V-TD02: Kai Toshiki card listing

Kai Toshiki

MSRP: 1500 yen + tax (JPN)
Release Date: 05/11/2018 (JPN) 06/08/18 (ENG)
Comes with paper playmat and First Guide for beginners.
Contains 14 types of cards, 53 in total; 34 Normal Units, 16 Trigger Units, and 3 Gift Markers
All cards are exclusive to the Trial Deck.
Each deck contains 4 perfect defense cards and 4 Blaster Blades. (1 illustrated by Itou Akira, 3 by Daisuke Izuka) Each display case contains six Trial Decks, and each Trial Deck within that case has a randomly inserted Itou Akira-signed hot stamp Gift Marker, or a signed hot stamped Dragonic Overlord.

Associated sleeves

The Crested Dragon sleeve is available by preordering TD02. (Japan-only) 70 sleeves are included.
The Kai Toshiki sleeve is available by purchasing TD02 as a 2500 yen bundle, with comes with the sleeve and Dragon Monk Gojo promo. (Japan-only) 70 sleeves are included.
The Dragonic Overlord sleeve is available by preordering TD02 at one of the participating Spring caravan demo workshops for Standard format. (Japan-only.) 53 sleeves are included.
The Imaginary Gift sleeve will be available for purchase at launch, on May 11th. (Japan-only.)

The deck will come with three Force Gift Markers, two standard and one featuring Dragonic Overlord.

Decklist

Grade 0
x1 Lizard Runner, Undeux (First Vanguard)
x4 Dragon Monk, Genjou (Heal Trigger)
x4 Red Gem Carbuncle (Draw Trigger)
x4 Embodiment of Spear, Tahr (Critical Trigger)
x4 Demonic Dragon Mage, Rakshasa (Critical Trigger)
Grade 2
x4 Dragon Armored Knight
x4 Dragon Knight, Nehalem
x3 Embodiment of Shield, Rahm
Grade 1
x4 Guard Griffon (Perfect Guard)
x4 Embodiment of Armor, Bahr
x3 Dragon Monk, Gojo
x3 Dragon Knight, Burj
Grade 3
x1 Dragonic Overlord (Itou Akira art)
x3 Dragonic Overlord (DaisukeIzuka art)
x4 Crested Dragon

Dragonic Overlord (V-TD02/001 and 002)

• Grade 3/Twin Drive!!/13000 Power - 1 Critical/No Shield/Kagerou - Flame Dragon
• Imaginary Gift: Force
• Activate [Vanguard/Rearguard Circle] Once per turn: [Counterblast 1] During this turn, this unit gets Power +10000.
• Automatic [Vanguard Circle] Once per turn: When this units attack hits, you may [Counterblast 1, discard 2 cards from your hand] to Stand this unit, during this turn, it gets Drive -1.
• Trial Deck comes with 4 copies, 1 illustrated by Itou Akira and 3 by DaisukeIzuka. 

Crested Dragon (V-TD02/003)

• Imaginary Gift: Force
• Automatic [Rearguard Circle]: When it attacks a vanguard, if the number of your opponent's rearguards is 3 or less, this unit gets Power +5000 until the end of that battle.
• First available in Start Deck 02. That version of the card gets +3k on either vanguard or rearguard circles if you have 3 or more rearguards.

Dragon Armored Knight (V-TD02/004)

• Automatic [Rearguard Circle]: When it attacks a vanguard, if the number of your opponent's rearguards is 3 or less, until the end of that battle this unit gets Power +5000.
• Start Deck 02 contains an alternate version of the card which gains 3k if you have a grade 3 or greater vanguard. 

Dragon Knight, Nehalem (V-TD02/005)

• Automatic [Rearguard Circle]: When placed, by paying [Counterblast 2], choose 1 of your opponent's rearguards in the back row, retire it, and this unit gets Power +5000 until end of turn.
• Demo deck version is a 9k base with 5k shield and Activate Counterblast 2 to retire an opponent's rearguard. 
• An alternate artwork of the Start Deck version is available in Monthly Bushiroad magazine (JPN) or by buying two copies of the Trial Deck. (ENG)

Embodiment of Shield, Rahm (V-TD02/006)

• Start Deck 02 version is identical, but with a different background.

