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Final Mii Costumes for the August update: Black Knight (Fire Emblem) and Varia Suit (Metroid)

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Lyn, Eliwood and Hector from Fire Emblem for the GBA

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Cipher Deckbox Included in July Issue of Nintendo Dream Magazine

As part of a cross-promotion with Fire Emblem Cipher, it's been announced through Nintendo Dream's official twitter that today's issue of Nintendo Dream magazine will include a deckbox themed after B01: Warblade of Heroes. Featuring "Princes of Altea, Marth," "Lodestar, Marth," "Swordsman Known as Marth, Lucina," and "Protector of Ylisse, Chrom" the plastic deckbox comes packaged with every sealed volume of the July 21st issue, and is capable of holding up to 50 single sleeved cards.

Nintendo Dream has a history of promotion with Cipher, conducting an unboxing party livestream last month. The magazine's publisher, Tokuma Shouten, will be launching an official Cipher guide on July 24th, which comes with the exclusive "Enigmatic Tactician, Robin" promotional card.

Tiki, Marth, Lucina, and Gaius in Second Set of Fire Emblem Cipher Sleeves

The next set of Fire Emblem Cipher sleeves have been announced for a September 10th launch date, just seven days prior to the launch of S02: Godflame of Light and Dark. The sleeves will feature "Hero to His Country, Marth" "Knower of the Future, Lucina" "Princess of the Divine Dragon Tribe, Tiki" and "Sweetest Assassin, Gaius." Tiki and Gaius were both voted for by fans during the game's prerelease livestream as the cards they would most like to see used as a sleeve.

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Second Wave of Cipher Packaging Shown on Official Site

Today the Japanese Fire Emblem Cipher portal updated with images of the upcoming starter decks S03: Birthright and S04: Conquest, as well as the second booster set B02: Soulful Flames of Light and Dark. The starter decks will provide full support for the colors white and black, representing the Hoshido and Nohr factions from Fire Emblem Fates, and will retail for 1300 yen each (approximately $10.50 at the present exchange rate). The second booster set, which launches in Japan on September 17th, will likewise include cards designed to enhance each color. Like Warblade of Heroes before it, Soulful Flames of Light and Dark will include ten cards in each booster pack, and sixteen booster packs in each sealed box of the set. MSRP for the booster packs is 350 yen each (~$2.83) and 5600 yen per box (~$45).

The third booster set, which has no formal title nor announced launch date, will continue to support the factions from Fates while also introducing Tellius cards from Path of Radiance.

A Tribute to Iwata Satoru, Dead at Fifty-five

Today Nintendo announced the death of Iwata Satoru on July 11th 2015, from a cancerous growth in his bile duct. It was this same condition which prevented his presence at E3 last year, for which he had undergone surgery. Born on December 6th 1959 (Shōwa 34), Iwata died at the too-young age of fifty-five, making his thirteen years the shortest reign of any President of Nintendo. Since 2002 his radical vision for the future has repeatedly redefined the company's position in relation to the rest of the market, and set it above and beyond the scope of competing developers. Nintendo has lost its greatest President, and the fans have lost one of their best friends. Iwata is someone that we cannot write about impersonally. Composing an exhaustive list of all the games he contributed to in life is likely impossible; Iwata was a constant presence working alongside Nintendo's development staff even after ascending to the position of President, and for every game he worked on there lies a story and more uncredited work behind it. Several of his contributions only became known years after the fact, and there's likely still more that will never be public knowledge.

While Iwata is famous for reprogramming EarthBound from scratch midway through its development, for this editor Iwata's greatest accomplishments were in the late 90s and early 2000s. We first came to know Iwata through his work on Super Smash Bros. Melee, on which many sleepovers and afternoons were spent. Even now the arguments over whether Marth or Roy was better still come to mind. The handheld Kirby games filled many long car rides across the United States, and in each of his games a small piece of Iwata's soul touched our lives. The compression tools he created doubled the content of Pokémon Gold & Silver, and the debugging work he did over the course of three weeks on Melee was some of the most important ever done in the field. His code now lives on forever in the screens of the annual Apex and EVO tournaments.

