Prince of Iris

Me saying FE Switch news is coming isn't based on what Nintendo Force wrote.

Nothing really to support the idea of a new Fire Emblem Direct outside wishful thinking. It may very well be just another Nintendo Direct.

I think I should clarify a little. Most others are anticipating FE Switch to be revealed today, and understandably so, but the truth is that isn't happening. So if that is your expectation, you will be disappointed, and maybe also confused. FE Switch will be revealed at a later date, and it is my understanding that later date will still be this month. How exactly that will play out, I don't know the full details at the moment, but in response to the hypothetical idea of it being through another FE Direct, I offer my opinion that it'd be neat, but I also don't know if that'll happen or not. What I do know is that there is a regular Nintendo Direct today, but FE Switch won't be covered in it.

I'd love to see another Fire Emblem Direct, though I couldn't say if there will be or not. I personally don't feel it's necessarily imperative, but I suppose I can see it working out for them. We'll see. For now, though...yeah. You can choose to be disappointed either now or later today.

The post can be deemed fake because it contains information which heavily contradicts how Nintendo has always operated for years. Nintendo never provides details about special editions at the same time as first revealing a title, only later when closer to launch Nintendo never announces release dates for products that are like eight months away, as seen with Project Octopath given date of September 9th Nintendo never releases retail products on a Sunday (September 9th), only on a Friday In order for the post to be real, Nintendo would need to break from at least three different conventions at once for no discernible reason, which simply isn't realistic. Anyone should be able to see that this is just another hoax by understanding how Nintendo handles their publishing processes.

I don't know if anyone is planning to organize something over here, but I'd like to mention that someone recently made a post on the Facebook group reaching out to anyone interested in their group order. I'd suggest messaging them if you want to go ahead and make a deal, it seems easy enough to do.

Deploying is a mechanic which specifically means sending a unit from another area (in other words your hand, retreat, bonds, orbs, or deck) directly to the battlefield, so skill effects which are triggered by deploying cannot be activated if you were to hypothetically flip an ally face up on the battlefield, which isn't even possible during a game as there are currently no skills in the TCG that flip allies. Because of this, the flip to reveal the leaders at the start of the game can never trigger any skill. So if you start a game with the new cost 1 Marth as your leader, he is actually never able use his first skill unless you were to use Rowan or Lianna to switch his status as leader and send him back to hand, then deploy him to the battlefield afterwards to trigger it. The effects of Hero Skills, which change the assigned leader between already deployed allies, also do not count as deploying, as no unit is actually being deployed from anywhere to the battlefield when they are used. The key to identifying what counts as deploying in the TCG is whether or not a new unit is being added in play. If this isn't happening, then it isn't a deployment.

Yes, because in the TCG, the term ally simply refers to a unit you control. If a skill just says to do something to an ally (tapping, moving, destroying, etc.), it can include the unit using the skill unless the skill specifies that it has to be an other ally. So in the case of Clair, she can in fact tap herself for her first skill, then immediately trigger her second skill to untap herself, allowing her to follow up with another action.

I think it's worth noting that the older Oifey artwork actually isn't for a new card this set (it's for his N card from Series 8), only the younger Oifey is. I imagine the two were only shown together for the sake of comparison.

The answer is no. This is for two reasons. The first reason is because the value of a card's power (aka attack) is treated independently from the combined strength that's summed together with the aforementioned value and an ally's aid (their support power), while Larcei's second skill is only supposed to check for the initial value. When that description says "attack", they really mean that specific value from the individual card and not whatever you gain during combat with another card. You would have to rely on skills outside of combat to buff Larcei's power to 100, such as her first skill, and be able to activate her second skill. The other reason is because it's an Act skill, meaning it can only be manually activated outside of combat, therefore any combat buffs are irrelevant due to their timing as Larcei wouldn't even have them anymore when you'd be able to use her second skill. As long as Larcei's power is currently 100 or above outside of combat during your turn, you can activate her second skill, and the effect will remain for the rest of the turn even if her power is reduced below 100 after the fact.

Cards 23-26 are looking like some collection that includes Gerik, Tethys, or Marisa to me, but I doubt any of them will have an SR. That might go to Lute, I agree. Maybe Rennac will actually have a promotion as 39 and get the last purple R. The red Yuzu shown a while ago already has me thinking it could go 74 Yuzu and 75 Randal (since Emma and Shade already visited Valentia in S9), while Alice and Valjean could be 49-50. I also think Mae and/or Boey are very strong contenders for 64-65 too, and 73 could be Nomah or even a Revenant. I have little doubt that Alm and Celica will get SRs again simply because Alm is featured in promo material for the set and history shows that such characters always get an SR and Celica likely would too if Alm does. To little surprise, there's no way the entire FE Warriors roster can fit, but I think those in 84-89 have to be not only the aforementioned characters, but also Lissa who was already confirmed, and maybe Leo and Camilla simply because I'd like to think them having all-new classes would make them more likely to have cards. Darios is a major character in FE Warriors, so I'm inclined to believe he'll end the set at 99-100.

