K-11 Knight Reveal & Many More!

This morning, Ikeda held another livestream with tons of Gate Ruler information! Over 30 cards were at least partially shown, so we're going to quickly go over the other news we got before diving into all of that!

Thank you to this article from tcg-bloglife as well as this article from gateruler.net for helping us put this together.

1) The December 10th event is an officially run presale event, 2 days before the full presales begin at stores across Japan! Players will be able to buy each Starter Deck + 10 Booster Packs of the 1st set for 6000 yen, and will also be able to buy up to 10 packs of the High Rarity pack. The 6000 yen package is 500 yen more expensive than buying these products at MSRP, let alone the below MSRP prices many stores are offering, but this and the purchase limit is probably to avoid undermining card shops. Regardless, for our western viewers, that means we'll know the full card list of Set 1 a couple days earlier than previously expected. (Additional Source)

2) The current reservations were said to be going at a pretty fast pace. Its very reassuring to hear that, since the combination of the higher pricing and rules not being known before the order deadline made myself and others a bit nervous, so great to hear that its going well.

3) The Japanese Amazon listing for the magazine book is now up. It releases on December 14th, 2 days after presales at stores open, and contains 2 copies of a card from the 2nd set, a copy of the free trial deck, the rules, a card list of the 1st booster pack, an explanation of the game's setting, and a bunch of deck recipes from the development team which cover things like lists using the promo card, lists that build upon each of the starter decks, and lists that use the cards of the 1st booster pack.

4) The mysterious extra 3 cards of the 2nd Starter Deck! It was explained in the stream that these are Energy cards. As we'll see later, "K-11 Knight", which comes in Starter Deck 2, starts the game with 3 Energy, so these cards are used to track that since there's no charging system in play there. Since Starter Deck 1 lacks these 3 Energy cards, Apprentice would not work this way. No Energy is possible, but since Ikeda described Apprentice as "not using all of the Energy zones", it seems very unlikely. It may instead use some sort of charging system, like charging from hand or the top of the deck once per turn.

5) Answers on the defensive zone! As suspected, it is horizontal because units in it cannot attack, and just act as a shield for the player. Though as we've talked about before, this makes it the perfect zone to place units with more defense oriented effects, or units with good on play effects but little offensive presence. In addition, they do not block your Ruler from attacking as they did in Buddyfight.

6) More details on how CNT works! When damage is being placed and you check a card with CNT, that effect is resolved before it is placed as damage. This would allow the CNT effects which put themselves to the cemetery, like Absolute Barrier and All Things Must Die, to perform a "Miracle Heal" as in Vanguard. This isn't quite correct, be sure to check out our newer article for more accurate information on how CNT works.

7) Lastly, the Level on Units and Events has been confirmed to be an Energy cost! This was very heavily implied by everything we knew, but its nice to have the confirmation.

With all that said, on to the 30+ cards!



We finally see a Ruler, in what is probably the final frame! We say that, but the frames here are differently colored. Probably just a Starter Deck vs Booster Pack difference. We had already learned that Apprentice started at 0 hand, but the skill-oriented Ruler starting at 2 hand itself is a pretty big surprise. Though with the 2 draw per turn you basically start with 4 cards, and over time it easily balances out compared to other games.

The Ruler also has several ways in which you must be careful with your resources, with its start of turn only recharging 2 of your 3 energy forcing you to limit your spending if you want to make big plays when it matters, and the Summon Limit of 2 preventing you from filling out both your 2 attack zones and your defensive zone, forcing you to choose between all-out offense or putting up a defensive unit. Of course, this also rewards you for keeping one of your units around.

This Summon Limit also impacts the Abyss Summon deck specifically. Previously it was thought you'd be able to summon over top of your own Darkness units to help fill out your cemetery, but with the Summon Limit, that is far less realistic.

Given the lack of mention of Drives on here, especially since World Master alpha had it on its effect text, it seems like Knight may not get Drives at all, which would make OD effects useless for the Ruler, which does line up with the complete lack of OD effects in Starter Deck 2.

Also, if you were curious, the QR code leads to https://gateruler.jp/rule/knight, but the page doesn't exist yet so you'll just get a 404.



