A method for playing a competitive card game simulating combat between a first character and a second character has the step of providing a stack of playing cards for each player with each card representing at least one specific character. Each card has games on the card and the card has indicia thereon representing various information about the first character and the second character with statistics. The method also has the steps of selecting a statistical comparison game, selecting a card from the stack of each player, and choosing one category of the statistics to be compared. The game also has the step of comparing the statistics of the specific character on the chosen category to determine a winner of the card game.