Weekly Bites reveals: Origin Rares, Image Ride Rare, OTT Triggers

Today on the third episode of Weekly Bites, hosts Doctor O, Kitta Izumi, and Maeda Seiji, revealed the upcoming Origin Rare print cards from V-Booster Set 01: UNITE! TEAM Q4: Asura Kaiser, Dragonic Overlord, CEO Amaterasu, and Blaster Blade. These prints use their respective artworks from Booster Set 01: Descent of the King of Knights, but have their new skills from the most recent set and no text boxes enclosing their card text.

Izumi also showed off the four Super Vanguard Rares from the set. Imperial Daughter, Dragonic Waterfall, and Alfred had already been revealed, but this is our first look at Perfect Raizer's SVR.

Also included in the set are four Secret Rare prints of the promotional Gift Markers, signed by the anime characters' respective voice actors.

The set's Image Ride Rare is Blaster Blade featuring a new illustration by manga author and franchise creator Itou Akira, with his hotstamped autograph.

Finally, in the episode's special fight between Kitta and Maeda, two more triggers for Oracle Think Tank were revealed: the Heal Trigger Sphere Magus, and the Critical Trigger Oracle Guardian Nike. In the above image, Sphere Magus is on the Guardian Circle, and Nike is in Kitta's Drop Zone. Taking into account the previously-revealed Psychic Bird, Miracle Kid, and Miss Mist, Oracle Think Tank now has two Draw and two Critical Triggers each.

The decklist used by Kitta confirms these were the only new cards used today:

Grade 0
x1 Lozenge Magus (FV)
x4 Oracle Guardian, Nike (CT)
x4 Psychic Bird (CT)
x4 Weather Forecaster, Miss Mist (DT)
x4 Sphere Magus (HT)
Grade 1
x4 Circle Magus
x4 Oracle Guardian, Gemini
x4 Farfalle Magus
x2 Luck Bird
Grade 2
x4 Promise Daughter
x3 Silent Tom
x3 Goddess of Insight, Sotoorihime
Grade 3
x4 Imperial Daughter
x3 CEO Amaterasu
x2 Victorious Deer

The next episode of Weekly Bites will air May 29th, 2018, at 9:00 PM Japanese Standard Time.

Psychic Bird and Miracle Kid shown in Monthly Bushiroad

The June issue of Monthly Bushiroad magazine contained a detail that flew beneath the notice of most readers: Oracle Think Tank's first trigger units of the Standard Format were shown in the magazine's demonstration of the new Amaterasu support. Although they're scaled down to be very small for the demonstration, close-ups reveal the returning Psychic Bird and Miracle Kid will be reprising their roles as Critical and Draw Triggers for the clan.

While Psychic was an effect trigger in the previous game, in Standard the only trigger units with effects are Draw Trigger perfect guards. Keeping with this, the new Psychic Bird is a vanilla with 5k power.

Miracle Kid is likewise a vanilla Draw, with just 5000 shield. While it may be tempting to say these are only mock-ups and the final versions could have effects, it should be kept in mind that neither Royal Paladin nor Kagerо̄ have triggers in the set outside of Iseult and Barri, leaving the Trial Deck triggers as the only ones available. It seems the standard for Standard is vanilla grade 0s, and for every clan to have at least two types of Draw, and likely two types of Crit as well. This would rather neatly explain Nova Grappler's nine grade 0s in V-BT01, where Oracle Think Tank will at most have six. Nova needs the space to fit in another Draw Trigger, two Criticals, another Front, a Heal, and Cat Butler, alongside the previously confirmed Battleraizer, Tap the Hyper, and Turboraizer.