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“With immense grief, we are reporting to you that Mr. Satoru Iwata, the former President of Nintendo, has passed away. This information comes directly from Nintendo.

Coming from Nintendo…

Nintendo Co., Ltd. deeply regrets to announce that President Satoru Iwata passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth.

We send our condolences to Mr. Iwata’s family, friends, and all the fans that have loved and supported him for all these years. We ourselves are in complete shock here at Nintendo Enthusiast.”

This is a developing story…

Booster 1: Warblade of Heroes Box Opening

Our Cipher orders arrived earlier this week, so it's high time we get on with our first box opening. In addition to the Warblade of Heroes booster box we also ordered a War of Darkness starter deck and 25th Anniversary sleeves. We made our purchase on AmiAmi prior to the game's availability over Amazon; AmiAmi's base price was the most competitive online at the time, but once shipping is factored in it only becomes worthwhile if you're ordering additional products (or multiple boxes) on top of that.

Whether Amazon is worth your money now that there's several import services getting in on Cipher depends on your order; several Amazon sellers are offering free shipping but charging ~$70 per item, while AmiAmi is doing EMS shipping that will generally work out in the range of $30~36 depending on how many items you order and their combined weight, but only charging ~$40 per box. So if you're ordering multiple boxes, AmiAmi will generally work out as a better deal than buying through Amazon--two boxes on Amazon is ~$140, whereas on AmiAmi that would work out to ~$110. But if you're only ordering one, Amazon is better suited for that.

Marth Decks Dominate Tournament Results, Tops Akihabara Tourney

Chrom didn't make the cut in Super Smash Bros., and he's not making it in Cipher.

Ten new tournaments took place between June 2nd and July 6th. Of the eighteen tournaments that have been reported on since the game's launch last month, twelve of them have been won by Marth decks. Accordingly, red is also the most consistent top in the game. The second most played deck of the Warblade of Heroes format is Inigo Harem, which has easily surpassed Chrom as the primary deck of choice for blue. Marth decks cumulatively account for more than two thirds of tops, while Inigo makes up 17% of the top decks. The rest is spread between rogue decks that have only topped once. An index of the most recent tournaments is provided below.

Marth Tops Cardbox, Masters Square, Card Brunch Motomiya Tournaments

Inigo Harem Tops Game Plaza and Nerima Tournaments

Multicolor Tiki Wins Kamata Tournament, Marth Tops Yellow Submarine Tourney

What should be kept in mind with these results is that more than a hundred shop tournaments took place in June, and a hundred more will have finished by the end of this week. Only about 8% of all tournaments that happen are reported, and so we are generalizing from a very small sample of data that may be skewed by the low number of reporting card shops. Provided that it is accurate, the first two weeks of tournament play should not see this kind of gulf emerge between Sword of Light and Mark of Naga decks. An ideally diverse format would be split 50-50 between the two colors.

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Nintendo Hosting FE0 Event at “25th Anniversary of Love and Courage”

The official Fire Emblem Cipher portal updated today with new event information for the end of July. On July 25th Nintendo will be hosting a special concert in commemoration of Fire Emblem’s anniversary, “The 25th Anniversary of Love and Courage,” and Cipher will have its own special gallery at the event space featuring prints of illustrations created for the game. Fans of Cipher will also be provided a space to play the game in, but only individuals aged twenty years and older will be able to attend.

The 25th anniversary concert is set to include a variety of merchandise, including a 2000 yen folding fan decorated with the body of the divine dragon Naga, a 12000 yen replica of Azura’s pendant from Fire Emblem Fates, and a commemorative “One Hundred Poems of Heroes” (英雄百歌 Eiyuu Moka) box containing illustrations that tell the stories of the Fire Emblem cast across twenty-five years in the form of waka poetry.

