New Reveals! Creation Summon & Hand Control!

For the first of yesterday's influencer card reveals is ATLAS Event "Buster Arm!", from Clea's video! Clea is a member of the Gate Realize discord and has multilingual subtitles on their videos, so be sure to give their video a watch!



A powerful removal card for ATLAS! Since we already knew Buster Arm was a big Level 3 CNT Event, some of us had already assumed it would be a big removal card for ATLAS, similar to "Destiny Sword" in Exvaders. Of course, its weaker than that, since this deals damage, but 6 will still remove most opposing units, and it can of course be further buffed with "Guns & Gold Weapons Arsenal" to clear targets it can't already clear, or to give you safety from HP buffing Events.

Yesterday's 2nd influencer reveal is Wonderverse Unit "Horror Corps, Hannibal Razor" from Itokom's video.



The first reveal for the Horror Corps of Crimenauts! Horror Corps seems to fit into the overall control themes of Crimenauts as the hand control side of the attribute. Hannibal Razor allows any Ruler to force your opponent to discard 1. However, this is likely to be relegated to sideboard, assuming we have one. Not only does your opponent get to choose the card, Drive Rulers also are completely immune. Still, assuming sideboards exist, it will be very powerful against Hand Rulers.

Yesterday's last influencer reveal was Yomajin Front Unit "Black Kappa, Genkuro", from 47 Bandoro's blog post.



Honestly, this card doesn't seem very impressive. About half the time you're going to end up taking 1 or more damage yourself, and only really seems super good when you get the burn after the initial effect and still have it on field to attack with. Similar results can be achieved with the natural STK 2 of "Jinrai" in the same faction. It'll definitely be a fun card at the very least, and unlike "Jinrai", it is a target for "Tenrou the Ushi-oni".

And now we come to today's 1st influencer reveal, we have another Crimenauts card, in the Wonderverse Unit "Horror Corps Leader, Gachihorror", revealed by a video from Ogino Nobu.



Definitely earning the title of "Leader" within the hand control archetype, Gachihorror's discard effect is a straight improvement of Hannibal's, while having a set destroying option to still minus Drive Ruler opponents. In addition, its statline makes it a very solid defensive unit, which can create a resilient defensive zone when combined with Badmans.

With that, on to Ikeda's reveals and tweets!



With the online influencer focus of Gate Ruler's advertisement, and how Ikeda talked about advertising Gate Ruler in the past, it comes as a bit of a surprise that Gate Ruler is using the traditional magazine card reveal advertisement methods. Regardless, that reach is still good for the game.

On Hobby Search, we can see this preview page, though all the cards are too small to read. But from it we can see "Imperial Wizard, Shiori Rhodia" and "Norwegian Forest Cait Sith" from GB01 as well as "Jack the Ripper" and "Dökkálfar" from GS02.

While we don't yet have good images of the magazine, we do have a leak of "Imperial Wizard, Shiori Rhodia", who will talk about first, since she's pretty important to understanding many of the other reveals.



Creation Summon is finally known! As Ikeda said, it functions very similarly to Synchro Summon from Yugioh, and looks to be very powerful. As we'll see with the later reveals in this article, Shiori's ability to revive a [Familiar] on play allows her to instantly summon any Level 3 Dragon or Warrior from your deck, including the powerful Legend Card "Magvarius" to clear the board, or the "Platinum King, Albafort" to recover life and Penetrate your opponent's center line.



The first Familiar we saw a partial card of is now fully revealed! Thanks to its level modulation ability, it makes for an ideal target for Shiori, since being from the same faction as Volnar means you'll always be able to run him. Also of course worth keeping an eye on any abilities that care about attribute while on the field, but the only one we've seen so far is "Tiger of Id" who cares about the Beast attribute that "Hydra Familiar" and all the other [Familiar] reveals already have.



3 STK makes it certainly notable, though its stat allocation is notably inferior to "Raguo the Ushi-oni". However, unlike Raguo, it can fit into a Beast deck using Volnar and Wonderverse for access to both "Forest of Killers" and "Tiger of Id". Also, it has the Darkness attribute, so it could be useful in Abyss Summon decks. Perhaps even some mix deck between Darkness and Beast could be possible?



With this, we know for sure that [Counterattack] functions about the same as Buddyfight's! Technically, the phrasing here says "if it wasn't destroyed" rather than "if its still on the field", but we've been told it still does work with [Soulguard], so functionally identical. It loses the target choice, of course, since link attacks are gone. I'm sure there will be plenty of confusion in the future caused from being thinking it is "combat damage" due to having "attack" in its name, as we dealt with in Buddyfight. Ideally, I'd like the official localization at least could change the name to avoid that confusion from happening again.

Moving on to the card itself, natural Counterattack with this good defensive stat allocation seems very solid! The ability seems to cost 2 stat points. Being a Beast, Counterattack is able to be made much more effective through "Forest of Killers"! Its an Apparition as well, and being both would make it fit into an Apparition + Beast build that is seeming more and more viable, and is in general a great target for the ability of "Tenrou the Ushi-oni".



Another [Familiar] unit! Being another Level 1 in Volnar, its another revival target that allows Shiori to go into any Level 3 or lower Dragon or Warrior. Another plus of it is that unlike many other [Familiar] units we'll be seeing, it being a natural Level 1 nets it much better stats, so its much more useful as a normal unit rather than just as material.



Not only a [Familiar], but Selkirk also possesses another powerful new keyword! We first heard about [Intercept] quite a while back, and its mention made it seem like we'd have mutual combat damage like in MtG, but that turned out to not be the case, and now we see [Intercept] is a purely defensive version of what it is in MtG, allowing a unit to deal damage to the unit attacking it before it takes damage. Frankly, its a strictly better [Counterattack], but it also does cost more stat points naturally.

