The first episode of the 2018
Cardfight!! Vanguard anime featured a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo by a new Nova Grappler Draw Trigger. Visible just as Miwa finishes fighting Morikawa, when rotated 90 degrees and scaled up the card appears to be a remade Twin Blader, Nova Grappler's original perfect guard from Booster Set 2:
Onslaught of Dragon Souls.
The card would be an ideal fit for one of Nova Grappler's still-unseen Double Rares, as with the reveal of
Miss Mist Tuesday they are currently only clan in V-BT01:
UNITE! TEAM Q4 to lack a Draw Trigger perfect guard. With
Iseult and Barri having set the bar, it's now expected that every clan will eventually receive a clone of these cards in order to free up their grade 1 space.
In addition to Twin Blader, the manga card Cat Butler also made an appearance in the opening sequence, still a grade 0. The card's original skill was to retire itself after your grade 2 vanguard's attack failed to hit, standing the vanguard; this proved devastating with the onset of Legion format in 2014, as Cat Butler could stand grade 2 Legion Mates, and when a Legion Mate stands its Leader stands with it. Cat Butler giving Nova Grappler a high-power 2 Critical center lane capable of restanding at a net +1 as many times as it had Butlers if its attack didn't hit eventually lead to the card's restriction in the Japanese format.
V-Booster Set 01:
UNITE! TEAM Q4 will
launch in Japan May 25th, 2018, and in English June 22nd. It will be accompanied by sleeves
based on Dragonic Overlord and Blaster Blade. V-Trial Deck 01:
Sendou Aichi and V-TD02:
Kai Toshiki will launch in Japanese May 11th, 2018, and in English June 8th. They will be accompanied by
a new sleeve based on the "Imaginary Gift" design.
The first Extra Booster set of Standard, V-EB01:
The Destructive Roar will launch in Japan June 29th, 2018, and
August 3rd for the English-speaking world. The accompanying new anime series, codenamed
"Origin," began airing May 5th, with an English-subtitled simulcast on both YouTube and Crunchyroll.
