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Dawn of Heroes – Air, Wind and Gusts

20-043R – Brother

4 cost Forward, 8000 power, that gains another 2000 power if Rikku is on the field.

Just a normal rare here, nothing to see here.

Wait what’s that ability?

Activate all the FFX Characters? Oh, sign me up. Along with Opus II Rikku, we can activate, and reactivate.

Get ready for some traffic.

20-044L – Edge

Just like a true ninja. Edge doesn’t break he just hides in the Break Zone, until he’s ready to come out again. As you can just pay 2CP and a Crystal to play Edge onto the field.

With 3 enter the field abilities, there’s always something that you can do to help yourself out this turn. Buff a Forward, remove 2 cards from either Break Zone, or give Edge Haste.

Luckily when you cast Edge from your hand, you don’t need to choose you can do all 3. If it’s from the Break Zone, or search and play, you can only choose one.

I’d like to see Edge play out.

20-045C – Botanist

Planting Backups like planting seeds.

Time for Copy/Paste

If you got 3 Backups already on the field, this Backup is free.

Other than draft, I really don’t see much use for this card, but I’ve been wrong before. Watch a Forward show up where you discard a Backup for a great ability.

 

20-046C – Ghost (VII)

Who said Ghosts can’t hurt you?

This one clearly can, as when it enters the field, Ghost deals a Forward 3000 damage.

After that, you can remove ghost from the game, remove another Monster from the game, and then play the other Monster onto the field at the end of the turn.

You can either blink a Monster for their enter the field ability, or save a Monster being targeted by an ability or Summon.
I like this one.

20-047H – Jenova Dreamweaver

Is it a Monster? Is it a Forward?

Jenova is both, and does a good job doing it.

Jenova is already protected from Summon, so the only real way to get rid of Jenova is abilities, or just block it with a Forward that has more power.

But, how can you block it when you can also search and remove a Jenova Dreamweaver from the game to deal 7000 damage to all the Forwards your opponent controls?

Either way this is a Monster worth having multiples of.

20-048R – Stiltzkin

2 cost Backup that grants a 2K buff to both Chelinka and Yuri.

Sure they both have to be on the field in order for them to be granted the buff.

I don’t see how that could be a problem, since they both play well together. Especially this set, as all they have to do is keep forming a party and attacking.

 

20-049R – Chelinka

There’s either a really good Yuri card in this set, or we’re bringing it back to Opus VII. Probably not, so I’m guessing at least a decent Yuri.

Chelinka comes in and you can discard a card, search for Yuri and play him straight to the field.

And, as you can see Chelinka is here to party. Cause once she is in a party the damage dealt to the party is 0.

Now where is this Yuri card?

20-050C – Chocobo

Get your Gysahl Greens, this Chocobo is ready to power up. And he will have +4000 power for as long as Chocobo is enjoying the Gysahl Greens.

By Gysahl Greens we mean the Forward that you choose when Chocobo enters the field. Keep that Forward safe and Chocobo will have a 9k body.

 

 

20-051H – Fat Chocobo

You can probably get Fat Chocobo’s cost down to 4 if you’re playing Mono-Wind.

A decent Summon that deals 8000 damage to all of your opponents Forwards.

8CP is a bit much, but it can get you out of a pickle when you really need it.

If only it had an EX Burst attached to it …

 

20-052C – Gnash

Gnash is perfect for Wind.

You should be playing cards left and right. And, after you cast 3 cards, you play Gnash.

For 2 CP you can break a 5 cost, or more, Backup. That’s pretty cheap if you ask me. There are 55 Backups that are 5CP and up, so far, not counting this set. One of them is Tyro, who has become a pretty important card in a lot of decks.

If that’s not enough, you can use Gnash’s ability and send Gnash and another Backup to the Break Zone.

20-053H – Number 128

Number 128 needs damage. At least 4000 of it. After that it can unleash it’s counter attack, and deal 7000 damage to all of your opponents Forwards.

Can’t wait to get damaged?

Just pay the cost for Gale Cut, and you can just deal 7000 damage to all of your opponents Forwards.

