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Wave 1 – Red Mage – 1-003C

Red Mage (1-003C) is one of the easier card to distinguish between Wave 1 and Wave 2. But first, let me give you the links from the guides from the introduction post that will help you guide your way.

“Distinguishing Final Fantasy TCG Opus 1 Wave 1 from Future Waves”

“Differences in Opus I Wave 1 Printing vs Later Waves”

All you have to do is look at Red Mage’s Colon. And, if you look at his face you’ll see that he is not excited about that.

Which one is which? If you check the colon right after the cost to pay for the ability you can see that the one on the left is lower than the one on the right. It’s that little detail that shows up on all the cards that have an ability with a cost.

And if you look closer, you can see that Red Mage’s hair is lighter in Wave 1 and darker in Wave 2.

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No More Sports Cards, For Now

How come I always thought “Mr. Blue Sky” was a Beatles song? Nope, Electric Light Orchestra. Sure, sounds like Paul to me.

Anyway, we did a Sports Card show last Saturday, and I always say I’m done with them, but a guy I know was setting it up, so I decided against my better judgement and got a couple of tables. I went with one of my kids who brought along his stuff.
We started the day out like any other day. Load up the car and, off we go.

On our way I decided I should look up the address, I got an idea of where to go, but couldn’t remember if I needed to turn left or right on Joliet Rd. Look for my phone, it’s not in my pocket, not in my car. Stupid me, put my phone on top of my car as I was loading the boxes in.

Turn around real quick, luckily we weren’t too far away. As I’m driving down Central I see my phone laying in the middle of the street right by the train tracks. Fun times, I tell you.

Well, I have a case on it. Hopefully it still works. Hazard lights on, exit the car, pick up my phone, and off we go. I take a look at it, no scratches nothing, phone still looks good. Try and turn it on, NOPE. Didn’t want to work.

We still need to get to the Card Show, so I figured I’ll make my way to Joliet Rd. and figure out which way I’ll turn one I get there. Of course I made the wrong turn, but that’s ok we still made it on time.

I sold 1 thing the whole time. Meanwhile I’m watching Mason and he’s selling cards left and right. I didn’t even have a phone to waste some time on. At the end of the day, I managed to pick up a bunch of Vintage Pokemon cards, and a new phone.

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Wave 1 – Auron – 1-002R

It’s been a while since we did this, but we’re back at it, with card number 2-002R. Before we start let me give you the links from the guides from the introduction post that will help you guide your way.

“Distinguishing Final Fantasy TCG Opus 1 Wave 1 from Future Waves”

“Differences in Opus I Wave 1 Printing vs Later Waves”

Auron (2-002R), is very easy to distinguish Wave 1 from Wave 2. Especially if you have them side by side. Let’s take a quick look at the cards. Can you tell which one is which?

All you need to do is look at the background picture. The transparency between the two is very noticeable. Wave 1 Auron looks more like the background color of the card, while Wave 2 has a bit of skin coloring. Which you can see better in this picture.

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Krile Mayer Baldesion

“Ow! Take this!”

From the Ultimania –

“Galuf’s granddaughter, born with the mysterious power to talk to moogles and wind drakes. Krile lost her parents at an early age, and was raised by her loving grandfather. She worries for the safety of her only remaining blood relative, and follows her grandfather all the way to another world. Krile inherits Galuf’s abilities after he perishes by Exdeath’s hand, and she takes his place on Bartz’s team.”

As you can see Krile, doesn’t actually show up as a playable character, until later in the game, when she takes Galuf’s spot in the lineup, gaining all of his abilities as well.

I’m guessing that since she can talk to animals, we can make a deck focusing around Monsters … but none of her abilities involve Monsters so Summons will have to do, add in the Warriors of Light, not all of them, maybe just some that will compliment her, as she will be the main focus of our deck.

Let’s see what we can come up with.

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Gutsco

*Spoiler Alert. This whole post is one big Spoiler.

“Haw haw haw! I have the power of fire! I can feel it coursing through my veins! But it’s not enough! I must defeat you, those who’ve been blessed with the light, to gain the true power of the crystal of fire! Now…die!”

Gutsco is a Thief that is chasing the Horns of Ice. He actually steals one and the Warriors of Light give chase. Once the Warriors of Light defeat Gutsco, he turns into a shadow, and follows the party to the Dwarven Hallows, where he steals both of the Horns of Ice.

After that The Warriors of Light follow him into the Molten Cave, straight to the Fire Crystal and with the Horns of Ice, he is able to get through the cave, where he obtains the power of the Crystal and turns himself into a Salamander to fight the Warriors of Light one more time.

And, one more time he loses.

And, that is pretty much Gutsco’s whole story.

Looked through Ultimanias and anything else, that could provide us with backstory, and there is nothing. Nothing at all.