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Hidden Legends of Earth

24-055R – Ash

I really need to play Stranger of Paradise at some point.

Ash looks like he is the perfect Meat Shield.

Whenever he blocks, or is blocked he gains +3000 power.

And, since Ash already has Brave, you don’t need to worry about keeping him for defense.

Just add in Enna Kross, and I’m sure there are other cards that will give Ash a buff, and you’ll be set.

Let’s not forget about the Crystal you gain anytime Ash is targeted by Summons and abilities.

24-056C – Cu Sith EX

Well, we kept saying we need a way to remove Backups once their use is gone, and here we have it.

Cu Sith allows you to remove a Backup from the game, and then you can draw a card.

The other ability is to protect one of your Forwards from damage.

Both are pretty decent abilities. And, depending on the situation, wither can make Cu Sith a good play.

If you’re Backup heavy and you like rotating your Backups, once they’ve come in.

I mean once you’ve played the Backup and searched for the card you want, that Backup is taking up the place of another Backup that can come in and have a new ability trigger.

24-057C – Cloud

Really?

They gave Cloud a Violin?

Cloud comes right in and for an additional 3CP, Cloud will Break a dull Forward.

Other than that, there is Braver.

Which allows you to, you guessed it Choose a dull Forward and Break it.

I can’t really see Cloud playing an instrument, he’s probably the kid in the corner too cool to do anything.

24-058R – Titan (XVI)

Titan, coming in with Brave and a 9K body.

This Eikon already has built in protection from being dulled by your opponent.

Yes, you can Prime into Titan, but if you don’t Titan will cost you 6CP, and when he comes in he will deal 9000 damage to one of your opponent’s Forwards. But, they can block it by paying 3CP. Either way you’ll get something out of it.

Now, all we need is to see what Hugo does, and if it is worth Priming into Titan.

It usually is.

24-059R – Cactite

Cactite might look tiny, but he is a huge Monster.

Cactite can easily break a dull Forward regardless of cost. Sure the MS Paint art style might make you think that this card will be worthless, but the 2CP you’ll pay to play Tiny Cactus onto the field is worth it’s weight in gold.

I’m not saying the art is bad, it’s actually pretty cool, just different.

Anyways, whenever one of your Forwards attacks, you can toss Cactite into the Break Zone and break one of your
opponent’s dull Forwards.

Simple as that.

And, you can have 3 of these on the field at the same time.

24-060C – Noctis

The Prince and a his Cello. Or is that a Double Bass?

Any ways, Noctis comes right in and let’s you grab an Earth Forward from your Break Zone, and play it straight to the field.
After that you have a body with 8000 power.

6CP, might be a bit high, but you’ll be playing 2 Forwards.

And that, I think is worth it.

Should you play this card instead of another Noctis, probably not, but you can just throw this one in any Earth deck, and he’ll do fine.

24-061L – Basch

Just place Basch in your deck, and you’ll do great.

5CP is worth playing this card. I’d even pay more for it.

Basch comes in and doesn’t do anything right away, but at the beginning of any Attack Phase, Basch will give all of your Forward +2000 power and Brave. We don’t even need to mention his other ability, because you will probably never use it. I know the chances of me using it is close to none.

What’s the other ability?

Reveal the top 3 cards and add a FFXII card to your hand.

No need for that, not when you have +2000 power and Brave for all of your Forwards.

We forgot to mention that, if you already have 2 Final Fantasy XII Characters on the field, Basch’s cost is reduced by 3.
Making him cost a whopping total of 2CP.

24-062C – Bangaa

I got excited for a moment. I read the card wrong and thought that Bangaa was the perfect fir for Basch.

Rereading the card, Bangaa is still decent, just not as good as I thought.

Bangaa comes in and you draw a card, bringing his cost down to 1CP.

After that depending on how many Earth Backups yoou have on the field, Bangaa will give all of your Forwards +3000 power and Brave until the end of the turn.

You can still use this with Basch when you do have another 3 Backups on the field, giving all of your Forwards +5000 and Brave.

This is where you can use Cu Sith.

24-063H – Hugh Yurg

I always liked the look of these cards.

At 4CP, Hugh Yurg allows you to search for an Earth Forward with the cost of 1CP, and play it straight to the field.

And, once that Forward enters the field, you can choose a Forward and give it +2000 power and Brave.

And, Hugh Yurg isn’t even done.

Not only is Hugh a body with 8000 power, but every time you play a 1 cost Forward on to the field, you will give another Forward +2000 power and Brave.

I think I’m seeing a pattern here.

24-064R – Hugo

The answer is yes.

