zone. The sum of your Level and Damage zone values is your available resources for the turn.
3. Unit zone: Unit cards can be placed into one of the three spots. Items can be placed under Units already in the field.
4. Skill zone: Skill cards are placed here and discarded at end of turn.
5. Deck zone: Place your deck here.
6. Trash zone: All discard cards are placed here.

Gameplay Video

Watch the quick gameplay video of NIKKE card game below (turn subtitles on and auto-translate).

Nivel Arena Starter Decks

Each Starter Deck contains 41 cards, which includes 1 leader card featured in the packaging, a quick guide rulebook, and a double-sided playsheet.

There are five Starter decks available:

Nivel Arena Booster Packs

There are two Booster Packs currently available, each containing 6 randomly selected cards.

The third Booster Pack, BT03 Unbreakable, is set to release on May 23, 2025.