This morning an anonymous Japanese retailer broke the street date on G-BT03:
Sovereign Star Dragon, enabling fans to spoil the remaining unknown cards in the set online. The major takeaway of the cards revealed is Ambush Demonic Stealth Dragon, Homura Raider; a stride unit that is also Murakumo's first restanding boss card.
ACT (
Vanguard circle): [Counterblast 2, choose a face down card named “Ambush Demonic Stealth Dragon, Homura Dragon” in your generation zone, turn it face up] If the number of cards in your generation zone is two or greater, during this turn, this unit gets Drive -1 and
"AUTO (Vanguard circle): At the close step of the battle in which this unit attacked a vanguard, choose one of your rearguards, and return three rearguards with the same name as it to the bottom of your deck, if you returned three, stand this unit. Shuffle that deck."
Homura Raider's skill was shown off today in Bushiroad's weekly information bulletin, with the deck being played by
seiyuu Morishita Shuuta, the voice of Nitta Shin in the anime series. In his fight, Morishita used the skill by using his other skills to superior call three copies of the draw trigger Cat Rogue and then return them to the deck for Homura's skill, increasing his chances of checking triggers on the second attack.
Sovereign Star Dragon will hit in Japan on May 29th, and internationally on July 10th.
Murakumo's other notable cards from the set include their new first vanguard, Onifundou (bottom left) and the stand trigger Hidden Scroll. Onifundou provides a rare opportunity for Murakumo to dig into the deck for a search target for a combo, rather than to clone cards already drawn, while Hidden Scroll can superior call two copies of a card other than himself. Also visible in this image is Neutron Star Lady Gunner, a game-changing support unit for Link Joker's Messiah deck. When ridden or called, her generation break 1 locks one of her own rearguards to lock an opponent's; locking one's own rearguards makes more viable targets for
Amnesty Messiah's power and critical skill.
Stealth Rogue, Onifundou
AUTO: Forerunner
AUTO (
Rearguard circle):
Generation break 1: [Soulblast 1, put this unit into your hand] At the beginning of your main phase, you may pay the cost. If you do, look at up to three cards from the top of your deck, choose up to one of them, call it to a rearguard circle, shuffle that deck, and at the end phase of that turn, put the unit called by this effect on the bottom of your deck.
Stealth Beast, Hidden Scroll
AUTO:
Generation break 1: [Put this unit on the top of your deck] When this unit is called to a
rearguard circle, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your rearguards other than "Stealth Beast, Hidden Scroll" and search your deck for up to two cards with the same name as that unit, call them to a
rearguard circle, shuffle that deck, and at the end phase of that turn, put the units called by this effect on the bottom of your deck.
Neutron Star Lady Gunner/中性子星のレディガンナー
AUTO:
Generation break 1: [Choose one of your rearguards and lock it] When this unit is placed on a
vanguard or
rearguard circle, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your opponent's rearguards and lock it.
The Shadow Paladin cards leaked include new support for the Demon World Castle subclan previously formalized in
Requiem at Dusk, ToteWächter and StreitenTurm. ToteWächter is German for Death Watcher (or "Death Watchman") while StreitenTurm is Fighting Tower.
Shadow Paladin has also received specific named support for
Claret Sword Dragon, in the Yearning Knight Branwen (
哀慕の騎士ブランウェン
Aibo no Kishi Buranuen). Branwen is a Steam Breath Dragon copy for Shadow Paladin, filling the stride-enabling gap left by Pitch Black Sage Charon.
AUTO (
Rearguard circle):
[Choose a grade 3 card from your hand, reveal it] When this unit is
called to a rearguard circle from hand, you may pay the cost. If you do,
search your deck for up to one grade 3 card with "Claret Sword Dragon" in its card
name, put it into your hand, shuffle that deck, and choose a card from
your hand, discard it.
CONT [Hand]: When you are paying the cost for stride, this card gets grade +2.
Center top; Star-vader Technitium. Center bottom; Spiral Nebula Fairy.
??? Star-vader, Technitium
AUTO (
Rearguard circle):
[Choose a card with "Star-vader" in its card name in your hand, discard
it] When this unit attacks, if you have a vanguard with "Star-vader" in
its card, name you may pay the cost. If paid, during that battle, this
unit gets Power +5000 and
"AUTO (Rearguard circle) When this unit's
attack hits a vanguard, soulcharge 1, choose a card in your damage zone
and turn it face-up."
Spiral Nebula Fairy ??? Girl/渦状星雲のXとし子
AUTO: Forerunner
ACT (
Rearguard circle):
Generation break 1:
[Put this unit into your soul, choose one of your other rearguards and unlock it] Choose one of your opponent's rearguards, lock it.