Modeled after traditional poetry sets used for karuta matching games, the Hundred Poems will contain two hundred cards with each complete poem split between two cards (and thus two illustrations). The first hundred are intended to be read by a poetry reader, while the remaining hundred are used for two players to try and matching the second half of the poem to its first half before the first half can be read. The Hundred Poems box will also come with a booklet and a CD that can recite the poems in place of an actual reader.

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Nintendo Hosting FE0 Event at "25th Anniversary of Love and Courage"

The official Fire Emblem Cipher portal updated today with new event information for the end of July. On July 25th Nintendo will be hosting a special concert in commemoration of Fire Emblem's anniversary, "The 25th Anniversary of Love and Courage," and Cipher will have its own special gallery at the event space featuring prints of illustrations created for the game. Fans of Cipher will also be provided a space to play the game in, but only individuals aged twenty years and older will be able to attend.

The 25th anniversary concert is set to include a variety of merchandise, including a 2000 yen folding fan decorated with the body of the divine dragon Naga, a 12000 yen replica of Azura's pendant from Fire Emblem Fates, and a commemorative "One Hundred Poems of Heroes" (英雄百歌 Eiyuu Moka) box containing illustrations that tell the stories of the Fire Emblem cast across twenty-five years in the form of waka poetry.

Modeled after traditional poetry sets used for karuta matching games, the Hundred Poems will contain two hundred cards with each complete poem split between two cards (and thus two illustrations). The first hundred are intended to be read by a poetry reader, while the remaining hundred are used for two players to try and matching the second half of the poem to its first half before the first half can be read. The Hundred Poems box will also come with a booklet and a CD that can recite the poems in place of an actual reader.

Multicolor Tiki Wins Kamata Tournament, Marth Tops Yellow Submarine Tourney

July 4th, 2015. The Nanba branch of Hobby Base Yellow Submarine hosted an 8-person bracket Cipher tournament, as a buildup to its 16-person tournament on the 20th. Tournament winner Shibano played a Sword of Light deck, focusing on one of the more visible strategies of the Japanese Warblade of Heroes format; “Marth beatdown,” quickly building up a field of low cost attackers and driving the opponent to a critical point in orbs remaining, before finishing them off with the reversal skill of “Hero to His Country, Marth.” Marth’s skill gives all of his allied cards +30 attack to ensure that the minimum number of attacks needed to deal the final blow will hit. Along with Inigo Harem (sometimes called “Flying Inigo”) and Lissa-NoNo drawbeat, Marth beatdown is one of the first deck archetypes to be formally recognized by the Japanese play community. Decklists are given below the cut.

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On the next day, a multicolored Tiki deck made first at Card Land Kamata’s 14-person Swiss Draw tournament. Like Chrom above, Tiki is new territory for tournament play. The Manakete build was theorized as early as magazine previews for the game, where the cost 5 “Manakete Princess, Tiki” was repeatedly billed as a strong main character candidate, but until now the deck has been held back by the heavily Falchion-centric metagame.

Tiki’s status in Cipher is fascinating. The deck is being kept in check right now because every core lord has some variation on the Falchion ability; hence her best matchup is versus Inigo. But if Inigo were the primary deck of the format instead of Marth, she’d have a much better cut of the metagame. Since B02 is going to introduce two new factions that don’t have access to the Falchion, and so presumably have no attack bonuses versus dragons, the popularity of Hoshido and Nohr decks might actually lead to Tiki becoming a much more prominent matchup.

First Images of Fire Emblem Cipher Official Guide

The first images of Tokuma Shoten's Fire Emblem Cipher Official Guide have surfaced through Amazon, giving a look at the guide's exclusive promotional card "Enigmatic Tactician, Robin (Male)." The guide will contain a full catalog of all 125 existing cards, spanning B01: Warblade of Heroes, S01: War of Darkness, S02: Awakening, and all of the promotional cards distributed prior to B02: Soulful Flames of Light and Dark. At this time only 122 cards are known to exist counting Robin, and the guide's tie-in promo appears to have a set number of P01-015PR. Hence the Official Guide will contain information on three other cards that have still not been revealed as of yet.

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