While I haven't played it yet, I've collected Cipher for a while because the art is amazing and if you don't care about the SR+ and R+ variants it's surprisingly easy to collect a full set. One booster box guarantees you every Common and Uncommon in a set, meaning all you need is to buy the SRs and R singles you're missing afterwards and only the variant art cards of very popular characters (usually restricted to the modern games' "waifus", you're generally safe in SNES, GBA or Tellius sets) go for ridiculous prices. Certainly easier than completing a Pokemon set and the art is better too. A cool thing about Cipher art is they often depict events from supports or backstory that we never got to see in-game. You can see her a younger Pent meeting Louise for the first time, but there's also young Greil and Elena, younger pre-possession Garon, young Silas standing up for Corrin, and "epilogue" characters like Daein Queen Micaiah, Queen Hinoka and King Leo. The "what if" cards are more famous, but I like these glimpses at actual canon events that happened offscreen. There's also some really funny joke cards, my favourite is a R+ Owain with a quote so long it covers almost the entire card... and it's a real line from his supports. But there's also Grommel about to be crushed by his own boulder.
Also fun fact: I believe Cipher was the first place to confirm Limstella from FE7 was canonically non-binary. Their card doesn't have a male or female mark, while fellow Morphs Sonia and Ephidel are gendered.
I used to love card games. Sadly, I never really got to PLAY any, cuz I was into Yu-Gi-Oh and nobody in my area actually PLAYED the game. Back when Cipher was still a thing, I ordered a few packs of cards from Japan, mostly just to collect them, since I love Fire Emblem and trading cards. Boy am I glad I did, it sucks that the game got shut down but I'm in love with my collection. I've never played the game though, I might consider it because of this video!
This is directed to people who don't play Cipher, and a love letter to the active players: Hi. It's been more than 6 months since I last played Cipher but for the time I had been active, the community was awesome (except Anankos decks😠). The point is, they are really accepting to beginners. If you tell them so, most will actually try giving you advise. It was one of the warmest communities I've been. I lack the words to describe the community. Even my potato of a PC can run Cipher (with some difficulties though). So you are unlikely to find yourself having much trouble with that. The community is fairly small, but it is still pretty active. To this day I still receive many @Lackey_duelist myself. The best part is, is people from all around the world. Though there are some hours you'll get more matches, you can actually find matches anytime you can. I can't recommend it enough. Farewell.
How sad that we will never see Cipher cards of Engage characters or every older character that missed their chance... Great video, btw, I'll definitely try this sometime!
Dude, this really wants to make me want to play cipher just so I can make a deck with Merric as the Lord (aaaaaa these artworks are soooooooooo pretty)
Excellent video! Perfectly explained why I love Cipher so much, and clearly explained how to play for all the new potential players, thanks for the amazing video!
Loving to see the amount of attention that content creators are starting to give Cipher. I think the game’s great and always wanna see more people get into it
Congrats you've convinced me to try to play this game using lacky and now I want to collect all the Cipher cards. My financial ruin will be because of you and this well made video.
Wow, this sounds so cool. I thought sipfher artworks were just artworks commisioned by some company for the FE Heroes game, only when reading throu trivia on a wiki did I realize its art for a card game. Will definitely check this out
Man this reminded me of when I played chiper for like 1-2 months. Lyon is one of my favorite FE characters so I made a Purple/Blue deck with him as the lord where the main bulk of the deck was Risen cards. They have innate 0 atk but were cheap, their support recovered him, and I ran the support X flier where X was the number of allies you had. It often ended games with me having a hoard of zombies with my opponent praying I don't flip that specific support card off the top. A zero attack risen isn't scary, a risen that got +100 attack is terrifying.
Man, I wish this game was still getting support. I remember having this really cool Risen Chrom vs Exalt Lucina duel with my sister. Wish we got a western release since this was probably the only card game I've ever been interested in actually playing physically other than maybe Vanguard.
I didn't know this was a resource! Thank you so much for sharing; my partner and I both downloaded it and have been fiddling with decks all day and will play a bunch soon. Your videos are all fantastic by the way! Keep it up!
