Stand and Draw: Card game rants and experiences

And it's finally time for Fortune Selector!! Okay, I wanted to write about it before the booster is out but I've decided to put it off and post it with the unboxing videos. Yes, this is going to be a rant, meaningful or not, is completely your decision; I just want to get it out of my systems.

Firstly, I'm glad we're still getting more stuff for Wixoss. But I am quite disappointed with what was released in Fortune Selector and it's targeted mainly at the common cards. Head to the Wiki and look through the list. So what did you see? If you didn't see much stuff, then you're not looking hard enough. Here's a hint - all of the common Signi cards are cards with trait power-up effect aka "If you have another <trait> in the field, this Signi's power is XXXX.".

Yup, it's just that for ALL colours. I get that some of these traits needed them, like red's Ore or green's Beast. If these cards are released in Booster 7(?), I'd be more than happy to welcome them but in Booster 6 where slots are limited since set has only 56 odd slots, you would expect to see something better. I get that it's a supplementary booster to Booster 4 and 5 but Booster 3 have a much better pool of card for the commons and a number of these cards are staples in many decks. Now I just hope booster 7 has a much better outcome.

Secondly, the point exchange. For those who didn't know, Singapore can exchange the points they get from buying packs for foiled promo cards (look for point campaign remarks). Collect 100 points and you can change them for one of them shiny promos. It's all good and dandy when you printed out the form and was told to cut out the points and paste them. Then, drop it off to at any Wixoss supporting card shop and they'll send over the points to the supplier who will send it over to Takara Tomy Japan. The process takes about a few weeks as it involves waiting for the cards to be delivered to Singapore and back to the store.

Turns out, there are some, sorry to say this, idiots out there who think they are being extremely smart by PHOTOCOPYING the points and pasting them on the form. It wasn't officially mentioned (I may be wrong. If there is a source, direct me to it please) by Genesis Frontier (the supplier who got Wixoss in SG) but it was mentioned by a few card shops I visit for Wixoss stuff that was doing the points exchange as well. They were told not to collect any points for the time being and was instructed to tell the players not to cut out and paste the points onto the form, and instead, just pass the stack of points with the forms and written details. Apparently, after the points was delivered to Japan, there was an outrage by Takara Tomy that there was lots of fake points coming in from Singapore. Another thing to note of is that there is a limited number of Wixoss cases that was officially shipped to Singapore by Takara Tomy and they were overwhelmed that the points they received from Singapore was more than what was shipped to Singapore. They had to scan through each forms and check the point cut outs to separate the legit filled forms from the fake ones. The shops that I wanted to exchange with said they can't accept any points for now until Genesis gives them the green light for it again.


Seriously, for those who are planning on photocopying the points and exchanging them for the promos, don't be a smartass and do that, please. You're making it hard for us legit point collectors to exchange them. If people still decide to continue "cheating" the system, Takara Tomy may just announce "Hey look, we gave you a chance to get the promos, fooling me once was fine but second and third time? Know what? We're scrapping the point exchange for you guys. Nope, no promos for you!". That may just happen and who knows, Takara Tomy may decide to not export Wixoss again to Singapore or any other country.

When was the last time I did a deck profile again? Oh yeah, back in February. Well, let's not get on to the little details shall we? Cause it's time for more Miku!

Project Diva F 2nd booster came out not so long ago. I have a unboxing video for it, but I think I may have lost it somehow in the sea of data that is my computer after doing some back up. Either I have accidentally deleted the file or it's named as something else...

Now enough with my rants. With Project Diva F 2nd out, the Vocaloid series finally have gotten themselves a HUGE boost that most cards from the first booster pales in comparison. And I welcome this update with a huge grin on my face (still hidden behind the camera. Who is this guy who loves to murmur to himself?). So much that it is considered anti-meta by some and too over-powered by others. For me, well, it still depends on how you use and combo the cards. Here's my deck profile of my updated Miku fan deck.


The deck hugely focuses on a few things.

1. Deck thinning through large stocks that you don't know what to do with said stock
2. Easily cycle climax cards to the waiting room
3. Large attacking and defending power.
4. Ample hand size

Yup, the deck is that strong and consistent. Playing against lots of decks and winning mostly - Angel Beats, Nisekoi, Vividred, Kan-Colle and Rewrite, just to name a few. Anti-heal? Go ahead, I have 16 stocks to use. Wanna counter? Nope, denied! Hmm, now I'm at level 2...oh wait, I have 6 climax in waiting room. Here's a G3 Miku taking the centre stage!......Yup, fun times.

