While you might be more interested in charming the seven demon brothers and the other students at the Royal Academy of Diavolo, it’s your deck of cards that propels you through Obey Me’s story. So despite being part of the Shall We Date series, Obey Me is as much a card game at its beating heart. Across your adventure in Obey Me, there are hundreds of cards to collect, and you add them to your contacts library in a variety of ways. Once you’ve gotten hold of a few, you’ll be able to use them in dance battles to progress through the game’s story and your lessons at the Academy. The rarest Obey Me cards can be difficult to track down, with a smaller than 1% chance to appear - but with luck and time on your side, you’ll be able to build a powerful roster in no time. Below we’ll detail a bit more about cards work in Obey Me, how to level them up to unlock alternative Devil’s Flower appearances, where to find new cards as you play, and a run-down of the kinds of cards you can collect.
How cards work in Obey Me How to level up cards to unlock the Devil’s Flower Nightmare Obey Me Cards Obey Me Cards - Chapter A Obey Me Cards - Chapter M Obey Me Cards - Chapter G Devilgram and Pop Quiz Event Obey Me Cards
How cards work in Obey Me
Outside of the visual novel story sections in Obey Me, a huge part of the gameplay revolves around card-based dance battles.
Demon Cards
In dance battles, you borrow the power of your new friends at the academy to defeat the opposing spirits. By collecting cards featuring the seven demon brothers and your fellow students, you build a deck of different cards specialising in different attributes.
These attributes are themed around the seven deadly sins which each demon brother represents. They are:
Pride - Blue Greed - Yellow Lust - Pink Envy - Orange Gluttony - Red Wrath - Green Sloth - Purple
Every demon card that you collect in Obey Me will have a power level in each of those seven attributes - with more powerful cards having a higher value. You can tell which dominant attribute a card has by the symbol in the top-left corner.
As you take on more difficult tasks and dance battles, you’ll need stronger cards to progress. At a base level, rarer cards will start off as more powerful than common ones. There are five rarities of cards in Obey Me:
N R SR SSR UR/UR+
N is the lowest tier and most common quality, while UR and UR+ cards are the highest and most difficult to lay your hands on. UR and UR+ are functionally the same in terms of power level, but the + variants have a video animation during their skill in battle.
As well as this, demon cards have a special skill which affects the tide of battle. When you find a duplicate of that card, you can level up its skill.
Memory Cards
As well as the main demon cards, you can collect memory cards in Obey Me.
While these have attributes and skills just like demon cards, they don’t battle in the same way.
Instead, memory cards give your party extra powers which are used automatically to help out during battle.
They’re not as flashy as the demon cards, but are still a very useful utility which shouldn’t be ignored.
How to level up cards to unlock the Devil’s Flower
There are tons of the lower-tier cards to collect, but they’re not all that useful in dance battles. To make your cards more powerful, there are two things you can do:
Gain EXP by using cards in dance battles Invest items into a card’s Devil’s Tree to increase its attributes
When you use a card in a dance battle, it gains EXP points. This raises the card’s level, which in turn increases the strength of its attributes. However, you can also spend the Grimm currency you acquire through playing to raise a card’s level in your contacts menu as well. This is important to do, as you’ll quickly encounter enemies who’re too tough if you just level your cards naturally. Lower rarity cards have a lower maximum level, but if you grind them out in enough battles, they could still prove to be useful in the very early stages of Obey Me.
However, to maximise your time playing, it’s wise to use and pour experience into your rarest cards, since they have the most potential to carry you furthest through the story. As for the Devil’s Tree, when you complete lessons, dance battles, interact with Surprise Guests, and complete other tasks throughout the game, you’ll gain items like gems, watches, mugs, skulls, and smartphones. If you go into your Contacts page and view your roster of cards, you can select one and see it’s Devil’s Tree. This is a separate upgrade menu when you choose a path to upgrade your card’s attributes. Every ten levels on the Devil’s Tree, you’ll be able to rank up the card to raise it’s max EXP level. At level 50 on the Devil’s Tree, you can unlock the Devil’s Flower, which gives you a special, alternate art version of the card. Which card’s Devil’s Trees should you upgrade in Obey Me? It can be a difficult and confusing choice between which cards to upgrade in Obey Me - especially when there are so many to choose from. The general consensus is that you should try to upgrade your rarest cards as much as possible, and focus on SSR and UR rarity cards where you can. In fact, experienced players even say that the SSR tier aren’t the best to invest in for the long term. SSR cards are fine as your main cards up until around Lesson 20, at which point their effectiveness starts to wane in comparison to stronger UR cards. Keep an eye out for events which give you better chances at scoring UR cards while you maintain your roster.
Nightmare Obey Me Cards
Nightmare is where you’ll find a lot of the cards in Obey Me. It’s the in-game shop, where you spend demon points and demon tickets to summon new cards for your collection. There’s usually an event and different chapters to choose from, and the cards are as follows.
Obey Me Cards - Chapter A
Obey Me Cards - Chapter M
Obey Me Cards - Chapter G
Devilgram and Pop Quiz Event Obey Me Cards
In the stories on Devilgram, you’ll see references to cards you can only get from in-game Pop Quiz events and from late-game lessons.
To get Pop Quiz cards, you need to progress through the game’s story tasks during the event time period. This gives you collection items that you can swap for rewards - including pieces of special cards. You can see which events are active in the left-hand corner of the map when you’re doing your tasks. Some events though, such as the “Like a Dame” pop quiz, take place in a separate story map that you have to play through. Many of the Pop Quizzes you see in Devilgram have expired. However, you can travel back to events that you’ve missed in the Lonely Devil menu.
This is accessed from the schedule on your D.D.D homescreen, and lets you go on a tour to previous events for a limited time to grab the items and cards you need. To obtain the lesson cards, as you’d expect, you need to complete the corresponding lessons. If you want to view all of the available cards in a pop quiz event, tap on the “cards” button in the bottom left corner of the stream.