You should Prime Hugo into Titan.

I mean why wouldn’t you.

You can still play Titan (XVI) right from your deck, but if you Prime into him from Hugo, it’ll cost one less CP, and it’ll also cost your opponent 2CP more. Or not, depending on if they want one of their Forwards to take 8000 damage.

And, once that enter the field ability goes off, Hugo is just a meat Shield, so you might as well Prime into Titan (XVI) as soon as possible.

24-065H – Fenrir

A 2 cost Summon that will allow you to break a card equal to the CP of a card that you discard.

That just means that Fenrir’s cost is 4CP.

That’s about it.

While looking at the artwork, you notice that Eiko is on the card. I was hoping for some synergy between the 2.

It is a beautiful card, and that’s about it for me.

Prove me wrong.

24-066C – White Monk

Just like a ticking time bomb.

White Monk comes in and hangs out on the field, producing 1CP per turn.

And, when the time comes you can send White Monk into the Break Zone and Break a Monster that costs 3CP or less. An Earth Forward needs to have come into your field this turn, in order for you to be able to use this ability.

If you’re playing Earth, I’m pretty sure you’ll be playing Forwards each turn.

Not too shabby.

24-067R – Moogle (SOPFFO)

I can see activation and re-activation.

When a Forward enters the field, you activate Moogle.

Right before that, I hope you used his ability to give another Forward +2000 power until the end of the turn.

Then the aforementioned Forward will come in, where Moogle will activate again, and you will use Moogle’s ability to give +2000 power to one of your Forwards.

Rinse and Repeat.

24-068H – Morse

“– — .-. … .”

3CP, for an 8K body with Brave.

You could stop right there and it would have been a great Common, but Morse isn’t a Common, he’s a Hero. That means there’s more than just that.

When Morse enters or attacks, you can pay an extra Earth Crystal Point and choose one of your opponent’s Forwards, Morse and said Forward will attack each other dealing damage that equals their power.

Let’s not forget that Morse also gains +1000 power at 3 points of damage, and another +1000 power at 5 points.

Add in Basch and Moogle, and Bangaa, and you have a Sharpshooter ready to take down your opponent’s Forwards.

24-069C – Y’shtola EX

The more I see these Theatrhythm cards the more I thin that something is brewing.

I don’t think we’ve had Theatrhythm cards this good. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe I’m right.

Y’shtola comes in and grabs a Forward from your Break Zone, and if that was all she did, Y’shtola would still be a great card.
And, if you have at least 3 Elements on your front lines Y’shtola gains +3000 power making her an 8K body

 

24-070L – Lightning

Another Lightning, I believe we tied the record of consecutive Opuses? Opi? with Lightning. I’m not complaining. I was just expecting a Fang Full Art this set.

This is a great card, if I do say so myself.

And just like plenty of Earth Forwards, you don’t need to play them in their respective Category.

Lightning is a 2 cost Legend that can remove Attacking Forwards or Blocking Forwards from the game. And, once that happens, you will bring Lightning back to your hand, where you can replay her for the next block or her next attack.

You can also end up paying only 1CP of any color to bring Lightning out. As long as you have another card named Lightning in your Break Zone. This means you can splash this Earth Lightning into any deck that you’d like. No need for color fixing.

I’ll take 3.

24-071C – Rulgia

Another Warrior of the Crystal! Are we going to have 6 or is this the last one to make them 4?

Rulgia would have been great if he was a Backup.

Hanging out on the field, giving all of the Warriors of the Crystals +1000 power and Brave.

But, Rulgia is a Forward wth 7000 power, plus the 1000 power that he gives to himself.

The more I see the Crystal Warriors, the more I like them.

Kind of excited to try them out.

24-072C- Leo

Why not just make this card cost 5 Crystal Points instead of you needing to dull 4 active Characters?

Why?

Because, it would be too easy to break Forwards. And, since Leo is just a Common it would have been too easy.

You’ll most likely want to build up your Backups quickly, that way you won’t have to worry about whether or not to use this card.

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Legacy Collection, Thoughts On Pull Rates

This is an interesting set, and I believe we need to look into this a little bit more than usual.

What we know so far is that the Legacy Collection, will be replacing the Anniversary Collection Set of previous years. And, instead of just giving us all of the cards in one box, we’re hoping the RNG gods will help us with grabbing all the cards that we will need.

It’s a 200 card set, and each card will have a Premium Foil version, and also a Full Art version. As I previously stated, this might mean new art, I highly doubt it now. After I re-read the news article Square -Enix posted, it is just a different foil type. Will this be only for the Full Arts, or for the regular foils as well? That’s something that we will have to find out in February, unless we get shown some of these cards before hand.