Got into Cipher when Fates came out in Europe. The amazing art drew me in. I also hadn't played any TCG since Pokémon ten years earlier so I was interested in actually playing it too. I have my final couple of booster boxes coming tomorrow. The rest of the sets I'm missing are sold for insane prices so my Cipher journey is nearing its end, unless I end up going for singles which I haven't really done before. The game itself is fun. I can easily recommend it. I was never interested in the actual meta but I loved making stupid gimmick decks and playing with my friends.
I went to Japan about a year ago and during my Akihabura stop I deadass bought like $500 of cipher cards. Was it worth it, no, but I will never get a chance to buy them again so I have a collection for life. I followed Cipher before it "died" and was a fan of Cipherfaire while they still uploaded. I can't comment on how the deck plays because my brain is clogged by Yugioh and Legends of Runterra when it comes to card games but maybe I should give it a shot. On the note of that $500 worth of cards, I could not get the overclass Alm it was out of stock. I was so sad, ruined my day for about an hour till I remembered that I was lucky to even find any cards of a discontinued card game. Play a purple and red deck, with Rebbeca and Echoes overclass cards.
Yes, and the same goes the other way around, as well as both for Sirius, since they all have different names. Some character have different names but all of their cards have skills that tell you should treat them as having the other name, like Greil who has skills that make him also have the name Gawain and vice-versa, but if they don't then different aliases also count as different characters
There's a few oddities like this, like Vallite Monarch Corrin not counting as Corrin, but one Lucina card having an ability that treats her as having the same name as Marth, meaning she can promote into Marth and Marth supports on her fail.
@@BigKlingy Corrin is a bit weird bc Valla Corrin is supposed to be able to be class changed on top of either Corrin genders (avatar genders are considered different characters) but also there are 2 "Bridge" cards of both Corrins that can be used to evade with Valla Corrin, so they can basically evade with these cards while not self supporting with them. Lucina is actually super cool bc there's a pretty good deck (I call it Marcina) that revolves around starting with the Lucina cost 1 to abuse Blue's early acceleration and then class change into Marth
@@JaDX243 I also love the Danved card with the rule: "If you think Devdan and Danved are the same person, you can Class Change an ally Devdan into this card." That doesn't say anything about supports, so I assume Danved can legally support Devdan.
Is there some kind of mechanism for acquiring cards for your personal collection you does everyone just immediately have limitless access to all of the cards in the game? Also, the idea that critical hits double your damage instead of triple your damage is blasphemy.
Metas can still develop even if there isnt going to be any new cards coming. A great example is Edison format in yugioh, which is a 13 year old format at this point thats still getting developed today.
Metas aren't a static thing and even with no new cards new developments can still happens. When cipher just got discontinued, Corrin was considered the undisputed best deck in the game. Now, Roy and Chrom are way more popular and are considered to have pretty good Corrin matchups. Not to mention new decks that can be experimented with and be proven to be good like the recent rise of aggro Berserk Ike. So yes, do play Cipher :)
@JaDX243 yeah meta is honestly more of a cycle as long as the game isn't inherently broken. Sure deck A is popular because of its strength, but players will eventually find deck B which is a good deck that has a good match up against A, and then deck C will be found to fight against deck B, and so on.
While I haven't played it yet, I've collected Cipher for a while because the art is amazing and if you don't care about the SR+ and R+ variants it's surprisingly easy to collect a full set. One booster box guarantees you every Common and Uncommon in a set, meaning all you need is to buy the SRs and R singles you're missing afterwards and only the variant art cards of very popular characters (usually restricted to the modern games' "waifus", you're generally safe in SNES, GBA or Tellius sets) go for ridiculous prices. Certainly easier than completing a Pokemon set and the art is better too.
A cool thing about Cipher art is they often depict events from supports or backstory that we never got to see in-game. You can see her a younger Pent meeting Louise for the first time, but there's also young Greil and Elena, younger pre-possession Garon, young Silas standing up for Corrin, and "epilogue" characters like Daein Queen Micaiah, Queen Hinoka and King Leo. The "what if" cards are more famous, but I like these glimpses at actual canon events that happened offscreen.