Without further ado, here's the list of cards I used for the deck!

Level 0: (16 cards)

• 3 x Hatsune Miku "Pierretta"
• 4 x "39 GET!" Hatsune Miku
• 4 x Hatsune Miku "Cat Girl"
• 3 x Hatsune Miku "Magician"
• 2 x Hatsune Miku "Bless You" 

Level 1: (10 cards)

• 2 x Kagamine Rin "Ni no Sakura: Butterfly"
• 4 x Hatsune Miku "Orange Blossom"
• 4 x Hatsune Miku "Supreme"

Level 2: (7 cards)

• 1 x Weekender Girl
• 2 x Hatsune Miku "V3"
• 3 x Hatsune Miku "Orbit"
• 1 x Kagamine Len "White Edge"

Level 3: (9 cards)

• 4 x "Electronic Songstress" Hatsune Miku
• 3 x "Always Ringing" Hatsune Miku
• 2 x Hatsune Miku, Resonating "DIVA"

Climax: (8 cards)

• 4 x Packaged
• 4 x SPiCa - 39's Giving Day Edition-

Hey there again and I'm back with Wixoss Booster set 2 unboxing! The video is long, since it is about 15 minutes per box (on average) and most likely bore some people (sorry for not being so colourful with words).

Yes, as you've seen in the video, one of the boxes is a mispacked box. Full of parallel foil cards that includes in a SECRET card too! Aki-lucky! Here are the images of the SRs that I managed to snag from the 4 boxes!






Of course some of the cards shown here are for sale. I have yet to add them into the store yet but I'll be putting up another post ones it's done!

Despite being considered a "not so good TCG" from the English community, it seems to have quite a bit of following in Japan. Now I'm not going to rant about that now, or anytime soon. But instead, this is yet another unboxing video for Seig Krone.

Currently the trend of Sieg Krone is going towards to having TCGs from anime series. After their initial release of Holy War Cerberus, which is both a game and manga, they went on to Attack on Titans, Zettai Bouei Leviathan, Noragami and Super Sonico the Animation. I don't intend to actually get Noragami and Sonico, but I do have in hand Leviathan. So without further ado, here's the unboxing video for Zettai Bouei Leviathan.

It's been awhile since the last post. Well, has been a bit busy but I managed to find some time to do an unboxing video for Ange Vierge. Let me give a short intro for Ange Vierge - it's a card game similar to Weiss Schwarz (I say similar but not entirely the same) and is based around bishoujo characters. Yes, all girls. No speck of male presence in this TCG ever. The game play can be found at SkiethのTCG. They even have a promotion anime by Production I.G which is quite impressive and of course they have more in their channel.

As mentioned in my previous box opening video, I'll be getting 4 more boxes. And guess what, I sure did. As promised, here's part 2 of Daybreak Illusion box opening!

Box 1 & 2
Box 3 & 4

Finally, the box that I've been waiting for! Booster box 11! Thanks to Conquer001 for recording the video for me. This time around, I used a better camera than my previous few videos. And if you're complaining about it being too shaky and stuff...yeah, you know who to look for. And wow, getting 2 SPs from just 2 boxes...I'm amazed at myself as I never had this kind of luck before \(^o^)/ ! Without further ado, the unboxing video. But first, I apologize for the noise as there are a few other players opening their boxes as well but still, enjoy!


Sadly I couldn't get 2 more of the cards that I need (basically Dauntless Drive Dragon), I may have to switch strategies for tomorrow's Singapore Qualifier. I managed to snag a few Blockade Inferno so I may be trying out a couple of builds first before finalizing on the cards. I'm currently leaning more towards Seal Dragons, but we'll see how it goes.

What!? An update so quick!? Is the sky falling!? No, sky is not falling and I'm updating cause there's some free time in my hand. This time around, there's videos!! Now here's the bad news...the quality is bad. Not too bad, but still, bad. The sound is not as great and is a bit soft and all, so you may have to put up the volume of your headphones or speakers. Just a simple disclaimer, the one doing the unboxing isn't me; I'm the lousy camera man and the items here are my friend's.