Action Points

Action Points are a new feature introduced by Feder373 that are used by some monsters. Those monsters will require spending their Action Points in order to activate their effects or even to attack. The reason behind this concept is that some monsters need to have some kind of limitation to be used, but sometimes having to discard, pay Life Points or banish cards from the Graveyard is an overwhelming or really inconvenient cost for the use of an specific card or Deck. The implementation of Action Points puts a limitation on the card while allowing you to keep the resources that you need for other cards and purposes. The use of Action Points is very similar to Spell Counters, but they have some advantages, like that they are not lost if the monster is flipped face-down, and if the monster leaves the field and returns later, they are reset to their original number. The number of Action Points is placed (tentatively) just to the left of the ATK of the monster, and there the concept of Action Points appears abbreviated as AP to save space.