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Journey of Light and Dark

27-109L – Cecil

Ok, I’m having trouble understanding this, but from what I do understand, is that Cecil chooses a Forward and they both lose power, less than Cecil’s power.

I’m guessing you target your opponent’s Forwards, and hopefully they lose enough power that they are sent to the Break Zone.

Cecil has 9000 power, so I’m guessing he will break Forwards with 8000 power or less.

Cecil also has another ability which will grant him 10,000 power. Thus making his first ability deadly. For your opponent.
I’m guessing this is what the card does. If it’s not, I’ll revisit it with a revised opinion on it.

27-110H – Bartz

Has anyone ever made a Final Fantasy V deck?

There’s more than enough cards to go about it. And, all of those Standard Units that Final Fantasy V has. You can technically build a deck with nothing but Bartz cards.

Well, we’re here to talk about this Bartz.

The Wanderer, the Warrior of Light.

If you already have 4 Final Fantasy V Characters on the field, Bartz gains Haste, First Strike and Brave.

And, when he enters the field, you can reveal the top 7 cards of your deck and add 2 Final Fantasy V Characters to your hand. Which should be easy, considering you’re playing a Final Fantasy V deck.

This brings Bartz’s cost down to 1CP. And, with 9000 power, Bartz will stick around long enough.

27-111L – Jack Garland

Garland is Garland in all situations. Check.

When Jack enters the field, you will pick one job, and Garland will not be able to be chosen by any abilities coming from that class. Class sounds so much better than Job.

And, at the end of your turn, Jack will remove one Forward with said Job from the game.

You’ll slowly be getting rid of your opponent’s Forwards, and they will be playing catch up to try and get their front lines operating once again.
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27-112H – Snovlinka

Snovinka comes in and you get to choose from 2 enter the field abilities.

The first one gives Snovlinka Haste, and every time she deals damage to your opponent or to one of their Forwards, you will double that damage.

The second one deals 8000 damage to one of their Forwards.

Both are good abilities, but what if you can do both?

Well the good news is that you can. The bad news is that you’ll need to have 5 points of damage to do so.

And, when you do have 5 points of damage. Her second ability that deals 8000 damage to one of your opponent’s forwards, will now become 16,000 damage to one of your opponent’s Forwards.

Unless you’re opponent has a counter to Snovlinka, you will be breaking a Forward when she enters the field.

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Wind of Discovery

27-037C – Red Mage

Since the other 1CP Standard Unit Backups were pretty decent, I saw Red Mage and thought it would be the same. Turns out, he’s not as good as the others. And, that is what you get with Red Mages in general. They’re a Jack of all trades, but they don’t specialize, meaning their abilities will cost more.

Take for example this one. You can break a 4CP Forwards, for a total of 5CP.

It’s a decent ability, but there are cheaper ways to get that same effect.

 

 

27-038C -T-Rexaur

I think we just got our first Dinosaur.

At 5CP T-Rexaur is about to get to work.

As soon as it enters the field, it will activate 2 of your Characters. This can be Forwards, Monsters or Backups. If you have Characters with abilities that you would like to use again, go ahead and play T-Rexaur.

This Dinosaur also has the ability to Break a Forward with 9000 power or more.

Where was T-Rexsaur when we were trying to deal with Neo-Exdeath?

27-039L – Vaan

Am I reading this right?
Vaan comes in and searches for 3 Sky Pirate Forwards?

Or Vaan comes in and searches for 2 Sky Pirate Backups and plays them straight to the field?

At 7CP, this card is cheap.

If you pull Vaan on your first turn, you’ll have 3 cards on the field for 7CP. That is more than worth it. I’m pretty sure, you’ll find some Sky Pirate Backups that will get you going.

This is a card that you can play at any time. Early game, Mid game, late game. Vaan will get you rolling.
This is a great card, and I hate to say it, just because Vaan is one of my least favorite characters. But, this card might just make me want to build a Sky Pirate deck.

Just might.

27-040R – Eight

Are Cadets making a comeback? I’ve seen plenty of Type-0 cards coming out of the last few sets.

Eight is ready to take Cadets further. He comes in with Haste, and whenever he attacks, you will reveal the top 3 cards of your deck and ad one Class Zero Cadet to your hand. And, if you’re playing Cadets, you’ll most likely find at least one. If nothing else, it’s CP you can use to play other cards.

