G Comic Booster 1: Vanguard & Deletor

[Cherry]

Ahmes' card name is confirmed as "Swordsman of Light, Ahmes" in case anyone didn't know.

[kukuchan]

Lola's name is confirmed as "Swordsman of Light, Blaster Rapier Lola".

[Lucius]

Swordsman of Light, Blaster Rapier Lola
[CONT](VC/RC/GC):Resist (This unit cannot be chosen by the effects of your opponent's cards)
[CONT](RC):All of your units named "King of Knights, Alfred" with the same column as this unit get [Power]+1000.

bushi is rotten

[kukuchan]

Swordsman of Light, Blaster Rapier Lola
[CONT](VC/RC/GC):Resist (This unit cannot be chosen by the effects of your opponent's cards)
[CONT](RC):All of your units named "King of Knights, Alfred" with the same column as this unit get [Power]+1000.

bushi is rotten

How sad she is a grade 1 q.q i expected greater skill from you...

[Crystalia]

Well she's a blaster. That's something right. I mean Wingal Brave can activate from boosting her, she can be called by starcall. And other than that she's pretty much vanilla :/

[Cherry]

Lola should've done something more, but making Alfred an 11k that can't be removed with a field-wide effect (like Tempest Bolt or Blaster Joker) is amazing in itself. Shining Swordsman Gaiden units focusing on the Season 1 Royal Paladins is an interesting move, so units will likely revolve around OG Alfred or Alfreds in general (hopefully the latter for Alfred Early shenanigans and XIV techs too). As it stands, making OG Alfred an 11k that hits 21 is something nice. However, considering that if you play the deck you'll want Ezzell, it doesn't do as much as Bushi would want.

She's searchable by Brave and stuff, which is something to.

Okay start for showing off what the Royals of Leader and Deletor are doing. It'd be neat if we got Graywon-centered Deletors then.

[Beryl]

the more blasters they add, the more targets there are for wingal brave/starcall trumpeter.

i'm not confident on this, but doesn't ezzell also reap the benefits of lola during your turn since legion is essentially both units combined? if it doesn't, then alright, but if it does, then ezzell can search it and lola wasn't boosting anyway, just like lien. only difference is that your net advantage is a bit...different.

32k is also a much less relevant number, but i guess if someone was randomly playing majesty lord blaster...lol

[kukuchan]

Knight of King's Lieutenant, Galehalt
[AUTO]:[Counter Blast (2)] When this unit is placed on (VC), you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to one card with "Alfred" in its card name, ride it as [Stand], and shuffle your deck. If you rode, choose a card named "Knight of King's Lieutenant, Galehalt" from your soul, and call it to (RC).
[AUTO](RC):When this unit's attack hits a vanguard, if you have a vanguard with "Alfred" in its card name, Counter Charge (1).

[Cherry]

This thing is quite the little revolutionary that puts the Ezer promo (not the legion) out of a job. Not only does he immediately secure Alfred, but he turns himself into a rearguard, and threatens to refund half of his cost every time he swings. Even more so the fact that you can even Stride as soon as you Superior Ride and get him as a rearguard. You can be cute and use it with Alfred Early if you have Blaster Blade in your soul to get two rearguards and a new vanguard out of the deal. Mind you, Alfred Early is still bad.

Also, it wasn't posted here, but Madu is getting reprinted in this Comic Booster. That's really neat because the Royal Paladin deck is focusing on King of Knights, Alfred from the looks of it. Which is a 10 Vanguard, meaning Madu is a brilliant choice of reprints to sell this idea. A creative form of revival, as everything could potentially push out the need for Ezzell if consistent enough.

In addition to all of that, if Royal Paladin Monarch Alfred shows up in this booster, then it's definitely a Crossride or a Stride. Stride makes sense if it requires an Alfred Heart, which this is made to set up for. Crossride could be to urge you to ride Galehalt on top of OG Alfred in order to get 13000 base the next turn after. You can still get a stride either way to keep up in advantage. In that case, the combo would be ride OG Alfred and discard Galehalt. Then Stride Madu to get Galehalt back while getting a Triple Drive. Finally, you ride Galehalt and Crossride.

I don't put any money on Galehalt actually hitting, however. If I did, I'd honestly play him in Seekers.

This booster so far has impressed me with its ideas, and we've only seen two (three if reprints count) out of it. I'm going to greatly enjoy this.

[Cherry]

Swordsman of Light, Blaster Javelin Larousse

[AUTO]:[Choose two cards from your hand, and put them into your soul] When this unit is placed on (RC), if you have a vanguard with "Alfred" in its card name, you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to two <High Beast>, call them to separate open (RC), and shuffle your deck.