Center left; Stellar Maker. Center right; Gravity Well Lady Battler. Right; Destiny Dealer.
Stellar Maker
AUTO (
Vanguard circle):
Generation break 1: When this unit attacks a vanguard, choose two locked cards, unlock them, during that battle this unit gets Power +5000/Critical +1.
AUTO: [Counterblast 1, Soulblast 1] When this unit is placed on the
vanguard circle, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your opponent's rearguards and lock it.
Gravity Well Lady Battler
ACT (
Rearguard circle):
Once per turn:
Generation break 1: [Choose one of your rearguards, lock it] During this turn, this until gets Power +4000.
Destiny Dealer
AUTO (
Rearguard circle):
[Choose a grade 3 card from your hand, reveal it] When this unit is called to a rearguard circle from hand, you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to one grade 3 card with "Messiah" in its card name, put it into your hand, shuffle that deck, and choose a card from your hand, discard it.
CONT [Hand]: When you are paying the cost for stride, this card gets grade +2.
Heroic Saga Dragon
AUTO (
Vanguard circle):
Generation break 1:
When this unit attacks a vanguard, your opponent may choose one of their own rearguards and retire it, and if they did not retire, during that battle this unit gets Critical +1 and
"AUTO (Vanguard circle): At the beginning of your damage step, if the number of guardians is one, choose one of your opponent's guardians, retire it, and that units effects with "cannot be hit" is nullified."
AUTO: [Counterblast 1, Soulblast 1] When this unit is placed on the
vanguard circle, you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your opponent's grade 1 or less rearguards and retire it.
Heroic Saga's skill functionally forces the opponent to either retire a unit or not be able to use perfect defense cards.
Quintet walls are functionally exempt from having their guard broken, and Heroic Saga will not work if the opponent guards with multiple 10000-power shields.
Every clan included in
Sovereign Star Dragon with the exception of Kagerou and Cray Elemental is receiving a G-perfect defense, with the ability to
countercharge a damage when guarded with if there is a copy of them in the drop zone. These are, by clan;
Dark Irregulars - Flag Breaker
Link Joker- Flower Blooming in the Vacuum, Cosmolis
Shadow Paladin - Karma Collector
Murakumo - Stealth Rogue, White Heron
Gold Paladin - Holy Mage, Pryderi
Upper left; Killing Dollmaster. Upper center; Lunatic Masquerade. Bottom left; Werfleder Ordonnaz.
Killing Dollmaster
AUTO (
Rearguard circle):
[Put this unit into your soul] At the beginning of your main phase, you
may pay the cost. If you do, soulcharge 2.
Lunatic Masquerade
CONT (
Rearguard circle):
Generation break
1: During your turn, if the number of cards in your soul is 6 or more,
this unit gets Power +2000, and then if the number if cards in your soul
is 10 or more, this unit gets Power +2000.
Werfleder Ordonnaz
AUTO: Forerunner
ACT (
Rearguard circle):
Generation break 1:
[Counterblast 1, put this unit into your soul] Soulcharge 2, if the number of cards in your soul is 6 or more, draw a card.
Sweet Predator
AUTO (
Vanguard/Rearguard circle):
Generation break 1: During your main phase, when a card is put into your soul, during this turn, this unit gets Power +3000.
While these Dark Irregulars units are disappointing to some--as they come in lieu of an
Izaya reprint, or generation break versions of Doreen the Thruster and Izaya that work in any phase--there are some upsides to their introduction. Lunatic Masquerade's +2000 power boosts stack on top of one another so that at the 10+ soul benchmark he has a total +4000 power booster and becomes a permanent 11000-power booster. The advantage to this over Doreen is that the soul count being increased during the battle phase will affect his power, allowing the use of Scoremaker Vampir and
Kiskill-Lila to pump him up to that point. Moreover, the later in the game Lunatic is on the field the more effective he is over long stretches compared to Doreen, as he does not require redundant soulcharging to power up.
Dragon Knight, Janat
AUTO (
Rearguard circle): [Put this unit into your soul] When your vanguard attacks, if you have a grade 3 or greater vanguard with "Dragonic Blademaster" in its card name, you may pay the cost. If paid, draw a card, choose one of your vanguards, during that battle it gets Power +5000.
Rising Lionet
AUTO (
Rearguard circle):
Generation break 1: [Put this unit into your soul] When another card is called to a rearguard circle from your deck, you may pay the cost. If you do, during this turn, that unit gets Power +5000 and
"AUTO: (Rearguard circle): [Counterblast 1] When this unit's attack hits a vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, look at up to three cards from the top of your deck, choose a card from among them, call it to an open rearguard circle, and shuffle that deck."
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