Explosive Fist, Eight will deal 8000 damage to one Forward. The good thing is that you don’t dull Eight to use this ability allowing you to attack with Eight.

I’ll have to revisit Cadets as well.

27-041C – Askah

I was using this card at Midnight Prerelease. And every time I would draw it from my deck, I would play him right away, cause I knew I had a 4 cost Forward in my deck.

That’s 2 Forwards for 5CP. Meaning that I would bulk up my defenses quickly. And then my opponent would spend their resources trying to get rid of these Forwards.

Askah also has another ability, where when he attacks, you will Activate 2 Backups, giving you 2CP for your Main Phase 2, or to have on your opponent’s turn.

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27-042R – Haudrale

A low cost Forward that can search for another Forward when you use his ability.

Any Forward with no restraints.

It’s a decent ability that if Haudrale gets targeted by a Summon or ability, you can use his own ability and bring another Forward to your hand.

And if you find a way to give Haudrale Brave, you can attack with him, and if he is blocked, then you use his ability to send him to the Break Zone instead of just taking the damage.

That way at least you’ll have another card in your hand to show for.

27-043C – Dancer

You’ll pay 3CP to activate 3 Dancers.

Which isn’t bad at all as you’ll get a Backup on the field.

Dancer is technically a free play.

Especially if you Activate the 3 Dancers used to pay for Dancer.

And, that’s a bout it.
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27-044L – G’raha Tia

Ok, that’s a lot of text.

For 5CP G’raha Tia enters the field and you reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. Depending on what elements are there, will decide on what G’raha Tia will do.

3 Elements and G’raha Tia will allow you to draw 2 cards.

5 Elements and your next cast is reduced by 4CP.

8 Elements and you get everything mentioned above, but G’raha Tia will also remove all of the cards on your opponent’s field, and all the cards in their Break Zone. Gone. Nothing left.

The chances of drawing all 8 Elements in the top 5 cards of your deck are slim. Very Slim. But if it does work, you have just won the game. If you don’t win after that, then I don’t know what to tell you.

27-045C – Thief

I just noticed that Galuf’s bandana ties under his nose. It might be a hood, but that should be going under his chin. Now I want to look at the other Final Fantasy V Thief designs to see what’s going on here. Is it his beard that messes everything up?

Anyway, Thief comes right in with Haste none the less, and if you control a Multi-Element Forward, Thief cannot be blocked.

And, I did look at the other FFV Thieves, and only Galuf looks like that. Must be his old age.

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27-046H – Jack Garland

The other Garland, but the same Garland. I really need to play Strangers of Paradise at some point.

At the beginning of your Attack Phase Jack will grab a SoP Forward from your Break Zone, meaning that you will never run on empty.

And, if you have a Dark Forward on the field Jack cannot be chosen by Summons or abilities.

This reminds me. What did we just see in Fire? A little card named Chaos Advent.

I’ll just leave that there.
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27-047H – Wendigo

This is something else. And, I like it.

If you’re playing Wind, just throw 3 Wendigos in there, and you’ll be set.

For 6CP you’ll have 3 Wendigos on the field all at once. Whether the Wendigos are in your deck or in your Break Zone, if you play one, they’ll all come out.

Now I got to look to see if there any other Wendigos, I know the answer is no, but I’ll check anyway.

I would say even if you won’t use this card right now, keep a playset. Just in case we get another Wendigo card later on down the line.

27-048R – Seven

Almost like a Summon.

Seven will come in during your opponent’s turn, and if an auto-ability is triggered by a low cost Forward, Seven will cancel it out.

The best thing about it is that Seven will activate during your turn, meaning that you don’t need to wait a whole turn in order to use her to generate Crystal Points.

Seven also comes as a Full Art.
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27-049R – Balthier

This is the first time Balthier is a Backup.

And, lets just say he does a better job at being a Forward.

Balthier comes in for 2CP and deals 4000 damage to a Forward.

You can also pay the extra cost of 3CP, and deal 4000 damage to another Forward. You can also pick the same Forward to deal it a total of 8000 damage.

It’s not a bad card, just not for Sky Pirates. That doesn’t mean you can’t add Balthier to other Wind decks.

27-050H -Penelo

1CP.

That’s it. 1CP. Penelo allows you to draw a card once per turn, and we always like extra cards.

But that’s not even the reason we’ll be playing Penelo.

