This video shows you how to used the Card command to get some decent cards in the beginning of Final Fantasy VIII to make playing Triple Triad for rare cards/grinding easier.

How to do this:

1) Before heading to the Fire Cavern make sure Quezacotl is junctioned and set to learn Card.

2) Kill 20 AP worth of enemies in the fields of Balamb or the forest. You will gain one level.

- Bite Bugs in the field give you 1 AP.
- Glacial Eyes in the field and behind Balamb Garden give you 1 AP.
- Caterchipillars in the forest give you 2 AP. You can sometimes encounter a Caterchipillar with two Bite Bugs in the forest.
- T-Rexaurs can be encountered in the forest. I suggest running from him for now.

3) Defeat Ifrit to learn the remaining 20 AP needed for the Card ability.

4) Bombs and Buels can be carded and will occasionally turn in to a Krysta card. All Boss cards can be obtained by carding various enemies in the game. Krysta from Bombs and Buels, Tiamat from Grendels, etc.

5) Buel strategy - Have Quistis hit the Buel once and then used Cad on her second turn. Squall's strength is too much and he will kill the Buel.

6) Bomb strategy - Have Squall with Shiva and Ifrit. Junction 100 Fire to hit Strength and 100 Blizzard to his Elemental Attack. Have Squall hit the Bomb with the trigger and it should do around 280 of damage. Have Quistis use the Card command.

It took me 19 attempts of carding Buels and Bombs to get a Krysta card (using the Steam version) but the PSX version it usually only took 8 or 9 attempts.

After this your top cards to play in Triple Triad should be:

1x Ifrit
1x Krysta
3x Bomb

This should be good enough to win Mini Mog and Quistis to begin building your deck.

How to get the spells:

Fire - Bite Bug
Thunder - Caterchipillar
Blizzard - Glacial Eye*
Cure - Caterchipillar and Glacial Eye*
Scan - Bite Bug and Glacial Eye*

*Glacial Eyes are found more often behind Balamb Garden than on the field to the Fire Cavern.

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