Sure the first one is free, but maybe, just maybe you’ll be able to cast it twice this turn. Maybe even 3 if you really need to.

20-054R – Nono

4CP to activate all of your Wind Character?

You can play a card, play Nono, play some cards, Play Brother, play some cards play Opus II Rikku, and I’m sure there are plenty of other Wind Characters that Activate your Characters. Find a way to keep drawing cards and you got yourself ready to beat your opponent during the next round.

I’m sure someones going to come up with an infinite combo, if they haven’t already.

And at the end of any turn, you can activate 1 Forward.

I’ll take 3 please.

20-055C – Prompto

Decked in snow gear and what looks like a machine gun. I haven’t gotten to that point in the game, even though it’s been over 5 years since the game came out. Might also be in one of the DLC episodes too.

Anyways, a 2CP Backup that when Prompto is put into the Break Zone you draw a card. Simply put, it’s a free play.
And, you can also get rid of Prompto yourself, and reduce the damage dealt to a Forward by 5000.

I don’t know if this will be a better card, for the Noctis deck, but it can probably be used in any deck that needs some protection for it’s Forwards.

20-056H – Bel Dat

Adding another card that will allow you to play your opponents cards.

I like these cards as they are part of my main deck. It’s not the greatest deck at the moment, but it’s able to grab your cards and use them against you.

I don’t see any reason for you not to Warp Bel Dat, she Warp’s and each time you remove a Warp Counter your opponent puts the top to cards of their deck in the Break Zone.

And when Bel Dat enters the field, you can remove one of your opponents Forwards from the game, and cast it as if it was your own.

I like it, along with Zidane (16-048H), Mind Flayer (15-120H) and Lani (12-018H). I just need to find a way to play Exdeath (7-087R) onto the field and I’ll be set.

20-057L – The Goddess

The 2nd Member of the Warring Triad. The Goddess comes in and she spells DOOM. Yes, with capital letters. D-O-O-M!!!
Well, something like that.

The goddess comes in and casts Doom on your opponents Forwards.

After that your opponent has 1 turn to figure something out, because it is bye-bye for all of their Forwards.

This can go both ways, as your opponent will probably just start attacking you as they have nothing to lose. It might even go in their favor, when they’re playing with their backs up against the wall.

And at the end of every turn, your opponent removes their Break Zone.

I was on the end of both sides during Prerelease. It certainly adds some spice to the game.

20-058C – Melphie

This isn’t a bad card at all.

For 3CP you can cast Melphie and search for Sonon. Total cost 1CP

1CP for a 7K body isn’t bad at all.

After that she can just stay on the field and whenever a high cost Forward enters the field *cough The Goddess *cough, you can just dull Melphie, and send both Melphie and the other Forward to the Break Zone.

Yes, I’ll take it, if I ever decide to build a Wind deck. Maybe I’ll bring back the Chocobos.

20-059C – Carpenter

I’m lost with all these Free Backups that don’t do anything. I mean you could play them just to have extra Backups on the field.

Or you can just skip them, like the Opus I Evokers.

 

 

 

20-060R – Yuri

There he is.

See, if i read this Yuri card first, I would have said the same thing about Chelinka. And I was right, Yuri here is a decent card. Same as Chelinka you can discard a card and search and play Chelinka straight to the field.

Yuri, too likes to party, and from the looks of it, Chelinka and Yuri are a good pair as always. Sure you can play these 2 independently of each other, but why would you?

When Yuri forms a party and attacks, you can either break a 4CP Forward (or less) or activate all of your Characters. Either way you’re getting a good deal here.

20-061C – Yuffie

More Shuriken Counters, I’m betting big on Cissnei.

Yuffie comes in with 2 Shuriken Counters. And, when she attacks, you can throw a Shuriken at your opponent and deal a Forward 8000 damage.

2CP/5K body, after you use up her Shuriken Counters she can still block.

Or you can just use her to feed Cissnei Shuriken Counters.