We’ll be playing Penelo for her second ability which will cancel an Auto-ability.

Sky Pirates are coming for you. I’m surprised this card didn’t get new original art.

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27-051R – Fran

Fran isn’t doing much, but she is helping out your local Sky Pirates.

Fran sits out in the Back line, and she has one job, and she does a pretty good job at it.

Whenever your Forwards need more power to break one of your opponent’s Forwards, Fran will give it +2000 power.

And, if that’s not enough, Fran will always produce one CP per turn if you decide not to use her buffing expertise.

Yeah, that’s about it.

27-052H – Chaos, Walker of the Wheel

See, I was wrong about the one cost Summons. They are not all from Final Fantasy III. They are all from different games.

Chaos as you would expect is from Final Fantasy XII.

For 1CP you can remover one of your Generic Units from the game and search for another Standard Unit and add it to your hand.

You would probably use this with cards that have a great leaves the field ability. Like Vikings. All you have to do is make sure the text reads “leaves the field” and not is sent to the Break Zone.

27-053C – Lehko Habhoka

A 3 cost Backup that will allow you to grab a card from the top cards of your deck.

Depending on how many Backups you have, will determine how many cards you look at.

This will bring down Lehko Habhoka’s cost down to 1CP. Which is always good.

The rest of the cards go to the bottom of your deck, and during your next turn when you use Lehko Habohka to pay for a Crystal Point, you will have gotten back all the CP used to play Lehko.

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27-054C – Reks

Reks is back.

Yes, he’s back.

And all he has is one job.

Reks will come in, and he won’t be able to do anything on your turn cause he doesn’t have Haste.
During your opponent’s turn, Reks will hopefully survive. You can use him to block an attack, but you want him to make it alive to your turn. Can’t have him die in the beginning of the game again.

Once it’s your turn, you will put Reks into the Break Zone, and you will draw 2 extra cards, giving you a hand that will allow you to do more than you would have.

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Hidden Legends of Lightning

24-073H – Valigarmanda

Lightning is kicking off things with a Summon, and a beautiful Full Art as well.

Valigarmanda is a 4 cost Summon that comes in dulls a Forward, and Freezes it as well.

That Forward loses 9000 power until the end of the turn, and then Valigarmanda also deals it 9000 damage.

99.99% of the time it will break the Forward that Valigarmanda is targeting.

At the very least, Valigarmanda will disable that Forward for this turn.

24-074C – Odin EX

Odin is ready to break a Forward.

Any Forward?

Yes, any Forward, but the cost might be a bit high for some Forwards.

It’s 5CP to cast Odin, plus the top card of your deck times the CP required to play the Forward that you’re looking to break.

Odin is useful in certain situations, but why not just play the Opus I Odin that will break any Forward for 7CP flat.

No extra charge.

I’ll pass.

24-075C – Guardian

I just realized we have similar Backups in every element.

Guardian comes in and you draw a card.

After that, depending on if you have at least 4 Lightning Backups on the field, Guardian will allow you to choose 2 Forward, and dull them.

Other than that, Guardian is just a simple Backup that will give you a Crystal Point each turn.

But, you already know that.

24-076C – Juggler

Wicked Clowns?

Juggler, the Backup you knew that you might need.

Juggler will come in and hang out until you need to get rid of a 2 cost Forward.

Juggler only costs 2CP, the only draw back if you call it that, is that a Lightning Forward needs to enter your field, in order for Juggler’s ability to go off.

I see some use for this.

Probably, more than some.

24-077H – The Emperor

Who would have thought, that the only reason the Emperor is here is to gain Crystals.

Look at it. The Emperor comes in you gain a Crystal. If your opponent has a Crystal, gain a Crystal. That’s two from the get go.

Add in one more Crystal from another Backup, and you’ll be able to use The Emperor’s second ability.

But, first let’s take a look at the first one. Or, the top one.

Break a Forward that costs 4CP or less.

Yeah, that’s pretty straight forward. Nothing groundbreaking, but very useful.

Now let’s take a look at the second ability.

Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Do you see that? Break all the Forwards and the Monsters opponent controls. That would wipe your opponent’s whole board, leaving it wide open.

If you don’t win the game after that ability goes off, then I don’t know what to tell you.

Plus, we get a Full Art version of this card in the Prerelease Kits.

24-078R – Cidolfus (XVI)

3 cost Forward that allows you to search for a Lightning Summon.

