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Drive (ドライブ Doraibu) is a value that determines the number of drive checks your unit is able to peform while attacking. Aside from drawing effects and the draw phase, drive checks are the main way to increase the player's hand. Performing a drive check is also referred to how a new ally joins the player's army.

By default, all vanguards have a drive of 1 and all rear-guards have a drive of 0. This can be modified by effects (usually written as drive+n or drive-n). If a unit's drive is 0 or less, then it does not perform any drive checks.

Vanguards with the ability to [Stand] themselves, along with effects that allow to ride a new grade 3 or greater unit early in the game, typically also get a penalty to their drive value as a way to limit the player from adding too many cards to their hand via drive checking. This is commonly seen on Stride G units. In older grade 3, such units instead cause themselves to lose "Twin Drive!!", thus retaining a single drive check.

Drive Check

Drive Check is a game mechanic a player must perform when their unit has declared an attack. A drive check is performed during a battle's drive step, which comes after the guard step.

By default, only your vanguard (or Legion Leader in that case) is able to perform drive checks, but it's also possible to have a rear-guard perform a drive check. In that case, the drive step applies to that unit.

Unless a continuous effect is causing otherwise, you perform the process below for a drive check:

Reveal the top card of your deck and put it into the trigger zone face up.
If that card has a trigger effect, resolve all of its actions immediately, in any order.
After that, resolve all abilities that were activated by the drive check, in any order.
If the card is still in the trigger zone, put that card into your hand.
Repeat this process as many times as the number of your attacking unit's drive checks.

In Skill icons

Currently, there are two skills which modify the normal amount of drive checks.

Twin Drive!! : Increases the unit's drive by 1.
Triple Drive!!! : Increases the unit's drive by 2.

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-'''"Drive"''' (ドライブ ''Doraibu'') is referred to as the amount of drive checks that your vanguard (or [[Legion]] Leader in such case) is able to perform during your drive step of the battle phase. Aside from drawing effects and the draw phase, drive checks are the main way to increase the player's hand. By default, every vanguard is able to perform one drive check per attack, however, it's possible to increase and decrease the number of drive check (stated as drive+1 or drive-1/-2). In case of increase the drive check, you must check for the following drive after resolving all effects during the previous one. If your vanguard's drive check becomes 0 or less, then no drive check can be performed.
+'''Drive''' (ドライブ ''Doraibu'') is a value that determines the number of drive checks your unit is able to peform while attacking. Aside from drawing effects and the draw phase, drive checks are the main way to increase the player's hand. Performing a drive check is also referred to how a new ally joins the player's army.
+By default, all vanguards have a drive of 1 and all rear-guards have a drive of 0. This can be modified by effects (usually written as drive+''n'' or drive-''n''). If a unit's drive is 0 or less, then it does not perform any drive checks.
-Vanguards with the ability to stand themselves occasionally get a drive-1/-2 as a way to prevent the player from drive checking too many cards. This became more commonly seen in G units.
+Vanguards with the ability to [Stand] themselves, along with effects that allow to ride a new grade 3 or greater unit early in the game, typically also get a penalty to their drive value as a way to limit the player from adding too many cards to their hand via drive checking. This is commonly seen on [[Stride]] G units. In older grade 3, such units instead cause themselves to lose "Twin Drive!!", thus retaining a single drive check.
 ==Drive Check==
+'''Drive Check''' is a game mechanic a player must perform when their unit has declared an attack. A drive check is performed during a battle's drive step, which comes after the guard step.
-A drive check is performed in the following way: Put the top card of your deck into trigger zone face up, if that card has the same clan as a unit on your vanguard or rear-guard circle, resolve all effects activated by the drive check, in any order you like. After that, if the card is still in the trigger zone, put that card into your hand. Then, repeat this process as many times as the number of your vanguard's drive checks.
+By default, only your vanguard (or [[Legion|Legion Leader]] in that case) is able to perform drive checks, but it's also possible to have a rear-guard perform a drive check. In that case, the drive step applies to that unit.
-==In Skill Icons==
+Unless a continuous effect is causing otherwise, you perform the process below for a drive check:
+*Reveal the top card of your deck and put it into the trigger zone face up.
+*If that card has a [[trigger|trigger effect]], resolve all of its actions immediately, in any order.
+*After that, resolve all abilities that were activated by the drive check, in any order.
+*If the card is still in the trigger zone, put that card into your hand.
+*Repeat this process as many times as the number of your attacking unit's drive checks.
+==In [[Skill icons]]==
 Currently, there are two skills which modify the normal amount of drive checks.
-*'''Twin Drive!!''' [[File: Sk twindrive.gif]]: Increase your vanguard's drive check by 1.
+*'''Twin Drive!!''' [[File: Sk twindrive.gif]]: Increases the unit's drive by 1.
-*'''Triple Drive!!!''' [[File:Sk tripledrive.png]]: Increase your vanguard's drive check by 2.
+*'''Triple Drive!!!''' [[File:Sk tripledrive.png]]: Increases the unit's drive by 2.
+==Mechanics Related to Drive==
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