24-037R – Ashe EX
High cost Forward troubling you?
Ashe will take care of that for you, but not for long. You’ll be able to put that Forward on top of it’s owner’s deck. That means Ashe can also choose one of your Forwards, if you want to get the effect of it’s enter the field ability.
Which can be useful.
Now, if you put your opponent’s Forward on top of their deck, just make sure you deal a point of damage this turn. That way you’ll be able to send that Forward to the Damage Zone and then you won’t have to worry about it again.
This also comes off of an EX Burst.
You can also put Ashe into the Break Zone to activate a Forward while giving it +1K power.
24-038H – Valefor
Valefor makes a comeback, after being on hiatus since Opus I.
At 1CP it looks promising, let’s take a look.
Pay X, reveal the top 7 cards and play a Character of X or less.
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I don’t know if I like it.
It’s almost a search and play to the field, but it is limited. And, that’s probably why it only costs 1CP.
It might work here or there, but either Opus I Valefor will work better for me.
24-039C – Vaan
Vaan and his trumpet.
At 5CP, Vaan can become a Activating Machine.
When Vaan enters the field Activate 2 Backups.
When Vaan attacks, Activate 2 Backups.
That’s 4CP right there. You paid 5CP.
One more attack and Vaan will be paying you to be on the field.
Vaan comes with a 9K body, and Aeroga Blade which deals a Forward 9000 damage.
I would play this card. I might even play it at Pre-Release. Midnight Pre-Release to be exact.
24-040C – Viera
Pay 2CP to activate 2 Backups later on.
Viera is more like a bank.
She’ll keep your CP and give them back to you when you need them later on.
In the mean time, Viera will produce 1CP per turn as any Backup will do.
And, when the moment is right, and you would like to use your Backup’s abilities you can use Viera to activate them.
I’d say a definite maybe.
24-041C – Onion Knight
Warp 1 for 1CP instead of paying 3CP! You’re already ahead.
Onion Knight is a recycling machine, ready to be removed and warped back in. This will be perfect if there is ever a threat to Onion Knight.
And at 3 points of Damage Onion Knight gains +1000 power.
That’s a 9K body, that can be recycled back into the game for 1CP.
Let me give this a try.
24-042R – Garuda (XVI)
5CP to activate all of your Backups.
Or, you can just Prime into Garuda with Benedikta. I haven’t seen Benedikta yet, but she’s coming up.
Activating your Backups already seems popular this set. Add in Bismarck, Lord of the Mists. And then you have a way of drawing cards, returning cards to your opponent’s hand. And when you have returned cards to their hand, you hit them with some Ice, and have them discard cards from their hand.
Ice/Wind for 2025
24-043C – Thief
Here’s another way to draw a card. Making Thief a 1 cost Backup
After that, once thief enters the field and if you already have 4 Wind Backups on the field, you can choose 1 of your Forwards, and it cannot be blocked for this turn.
Is it worth it? Having thief take up a spot in your deck for the chance that you might come across the perfect situation in order to use him?
I don’t know, probably better to leave this one out.
24-044H – Zidane
Zidane doing Zidane things.
He’s stealing cards from your opponent.
For 3 CP you can grab and Character from your opponent’s Break Zone. Yeah, you do remove it from the game, but you can cast it at any time you would cast it. Makes Sense?
Why is this one better than the other 2 Zidane’s that allow you to grab a card from your opponent?
Simple, you get to choose which one you grab.
And, at 5 points of damage, your Backups produce CP of any color.
I’ll be adding at least one to my deck that plays your deck.
24-045C – Jeume
Jeume, your Wind Warrior of the Crystal.
I was hoping for something better, after seeing Fire and Ice, but we have Jeume.
She’s not bad, she still allows here comrades abilities to go off when she enters the field.
She just doesn’t have any abilities that go off.
Nothing wrong with that, just because she can’t be chosen by your opponent’s abilities.
And, you have an 8K body.
24-046R – Leech Bat
I’m seeing a pattern here. I almost forgot about the Elemental Monsters that are all the same, but different.
Leech Bat hangs around, and when one of your Forwards attack, you can toss it into the Break Zone, making your opponent reveal there hand.
You’ll then pick the card you like, and toss that one to the Break Zone.
