19-035R – Alexander
Free for a limited time only. The Wind Forward you played this turn has paid for the Summon.
If you think about it you can actually play 3 in a row, if you have them in your hand.
The choice is yours on what Alexander will do. Break a high cost Forward, or Break a Monster and draw 1 card.
Doesn’t a Hope search for Alexander? Can’t remember which one, but there’s your free play right there.
19-036L – Vayne
A what now?
Your warp speed has just gotten faster.
Prepare Ship for Ludicrous Speed!!!
Cause that’s how fast we’ll be traveling with Vayne.
When he enters the field or at the beginning of each of your turns, Vayne will be removing Warp counters from Characters that are Warping.
Have the Characters will get Warp in by the next turn or 2, and before you know it, they’ll be on the board and have all their abilities going off, you won’t know which way anything is heading.
I’ll take 3, thank you very much.
19-037R – Wol
Wol is now acting a Furr …. I mean Cosplayer.
Wearing the Moogle Suit, and depending on how many Elements are in your field. Wol will allow you to search for a Multi-Element Forward.
I don’t really see much going for this card other than the fact that he can pay for the other Wol’s S-ability.
19-038R – Evrae
I remember playing this card at Pre-Release.
Evrae allows you to activate a Backup you control, and with Zu that will turn into a Forward when one of your Characters Activates, this is a good play. As activating Backups is always a good thing.
19-039R – Emerald Weapon
Emerald Weapon was much easier to beat than Ruby Weapon. If you had Knights of the Round Maxed out with W-Summon, you didn’t even need to have the Underwater Materia.
This 5CP Wind Forward with 9000 power will be a nightmare as your opponent won’t be able to keep him off the field, as he’ll be able to keep coming back for 1CP. Only way to break him is by blocking his attack.
Emerald Big Bang, is a high cost S-ability that can deal up to 10,000 damage to all of your opponents Forwards.
I think I like it. I’ll have to try it out though, see how well it works.
19-040C – Thief
Just your Common Thief, but a pretty good one.
Won’t take damage from your opponents abilities. This 4 cost has an 8K body, which is pretty high for a thief, but we’re not complaining.
The reason you’ll want to play this card is because, if you pay for Thief with at least 3 elements, your opponent will put the top 3 cards of their deck into the Break Zone.
Do that 3 times, and you might be able to make your opponent run out of cards.
19-041H – Cid Highwind
I mean this is very interesting. I haven’t checked yet, but I’m sure it’ll be in plenty of FFVII decks.
Cid Highwind, allows you to return an FFVII Character to your hand, and let’s you choose 2 Characters to Activate.
I’m sure there are plenty of Category FFVII entry abilities that you’d like to use at least once per turn. Like the Ice Sephiroth in this set. If you can send him to your hand once per turn, and you’re at 6 points of damage, you’ll be able to play Sephiroth at no cost, while activating 2 of your Characters.
I mean, it could work. It could work perfectly.
I like it.
19-042C – White Mage
Although the art has been reused, I’m pretty sure some other art has been reused as well in previous Opuses? Opera? Opi?
Well at 3 points of Damage, White Mage is a free play. And once he’s in you can use his ability to bring back a Multi-Element Forward from the Break Zone.
White Mage has one job and he does it well.
Cast Revive on a broken Character.
19-043C – Zu
Well, this monster does seem to fit well with Wind.
Considering that Wind usually has a way to reactivate Character’s with Summons and abilities.
Zu is a monster that will most likely become a Forward whenever a Character reactivates. Zu is more of a Backup Forward, than a Monster as he can come out in a pinch and either attack or block. Whichever one is needed at the moment.
Maybe it’ll see play, maybe it won’t.
I’m caught somewhere in the middle here.
19-044R – Sarah (MOBIUS)
Another Sarah, but this one is a Backup and not a Legend.
The Raven Peeress gives all your Category MOBIUS Forward +1000 power.
I always like these cards as they give your whole front line a boost.
19-045H – Sophie
Sophie has no use for Vayne, she is a Freelancer she works independently regardless of Faction. I don’t know where I’m going with this.
But, for 4 CP and 3 other Forwards on the field, Sophie can well become a danger to your opponent. If only for a turn.
Break a Monster, activate all your Backups, and give Sophie +2K power and Haste.
She can also come in with Warp, in which you will only pay 1CP for her, and you will wait for only 1 turn.
Maybe we do need Vayne. She’ll come in during your opponents turn and cause some damage. She will also Activate all your Backups, so you will be able to cast Summons and abilities as well, in order to protect yourself.