 

20-062R – Ritz

Ritz comes in deals a Forward 3000 damage. Then …. I’m not really sure about this, but I’m guessing you just take Ritz and put her in the Break Zone to draw a card. Or do you block and have her sent to the Break Zone and then draw a card?

Either or, if you play this right, you’ll come up ahead with an extra Crystal Point.

1CP for a simple blocker isn’t bad at all. Is the Ritz worth playing over previous Ritz’s? That’s another question for another day. But, probably not.

 

20-063C/15-058C – Dragoon

Crystals and more Crystals.

Use this reprint Dragoon to generate one Crystal and then use his ability to get him off the field.

See, I actually wrote something this time.

No Copy/Paste.

Nope.

I might Copy/Paste this for the next one though.

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From Nightmares – Earth Monsters Under Your Bed

19-052C – Undead Princess

Undead Princess is a cheap Forward to play that can block any attack. Even though she only has 2000 power, she can still block an attack to save you from taking damage.

But, Undead Princess I don’t think Undead Princess is meant to be played as a Forward. You can put her into the Break Zone to give a Forward +4000 power until the end of the turn.

And, once she is in the Break Zone, you can remove her from the game and give an Earth Forward +2000 until the end of the turn.

Undead Princess rises from the grave once again to give you a Buff.

19-053C – Vanille

This is a decent card.

When Vanille comes in, you can go through your opponents Break Zone and remove a card from there. Doesn’t matter which one, just grab a card and remove it. This is good when your opponent has a way of grabbing cards from the Break Zone.
What I really like though, is her ability.

When your opponent casts a Summon, you can dull Vanille, and if they don’t pay 2CP you can cancel the Summon.
Either way, if your opponent pays and it goes through or it gets canceled it is a win for you.

19-054C – Vincent

It looks like we’ve been getting more Vincents in the last couple of sets.

Theatrhythm Vincent is a Backup that deals 5000 damage to a Forward when he enters the field.

And, when you reach 3 points of damage, you can put him in the Break Zone and deal 7000 damage to a Forward.

I always like Backups that have a way to send themselves to the Break Zone, that way you can play another Backup with an enter the field ability.

19-055R – Eiko

Eiko is a Coupon Code. Instead of paying the cost to cast a Summon, you can just dull 3 active Summoners and cast the Summon. You can choose any Summon up to a cost of 7CP. That’s almost all the Summons in the game except for 5.

This also means you can play Summons that are out of your elements. As long as you have Summoners on the field, you are good to go.

Plus, Eiko is only 2CP.

 

19-056C – Graff

Are you playing Mono-Earth?

Then you should be playing Graff.

When he enters the field you can Break a Forward. Any one you’d like.

This effect will only go off if you only paid with Earth CP.

Still a good way to get rid of a pesky Forward.

 

19-057L – Kefka

You heard about Free Summons, what about a Free Forward?

Kefka, the Dancing Mad Mage, is here and he can be played for F-R-E-E.

Just like that if your opponent has 3 or more Forwards on the field, Kefka will come in for Free.

That means you can splash Kefka into any deck without worrying about finding a way to pay the cost as he will be free. Free like a bird, he’s going to fly straight onto the field with a 9K body.

Not only that, but when Kefka is sent to the Break Zone, you can play a Summon from your Break Zone for free as well.
That’s double the free, with no Crystal Points down.

And, let’s not forget about that Amano art.

Yes, I’ll take 3 please.

19-058R – Jenova SYNTHESIS

Big Body, Big ability, and a last name full of capitol letters. I meant CAPITOL letters.

Jenova Synt … SYNTHESIS (you have to yell it out to get the full effect.) comes in and deals damage to all the Forwards your opponent controls, If you have 5 Backups, it’ll be 8000. Pair this with From Nightmares Matoya, and you might have a board wipe.

5CP 9000 power. Could be useful

 

19-059R – Aster Protoflorian

You should be ready to pay 7CP to play Aster Protoflorian. If you don’t you might as well play a different card. You need to get both of his abilities off when he enters the field cause after that all he’ll do is be a decoration on your field.

