A long-standing issue with English Cardfight Vanguard is the unavailability of older cards, and how that effectively locks out certain decks from people who want to try them, simply because they weren't playing when essential cards were released or they were playing but the cards were so "meh" at time of release or shortly after that people didn't hold onto them. The example I have always given is that you can't play a Nightmare Doll deck without Alice. This is because it's not like Alice is a strong addition to the deck, but Alice IS the deck. The same can be said about a pure Blade Wing deck. Revival Collection is a set that English players, including myself have been begging for for a long time now. Confirmed reprints include-
- Nightmare Doll Alice
- Blade Wing Reijy
- Lambros
-Aurageyser Dragon
From these reveals alone we can see the direction that Bushiroad are trying to take the English game. The reveals imply that it won't just be pre-G cards that are reprinted but essential hard to find cards. No Aqua Force deck doesn't run 4 copies of Lambros. Even when they get further support in G-Set 9 I can't imagine Lambros will be completely pushed out, to 2 I should think will be it. In my eyes that is what this set is about. We are coming to a point in the game where clans are going to get support, but you still need the older cards. Yes without a doubt it is to do with selling the new cards, but at the same time it means that we get to play with decks that before may have been completely inaccessible (Aurageyser is still sitting ona value of around £30-50 online. You need 2. And that is £100 before any other shadow paladin cards.)
One downside I have seen players complain about is the destruction of the secondary market. The reprints are easy to find so the originals are less wanted so will lose value. My argument to that is tough. I have known of people to really go crazy with their prices because they know there is demand. This prevents that. And with this set being called Revival Collection Vol.1 I am hopeful that this may continue as the game grows. Fingers crossed for a Luquier reprint in Volume 2!
It is not confirmed how the numbers of the sort work out so these predictions are not as a setlist as a whole, more so what I think may get printed/what I would like to see!
Royal Paladin- Aerial Divine Knight Altmile
- Sanctuary Guard Dragon
- Seeker Support
Shadow Paladin- Witch Stride or Grade 3
- Diablo Stride
Aqua Force- Transcore Grade 3
- Ripple support
Pale Moon- Silver Thorn Stride/ Grade 3
- Nightmare Doll Support
Gold Paladin- Liberator Support
-Salvation Lion Ezel Scissors
Oracle Think Tank- New: Battle Sister Support
- Silent Tom
Genesis- Regalia Grade 3 (Minerva, CEO or New)
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Kagero - Overlord (because it's Overlord)
Tachikaze- Rex support
Murakumo- Zanbaku and/or support
Narukami- Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion
- Confirmed Eradicator Support
Nova Grappler- Confirmed Beast Deity Support
Dimension Police- Dimensional Robo support.
Link Joker - Chaos support
Spike Brothers- Dragger reprint/support
Gear Chronicle- Steam Maiden Melem
Granblue- Seven Seas Stride Reprint
- Stride that flips a G Unit face up.
Bermuda Triangle- ??? (see notes (b)
Megacolony- Giraffa reprint/support.
- Machining support
Great Nature- Managarmr reprint
Neo Nectar- Musketeer Support
- Maiden of support.
Notes
(a) Link Joker was a hard one as Messiahs, Star Vaders and Chaos have had a lot of support lately. Gears was tricky to because the question is how recent are they going back to get reprints? We know as GBT03 because of Aurageyser, so the question is; is GBT05 too recent? Melem is sitting at about £20-25 at the moment. which is a lot for a RR. With all the Gear support coming it seems illogical to me to not reprint her. But time will tell!
(b) For Bermuda Triangle I had no idea at all. They have so many different decks you can play that I couldn't quite decide what I think is most likely. Olyvia would have been the number 1 candidate were it not for the fact that she has literally just been reprinted. That being said I wouldn't say it is impossible. My guess would be Duo support, or more specifically; Meer. She got a stride in the Summer Collection but didn't do all that much to the deck itself. The deck lacks a finisher. Reit is good, but we need her in stride form! Or just a really decent Duo stride.
These are just some of my thoughts. Overall, from what has been revealed so far, this set is looking to bring good things to the game, and I am looking forward to more reprints int he future!