Yes, I’ll take it. 3 please and 3 Vaynes just to be on the safe side.
19-046C – Buddy
A searcher for FFX Backups. Why search for Backups? Cause you always need more Backups.
One thing is for sure. If you’re playing a FFX deck you’ll be playing Buddy. If only to search for Brother, to search for Opus XVI Tidus. Cause who isn’t playing that card.
19-047C – Gramps EX
This is the card you’ll want to hold on to the end. Or to your end. And when you do have those 5 points of Damage, you probably aren’t going to have this card on hand. You’ll have 3 copies in your Break Zone.
If you do manage to grab a copy when the time is right, Gramps will Break a Forward of 4CP or more.
19-048C – Bartz
Don’t know what to play, just play Bartz. That way on your next turn, you can put him at the bottom of your deck, and hopefully draw the cards you really need. If not, play Buddy to search for a FFX Backup that will find Tidus.
19-049R – Makki-Chebukki
This is actually very interesting.
Makki-Chebukki will cause your opponent to discard the top card of their deck. Once per turn.
Think about it. If you have Makki-Chebukki on the field from turn 1, every turn that goes by, your opponent will be putting their top card in the Break Zone.
That means they might be losing all the cards that they’ll need in order to make their game plan work. That and they’ll have less cards to play with, and will run out of cards faster.
19-050C – Matoya
If you have the extra CP Matoya might be a good play.
You’ll be able to Break a Forward when she enters the field. It’ll turn a pesky big body into a smaller body, that likely will not be able to block a big body of your own. If that makes any sense.
She might be a good addition to a Dancer deck. Are there enough Dancer’s to make one?
There are 12 Job Dancers and 6 of them are Penelo, 2 are Matoya and another 2 are Lilisette. After that there are 8 generic Dancers which can round up your deck. If any one makes one let me know so I can check it out.
19-051C – Rikku
So, many Rikkus, but only one on the field.
Depending on what you’re playing this one isn’t bad. It’s not great, but for what she does, she does it good.
Rikku can produce any element when paying for a Category X card. Which is always a good thing. This cards biggest problem is that it’s Rikku. You could have named this card Generic NPC from FFX and it would have been 10 times better. Simply for the fact that you can play a Rikku and this card at the same time.
16-064C – Dark Knight
16-066R – Heretical Knight Garland
16-068C – Eiko
16-070L – Kirin
16-072C – Beastmaster
16-074C – Cactuar
16-076R – Sophie
16-078C – Demonolith
16-080H – Madam Edel
16-081R – Mira
16-083H – Layle
Here we are, somewhat back to normal. Seems like every time there is a new release, all hell breaks loose as we’re trying to get all the orders out on time. Updating the Site. To feature all the new cards. And, we did get some pretty interesting cards.
Banned
We’re also getting ready to host F(L)NM. Friday Late Night Magic. Thought as we might as well give it a try. Friday December, 17th. 10:30 PM. We’re giving it a try. If we can get some people to show up, we might continue forward with it.
It’s funny how the story can make you feel about a character from one instance to another. Take Luartha for example. Before I did not care for her. Not at all. She was one of the characters that could die and I could care less if she did. But, once we got to the Luartha’s past scenes, Things changed. Luartha made much more sense, and it was perfectly clear why she was acting the way that she was. How could it be that one little scene in the whole game, make me want to add Luartha to the main team? She was the first Homonculus created by Sadali. “Sorrow” Just like Whisper, and the other two who I can’t seem to remember their names right now. She explained everything to Viktora and now the duo is like Bonnie and Clyde. Can’t wait to see what they’ll get into next.
On to the card
That first ability is all you need, as Sophie is Earth/Water she counts as Water. (Correct me if I am wrong.) With her not being able to be broken by abilities or Summons that don’t deal damage, she will most likely not be able to be broken if you have enough Earth and Water Forwards on the field. It is simple as that.
keep saying it, too. Great card, if you play Earth you can splash any other color you’d like as you’ll have a way to pay for it.
At 2CP, this card is a no brainer. And with those abilities, she’s deadly. starting at 4K, but each Earth or Water forward gives her +2K. You can just throw her in a deck with Vikings and call it a day. Now if you control 3 other Forwards that are either Earth or Water, she’ll have 10K. And, at 10K she deals your opponent 1 point of Damage at the end of the turn. Your turn, and your opponents. The game will pretty much take care of itself if you just pass and defend Sophie. 