I personally didn't translate that, but I recognize that the Japanese name is supposed to directly borrow from Innes's ending title from the original game, which actually does mention Hayden eventually passing, so it makes sense they chose to use the official English equivalent for that. For what it's worth though, FE Heroes uses the same name for him as well in Japanese, but is localized differently in English as Regal Strategician, which is more close to the original meaning. There's at least one other similar example where one of the first Chrom cards uses his Newly Exalted title (taken from his FE Awakening ending, in reference to his postgame coronation, while the card itself is based on his appearance circa Endgame), but in FE Heroes that same title is renamed to Exalted Prince to make it sound more neutral. Neither name is more right or wrong than the other, but it's interesting to see the same names get changed in different contexts in English, whereas in Japanese they stay the same. Personally speaking, in the case of Innes, I'd have preferred Regal Strategician used for the card, but whatever. Since the first set, most card names are often supposed to reference one-off epithets that the characters have used, and it's a cool thing little detail about them that unfortunately doesn't really get to see a lot of exposure in the English fandom due to the language barrier.

There aren't any known plans to officially release the FE Cipher TCG outside of Japan at this time. You can acquire the Japanese cards through special online stores or other people on this site who offer their own, or play the game in English through unofficial translations and simulators, but we there's been no news as to when or even if the card game will get an English release.

Just repeating the same response I gave in another topic, I think it may be Blazing Blade for this set, based on the order Intelligent Systems officially provides them and is reflected in the topic here. If there's ever been one where the first title wasn't supposed to be the main focus, I've not personally noticed.

I want to believe it is in fact the Tellius portion, if only because Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn have so far always been officially listed first whenever Intelligent Systems provides the list of featured titles for the set, and traditionally the first to be listed is supposed to be the main one.

Oh, you mean the other player you're having trouble with. Sorry, I did forget about that detail after reading the other responses. In that case, Deirdre isn't really going to help you, but it is worth knowing why she can be valuable against other female Corrin decks. If your opponent's female Corrin deck is really using no one else but the Nohrian royals, then the lack of bond acceleration exposes one of female Corrin's major drawbacks: she has absolutely no way to be promoted to her cost 6 until turn 5 at the earliest. I would suggest thinking of a deck where your deck can take advantage of this fact. Another idea would be to use Marth against this kind of deck, because Marth has a variety of cards which have access to Falchion or Rapier skills that allow him to effectively remove any of the royals with ease due to all of them being mounted or a dragon, unless they're playing anything like Maid Elise or Nohrian King Xander where that wouldn't apply.

I didn't mention Deirdre because she would directly hinder female Corrin. Deirdre is still a relevant counter against a female Corrin deck because Deirdre's skill will target other dragon characters who female Corrin will also commonly play like Tiki and Nowi. Tiena's skill doesn't target the leader either for comparison.

Cipherfaire's video on the new cost 6 female Corrin in the previous post above is really good and helps explain how her decks typically work and what you can play against her weaknesses in detail. Vince touched on some of those points as well. I don't have too much to add, but I'd like to mention one other option you may also consider is splashing Deirdre 4/3 since she has an anti-dragon tech skill where non-leader dragon foes remain untapped at the start of the opponent's turn at no cost, hindering their utility considerably and affordably. I don't think she's as good as Tiena's destruction/card draw ability, but Deirdre is another noteworthy option and can be a way to add in some other yellow cards you may want to mix in a deck to counter female Corrin.

We've only seen one Myrrh card so far, which was this card from this month's livestream. However, there should be at least one other card for Myrrh which we've not yet seen, due to the existence of another artwork for Myrrh which hasn't had its card revealed yet. We should see about that one in due time, but for now we just have that one Myrrh card. I'm not sure what you're referring to by the mid-evolution twins, though. If you mean something about Eirika and Ephraim, we already know what every card they've shown off for them so far does and they're all on the wiki I linked to you in a previous post, with the exception of the other two I had also already shown you before and those likely won't be added to their respective pages until they're formally shown on Twitter or set release, whichever comes first. All of the effects listed for each card provided in this post are accurate as far as I can tell, it's just that those cards which aren't on the wiki yet are only provisionally translated and can be expected to be added when all other text is accounted for, like skill names and such.

