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Utsuho's cards from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market, Tsukasa's cards from Unconnected Marketeers, 100th Black Market and Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost and Ran's cards from Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost

Utsuho's cards are Active cards which grant you the ability to summon a large sun that deals great damage to the enemies. In Unconnected Marketeers it keeps eating your power while it is active on screen, but in 100th Black Market it only eats 1 power upon being summoned. The appearance and duration of the sun is slightly different, but the card itself is also a little bit different between the games. You can check the cards' description here: /post/701276547738451968/.

Tsukasa's cards are also Active cards which eat from your power when summoned. In Unconnected Marketeers it eats 1 power and unleashes a bomb, even when your bomb gauge is empty. In 100th Black Market it eats 1 power and unleashes a spirit strike.

In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, Tsukasa's cards only grant you additional shot options.

The blue card is called 霊力の標本瓶 in Touhou 18, but 狐入りの管（縦）in Touhou 19. To see the cards descriptions differences between Touhou 18 and 18.5 please check /post/701276547738451968/.

Ran's cards in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, like Tsukasa's from the same game, are only giving you additional shot options.

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Cirno's card, Sakuya's cards and Youmu's cards from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market

All three of them are Equipment cards, which offer you an additional option from which you are able to shoot bullets.

Cirno's card gives you a similar option to the Summer sub-season from Hidden Star in Four Seasons, although compared to that, this one shoots more chaotically.

Sakuya has two cards, a grey and a pink one.

The grey card resembles Sakuya's shottype from Unconnected Marketeers: green knives when unfocused and red knives when focused. The unfocus option can tilt depending on the horizontal direction you move (if you move to the left the green knives will be shot to the left at an angle). If you focus, you will lock the current position of the knives so you can keep the knives shooting at an angle to the left even when you are moving to the right. However, as soon as you unfocus, the knives will switch to their regular position depending on the direction you are flying.

The description of the card was slightly updated in 100th Black Market, where it seems that a full stop was added at the end of the second paragraph.

The pink card shoots ricocheting knives. There is a bug where the knives would not be shot from the correct option (for more details please check /post/788725139010437120/).

Youmu's cards give you a phantom option similarly to Youmu's ghostly half. In 100th Black Market, the "Half-Half Ghost" is closer to the player than in Unconnected Marketeers. The "Spare Half-Ghost" exists only in 100th Black Market and sits at a slightly increased distance than the "Half-Half Ghost" in Unconnected Marketeers.

Besides the distance from the player, the behaviour of the phantom is the same, therefore I will only include gifs from Unconnected Marketeers to show how it behaves when you move left-right or circle around, focused and unfocused.

The first paragraph from the description of the "Half-Half Ghost" card was changed in 100th Black Market.

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Eiki's cards from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market

Eiki's cards are Passive cards, which grant you the ability to cancel death in exchange of money (Unconnected Marketeers) or bullet money (100th Black Market). Although it has the same name in both games, the card is different (see /post/701358428995649536/).

In Unconnected Marketeers, you give 200 gold to be spared. However, in 100th Black Market, you need to have at least 300 bullet money to be spared and you will lose all of them when getting hit.

Quite a big price to pay, but you get to live.

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Yukari's card from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market and Seija's card from 100th Black Market

Both are active cards that help you hide from enemies/bullets. They are similar to the abilities from Impossible Spell Card.

However, as opposed to Impossible Spell Card where you could warp either vertically or horizontally, Yukari's ability can only warp you horizontally in Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market. Also, you cannot hide out of bounds for a short time either.

Seija's card doesn't seem very different from the Impossible Spell Card ability, it doesn't show a timer anymore because it's not relevant in the context of 100th Black Market (you cannot level the nimble fabric anymore).

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Yuyuko's card, Okina's card and Miko's cards from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market

All of these are cards that erase bullets. They do not make you invincible so you still need to be careful not to get hit by a bullet that's not erased.