Embodiment of Armor, Bahr (V-TD02/009)

• AUTO [Rearguard Circle]: When placed, by paying [Counterblast 1, Soulblast 1], choose one of your opponent's grade 2 or less rearguards on the same column as this unit, retire it, and if the number of your rearguards is greater than the opponent's, this unit gets Power +5000 until end of turn.
• Start Deck 02 has different background art, and is a vanilla.

Guard Griffon (V-TD01/007)

• Continuous: Sentinel (You may only have up to 4 cards with "Sentinel" in your deck)
• Automatic [Guardian Circle]: When placed, by paying [discard 1 card from your hand], during that battle, 1 of your units cannot be hit.

Dragon Knight, Burj (V-TD02/010)

• ACT [Rearguard Circle]: If the number of your opponent's rearguards is 4 or greater, by paying [Counterblast 1, put this unit into your soul] choose 1 of your opponent's rearguards, retire it, and until end of turn one of your rearguards gets Power +10000.
• Start Deck version is a 7k base that gains 3k while attacking a vanguard.

Dragon Monk, Gojo (V-TD02/008 and VPR/000?)

• Automatic: [Rearguard Circle]: When boosting, if the number of your rear-guards is greater than your opponent's, during this turn, the boosted unit gets Power +3000.
• An RRR foil version is packaged with the Japanese bundle of V-TD02, and a set of 70 Kai Toshiki card sleeves. A means of obtaining them in English has yet to be announced.
• Has 1000 more base power than the demo deck Gojo, but the skill is identical.

 Lizard Runner, Undeux (V-TD02/0011 and VPR/0002)

• Automatic: When you ride over this unit, draw 1 card.
• A statistically identical version with a different background is available in Start Deck 02, and a hotstamped special edition is available at day 1 of the Japanese Great Vanguard Festival on April 29th, 2018.

Dragon Monk, Genjou (V-TD02/015)

• Heal Trigger
• "You may only have up to 4 cards with 'Heal' in your deck."
• First available in Start Deck 02. 

Red Gem Carbuncle (V-TD02/014)

• Draw Trigger
• First available in Start Deck 02.

Embodiment of Spear, Tahr (V-TD02/012)

• Critical Trigger
• First available in Start Deck 02.

Demonic Dragon Mage, Rakshasa (V-TD02/013)

• Critical Trigger
• First available in Start Deck 02.

V-TD01: Sendou Aichi card listing

Sendou Aichi

MSRP: 1500 yen + tax (JPN)
Release Date: 05/11/2018 (JPN) 06/08/18 (ENG)
Comes with paper playmat and First Guide for beginners.
Contains 14 types of cards, 53 in total; 34 Normal Units, 16 Trigger Units, and 3 Gift Markers
All cards are exclusive to the Trial Deck.
Each deck contains 4 perfect defense cards and 4 Blaster Blades. (1 illustrated by Itou Akira, 3 by Itou Mishou) Each display case contains six Trial Decks, and each Trial Deck within that case has a randomly inserted Itou Akira-signed hot stamp Gift Marker, or a signed hot stamped Blaster Blade.

Assorted sleeves

The Stardrive Dragon sleeve is available by preordering TD01. (Japan-only) 70 sleeves are included.
The Sendou Aichi sleeve is available by purchasing TD01 as a 2500 yen bundle, with comes with the sleeve and Wingal promo. (Japan-only) 70 sleeves are included.
The Blaster Blade sleeve is available by preordering TD01 at one of the participating Spring caravan demo workshops for Standard format. (Japan-only.) 53 sleeves are included.
The Imaginary Gift sleeve will be available for separate purchase at launch, on May 11th. (Japan-only.)