Your opponent will then draw a card.
That’s the only thing I don’t like about it.
After that, you’ll play Zidane, remove that card you selected from the game, and now it’s yours to cast whenever you’d like.
24-047R – Sophia (SOPFFO)
Sophia’s Choice.
Was that a band, or a movie?
But, you do need a Crystal in order to choose.
Sophia can either Break a high cost Forward, or she can break a monster.
The choice is yours.
Not Sophie’s. I mean Sophia’s
After that you have a 8K body that’ll hang out on the field.
24-048L – Tidus
“It’s Warping Time”
Coming in like a substitution right when you need him.
You can actually just play Tidus right away from the get go. At 0CP there is no reason not to.
Yes, Tidus has 5 Warp counters, but every time a Warp Counter is removed from a any card that is Warped, Tidus will have a Warp Counter removed from him, making his wait a little bit shorter.
When Tidus finally enters the field, all of your Forwards with Warp will have Haste, and they will not be able to be chosen by your opponent’s Summons.
All this for a grand total of 0CP, because you won’t be paying 5CP. You could, but what’s the fun in that?
24-049C – Nono
I’m just trying to figure out what Nono is doing here.
Nono isn’t bad at all, especially for a Common.
Nono enters the field and deals your opponent 2000 damage. Yes, that’s not a lot, but remember you’re playing Wind. And, what does wind do?
If you’ve been reading this, you already know Wind has been activating Backups this set, and drawing you cards.
And, if Nono is the 3rd card that you have cast this turn, Nono deals your opponent damage equal to his power. 3 points of Damage, gives Nono +2K power.
Add in Opus I Maria, and you’ll be dealing a Forward 8K damage.
All this for 2CP.
24-050C – Bartz
I read this once, and thought it was bad.
Reread it, and realized it’s not that bad.
the first time I understood that you had to have 2 cards removed from the game this turn, then I realized it doesn’t say this turn.
If you have 2 Cards removed from the game, Bartz can come in and Activate 2 Backups.
Like the Backups that you used to play Bartz.
Personally, I think there are better ways to Activate your Backups, but this still might be useful.
24-051R – Benedikta
With 3CP you get a Forward with 8000 power, First Strike and at 3 points of Damage Benedikta gains Haste.
That by itself would make it a decent Common.
Meat and Potatoes, nothing to fancy just a good body, or as I’d like to call it, a Meat Shield.
Benedikta can also Prime into Garuda (XVI) and will then Activate all of your Backups. And, return 2 Forwards to their Owner’s hand.
Benedikta will bring the cost of Garuda down by 1CP.
For a body, you can probably just play Benedikta by herself, usually a card with this much power costs 4CP.
24-052L – Belgemine
Automatic protection from Summons, and the more Summons you cast the better Belgemine is.
Cast 2 Summons, deal 2 Forwards 4000 damage each.
Cast 3 Summons, send 3 of your opponent’s Forwards to the bottom of their deck.
And, once you do that, there’s a good chance that you wiped your opponent’s front lines.
Now it’s time to go all out, and know that this was 1 Crystal Point that was very well spent.
Something tells me that YRP will be making a comeback. Add in that Opus I, Legend, Tidus, and I can see it now.
24-053H – Minwu
The Rebels are about to get a deck. Maybe not this set, but when they do Minwu and Opus XVII Maria will be a part of it. I haven’t really looked into it, but I can see the pieces slowly falling into place. IT just needs that one card the Rebels can all rally behind.
Minwu is a 4 cost Forward with 7000 power.
And, yes it is worth paying 4CP for Minwu, as you will grab a Final Fantasy II Character from the Break Zone and play it onto the field. Their cost just need to be equal or lower than the number of Backups you control, and it can’t be Minwu.
All of your FFII Forwards also cannot be chosen by your opponent’s abilities.
I’m going to be looking into a Final Fantasy II deck.
24-054C – Wing Wraith EX
Although Wing Wraith isn’t that powerful as a Summon, you will still be able to hit your opponent with a quick triple succession of 3000 damage to one of their Forwards.
At only 1CP and an EX Burst.
Wing Wraith deals 3000 damage and searches for another Wing Wraith.
Summon again fellow Summoners.
It’s worth a shot.
