TCG · Play mat
The Collision play mat, as printed
Decipher's own mat for the 2003 game: one sheet marking the six places a card can sit, with Kenny explaining each one. Print it at any size and play on it, or read it here as a map of a turn.
What this is
A play mat is the table itself, drawn on paper: every pile a game needs, each in a fixed place, so that two players reading the same mat never argue about what is where. Decipher put this one on its Beyblade site as a free download in 2003, next to the rulebook, and kept it there when the site moved. It was never a product you could buy.
The mat covers one player's side, so a two-player game wants two copies. Its artwork is the V-Force season — Tyson mid-launch over a Dragoon watermark — and around the central dish run four arrows in red, yellow, green and blue: the stop sequence every battle follows, printed where both players can see it.
Printed down the left edge is www.beybladetcg.com, the address Decipher put on the packs and the rulebook as well. It lapsed, and in August 2026 it became this site, which is why the mat now hangs at the address written on it.
The six places on the mat
- Test Area
“Place your card here to test it against your opponent’s deck.”
- Battle Pile
“Any cards you play during a battle are played to this area.”
- Spin Pile
“Remember, your Blade plays on the top of your spin pile.”
- Character Area
“After you have successfully tested your Characters, play them to this area.”
- Discard Pile
“This pile should be next to your deck.”
The quoted lines are the mat's own, spoken by Kenny in the same Chief persona that narrates the rulebook. Each name links to the rule it belongs to.
Printing it
The page is 18 × 12.75 inches (457 × 324 mm), landscape — a little larger than A3 and the same shape as a tabloid sheet. Three ways to get it onto a table:
- Full size. A3+ or tabloid paper, printed borderless at 100%. This is the size Decipher drew, so a real card lands exactly inside its printed outline.
- One ordinary sheet. A4 or Letter with “fit to page” on. Everything stays readable; the card outlines come out about 30% small, so treat them as labels rather than slots.
- Two sheets taped. Print at 100% across two A4 sheets in landscape and join them down the middle, which gets you near full size on a home printer.
Card and pile positions are the mat's suggestion, not a rule: the rulebook never requires a mat, and a game played on a bare table is the same game.
Rights
The fine print along the mat's right edge reads: © Hudson Soft/Takara · Beyblade Project · TV Tokyo · © Takao Aoki · TV Tokyo, licensed by d-rights Inc., TM, ® & © 2003 Decipher, Inc. All rights reserved. The artwork and the text remain theirs.
We host the file so the game can still be set up and played, the same decision we made for the rulebook. See the legal page for how rights holders can reach us.