Yuyuko's card is a Passive card which erases some bullets while you graze. The card description was slightly updated in 100th Black Market, where a full stop was added at the end of the paragraph.

Okina's card is an Equipment card which gives you a "Back Door" that erases bullets that get into contact with it. The card description was also slightly updated in 100th Black Market, where elipsis (the 6 dots) were added at the end of the paragraph.

Miko's cards are active cards, which erase bullets when activated. The card's art is different between Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market (see /post/701276547738451968/).

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Kaguya's cards and Keiki's cards from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market

Kaguya’s cards are actually not the same between the two games and they even have completely different art and description (/post/701358432697073664/).

In Unconnected Marketeers, Kaguya's card gives you the ability to produce a bomb when dying.

In 100th Black Market, it is said that the card increases the amount of bullet money produced, but honestly I haven't noticed any difference from when you do not have the card equipped. I tried to graze a bullet, but it produced 2 bullet money in both instances.

I even tried to generate bullet money using the magic circle and it produced the exact same amount in both scenarios (32 bullet money in the example below).

So, I don't really know in what situations it gives you more bullet money. If you have any idea please let me know and I'll update the post with a concrete example.

But Kaguya's card in 100th Black Market is not the only card that makes me feel cheated when it comes to bullet money. One of Keiki's cards (the one with the chisels), supposedly converts your money into 3 times as much bullet money when you purchase it from the shop. But if you do the math from the gif below it should be 177*3+317=531+317=848, however I only had 783 bullet money after the card purchase. What a scam...

The chisels card is not the only card that Keiki has. She also has a haniwa card, which changed a bit between Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market (/post/701273793184808960/), but the main purpose remains the same: to erase bullets using your options.

In 100th Black Market you usually don't have shooting options, so the card just gives you some, but you'll still shoot from Marisa directly and not from the options, they are only for the erasing shield provided by the card.

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Tewi's and Eirin's cards from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market

Tewi's and Eirin's cards are actually not the same between the two games and they even have completely different art and description (/post/701358432697073664/).

Tewi's card gives you more time to deathbomb and the ability to not lose money while dying in Unconnected Marketeers and a larger grazing area in 100th Black Market.

The deathbomb is when you bomb while getting hit (and hearing the pichuun sound). The card is supposed to help you if you have a slower reaction time. Not sure if the video below is conclusive enough for the reaction time, but you can see the money remaining the same after getting hit in the gifs under the video (left side gif is with no card equipped - losing money- and right side gif is with Tewi's card equipped - not losing money).

As a side note, in 100th Black Market you don't lose any money/bullet money when dying, even with no cards equipped.

As for the grazing area, the left side picture below shows the normal one (the circle around Marisa) while having no card equipped and the right side picture shows the increased one granted by Tewi's card.

Eirin's card gives you the ability to automatically deathbomb in Unconnected Marketeers. It will normally consume 2 bombs, but if you have only 1 bomb left it will still work, consuming only that one instead. In 100th Black Market, Eirin's card will transform bullets into bullet money (seems like the ratio isn't 1:1 but I haven't checked how it is for other bullet types).

In 100th Black Market, the card will also grant you one life when purchasing it from the shop or equipping it by default. Lives are unaffected by Eirin's card in Unconnected Marketeers.

All four cards are Passive cards.

EDIT (02-Aug-2025): In some specific cases, Eirin's card may fail to work in Unconnected Marketeers. Please refer to /post/790799844351541248/ for more details.

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Raiko's card and Sumireko's card - Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market

Both of them are Active cards which create a barrier around you when activated. Their names and descriptions have not changed between games.

Raiko's card erases the bullets that touch the barrier.

Sumireko's card, as its description states, reflects the bullets that touch the barrier. However, it's not exactly what you'd expect. When I first read the description I thought that the bullets would just bounce back on the barrier, but instead they seem to be absorbed by it and other types of bullets are being shot from the barrier itself.