There's also some really funny joke cards, my favourite is a R+ Owain with a quote so long it covers almost the entire card... and it's a real line from his supports. But there's also Grommel about to be crushed by his own boulder.
On another note, if you're interested in collecting Cipher there are quite a few sellers of Cipher cards in the collectors lounge.
Also fun fact: I believe Cipher was the first place to confirm Limstella from FE7 was canonically non-binary. Their card doesn't have a male or female mark, while fellow Morphs Sonia and Ephidel are gendered.
I used to love card games. Sadly, I never really got to PLAY any, cuz I was into Yu-Gi-Oh and nobody in my area actually PLAYED the game. Back when Cipher was still a thing, I ordered a few packs of cards from Japan, mostly just to collect them, since I love Fire Emblem and trading cards. Boy am I glad I did, it sucks that the game got shut down but I'm in love with my collection. I've never played the game though, I might consider it because of this video!
This is directed to people who don't play Cipher, and a love letter to the active players:
Hi. It's been more than 6 months since I last played Cipher but for the time I had been active, the community was awesome (except Anankos decks😠).
The point is, they are really accepting to beginners. If you tell them so, most will actually try giving you advise. It was one of the warmest communities I've been. I lack the words to describe the community.
Even my potato of a PC can run Cipher (with some difficulties though). So you are unlikely to find yourself having much trouble with that.
The community is fairly small, but it is still pretty active. To this day I still receive many @Lackey_duelist myself. The best part is, is people from all around the world. Though there are some hours you'll get more matches, you can actually find matches anytime you can.
I can't recommend it enough.
Farewell.
You are gonna get me into Cipher the same way you got me into drafting: with good content! Great work
How sad that we will never see Cipher cards of Engage characters or every older character that missed their chance...
Great video, btw, I'll definitely try this sometime!
Dude, this really wants to make me want to play cipher just so I can make a deck with Merric as the Lord
(aaaaaa these artworks are soooooooooo pretty)
Excellent video! Perfectly explained why I love Cipher so much, and clearly explained how to play for all the new potential players, thanks for the amazing video!
Loving to see the amount of attention that content creators are starting to give Cipher. I think the game’s great and always wanna see more people get into it
Congrats you've convinced me to try to play this game using lacky and now I want to collect all the Cipher cards. My financial ruin will be because of you and this well made video.
Cipher's always been on my to-learn list, along with the Final Fantasy Opus TCG. This is just reminding me why
You should have so many more subscribers! Your content is great!
Finally, I will be able to read the stats on the still-wrapped-in-plastic Alm/Celica Cipher card with Hidari art I got with the ost cd collection
Dropping a like and comment because cipher is super fun.
As a member of the cipher community I can say we welcome all newcomers
Wow, this sounds so cool. I thought sipfher artworks were just artworks commisioned by some company for the FE Heroes game, only when reading throu trivia on a wiki did I realize its art for a card game. Will definitely check this out
Man this reminded me of when I played chiper for like 1-2 months. Lyon is one of my favorite FE characters so I made a Purple/Blue deck with him as the lord where the main bulk of the deck was Risen cards. They have innate 0 atk but were cheap, their support recovered him, and I ran the support X flier where X was the number of allies you had. It often ended games with me having a hoard of zombies with my opponent praying I don't flip that specific support card off the top. A zero attack risen isn't scary, a risen that got +100 attack is terrifying.
Man, I wish this game was still getting support. I remember having this really cool Risen Chrom vs Exalt Lucina duel with my sister. Wish we got a western release since this was probably the only card game I've ever been interested in actually playing physically other than maybe Vanguard.
I didn't know this was a resource! Thank you so much for sharing; my partner and I both downloaded it and have been fiddling with decks all day and will play a bunch soon. Your videos are all fantastic by the way! Keep it up!
CIPHER CONTENT LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO
I own a few Cipher cards, and always wanted to play, but never had a way to. I wanna build a Soren Deck, viability be damned.
Cipher! I've been looking forward to this! 💞💞
Dude! Cipher freaking rules!
My favorite lord is Minerva!
