Cardfight!! Vanguard: R

Cardfight EXtra 01

Hey there readers, Blu here and while we couldn't deliver you a new chapter in the story of Vanguard: R this week, we thought it would be fun to give you an insight and lore on some of the cards used by Yume Yumemiru and Taichi Hironori during their Cardfight in Episode 2.

First up let's look at Taichi's cards!

The Royal Paladin clan has seen some hard times as of recent. Their home taken, the icons of their clan slaughtered, and now spread across the various nations of Cray they are destined to fade from history. But hope is not all lost - there is talk of a small band of warriors and sages that are on the move toward the fallen sanctuary, alongside other clans that have joined their cause to reclaim their home.

Vagrant Knight, Arthur/ Grade 3/ Twin Drive/ IG: Force!
[AUTO] [(VC)]: When placed, [COST[CBLAST(1)], call a Grade 2 or greater card from your hand to (RC), draw a card.
[CONT] [(VC)]: During your turn, this unit gets [POWER]+2000 for each of your rear-guards.
[CONT] [(VC)]: If you have no rearguards in your front row this unit gets +1 Critical.

A former Knight Squire of the Royal Paladin clan, Arthur has wandered from nation to nation working as a knight for hire. 
While able to work with others and lead when necessary, he prefers to work on his own.
He eventually made enough money to pay his way aboard a ship owned by Granblue pirates. He had them take him to the archipelago in the Megallanica nation, intent on meeting his end there.

Knight of Bounty, Gauwaine/ Grade 2/ Intercept
[AUTO] [(VC/RC)]: When placed, call a card from your hand to (RC), both it and this unit get [POWER]+5000 until the end of the turn.
[AUTO] [(RC)]: When it attacks, [COST[CBLAST(1)], search your deck for up to one Grade 2 or lower card and call it to (RC).

Gauwaine was taken in by the Royal Paladin clan at a young age after his family were killed during the Second Invasion of Ubiquitous Ogre. Not being able to set aside his personal agenda in finding his parents killers, he was later expelled from the order just before the Sanctuary fell to the invasion.
He worked as a bounty hunter, tracking and collecting debts from deadbeats in the Dark Zone - where he would eventually find his parents' killer, the Countess of Mire, Elisabeta.

Knight of Intrepid Soul, Galath
[AUTO] [(VC)]: When it's attack hits a Vanguard, draw 1 card.
[CONT] [Front Row (RC)]: If your Vanguard is Grade 3 or greater, this unit gets [POWER]+5000 and "Intercept".

Galath was just a child when the Sanctuary fell. A half elf babe carried by his human mother, while his father remained to fight the invaders.
Raised on the stories of valour told by veterans of both Royal and Gold Paladin, Galahad trained using tones that were smuggled out during the evacuation.
He would later team up with Arthur for a time, but their partnership ended over a conflict of ideals.

Now on to some of Yume's signature cards!

The Angel Feather clan has had to make tough decisions after leaving their home.
At first they acted as a neutral group, giving aid to anyone who needed in battle, acting as a humanitarian group in the Dragon Empire and Dark Zone which were ravaged by the ongoing conflicts. Later their would be a split in their ranks; Black Winged Nightingale, Lilith leads half of their forces and joined with the invaders, while Zerachiel leads the other half joining with the other remnants of the clans of the United Sanctuary and those that would support them.

Cutie Angel, Jophiel/ Grade 3/ Twin Drive/ IG: Protect!
[AUTO] [(VC)]: When placed, [COST[SBLAST(1)], choose a card from your drop zone and place it in your damage zone face up, heal one damage.
[AUTO] [(VC)]: When it attacks, [COST[Discard a caed], choose up to two of your rearguards in the front row, put them in your damage zone face down, choose up to two face up cards in your damage zone, call them to (RC).

While Jophiel is still a novice battlefield medic, she was given the task to track down Arthur.
Assembling her team, she eventually found him in Megallanica, nearing death but still prepared to fight what ever would prevent him from dying.
After a long skirmish, she approached the former Knight Squire and offered her aid to him, healing him of all his ailments, body and mind. She and her unit now attend him and his continuously growing army of warriors and sages.

Endurance Raider, Neztach/ Grade 2/ Intercept
[AUTO] [(RC)]: When placed on (RC) from the damage zone, this unit gets [POWER]+10000.
[AUTO] [(VC/RC)]: When it attacks, [COST[CBLAST(1) & SBLAST(1)], heal one damage, perform a damage check.

Neztach is a veteran of Angel Feather. Mostly going under the radar and providing aid to allied forces as a black operative.
She later joined with Jophiel to act out in the open, wanting to reclaim her home in the United Sanctuary.
She would later be sent with Mordredus to discover the whereabouts of the, newly crowned, leader of the Kagero clan.

Battle Angel, Muriel
[ACT] [(VC)]: If your opponents Vanguard is Grade 2 or greater, [COST[Discard a card], choose a Grade 2 card in your damage zone and ride it as [STAND]. Put this card from your soul into the damage zone face down.
[CONT] [(RC)]: This unit gets +3000 for each card in your damage zone.

An old friend of Jophiel, she didn't hesitate when asked to undertake the mission to find Arthur.
Though after meeting the man, she did voice her opposition to continue in their persistence to convince him to return and fight.
Though she mostly keeps to herself, she founded a close friendship with Merlin.