Another Land Warfare unit! From this we can see that the stat difference between Level 0 and 2 is 4 points, as 1 Strike has been stated to be worth 2 stat points.



A 2 Strike unit at Level 0! Its stats don't even bottom out either, so this card seems like a very good offensive tool to have.



Very likely another unit that performs Abyss Summons, like Priest from the Starter Deck. I do wonder if its TD is its Abyss Summon, or an effect that helps set up your cemetery?

This is another artwork from Force of Will, Grusbalesta, the Keeper of Magic Stones.





As a reminder, this effect comes from a very early stream. Name, stats, and attributes match up completely, though its possible this effect might've changed since then, so keep that in mind.





As a reminder, this card has previously been stated to have a [CNT] effect like a "Shield Trigger Creature" in Duel Masters, which would mean it plays itself when damaged. With these very low stats, it certainly helps justify what would be a very powerful effect.



One of the few cards we got in full today! A nice little removal Event, that sets a good precedent of instant speed removal costing you a bit more than it costed your opponent to play the unit.



Given the name, this very likely this carries the Familiar keyword, which has previously been said to allow a card to be a substitute for a race when special summoning. Maybe Creation Summons specifically? It seems like Familiars will be involved with that special summon method specifically, but we don't really know how it works yet.

This is another artwork from Force of Will, this one being Hitomatano-Orochi, the Pet of Lenneth.



This card when previously mentioned as being able to be played for no cost under the correct condition, and having a self resurrection effect.



Just an interesting lore note, there's a small implication that since Alice is one of the people from the ARK, which are people from destroyed worlds, that she is actually the Force of Will Alice, and that world is one of those destroyed by the Exvaders within the Gate Ruler lore.









A new Legend card! The one for Yomajin Front. His stats are incredibly low for a Level 3, so we're probably dealing with an extremely powerful effect.





Here we can once again see a 4 point difference between Level 1 and Level 2.







A Darkness attribute card within Yomajin Front! Stuff like this is interesting to note, in case it can be used as an alternative secondary color for Abyss Summon, or with a Ruler that allows more than 2 colors.





Since its known that Space Arthur has an effect similar to Burn Nova, where its played when you would lose to survive and end the opponent's turn, it makes sense to have 0 Strike. Its a powerful effect all on its own, so no need to give it offensive presence as well. I imagine the CNT effect allows for that survival effect to be activated when its damaged.

Also from a lore perspective its very interesting to note that Ed/Arthur is one of the Galaxy Heritage.



The Crimenaut boss! Its stats are near identical to Busterkong, who was described as having a very devastating effect, so I'd expect this card to have a similarly devastating effect.









I really enjoy these dialogue exchanges in flavor text with Wonderverse's rag-tag gang of protagonists. Looking forward to seeing more of them!



This card has the same Accident attribute as Haunting, so maybe its another card with the Open Card timing with similar design?



The Destiny Sword was previously stated to be similar to Duel Master's Terror Pit, meaning this is probably an Event that can destroy any enemy Unit, so its unsurprising to see this be a Level 3.

Also, a comment on collection numbers. With 133 cards in the set, and 121 being the last Wonderverse card we see before the Exvaders, Exvaders have a maximum of 12 card in the set, vs the 30 of all other colors, to make no mention of the Starter Deck cards all 4 other colors got. So Exvaders are intended as an understated faction for now, which also helps them from a flavor perspective keep their position as a mysterious invading force.

For rarity placement, Destiny Sword is the only ★★★ Exvaders are getting, as 125 is a ★. That of course also means that there are no ★★ for Exvaders in this set. As for ★★★★, there's a few possibilities. There could be 2, or there could be 1 with another Wonderverse Event placed at 122, or there could be 1 and Exvaders get a Legend. I definitely think it'll be the 2nd or 3rd option, since with 17 ★★★★, Exvaders only getting 1 means all other colors get to evenly have 4 each.

All of this means that Exvaders probably won't receive 4 Uber Rares, since they've been stated to all be ★★★★ or ★★★. That said, I personally really hope the Destiny Sword is an Uber Rare. Given its central position in the world, its a card I'd definitely want to have in Uber Rare.





Lastly, we have a few cards we only got very small images of during the demonstration of the playing field.