Based choice, I love Minerva
Got into Cipher when Fates came out in Europe. The amazing art drew me in. I also hadn't played any TCG since Pokémon ten years earlier so I was interested in actually playing it too.
I have my final couple of booster boxes coming tomorrow. The rest of the sets I'm missing are sold for insane prices so my Cipher journey is nearing its end, unless I end up going for singles which I haven't really done before.
The game itself is fun. I can easily recommend it. I was never interested in the actual meta but I loved making stupid gimmick decks and playing with my friends.
OH MY GOD you use the same Nino background that I use that’s so cool :)
Too many Marths on the dance floor.
i like it when the lord becomes big [lord]. big marth stomp
I went to Japan about a year ago and during my Akihabura stop I deadass bought like $500 of cipher cards. Was it worth it, no, but I will never get a chance to buy them again so I have a collection for life. I followed Cipher before it "died" and was a fan of Cipherfaire while they still uploaded. I can't comment on how the deck plays because my brain is clogged by Yugioh and Legends of Runterra when it comes to card games but maybe I should give it a shot.
On the note of that $500 worth of cards, I could not get the overclass Alm it was out of stock. I was so sad, ruined my day for about an hour till I remembered that I was lucky to even find any cards of a discontinued card game.
Play a purple and red deck, with Rebbeca and Echoes overclass cards.
Thanks for the new video Mr. Lizard
I buy and sell cipher regularly, i love the art and its just fun to crack packs!
10:24 can Zeke support Camus?
Yes, and the same goes the other way around, as well as both for Sirius, since they all have different names. Some character have different names but all of their cards have skills that tell you should treat them as having the other name, like Greil who has skills that make him also have the name Gawain and vice-versa, but if they don't then different aliases also count as different characters
There's a few oddities like this, like Vallite Monarch Corrin not counting as Corrin, but one Lucina card having an ability that treats her as having the same name as Marth, meaning she can promote into Marth and Marth supports on her fail.
@@BigKlingy Corrin is a bit weird bc Valla Corrin is supposed to be able to be class changed on top of either Corrin genders (avatar genders are considered different characters) but also there are 2 "Bridge" cards of both Corrins that can be used to evade with Valla Corrin, so they can basically evade with these cards while not self supporting with them. Lucina is actually super cool bc there's a pretty good deck (I call it Marcina) that revolves around starting with the Lucina cost 1 to abuse Blue's early acceleration and then class change into Marth
@@JaDX243 I also love the Danved card with the rule: "If you think Devdan and Danved are the same person, you can Class Change an ally Devdan into this card."
That doesn't say anything about supports, so I assume Danved can legally support Devdan.
Yes because they have different names
Is there some kind of mechanism for acquiring cards for your personal collection you does everyone just immediately have limitless access to all of the cards in the game?
Also, the idea that critical hits double your damage instead of triple your damage is blasphemy.
Man, I havent seen Lackey on a screen in a while.
i got like 2 binders full of cards
How dare you have other interests than what I subscribe to your channel for smh
neat
"i summon rutger in attack position"
I love cipher cause i can make a team of the dawn brigade shitters with edward as my lord and no one can stop me
I would play cipher if it still existed. And the cards are in japanese.
The meta is not going to develop and will become stale eventually.
Play magic
This comment just screams "I didn't watch the video at all, and I refuse to do anything outside of my comfort zone"
The cipher meta has actually been developing a lot since it has discontinued.
Metas can still develop even if there isnt going to be any new cards coming. A great example is Edison format in yugioh, which is a 13 year old format at this point thats still getting developed today.
Metas aren't a static thing and even with no new cards new developments can still happens. When cipher just got discontinued, Corrin was considered the undisputed best deck in the game. Now, Roy and Chrom are way more popular and are considered to have pretty good Corrin matchups. Not to mention new decks that can be experimented with and be proven to be good like the recent rise of aggro Berserk Ike.
So yes, do play Cipher :)
@JaDX243 yeah meta is honestly more of a cycle as long as the game isn't inherently broken. Sure deck A is popular because of its strength, but players will eventually find deck B which is a good deck that has a good match up against A, and then deck C will be found to fight against deck B, and so on.