Decklist

Grade 0

x1 Grime (First Vanguard)

x4 Yggdrasil Maiden, Elaine (Heal Trigger)

x4 Margal (Draw Trigger)

x4 Bringer of Good Luck, Epona (Critical Trigger)

x4 Flogal (Critical Trigger)

Grade 1 (14 total)

x4 Strong Knight, Runoria (Perfect Guard)

x4 Knight Squire, Allen

x3 Wingal

x3 Auspice Falcon

Grade 2

x1 Blaster Blade (Itou Akira art)

x3 Blaster Blade (Itou Mishou art)

x4 Knight of Silence, Gallatin

x3 Sage of Literary and Military arts, Jarron

Grade 3

x4 Alfred Early

x4 Stardrive Dragon

Alfred Early (V-TD01/001)

"The young king and the sworn friend of the light, continue along the path they believe in."

• Imaginary Gift: Force
• Automatic [Vanguard Circle]: When placed, you may pay [Counterblast 1] to call up to 1 "Blaster Blade" from your hand or soul to rear-guard circle, and during this turn that unit gets Power +10000. If you called, draw 1 card.

Stardrive Dragon (V-TD01/002)

• Imaginary Gift: Force
• Automatic [Rearguard Circle]: When it attacks a vanguard, if the number of your rearguards is 3 or greater, this unit gets Power +5000 until the end of that battle.
• First available in Start Deck 01; that version gets 3k when attacking a vanguard regardless of what circle it's on, as long as you have 3 or more rearguards.

Blaster Blade (V-TD01/004 and 005)

• Continuous [Vanguard Circle]: If the number of your rearguards is 4 or greater, this unit gets Critical +1.
• Automatic [Vanguard/Rearguard Circle]: When placed, [Cost: Counterblast 1, Soulblast 1] choose 1 of your opponent's rearguards in the front row, and retire it.
• Also has a vanilla promo card print, VPR/0001.
• Trial Deck comes with 4 copies, 1 illustrated by Itou Akira and 3 by Itou Mishou.

Knight of Silence, Gallatin (V-TD01/003)

• An alternate artwork version is available by buying two copies of the Trial Deck.
• Start Deck 01 version is identical, but with a different background.

Sage of the Arts, Jauron (V-T01/006)

• Automatic [Rearguard Circle]: When it attacks a vanguard, if the number of your rearguards is 3 or greater, this unit gets Power +5000 until the end of that battle.
• First available in Start Deck 01; that version could pay counterblast 1 for +10k when it attacked a vanguard while boosted.

Knight Squire, Allen (V-TD01/008)

• Automatic [Rearguard Circle]: When placed, you may [Counterblast 1] to call up to 1 card from your hand to Rearguard Circle of equal to or lower grade than your vanguard. If you called, draw 1 card, during this turn, this unit gets Power +3000.
• Designed by Itou Akira, illustrated by Koga Azusa.
• Start Deck 01 version has no skill.

Wingal (V-TD01/007 and VPR/00?)

• Continuous: [Rear-guard Circle]: During your turn, all of your "Blaster Blade" on the same column as this unit get Power +5000.
• An alternate RRR foil version is packaged with the Japanese bundle of V-TD01, and a set of 70 Sendou Aichi card sleeves. A means of obtaining them in English has yet to be announced.
• Has 1000 more base power than the demo deck Wingal, and the skill is completely different. V-SD01/009 Wingal gives +5000 power to the vanguard that it boosts.

Auspice Falcon (V-TD01/010)

• Activate [Rearguard Circle]: [Counterblast 1, Rest this unit] Until end of turn, 2 of your rearguards get Power +5000.

Glyme (V-TD01/0011 and VPR/0003)

• Automatic: When you ride over this unit, draw 1 card.
• A statistically identical version with a different background is available in Start Deck 01, and a hotstamped special edition is available at day 2 of the Japanese Great Vanguard Festival on April 30th, 2018.

Yggdrasil Maiden, Elaine (V-TD01/015)

• Heal Trigger
• "You may only have up to 4 cards with 'Heal' in your deck."
• First available in Start Deck 01.

Margal (V-TD01/014)

• Draw Trigger
• First available in Start Deck 01.

