When doing a friendly battle or tournament on Clash Royale are all your card the cap level or is that just the max level it can be?

Your card levels are the lesser of:

• The Tournament Rules max for that card type (Common/Rare/Epic/Legendary)
• The highest level you've leveled that card

That is to say, you don't get to play the card at the Tournament Rules max unless you've leveled it that high - but it can't go any higher.

Well, there is a Tournament level Limitation, but it depends on the kind of the Tournament how it is treated!

First of all the Limitation is that the Towers and the king Tower are limited to level 9.

The same level is the Limitation for Common Cards.

Rare Cards are Always Limited to level 7 and Epic cards are during that Battles maximum level 4. Legendary Cards are always level 1.

Exception!: If someone uses a mirror on level 4, the mirrored cards are going to be 1 level above that limit!

Well, in Friendly Battles, the Cards are always exactly Leveled Like mentioned above.

In Challenges And Custom Tournaments Cards are played the Level that you got it but if you got them higher leveled than the Limitation then they are during battles exactly that levels Mentioned above.

In Draft/ Special challenges where you can play ALL The cards, they are treated like in Friendly Battles.

In Special Challenges Where you can play with your decks the same way as in Classic/ Grand Chanllenge (e.g. the first Double elixir Challenge).

I Hope I could help you and I Hope I didn't explain it too complicated.

The rarity of cards does not matter . King tower, princess towers and all cards are capped at level 9 in friendly battles and in events and tournaments. I don't have any card of level 9 so I don't know if they have a higher level or not all my cards are 6-7 and a level 8 witch. However I have heard rumors that some cards have a higher level than 9 but I personally don't support it unless I check it myself.