Cardfight!! Vanguard Weekly Card Update #1
Welcome to our first weekly update on all things Cardfight.
The cards revealed this week have mostly been promos, but we’ve also been given a glimpse of the new Touken Ranbu set and some cards from G-BT04; this includes a Witch for Shadow Paladins and a Witch for Genesis, who are both extremely useful for their decks.
Witch of Treasured Books, Adra is similar to Knight of Fragment in the way that, when her attack hits, you can soul charge 1 and counter charge 1. The main differences, however, are that instead of you needing two grade 2s, your opponent needs two grade 0s; it also doesn’t have Generation Break. Witch of White Hares, Cardamom is the same as Witch of Ravens, Chamomile, but her ability is specific to Witches and she gets +2000 power when brought back from the drop zone.
We also get a Limit Break enabler for Angel Feather in Confidence Celestial, Lumiel, while Maiden of Flower Screen (a recent promo) is getting a reprint in G-BT04. She is extremely useful for her ability to take the name of another unit on your field by paying the cost of putting a normal unit in from the drop zone into your deck. This means that Maiden of Flower Screen, along with other units, gain an advantage from having more cards with the same name, which is very useful for cards like Jingle Flower Dragon.
With a similar effect to Flower Screen, Bushiroad has revealed a promo grade 3 named Maiden of Flower Pistol who gains the name of a unit when that unit is placed on a rear-guard circle. The names gained by this effect also stack, so Flower Pistol can be regarded as multiple units.
If a card is placed on the rear-guard circle from your damage zone, Medical Bomber Nurse allows you to counter blast 1, take the top card from your deck, put it into the damage zone and then call Medical Bomber Nurse from the damage zone onto the field. This is great for filling the field, as well as giving a better chance of getting power ups for cards like Ramiel “Reverse” and Zerachiel.
Brillouin Blister is the ultimate weapon against re-standing Vanguards, as his guard ability prevents an opponent’s Vanguard from standing back up until the end of the turn. This doesn’t work against Raging Form Dragon or Thing Saver Dragon because they re-ride instead of re-stand.
Gear Chronicle get another grade 3, Brasschain Dragon, who has an expensive counter blast of 2 to send one unit to the bottom of your opponent’s deck. You can use Steam Fighter, Mesh-he’s soul blast combined with Brasschain to counter charge straight after, making the skill essentially a counter blast of 1.
Cosmic Hero, Grandranger gives a 10k boost to a Vanguard, making it easier to get past the power threshold for Dimension Police’s grade 3 skills. Another grade 1 that helps the Vanguard use his ability is Deity of Blacksmith, Hephaestus. Every time this card boosts you soul charge 1. This can set your Vanguard up well, but you also have a greater risk of decking out.
The new Touken Ranbu clan appears to be Japanese only for now but there’s a possibility that it will get an English release.
This clan gets a new mechanic called “Shinken Hissatsu”, which activates when you have three or more damage. Unlike limit break and ultimate break, this also activates for your rear-guards.
Apart from Shinken Hissatsu, it is unclear what this clan’s main mechanics will be. It seems there will be a lot of powering up of other units who have Shinken Hissatsu, but whether this will be their main mechanic or not is yet to be seen.
In the future, we will also be talking about new units shown in the anime or how certain units were used, but seeing as there was not much card fighting in the last episode, we’re skipping it for this week’s post.
Cardfight Vanguard singles are available to purchase at Big orbit Cards: Cardfight Vanguard