He’ll also count as a Category XIII Character for certain abilities in the Starter Set.

 

 

 

 

19-060C – Animist

Animist doesn’t do much till you have 3 points of Damage.

Animist does have an ability that lets you play a Monster of 2CP or less straight to the field. That way you can play a Monster without worrying about paying the cost.

And, at 3 points of Damage when Animist enters the field, you can search for a Monster of 4CP or less and add it to your hand.

 

 

 

19-061H – Doga

Looking at the card it took me a second to realize that it was drawn from the top.

Doga will fit good into an Fire/Earth or Earth/Lightning Deck. Or any Earth deck if you have a way to produce Fire or Lightning CP.

When he enters the field, Doga allows you to discard a Summon for to Crystals. You can use those Crystals to cast his abilities. One is to deal 7000 damage to all of your opponents Forwards, the other is to Break a Forward.

As long as Doga stays active, this is a good card to play.

When I first read this card I was thinking how can you fit this into a deck, but then I remembered that there are Backups that pay for different elements. Let’s take Tyro for instance and Class Tenth Moogle.

19-062R – Nacht EX

If you’re Warping, Nacht is a cheap play. If not, he costs 6CP.

Nacht is basically an Opus VI Titan with a body. Once he enters the field you pick 2 Forwards. One of yours and one of your opponent’s, and they deal damage to each other. This ability also comes off of an EX Burst.

 

 

 

 

19-063H – Barret

This Barret can be put in the AVALANCHE deck, but is it a better card than the Barret that is mostly used?

Probably not, but it does have some good things going for it.

If you’re playing a lot of Multi-Element cards it could be of use as when you cast a Multi-Element card you’ll deal 4000 damage to all the Forwards your opponent controls.

After that when he is put into the Break Zone, you can search for a Forward other than Barret and add it to your hand.

19-064R – Fenrir

Your Earth Free Summon.

Free is free. So, you might as well play this.Break a Multi-Element Forward or Break a Light or Dark Forward. The choice is your when Fenrir is cast.

There’s some use for it against some decks, but what about the decks that don’t have Multi-Element Forwards or Light/Dark Forwards?

 

 

 

19-065C – The Deathlord

The Deathlord will bring you closer to your death.

Or something like that.

I thought I found a good Combo, but then I realized it said Characters so you can’t cast Fenrir.

But, you can pull out a Kefka from the Break Zone, and play him straight to the field, if your opponent has more than 3 Forwards on the field. Now the other card can be anything you’d like, but I’m pretty sure there is something good here.

And, I’m sure someone already figured it out.

19-066C – Behemoth

Monsters, Plenty of Monsters.

We like this Monster, well I do at least.

When Behemoth enters the field you can Stop a Forward. They won’t be able to attack or block until the end of the next turn. But, they will be able to cast abilities.

Behemoth can also become a Forward once per turn, for the cost of 1 Earth CP. A 7K body for 1CP isn’t bad at all. Sure you’ll need to pay each turn, but you’ll usually have an extra CP laying around.

19-067C – Monk

Here’s a quick buff to all your Forwards. +2000 power can go a long way, add in Enna Kros from Opus I and you’ll have a 3K buff. Not only that but, you can play up to 3. That means that, technically you can have a 7K buff for all your Forwards.

Is there a way to pull it off? Paying 12 CP in one turn?

Let’s see. 5 Backups plus 7 cards in your hand, 3 are Monks so that leaves 4. Those 4 cards in your hand will pay for 2 of the Monks, while the 5 CP from your Backups will pay for the third. And you have one Backup left, which you’ll probably have no use for.

It can happen. Is it worth it? Probably not, but it would be fun when you pull it off.

Oh, and if you pay for the Monk with 3 different elements, you can choose a Forward, and Monk and the other Forward will deal damage to each other, possibly breaking a Forward.

19-068R – Rydia

A 5 cost Backup, that searches for a Job Summoner, and a Summon.

Both need to be of different elements.

Other than that, the art looks good, almost reminds you of Amano’s work. Sort of.