Strife Deck

In the Homestuck Universe weapons can be placed into a Strife Deck, which allows the player to use objects to Aggrieve enemies. Each Strife Deck is contained with a Strife Specibus and a character with multiple Strife Specibi will store them within a Strife Portfolio. In order for an artifact to be allocated to a Strife Deck, it must be the same kind of item as the character's chosen Kind Abstratus, and there must be a free Captchalogue Card in the Strife Deck. It appears that Strife Decks might use a special type of Captchalogue Card. Each Strife Specibus appears to come with one card in its deck by default. It is unclear whether players are intended to acquire new cards; John has acquired bunnykind from an imp and Eridan seems to be able to simply pick up and use the needlekind wand that was appearified for him without the benefit of a Strife card, but the players are apparently otherwise limited to their initial choice of weapon. The different strife specibus are divided among the many kind Abstrata. They are named with the formula: [weapon]kind. Apparently, artifacts allocated to the Strife Deck can be used at will.

It should be noted that imps can also place items into their strife deck. They drop their Strife Specibus card when defeated if they have done so. Also, all MSPA Readers and (possibly) Doc Scratch have the pistolkind specibus.

Damage or Altered
If an item used to strife is damaged or fundamentally altered during use, its related Kind Abstratus will change itself into a type to match. This is presumably to avoid getting suddenly disarmed when the item doesn't match the old Abstratus and cannot be allocated. To correct this, the item must be restored to its old shape. Often this can result in a fraction being added to the name; Dave's sword is cut in half so he now has 1/2bladekind, and Feferi had a second fork added to the other side of her Trident making it a 2x3dent. Jane's Junior Battermaster's Bowlbuster Stirring/Poking Solution 50000 can be switched from a spoon to a fork and back, changing Jane's Abstratus with it. Kanaya's lipstick can be changed to chainsaw mode and back, which presumably causes her Abstratus to change to chainsawkind.

Users' Kind Abstrata

 * Faves3000's is Craftkind, which is all Minecraft-based attacks. He also uses Mirrorkind, which gives him the abstrata of the foe. At one point he was seen struggling with Powerkind.