Back to the the 200 cards. This set will give us a total of 600 cards plus the 2 Signature cards, and the 6 Crystal cards, these give us a total of 608 cards for a complete collection. And, that my friends will be a rare sight.

Speaking of the Gold Stamped Signature cards, how rare will these be? Because I’m sure it won’t be once in every 5 Master Cases, not with this many Full Arts. Even if they hand out 1 Full Art and one Foil in every pack you’ll still need at least 200 pack for a full set, which I don’t believe that they’ll do.

Let’s do some math.

A Master case is now 3 cases of 6 Boosters. A Booster is 20 packs. This gives us 360 packs per Master Case. Which makes it unlikely that we will be getting a complete set of Full Arts from one Master Case. Given that 200 of those cards will be the regular Foil Version, that leaves us with 160 slots for Full Arts, which I don’t believe that we’ll be getting that many.

And, since we won’t be getting a complete set of Full Arts in a Master Case, this brings me to believe that the chances of getting a Gold Stamped Signature card will be even rarer than the chances we all have with a regular set.

Let’s break this down a little further.

If we have 160 extra packs per Master Case, this gives us about 8-9 Full Arts per box. Which I believe is too high. I’ll say that they will be about 50 Full Arts per Master Case, which will give us about 3 Full Arts per box. Some boxes will have just 2 Full Arts if this is the case.

We’ll need 4 Master Cases for a complete set of Full Arts.

Since, we already know that with the regular sets, the chances of getting a Gold Stamped Signature was 1 in 5 Master Cases. That gives us 5 complete sets of Full Arts.

SO.

If we need 5 complete sets to pull a Gold Stamped Signature, That gives us 20 Master Cases.

That means we’ll be getting a Gold Stamped Signature in 1 out of 10 Master Cases.

Now, this is just my thoughts on it. We’ll have to wait until February to see a better number that’s closer to the pull rates.

Let us know what your thoughts are? Is my number too high or too low? Or did I hit the nail on the head?

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Sit Back and Relax, For Now

With no release in sight for the upcoming months, it has been slow. Nothing exciting to write about. So, what have we been doing?

Not much.

I’ve been dabbling with the Stock Market, I’ve been spending time with my kids playing Roblox, some housework, and trying to get more events to attend to sell more cards.

We started watching Del Torro’s Pinocchio the other night. Probably got half way through it before we had to put the little ones to bed. And,they do not like going to bed. I usually work after they fall asleep, but by the time they actually do fall asleep, I’m pooped. And, I still need to make lunches for school.

I need to come up with a better plan.

We might have a Nostalgix TCG event coming up. I got to figure out how to move these cards. Nostalgix hasn’t caught on as I had hoped for, and I am now sitting on a whole bunch of boxes and starter decks. Hopefully, with the event we plan on doing we can get some traction for it.

We also started updating the Opus VII singles. And, I realized we have a lot less than I thought. That means, we need to pick up some more bulk. If you want to get rid of some, you can go right ahead and contact us.

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Nostalgix TCG

Finally, opened up a box of Nostalgix. It’s been something I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while now, and finally took it off the back-burner and dove right in. We’re going to be putting up Nostalgix Singles in the upcoming days. So be on the look out for that.

First thing I noticed was that the packs we’re pretty hard to open. Which doesn’t mean anything, but it was the first thing that stood out for me.

The cards themselves aren’t too flimsy like Pokemon cards, nor are they as durable as Final Fantasy cards, they are somewhere in between. Towards the flimsier side, my best guess would be like playing cards. But, if you put them in a triple sleeve, you probably couldn’t tell the difference between them.

A box has 36 packs at 10 cards each. A box will give you 360 cards where at least 1 will be a Void Rare. We got lucky and found 3 Void Rares. From what I’ve heard it is quite rare to get 3 of them. (Maybe my luck is finally turning, and I should open up a couple of Opus XI packs.)

The art is anything between 80’s cartoons and 3D graphics in early PS2 games. IF that makes any sense. I do see what inspired the art work, there are cards that sort of resemble Mimikyu, and Bullet Bill. While not exactly copying them they do tip their hat nostalgia.

The game play in itself seems pretty easy to pick up, if you’ve played other card games, but you’ll need a whole bunch of counters to keep track of everything. Now I haven’t played a game yet, but I’ve seen a couple of games in action.
As soon as I give this game a try, I will write an update on this. Right now, I will say that I do like the cards.

Now, to find someone to play a game with.

And let us not forget, here is a link to our Unboxing.