And, that is pretty much it with Cidolfus.

You’ll get a 5K body that sticks around on the field.

Other than that what else is there?

Oh yeah, Priming.

Cidolfus Primes into Ramuh.

What does Ramuh do?

Guess we’ll have to wait to find out.

24-079L – Jack Garland

Jack is ready to turn your opponent’s front line upside down.

All of your opponent’s Forward must attack, and they must block.

This will either leave their front line open for your attacks, or all of your opponent’s Forwards will be broken.
Just make sure you at least have bodies on your field to block the attacks your opponent will be throwing at you.

And, every time one of your opponent’s Characters is put into the Break Zone you will gain a Crystal.

Sooner or later, you’ll have enough Crystals to use the Emperor’s ability to wipe out your opponent.

I’ll take 3.

Full arts preferably.

24-080R – Chime

Here we go, the King’s Minister is here to give you a great deal.

Buy one Get on Free.

Chime comes in and you reveal the top 4 cards of your deck, and play a Character of 2 or less onto the field.

I’d say it’s worth taking a chance on this.

Either way Chime is only 2CP, and you can get some decent value if you find a 2CP Character in the top four cards.

After that, Chime is a 5K body, ready to be taken out, just so you can play Chime once again, and hopefully find another 2CP Character.

24-081R – Noel

This Shadow Hunter is attacking from the shadows.

Noel comes in and he starts going to town. Striking with precision and going back to the shadows from which he came.

Yes, Noel only has 3000 power, but you won’t need to worry about that unless you decide to block with him.

Noel’s attacks will go through, just because he cannot be blocked.

I’ll take 3.

Throw them into your FFXIII deck, and once this Noel is gone, you can play another Noel.

Take your pick. Rebellion’s Call, From Nightmares or Hidden Trials.

All of them will do well.

24-082C – Vivi

Vivi is ready to come in and deal some damage to your opponent’s Forwards.

2000 across the board isn’t much, but let’s not forget about Summons that break damaged Forwards.

Or abilities that dull damaged Forwards, and what not.

Plus, if there is already a damaged Forward on the field, you can use Vivi’s ability and deal it an additional 4000 damage.

After everything is said and done, Vivi sticks around with a 5K body.

24-083H – Firion

Let me start by saying, if you’re playing Lightning you’re playing Firion.

Why? First off, you can only pay with CP produced by Lightning Backups.

Now, once Firion comes in you can pay 2CP more, and give him Haste and First Strike.

Then you can go ahead and attack with Firion.

Now, it’s time to cast Drain. Break a Forward, Activate Firion, and attack one more time.

Firion is going all out here. Time to start building that Rebel deck.

24-084R – Behemoth

Let’s up the stakes.

Behemoth is just that a Behemoth.

No power, unless you make it a Forward, but when a Forward of yours attacks, you can put Behemoth into the Break Zone and give a Forward the ability to deal 2 points of damage to your opponent.

Now, you can give that buff to Noel, who can’t be blocked. Or what about Firion, who can attack twice this turn.

And, that’s just 2 Forwards from this set, think about all of the other cards that can make use of Behemoth here.

24-085C – Mid (XVI)

I like this.

And, it’s only 2CP to bring Mid in.

She’ll stay on the board, and whenever you’d like you can put her in the Break Zone and grab a Forward. 4CP or less and add it to your hand.

That right there would have made this card playable.

But, Mid isn’t done. No. Not at all.

If you grab Cidolfus from the Break Zone, you’ll have a chain of Events that will start to go off one by one.

Let’s see how that will go.

You put Mid into the Break Zone, grab Cidolfus and play him straight to the field. Cidolfus searches for a Lightning Summon. Cidolfus Primes into Ramuh. Ramuh casts a Summon from your hand without paying the cost, and deals one of your opponent’s Forwards 8000 damage.

All that for 2CP plus the cost to Prime into Ramuh.

24-086C – Lightning

Coming in with a 9K body, Lightning is the prefect Meat Shield for your front lines.

You’ll also be able to discard a card and give Lightning Haste and a +1K buff giving her a 10K body, that’ll be tough to break.
And that pretty much covers everything.

You’ll pay a total of 6CP, which includes the discarded card, for a Forward that’s ready to go, from the get go.

 

24-087C – Ranan

Another Warrior of the Crystal.