Bringer of Good Luck, Epona (V-TD01/012)

• Critical Trigger
• First available in Start Deck 01

Flogal (V-TD01/013)

• Critical Trigger
• First available in Start Deck 01

Cardfight!! Vanguard manga to rerun in full color

March 20th, 2018. In episode 23 of the Weekly Bites Z stream series, Cardfight!! Vanguard representative Doctor O announced that the May issue of Monthly Bushiroad magazine will rerelease the first chapter of the original Cardfight!! Vanguard manga by Itou Akira in full color. The publication will coincide with the airing of the Vanguard reboot series, which itself more closely follows the manga. As the manga ran in KeroKero Ace from 2011 to 2013, this is the first time this chapter will be run in Monthly Bushiroad.

Itou himself is doing the color work, much as he did for the manga's set of LINE messenger stamps. This issue will cover approximately the first half of chapter 1, comprising 48 pages. It's currently unclear if the color edition will proceed into the June issue.

In related news, a series of Cardfight!! Vanguard short novels acting as excerpts from the card game's lore are being compiled in a standalone tankōbon format. Cray Chronicle Notes: Beginning will be available for purchase at the Monthly Bushiroad booth as part of the 2018 Great Vanguard Festival on April 29th. More information will be found in the May issue of Monthly Bushiroad.

Doctor O also announced that Bushiroad will be hosting a booth from March 24th~25th at AnimeJapan 2018 in the Tokyo Big Sight building. They will be doing a demo session of the new Standard-format game using cards from the Crested Dragon Start Deck, and will be giving out copies of the deck to participants.

Although currently only the Stardrive deck has been distributed to the participating venues as part of the March-June demo caravan for Standard format, the Crested deck will also be distributed beginning April 7th. It contains three copies of Dragon Knight Nehalem, who has been redesigned into unit that retires the opponent's cards rather than as a vanilla. A special edition version of the card with alternate artwork pulled from its original incarnation will be available in Monthly Bushiroad magazine, where it will be distributed as part of a Kagerou deck.

More than 3,000 people have already participated in the spring caravan demos in the four days since they began. Those that attend receive a free Stardrive deck with alternate versions of upcoming cards, and a promotional Blaster Blade exclusive to the event. All of these cards will be legal in the Standard game.

Doctor O also showed off the certificate fighters get for completing the demo workshop, which features art of the rebooted Kai Toshiki from the new series. The quotation on the certificate reads "So you were able to picture it. Let's begin...Now you too, are a Vanguard Fighter!"

The next episode of Weekly Bites will be air Tuesday March 27th, at 9:00 PM JST on NicoNico Live and YouTube Live. The previous special episode featured 20 questions from fans answered by Doctor O, Vanguard executive producer Shimamura Masatoshi, and original concept creator Itou Akira.

A guide to what's legal in Standard format

Stardrive and Crested deck cards are tournament legal.

The V-series icon, found at the bottom left of cards printed for Standard.

For the Japanese format beginning May 1st, cardfighters playing in Standard format will have to choose a clan and compose their deck entirely from that clan, using only cards that have the V-series icon. The exception to the rule is that cards with the numbers V-SD/001~014, V-SD02/001~014, and VPR/0001 are all treated as cards with the V-series icon, and can be used in decks despite not actually having it. Included in this is the Blaster Blade promotional card distributed alongside the Start Decks given away at the demo caravan events, and all of the cards in the Stardrive and Crested decks themselves.

Conversely, only cards without the V-series simple (including the aforementioned Start Decks and promo cards) can be used in the G Standard format, which will only include cards printed prior to the V-series. All cards may be used in Premium Standard format, unless their abilities specifically prevent them from doing so like Epitome of Knowledge Silvest. Those cards may only be used in Premium Standard Extreme Fight.

For the English format, only cards released after April 28th can be used, excluding PR cards. Bushiroad has stated more information will be coming on this front, but it is safe to assume that the English demo deck and VPR promotional cards will be tournament legal just like their Japanese counterparts.

From Bushiroad booth at 2018 GAMA Trade Show.