The talking point about Alice and Valjean possibly being FE Heroes characters and crossing over from the FE Cipher TCG is a common misconception that stems from the misattribution of the fact that their base cards are of the same kind as the cards for the FE Heroes characters, when all the cards for the FE Warriors characters also using that same kind of card renders that point entirely obsolete. Colorless cards, or cards without symbols, don't mean that Alice and Valjean are from the setting of FE Heroes, they strictly mean that those cards were chosen not to share an affiliation within the context of the trading card game, and the cards for the FE Warriors characters are a continuation of that. It was only ever speculation in the first place that, because of the known trend of the FE Cipher original characters canonically hailing from the existing Fire Emblem worlds their debut base cards corresponded to according to the FE Cipher official site (such as Emma and Shade being from Hoshido and Nohr and starting out as white and black cards in Series 2, respectively), that this may also be the case for Alice and Valjean. However, contrary to belief, there's been nothing released which says Alice and Valjean come from any particular setting. That information hasn't been disclosed and potentially may not ever. None of this needs to be misconstrued. It is not true that 1) we actually know where Alice and Valjean are from, that 2) Alice promotes into a white/black card and Valjean promotes into a yellow card bear any significance, or that 3) Alice or Valjean have any more of a chance to appear in FE Heroes than any other character in the series. If any of the FE Cipher original characters were to appear in FE Heroes, it wouldn't be because of any particular card characteristics in FE Cipher. Based on the available information about the TCG, there is nothing which indicates that Alice or Valjean are specifically characters from or slated for FE Heroes. This video is absolutely not a confirmation or leak of anything, only misinformed conjecture made into a video. To be frank, while it's nice to see someone spread awareness of FE Cipher on YouTube, the unfortunately misleading nature of the video makes me prefer to see they revise it or at least take it down. I believe it would be the responsible thing to do instead of unnecessarily getting other people's hopes up over something they are evidently not familiar with enough.

I don't know anything beyond the surface level about Tabletop Simulator, but I've seen three different FE Cipher plugins released for it, so those may be a start if making a plugin of your own isn't feasible or you want to support theirs. Asdeef's plugin seems to be the most promising one in my opinion, since it was actually posted only a few days ago, supposedly has all the cards including the latest ones, and the author still appears to be active in listening to feedback and is intent on updating it for future sets. You can also check out the plugins by Spore and Yalorda if you're curious about how those were made. Personally speaking, as someone who's been playing the TCG online for over a year, Tabletop Simulator would interest me a lot more if it wasn't behind a $20 paywall, and I think that would hold true for most others. But with the other options out there which are free, more accessible by not needing a Steam account, and have already had their respective community support, I can't feel inclined to use Tabletop Simulator unless it's a proven and popular alternative, and I don't see that yet. But I figured I'd give you an answer about this and not leave you hanging without a way to play FE Cipher to your liking or to find some solidarity in spreading the word about FE Cipher through Steam. With that said, I'd also like to recommend looking into the FECipherVit program as another way to play the TCG. It's actually my preferred way to play and is pretty easy to use too.

Yes, Kaze can target himself with that skill. Normally this would be pointless to do because Kaze would already be sent to the retreat as a result of being destroyed, but the +20 buff would be sustained on Kaze if he's your leader since he would remain on the battlefield in that case. So feel free to use the skill on himself if you want him buffed for the rest of the opponent's turn.

About Geoffrey, the answer is yes. The way it's supposed to work is that any ally who is currently on the front line receives a +10 buff for each other ally who was leveled up or grown that turn. So if an ally is on the front line or is moved to the front line, they will carry the buff, and if an ally is in the rear or is moved to the rear, they will not carry the buff. All buffs granted from this skill stop being applied at the end of the turn (or while Geoffrey is no longer in play), and the skill will only grant new buffs if you level up or growth your allies again on your next turn. Orb destruction is always answered by adding the orb to the hand. The only way a destroyed orb can go from anywhere but to the hand is if there is a skill involved that specifically says it goes elsewhere. In addition, using a skill that self-inflicts damage on the leader (main character) as part of its cost, like one the cost 3 black Felicia has, is also another way for the game to ask the player to take an orb. Hope this helps!

https://serenesforest.net/the-sacred-stones/classes/introduction/ None of the icons for the upgrade items for promoting classes display correctly anymore because they were all apparently still uploaded and hotlinked through Photobucket, which disabled third party hosting a few months ago. It'd be a good idea to reupload those through the site instead and anything else that may still be left over.

1) Yes, it's possible. What you're describing is called leveling up. With that Ike card, there's no other way to make use of his first skill but by placing another copy of that same card on top to increase his stack. 2) The level up mechanic works on any card, doesn't matter if they're promoted or lack any LvS Skills. Leveling up Gunter into himself would be pointless since he doesn't have any skills to benefit from it, but Gunter also happens to be a special case because can be leveled up into black Anankos and enable the latter to use his third skill more than once per turn. 2.1) No, you never draw a card from leveling up. Cards are only drawn when the class change (promotion) cost is paid, but leveling up is always paid with the regular field cost. 3) You cannot perform promotions from deployment skill effects. Deploying and promoting are two separate mechanics and are not interchangeable. Deploying refers to the act of fielding a unit who isn't already being played, while promoting refers to the act of ascending a unit who has already been fielded and in play. Leif's first skill doesn't let you promote anyone because it specifically says it's used to deploy. If you want to promote an ally using a card from your retreat, you would use someone like Chrom instead of Leif because Chrom lets you do that. I hope this helps! If there's anything you still don't understand or are still curious about, feel free to inquire for more.