August 5th, 2015. Today Bushiroad Inc. has announced a November 20th launch for the English edition of G-Comic Booster 01:
Vanguard & Deletor, which will contain cards featured in Itou Akira's
Cardfight!! Vanguard manga.
Vanguard & Deletor will feature Link Joker cards supporting Ibuki's "Docking Deletor Greion," and Royal Paladin units supporting Aichi's Alfred deck. There will also be a series of prerelease tournaments from November 13th through the 15th, a week prior to the set's launch date. Although the associated volumes of the
Cardfight!! Vanguard manga featuring Ibuki were set to
launch this month
and
in November
, according to publisher Vertical Inc. the release of volumes 7 and 8
have been delayed.
In total the
Vanguard & Deletor setlist will comprise 45
cards; 29 new cards and 16 reprints. The set will include one generation
rare, four triple rares, seven double rares, fourteen single rares,
nineteen commons, and six special parallel prints of cards from lower
rarities. The set will also include alternate artwork prints of several
cards.
Each sealed box will contain twelve booster packs, with seven
cards in each, two of which will always be single rare or higher.
Prerelease kits will contain 32 booster packs, with four packs being
given out to every player, for 28 cards per participant, as well as 9
promotional cards and two playmats.
Artwork published to generate interest in the set shows off Docking
Deletor Greion, Blaster Blade in his appearance as Ames (Blaster Blade prior to having receiving his titular sword and having succeeded Yuunos, who became Blaster Dark) in Koshimizu Makoto's
Shining Swordsman manga, and Lola (the future Blaster Rapier) of the same.
One noted change between the Japanese and international key art is the
use of Blaster Blade's
Descent of the King of Knights special parallel print for the English edition;
in the Japanese edition, Aichi held an
unidentified
Vanguard card. Past English-language sets have made a
point of editing out stride card backs for standard ones, but in this
case the card Aichi was holding was completely innocuous by the
standards of the international game.
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