However, as a trade-off, the card's incredibly low HP makes it vulnerable to effect damage in a way that "Space Sphinx" is not. This is especially concerning as a [Creation Summon] material, as it could be destroyed by an Immediate Event or Ability before you can [Creation Summon]. This is particularly a weakness of [Familiar] cards. Like in Buddyfight, when you summon a unit, there is no timing for your opponent to use an Immediate after its on the field until you use another ability or card. However, activating [Familiar] to make your unit a compatible attribute will give your opponent that timing. While they could do the same to Shiori by responding to her [TD]/[OD] effect, but her 3 HP makes her much harder to kill than a 1 or 2 HP [Familiar] unit. (This analysis is now incorrect due to additional ruling information)



Calico's level modulation is a bit of an oddity right now, since there'd be no reason to make it a Level 2 when using [Creation Summon] with "Shiori Rhodia". However, its likely there's a 2nd weaker, lower Level summoner, and for that Calico suddenly becomes among the best [Familiar] units, allowing a Level 1 summoner to bring out a Level 3. Also, even with "Shiori Rhodia", Calico has a really important trait. Being a Wizard naturally, Calico is a target for Shiori's revival that also doesn't use to activate a Normal to be used to [Creation Summon].



A cool new defensive Event for Wonderverse! Its default effect can be a bit situational, but forcing your opponent into a high HP high Level unit is pretty solid, or even better forcing the attack into a [Intercept] or [Counterattack], or even "Obstacle" unit. Very appreciated that its [CNT] rests a unit instead of doing anything involving its main effect, allowing its [CNT] to be useful even with an empty board.



And the last of yesterday's Ikeda reveals! Flying Shield is an incredibly versatile non-[CNT] defensive Event. Unlike HP boosting Events like "Desperate", "Do-or-die Defense Battle", and "All Things Must Die", this card is also able to defend you from direct attacks. Of course, it has the weakness of a more limited timing making it vulnerable to removal, but since all set removal we've seen has been Level 2 or higher, that is pretty limited and definitely not enough of a weakness to hamper its versatility. Particularly, within [Creation Summon], it also gives you a native to Volnar tool to keep your materials alive through attempts to remove them before you can activate [Creation Summon].

Next up, Ikeda's reveals from earlier today!



Wolf seems like a very easy staple. 2 damage is pretty significant for a Level 1, doesn't even have [CNT] like Ed, and on top of that its a Wizard making it a material target for Shiori's [Creation Summon]!

Footsoldier's effect on the other hand is incredibly powerful. A card like this will be very valuable to Knight, especially being a Level 0, as it allows you to spend 3 Energy while being able to recover to full on the next turn, or set yourself up to use an Event on your opponent's turn.

We also get confirmation that [Turn(1)] is a once per turn keyword. While this reminder text says its based on name, reminder text in Gate Ruler is specific to the effect in question, as we saw in the [Open Card] reminder text for "Haunting" not mentioning paying as much as possible since there was no cost to pay. In this case, [Turn(1)] being played within the quotation marks for the ability name is likely what makes it based on ability name, and not being placed there, as on "Yamata no Orochi" should allow you to use the same effect twice if you have two copies of the card on the field.



They largely speak for themselves, but its nice to confirm that Wild Force has archetypal support to tie it together in this 1st set. And Big Owl is incredibly powerful draw support to boot. Taking [CNT] slots is well deserved, and its [CNT] effect itself is pretty fantastic too. High Defense will make it a pain for your opponent to deal with as well.

Meanwhile, Recon Deer is in many ways a superior Levan, who has proven to be a potent card in the Demo Deck. Being able to set-up [CNT]s is powerful, and being on a Level 0 and within an archetype with this powerful draw power is rather nice, as is being able to run 8 copies of this effect is you want.

Also of note is that Owl is a new card that cares about attributes on the field, so it has compatibility with [Familiar] units. Selkirk is a decent unit in its own right, so it seems like a prime option for that.



While "Guiding Holy Swordsman" has a decent level modulation ability, with as many Familiars as we can that are Level 1 or can set themselves to Level 1, it seems rather unnecessary. Maybe his Wind and Light attributes will become relevant?

On the other hand, Daring Trooper is very exciting! From very early in Buddyfight, the design space of having multiple cards with the same named ability that are all restricted by the same once per turn, is one I found interesting and hoped would be explored in the future. Unfortunately, in Buddyfight, it took until Time Dragons, about this time last year, for this to be explored. It makes me very excited to see this design space being utilized so early on, and using it to give you 8 copies of a powerful effect like this while still preventing you from using it more than once in a turn.

Footsoldier and Daring Soldier are some of the units that scream staple status the most of what we've seen to me.



And for our last new card, a new card from Starter Deck 2! This was leaked and the tweet has since been deleted, so we don't have a source to provide. Regardless, this provides a very powerful mill tool, not as good as Follower, but still quite potent, and boasting much better unit clearing stats than Follower.

And last up, we have some Ikeda quotes of interest to go through.



For those who are unaware, "Hundred Demons" were the first of Buddyfight's "attribute flags" (and the only one from Ikeda's run) that allowed you to use cards from many different Worlds that shared an attribute in one deck. I imagine that's what Ikeda means, rather than the burn playstyle of Buddyfight's Hundred Demons.

It seems likely that "Traitor" could be units who betray their home world to the Exvaders, so perhaps these will be tied together in a Ruler that allows you to use Exvaders as well as all Traitor cards. Ultimately, we'll have to wait and see, but this is definitely an attribute to keep an eye on.