The first Trial Decks of the Standard format, V-Trial Deck 01: Blaster Blade and V-Trial Deck 02: Dragonic Overlord will launch in Japanese May 11th, 2018, and in English June 8th, 2018. The first booster set of Standard, V-BT01: UNITE! TEAM Q4! will launch in Japan May 25th, 2018, and in English June 22nd, 2018. Their accompanying new anime series, codenamed "Origin," will begin airing May 5th, 2018, on TV Tokyo and affiliated stations. It will be simulcast with English subtitles on YouTube and Crunchyroll.

2018 Blaster Blade promo recalls the beginning of Vanguard, seven years prior

Uploaded by @Sora_reunion2.

The first promo card of Vanguard's new era has gone out in Japan, distributed at demo workshops for the game's new mechanics. Each card is a base 10000 Blaster Blade with 5000 shield, with an advertisement for the anime series printed in place of skill text. These stats may sound par for the course for a vanilla grade 2 coming from the old Vanguard, but in the Standard-format game most grade 2s already have 10k base power, and the vanillas seen thus far have 10k shield.

The text on the card reads:

"A new work begins May 5th, 2018!!

The new TV anime starts broadcasting Saturday May 5th!

You can watch the whole series on the official YouTube channel!"

Although the card is numbered VPR/0001, it does not have the V-era symbol found at the bottom left of Alfred Early and upcoming Trial Deck cards. Some fighters in Japan have taken to going to multiple demo events to acquire additional copies of the promo.

This 2011 photo, taken at that year's Tokyo Toy Show, was among the first Vanguard-related images circulated on the web. The text reads "Cardfight!! Vanguard TV anime airing in 2011!!"

This is not the first time Bushiroad has slapped an anime advertisement on a card, rather than vice-versa. When Cardfight!! Vanguard was being brought out to toy and hobby shows in late 2010 and early 2011, the company distributed two similarly-structured Blaster Blades. The first was based on a prototype card design from before Nakamura Satoshi's team had finalized what Vanguard's aesthetic would be, using artwork drawn by Studio TMS of Aichi in Blade's armor.

The second was after the cards' frame and format had been decided on, and was distributed alongside the Stardrive and Crested Dragon Flash Fight half decks at demo events and in issues of KeroKero Ace magazine. (A third-party predecessor to Monthly Bushiroad.) The alternate artwork used in this vanilla version of Blaster Blade is often pointed to as the origin point for the character Blaster Dark (née Junos/Yuunos) who in lore lacked the courage to use his sword's hidden skill.

Similar to the initial prototype card at the Tokyo Toy Show, an English-language Blaster Blade with a website ad in place of a skill was distributed in mid-2011 at the Anime Expo kick-off event to promote the game's English launch. While the flavor text was identical to its Trial Deck counterpart, the skill text instead read;

"The new era trading card game "Cardfight!! Vanguard"

Check the official website!

http://cf-vanguard.com/"

The new anime series, codenamed "Origin," will begin airing May 5th, 2018, on TV Tokyo and affiliated stations. It will be simulcast with English subtitles on YouTube and Crunchyroll. V-Trial Deck 01: Blaster Blade and V-Trial Deck 02: Dragonic Overlord will launch in Japanese May 11th, 2018, and in English June 8th, 2018. V-BT01: UNITE! TEAM Q4! will launch in Japan May 25th, 2018, and in English June 22nd, 2018.

Trial Deck Wingal and Gojo have different stats from Demo Deck versions

During your turn, all of your "Blaster Blade" on the same column as this unit get Power +5000.

The two Wingals (left) and two Gojos. (Right) Stardrive and Crested deck versions have lower base power.

Higher-definition images from Wednesday's bombshell announcement of a Cardfight!! Vanguard reboot series reveal a surprising fact about the upcoming first trial decks for the series, V-TD01: Blaster Blade and V-TD02: Dragonic Overlord. The Wingal and Dragon Monk Gojo promotional cards packaged with the decks have higher base power, tweaked effects, and different background art compared to the ones being used in the official demos of the game.

