BT14: Jewel Knight cards revealed! New type of Perfect Guard?!?! (WARNING SPOILERS)

Hello everyone. Just a short post on regarding some Cardfight Vanguard!!! news on the anime, where I'm sure if you guys haven't already watched, Cardfight Vanguard's latest anime episode. I'll put a link down below just in case you guys want to watch it.

Cardfight Vanguard Episode 146 - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrvCvr32Dgs
Cardfight Vanguard Episode 146 - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEBXx6EyMok

WARNING: What I am about to discuss in my blog post below WILL contain spoilers of the latest episode of the anime, so if you haven't watched it yet, do click on the links above to watch them before you read my post.

Now, you guys should already know that recently I posted a rant on my blog about the boring nature of Cardfight! Vanguard, and with what I saw in the latest episode of the anime, which is basically Kamui duelling with Kourin, and in that duel Kourin used a special type of Perfect Guard, which I think is a original concept and refreshes the game. For that, good job Bushiroad, for making a unique mechanic, which I hope each clan will have a different Perfect Guard mechanic in the future. If you all don't already know what card I am talking about, its' Summoning Jewel Knight, Gloria.

                                        I think this looks like Knight of Rose Morgana with Alfred's armor....

Now the card's effect is unconfirmed, but it is likely that the effect will stay true to the anime, because most, if not all cards shown in the anime are usually accurate to the card game, with the exception of certain phrasing of the card text. But basically her effect is:

Summoning Jewel Knight, Gloria 
GRADE 1
[CONT]: Sentinel (You may only have up to four cards with "[CONT]: Sentinel" in a deck)
[AUTO]:[Counter Blast (1)] When this unit is placed on (GC), if you have a «Royal Paladin» vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, look at up to five cards from the top of your deck, search for up to five «Royal Paladin» from among them, call them to (GC), and shuffle your deck.  

This is a completely new type of Perfect Guard. It may seem to be overpowered, just like all new cards always are...right (not really), but it is good in the sense that you do not need to discard a card to activate the effect, although if you ask me if you need to use Gloria then you must be pretty screwed. Notwithstanding the effect where you send the top 5 cards to you Guardian Circle as guard against the attack, although it is not a 100% chance you will get enough guard if for some reason you topdeck 3 Grade 3s and 2 Grade 2s, which in that case you wasted the effect as it is likely the attack will go through (this action is irreversible) and you waste 5 cards, which essentially is a -6, because you don't gain anything out of it by discarding Gloria milling 5 cards. I foresee that there might be some problems with this card, such as the obvious likelihood that you potentially can overguard and lose precious triggers when you mill 5, or you might thin your already thin stack of cards which remains in your deck, as it is likely that IF you use Gloria, more or less you are in a position where you have not much choice left. It is also not advisable to run more than 1, personal preference (I rather not lose by decking out, if you know what I mean). This possibility of decking out is made more likely given the fact that Royal Paladin tends to have units based around superior calling cards from your deck, like Ashlei Reverse, Sybil and Salome among the Jewel Knights archetype, and this thins your deck by quite a few cards. You may think it is insignificant, but sometimes when it comes down to the wire, an extra 3 or 4 more cards in your deck may allow you to outlast your opponent, or at least hang on for a longer amount of time. 

Another card which I mentioned above and will be coming out in BT14 would be Broken Heart Jewel Knight Ashlei Reverse:

Cyber-Ashlei!!!

[ACT](VC) Limit Break 4 (This ability is active if you have four or more damage):[Counter Blast (1) & Choose one of your rear-guards with "Jewel Knight" in its card name, and lock it] Choose up to one of your opponent's rear-guards in the front row, and retire it, and search your deck for up to one card with "Jewel Knight" in its card name, call it to (RC), and shuffle your deck. This ability cannot be used for the rest of that turn.
(Locked cards are turned face down, and cannot do anything. Turn them face up at the end of its owner's turn)
[CONT](VC):If you have a card named "Pure Heart Jewel Knight, Ashley" in your soul, this unit gets [Power]+2000.
[CONT](VC/RC): Lord (If you have a unit without a same clan as this unit, this unit cannot attack)

 

 

Ashlei 'Reverse' has the self-Lock skill to activate her effect, and the CB cost Lock 1 Rearguard cost isn't too much of a requirement to activate Ashlei Reverse's ability, which functions very much like a Blaster Blade for the front row plus a free superior call, and for -2 cost due to Locking and Counterblasting for a +2 due to retiring and superior calling, it is a good way to fill up your field, the drawback being that you can only use it once per turn. But it is a pretty balanced card, not screaming 'OP' or anything like that on the outset, but what disturbs me is possibly the lack of synergy it has with her breakride form, which I guess is not too much of a problem besides the crossriding thing that everyone has just gotten used to. Overall this card is a 6/10 for me, it is slightly better than the breakride form, which synergises better with Julia then with this card. But do take note that because you Lock 1 to superior call 1, this does not help you to activate Tracie and Sherrie's +3k skill when attacking, or Prizme's filtering on-call skill. In fact, it hinders their effects as you 'waste' a slot which brings your rearguard count to a maximum of 4, and given that you need 3 OTHER Jewel Knights to activate their skills, this makes it even harder. But in the long run it is a +1 if your opponent is not CBD. Another issue is thaqt as with other Jewel Knights, this makes it difficult to splash in non-Jewel Knight Royal Paladins into your deck, like Blaster Blade.

 

Well that being said, I am not especially hyped for BT14, because its' likely that by the time it is released, I will be in the army anyway.... On the side note, this card's name reminds me of Demi Lovato's 'Give your Heart a Break'...haha don't ask me why, maybe recently I have been listening to too many Demi Lovato songs.

That is all I have for you guys for now, and until next time,

EndBlade