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The Universal Fighting System arrived in 2006 as a collectible card game published by UVS Games. It began with a simple premise of two characters fighting hand-to-hand combat using cards drawn from dozens of licensed properties.
Jasco Games secured $20 million in funding after being acquired by POW! Interactive Holdings in 2021. This corporate shift led to a rebranding effort that transformed the company into UVS Games by 2023 featuring an orange color scheme and a distinct card back image chosen during this transition period.
Standard UFS decks require a minimum of 60 cards including the character with no more than four copies of any single card allowed. Turbo format demands exactly 41 cards while maintaining the same four-copy limit per card type.
Characters appear as the centerpiece of every deck with orange borders for attacks representing punches or weapon strikes. Grey bordered foundations represent training backgrounds and serve as primary resources, green bordered assets provide locations or objects offering abilities stronger than those found on foundation cards, blue bordered actions deliver immediate effects allowing players to use secret abilities kept hidden in their hands until needed, and backups also feature blue borders but function differently as allies providing static responses that opponents can target to destroy them.
A unique control check system replaces traditional resource costs where players discard the top card of their deck to compare its value against the difficulty of the card they wish to play. If the discarded card has equal or higher control value the player plays it at no cost while lower values force the player to commit foundation cards sideways to cover the difference or fail the attempt entirely.