The Sensitive prince gaining courage on his journey.
The Damcyan prince who prefers music to conflict. In the guise of a minstrel, Edward wanders from land to land. After meeting Tellah’s daughter Anna, he falls in love with her. Edward brings the girl back to his homeland, but loses her during the Baron army’s attack on Damcyan Castle. Lost in grief, Edward is unable to take action. Cecil reproaches him, inspiring Edward to join the Dark night on his quest. Edward finds courage on the journey, gradually shedding hi weaknesses and becoming a man unafraid to save his comrades
-Taken from the Ultimania
I remember I would just have Edward sing for every battle. Other than that he would just hide and let Cecil take care of everything. Let’s take a look at the cards throughout every Opus.
2-030H – Edward
Well, I can see why no one uses this card anymore.
At 4CP Edward is a Backup that does nothing when he enters the field. His only saving grace is that you can dull a Forward for 2CP, and you can’t even use this ability when he enters the field.
Sure, you can constantly use his ability every turn to try and keep one of your opponent’s Forwards dull throughout the game, but there are much better options and hopefully much better Edwards.
This card is also a Hero.
“Anna, my love I … I will try. But, what would you have me do?”
2-031C – Edward
See, after reading the previous Edward, and now this one, I have to say that this one, the Common card of the two is a whole lot better than the Hero.
Why?
Because this Edward actually does something.
All the Forwards lose Haste for as long as Edward is on the field. No Forwards can gain Haste either.
Which stops all of the Haste Forwards from attacking as soon as they enter the field.
Now if Edward had a little bit more power, this card would have been fantastic.
But, Edward is still a blocker that can block any attack.
“I am the only one… the only one that can save them!”
3-029R – Edward
This is a little better.
The King of Damcyan. This is the only card that has that as his Job. There’s one more that just says King, and all the other’s say Bard.
At 3CP, Edward doesn’t do much, but he does have a couple of decent abilities.
The first ability makes your opponent discard a card from their hand. Which is good. Are you playing a discard deck? Edward will fit right in.
The second ability, won’t have much use, but it’s still there. Escape. It should have been called Hide.
Hide … I mean Escape just makes Edward invincible to your opponent’s Summon or abilities that choose him. But, there aren’t that many abilities that choose Backups, so this might not be as good as we originally thought it would be.
“Tell me you will not let your land suffer the same fate as ours.”
5-031H – Edward
Another 3 cost Backup.
This time Edward comes in and your opponent discards a card from their hand.
That is your instant gratification.
After that Edward is just itching to play his Harp, with his new hit single “Silent Verse”.
Silent Verse will cancel one of your opponent’s Summons.
This is still a good card to have on hand.
“Please! Listen!”
11-028R – Edward
Imagine your opponent having to discard a card every time he breaks one of your Forwards.
This is exactly what Edward’s ability will do.
Your opponent will discard a card, if they Break one of your Forwards during their Attack Phase.
One way around this is if they have no cards in hand during their Attack Phase, but that will leave them vulnerable during your turn, as they won’t have anyway to cast a Summon or pay for abilities.
Leaving you free to do whatever you want, with little to no defense on your opponent’s part.
This is one of the better Edwards if you ask me.
“You’re right. I’m nothing but a coward, just as you say. That’s why I’m just going to stay at Anna’s side. It doesn’t matter anymore … Nothing does!”
17-025C – Edward
If you always wanted to remove a card from your opponent’s Break Zone Edward here can help you.
For the cost of 2CP, you will receive a Backup that once per turn can Remove a card from the Break Zone. And that’s the best part. It’s once per turn. Not put Edwards into the Break Zone. Meaning you can use and reuse Edward’s ability as much as you’d like.
And, if you don’t need use it, you can always just dull Edward for CP.
Either way it’s a win win.
“I see… Sadly, I’m afraid I can’t let you have my Crystal.”
20-026C – Edward EX
The Spoony Bard is back again, as a Backup.
And with his trusty harp, he will take a dull Forward, and break it.
As long as your opponent has 2 Dull Forwards on the field, that is.
For 2CP, I’d say this is a good deal.
“There’s nothing to fear. Antlions are quite docile. They won’t attack humans.”
On to the Card
2CP – Wind
re-entering during your next Main Phase 1, and dealing your opponent 1 point of damage.
Well, I was wrong on who is going to be on the Box Art. I was close though. I said it could be Leon or Queen Hilda. What we got was Minwu. Minwu? Why Minwu? Is it perhaps to tell us that this set will be all about protection. Probably not. Minwu as we all know was the one who helped Firion, Maria and Guy, after they were beaten to a pulp by the Black Knights. So, I’m guessing support. Or just a little bit of everything as usual.
We did get a look at some of the cards. Just artwork, but you can tell Serah, Penelo, Cissnei, Glaciela And Exdeath are all Forwards. And we know that 3 of them are Legends. Serah, Glaciela and Exdeath. Penelo is a Hero, Cissnei a Rare. And Our Summon Atlas. Just a Rare as well.
