Clash: how card battles work
Clash is card battles against your friends, played through a link you send in a group chat. A better card helps, but good timing can beat it.
A battle, round by round
You pick one of your cards and play three rounds, one for each of its stats. In each round a needle sweeps across a meter, faster each round, and you tap to stop it. The closer to the middle it stops, the more your stat is multiplied:
| Where the needle stops | Your stat is multiplied by | A stat of 70 scores |
|---|---|---|
| PERFECT | ×1.4 | 98 |
| GREAT | ×1.25 | 88 |
| GOOD | ×1.1 | 77 |
| OK | ×0.9 | 63 |
| MISS | ×0.6 | 42 |
Each round goes to the higher score, or to the higher stat if the scores tie. Whoever wins two of the three rounds wins the battle; if that doesn’t settle it, the higher total does.
Challenge a friend
- Open the Clash tab, choose Challenge a friend, pick a card and play your three rounds.
- You get a link to send in a group chat (or a code to paste).
- Your friend opens it, picks one of their cards and plays three rounds against your score. If they’re new to glint.skin, they open their first pack and then fight back.
- Their result comes back to you as a reply link. Opening it shows how each round went, who won and how your rating changed, and a rematch is one tap away.
Your progress lives in your browser, so open the reply in the same browser you sent the challenge from.
Rating and ranks
Everyone starts with a rating of 1,000. Each battle with a friend moves it by the Elo formula, by up to 32 points, so beating a friend with a higher rating earns more than beating one with a lower one.
| Rank | From a rating of |
|---|---|
| Bronze | The start |
| Silver | 1,100 |
| Gold | 1,250 |
| Platinum | 1,400 |
| Diamond | 1,550 |
| Champion | 1,700 |
What Clash pays
- Your first 3 battles against friends each day pay ✦20 for a win, ✦15 for a draw and ✦10 for a loss.
- Playing a battle is one of the four daily missions.
- Three trophies: First Win, Giant Killer (beat a friend whose card has a higher overall) and Rivalries (battle 3 different friends).
Practice against the bot any time: it brings a card close to yours, and practice never changes your rating.
The leaderboards
- Top Cards: each player’s best card of the week (Monday to Sunday, UTC), ranked by overall, then level, then rarity. A new board starts every Monday. Pulling a great card or levelling one up shows where it lands, with its climb up the board.
- Live now: everyone who has glint.skin open right now, ranked by Clash rating, with what they’re doing and their best card.
- Friends: you and everyone you’ve battled, with your record against each.
While glint.skin is new, Top Cards also has computer players so the board is never empty. They’re always marked BOT, they pull from the same packs and odds as everyone, and there are no prizes on the board. You can hide yourself from the leaderboards in Settings.
Fair and safe
- There’s no server deciding battles: a challenge link carries your Clash name, your card, a tiny 20×15 pixel version of its picture, your three rounds and a checksum, and each phone works out the result from both cards and both sets of rounds. A link that’s been changed is refused.
- Names go through a word filter however they’re spelled, and a name that fails shows as “Player”.
- Any challenge can be dismissed, and its sender blocked, or blocked and reported, in two taps. They aren’t told.
- Under 13, a player picks a made-up Clash name (a word, an animal and two digits) instead of typing one. See For parents.