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Okay, but I'm still confused on how to visually imagine this. Are the cards actually cards inside of the arena? If you play one, how are they played? Is it like Persona where they appear for a second, you break them and then the effect happens or more like YGO where it appears in your hand and you toss it somewhere to play it?

Sorry if I ask a lot of questions, but I like details.
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Its fine, I like details too.

So imagine your student character as a phantom  overseeing a battle between two battlemages, when you play a weapon card from your deck, it appears in your battle mage's hand, when you play a support, they get summoned from the floor. But when you get hit, your phantom student recoils in pain, exactly how your battle mage does, they are almost like your puppet for the world of the duel.