When Ranan comes in, he grants another Warrior of the Crystal, Haste.

And, that’s about it.

I’ll have to check with the other Warriors of the Crystal to actually see how this deck runs.

 

 

24-088R – Ramuh

Coming in at 5CP, but thankfully you won’t be paying 5CP, you’ll be Priming into Ramuh.

Ramuh comes in and you can cast a Summon from your hand, any element will do, and you won’t have to pay the cost to cast it.

If the Summon you cast is a Lightning Summon, you will deal 8000 damage to a Forward of your choosing, as long as it’s active.

I’d say it’s still worth paying the 5CP to cast Ramuh.

24-089C – Ramza

Ramza stands alone. While leaning up on a tree.

Decent artwork, taken from the game, but what about the card?

If Ramza is sent to the Break Zone, you gain a Crystal. Ok, not bad. You can probably just throw Ramza in just to block and gain a Crystal with him.

And if you need to give Ramza a quick buff, you can remove 2 cards in your Break Zone from the game.

Not bad, for 3CP.

24-090L – Leon

Leon being Leon, almost like Kain going back and forth between the Rebels and the Empire.

Leon comes right in for 1CP, and deals a damaged Forward 4000 damage. Possibly breaking it.

Your opponent has the choice of taking control over Leon, by targeting him with an ability. Once Leon is targeted he will switch sides. You can get Leon back by targeting him with your own abilities.

But, why would you?

You actually want your opponent to have control over Leon, because if they don’t have any other Rebels on their field, Leon will deal them 1 point of damage at the end of their turn.

And, at the end of yours as well.

This is a card that will eat up your opponent from the inside.

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Beyond Destiny : From Dusk ‘Till Dawn

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21-121L – Warrior of Light

If this works as planned, you get to play Warrior of Light for 1CP, if not well, then you paid 7CP. Even if you find just one 3 cost Forward in the top 5 cards of your deck, then Warrior of Light is a decent play.

Other than that, Ultimate Shield is a great ability to counter your opponent’s Summons and abilities. Meaning that Warrior of Light and the 3 cost Forwards you control cannot be targeted by your opponent’s Summons or abilities.

You’ll want to have plenty of Warrior of Light cards in your deck to make use of this ability whenever the need rises.

PS. Really love the art. But, that goes without saying.

21-122H – Skyserpent General Rughadjeen

We’ve seen all the other Serpent Generals, and now it’s time for the final Serpent General. Skyserpent General Rughadjeen, who does not need to be played with any Serpent Generals.

For 4CP you get a 9000 powered Forward with Haste, First Strike and Brave.

And, if that’s not enough, every time the Skyserpent General attacks, you can choose a Forward, give them +1K and Haste, choose one Forward give them +1K and First Strike, and choose one Forward give them +1K and Brave.

It does not say that you have to choose 3 different Forward, you can grant all of these ?upgrades? to one Forward if you’d like.

I’ll take 3 of these, and put General Rughadjeen into my all Haste deck.

21-123H – Darkness Manifest

This card looks good, even without paying with a reduced cost. Sure you can remove a Fire, Wind, Earth and Water Character and pay only 2CP, but that would mean you’re playing a 4 colored deck. Which might be hard to navigate. Although I have seen it done right.

All Darkness Manifest needs to do is stay on the field, and he will slowly chip away at your opponent. Once per turn during the beginning of Main Phase 1, Darkness Manifest will deal your opponent 1 point of Damage.

And, if he ends up leaving the field, you choose one Character, and you can send it to the Break Zone.

Now, all we need to figure out, is how to send Darkness Manifest in and out of the field, without losing him.

21-124L – Jack Garland

Jack Garland is Garland.

Period.

Well that is his last name isn’t it?

3CP/9k body with Brave.

You can just stop there, and you’d have a decent card.

But, this is a Legend.

Jack enters the field and allows you to search for a Strangers of Paradise card, add it to your hand. After that Jack has an action ability that allows you to Break a Dark Character of your choice, at the cost of 1 point of damage.

This is one of those abilities that can be very useful, when playing against an opponent that has multiple Dark cards on the field. The rules state that you can only have 1 Dark Character on the field at any time, but there are a couple of cards that allow you to have more. Break that Dark Character. It’ll either be Chaos or Spiritus. But either way, you get rid of them, and your opponent will have to chuck all the Dark Characters from the field except for 1.

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