Yet another card that's years late.

Another Wingal Brave target at least. Oh, and, of course, Swordmy promotion. Call this and use it to Superior Call a Grade 1 behind it and Swordmy, then Swordmy gets another Grade 1. Bushi, I sure hope you go through with whatever you put Swordmy on the watchlist for.

Not really any good targets in this era that archetypes his targets are homed in can't grab easily already. I assume this'll change that. If Monarch is a Crossride, maybe Lionmare Stallion could be a viable pick since this fills soul.

[Killa]

Docking Deletor, Greion


[ACT](VC):[Counter Blast (2)-card with "Deletor" in its card name & Choose one of your rear-guards with "Deletor" in its card name, and retire it] Delete all of your opponent's vanguards, your opponent chooses a card from his or her drop zone, and banish deletes it. (The deleted unit is turned face down, its power becomes 0 and it loses all text. It turns face up at the end of the owner's turn)
[AUTO]:When this unit is placed on (VC), your opponent chooses two cards from his or her drop zone, and banish deletes them.

[kukuchan]

Docking Deletor, Greion


[ACT](VC):[Counter Blast (2)-card with "Deletor" in its card name & Choose one of your rear-guards with "Deletor" in its card name, and retire it] Delete all of your opponent's vanguards, your opponent chooses a card from his or her drop zone, and banish deletes it. (The deleted unit is turned face down, its power becomes 0 and it loses all text. It turns face up at the end of the owner's turn)
[AUTO]:When this unit is placed on (VC), your opponent chooses two cards from his or her drop zone, and banish deletes them.

*Faints*. Checks the card again. *Faints* *Dies* gg

[Cherry]

Does more than the other Deletor bosses for one card less (Wokshiz and Chaos are 4 total), and Igor basically makes this CB1 Retire 1. Still a gigantic disappointment with having Delete End removed and no answer to Stride, so manga integrity was entirely lost on this card aside from the promoted use of Banish Delete. Your Grade 3 lineup becomes Graywon and Zwill. Problem is you're just playing the same deck but you don't spend 50 cards to make a play that gets erased when your opponent strides.

Some sort of lock down would've been nice man... Give it a Wokshiz clause where the opponent has to discard to normal ride, make them pay more for Stride... something...

Ugh, why couldn't you just keep to what you showed in the manga like Blaster Javelin did?

This does give hope for rearguards, however. They'll likely get a card or several that rewards them for a massive amount of banish deletes. In addition to that, they'll probably get cards that capitalize on your turn when your opponent's Vanguard is deleted. And maybe some hope that something gives Graywon his auto-win. Some more hope they actually do get counters.

The GR is either Monarch Alfred, Ark Saver, or the Deletor Stride seeing as this is 005 in Card Number.

Lord Graywon finally descends and now I hate him. Thanks Bushi. At the very least, you've shown that you want to focus on Banish Delete in a format where Legion is gradually being pushed out. So I assume you have an answer to this as well, which is the only thing I'll be looking forward to out of Deletors.

[kukuchan]

Swordsman of Light, Blaster Axe Guerard
[AUTO](RC)[1/Turn]:When your other unit is placed on (RC) due to an effect from one of your cards, if you have a vanguard with "Alfred" in its card name, this unit gets [Power]+5000 until end of turn.

[Cherry]

Hailing Deletor, Elro (Left)

[AUTO](RC)[1/Turn]:When your opponent's unit is placed on (RC) due to an effect from cards, Counter Charge (1), your opponent chooses a card from his or her drop zone, and banish deletes it.
[AUTO]((RC) in the left column):When this unit attacks a vanguard, if you have a unit named "Hailing Deletor, Alba" on your (RC) in the right column, this unit gets [Power]+3000 until end of that battle.

Hailing Deltor, Alba (Right)

[AUTO]:When this unit is placed on (RC), if your opponent's vanguard is deleted, search your deck for up to one card named "Hailing Deletor, Elro", call it to (RC), and shuffle your deck. If you do, your opponent calls the top card of his or her deck to (RC). (He or she may look at the card that will called before calling it)
[AUTO]((RC) in the right column):When this unit attacks a vanguard, if you have a unit named "Hailing Deletor, Elro" on your (RC) in the left column, this unit gets [Power]+3000 until end of that battle.

How to solve one of the main problems with Deletors in five seconds.
Answer: make Graywon's first delete cb0 retire 1.