Both promotional versions of the grade 1s have 8000 base power rather than 7000, and while promo Gojo's skill is identical to its Crested deck counterpart, Wingal has a radically different skill that all but guarantees its staple status in Royal Paladin;

Dragon Monk Gojo (V-SD02/009 and VPR/000?)
ブーストした時 あなたのリアガードが相手より多いなら、そのターン中、ブーストされたユニットのパワー＋３０００。
"When boosting, if you have more rearguards than your opponent, during this turn, the boosted unit gets Power +3000."

Wingal (V-SD01/009)
ヴァンガードをブーストした時、そのバトル中、このユニットのパワー＋５０００。
"When boosting a vanguard, during that battle, this unit gets Power +5000."

Wingal (VPR/000?)
あなたのターン中、このユニットと同じ縦列に、あなとの「ブラスター・ブレード」すべてのパワー＋５０００。
"During your turn, all of your "Blaster Blade" on the same column as this unit get Power +5000."

The sample image text compared with the phrase "on the same column."

While the resolution of the images is high enough to distinguish most of the text, "on the same column" should be treated as a tentative translation, as it's difficult to make out if the kanji really matches this phrase. Moreover, the promo card images are too low of a resolution to gauge their card numbers.

Vanguard has had multiple cards with the same name and radically different skills in the past, but usually separated by months or years. If the new Wingal really is as he appears to be, it's an upgrade competitive Royal Paladin fighters will be scrambling for. 8000 power grade 1s are sorely desired by those that have tried the new format, as while grade 2s have received a power bump to adjust for grade 3s being inflated into crossride-levels of base defense, the same can't be said for grade 1s as a whole.

Original image uploaded by @Bushiroad-Global. Note the Force Gift Markers near the edge of the table.

More than 300 locations "worldwide" are participating in the demo caravan campaign, which for the English game is set to begin in June, closer to the launch of the trial decks and first booster set. The first location to demo the English versions of the cards at all was the GAMA Trade Show in Reno, Nevada, over March 14th-16th. (Simultaneous demonstrations were held at Akihabara Gamers.) No English-language schedule of events has been released yet, while Japan has 318 such demonstrations scheduled in the months leading up to the May launch.

In Japan, the upgraded Wingal and Gojo will be distributed as part of a special bundle of one of the trial decks, a set of 70 card sleeves featuring Sendou Aichi or Kai Toshiki, and one copy of the promo card itself sporting an RRR-rarity foil. It's possible but not yet confirmed that non-foiled versions of these cards will also be in the Trial Decks, which are set to include four copies each of Blaster Blade, Dragonic Overlord, and their respective perfect defense cards. An English distribution for the promo cards has not yet been announced.

V-TD01: Blaster Blade and V-TD02: Dragonic Overlord will launch in Japanese May 11th, 2018, and in English June 8th, 2018. V-BT01: UNITE! TEAM Q4! will launch in Japan May 25th, 2018, and in English June 22nd, 2018.

Not every clan will be getting Front Triggers, Triple Drive not in manual

A leaked image from the Japanese First Guides distributed with the first Standard format flash decks reveals that not every clan will be getting Cardfight!! Vanguard's newest trigger type.

Front Trigger
"All of your front-row units gain +10000 Power. This is a trigger that only certain clans possess."
前列ユニット、すべてのパワーを＋１００００する。特定のクランのみが持つトリガーだ。

As Front Triggers were created to replace Stand Triggers--which executive producer Shimamura Masatoshi confirmed there will be no more of--it's possible that Bushiroad R&D is seeking to balance Fronts by only giving them to the clans specifically designed for them. In particular, Front benefits Accel clans much more than it does Force or Protect, as it addresses both their weakness of being unable to boost their additional rearguard circles and their comparative defensive weakness by giving them a more powerful damage check. (The currently revealed Accel clans in Standard release order are Nova Grappler, Tachikaze, Aqua Force, Pale Moon, and Murakumo.)

Also of note is that where the First Guide describes the different unit abilities like Boost and Intercept, no description of Triple Drive!!! is presented, reinforcing the idea that there will be no strides printed for Standard format. It is possible that Triple Drive!!! is not explained because none of the cards in the flash decks have this ability, but Front Triggers are also not present in either of these.