Cardfight!! Vanguard

Welcome to our information page on Cardfight!! Vanguard. Cardfight!! Vanguard (or CFV for short) is a trading card game, produced by Japanese TCG specialists Bushiroad, based on the anime of the same name. In Japan, Cardfight!! Vanguard is quickly becoming a major player in the TCG arena, challenging established games like Duelmasters and Yu-Gi-Oh! for popularity. There's also an increasing amount of interest in the United States, Europe and elsewhere in the world - a major United Kingdom distributor has just started supplying the English Language Edition.

On this page, you'll find an introduction to Cardfight!! Vanguard, including a brief introduction to deck building, a list of Cardfight!! Vanguard releases to date, buying guides, videos and plenty more besides. Enjoy!

For a Standard Fight, your deck must consist of exactly 50 cards including exactly 16 Trigger Units. You can have no more than 4 copies of any card, and also no more than 4 cards (in total) with the heal trigger.

If you're new to CFV, here's a glimpse of the action...

As with many TCGs, Cardfight!! Vanguard releases cards in Structure Decks, with pre-defined card lists (called Trial Decks in CF!!V) and Booster Packs, with random cards from a set. We'll hopefully bring you guides to each one soon. Here's the Japanese releases so far:

Trial Decks

Deck 1 : Blaster Blade

Deck 2: Dragonic Overlord

Deck 3: Golden Mechanical Soldier

Deck 4: Maiden Princess of the Cherry Blossoms

Deck 5: Claw of Silver Wolf

Deck 6: Roar of Thunder Dragon

Booster Packs

Booster 1: Descent of the King of Knights

Booster 2: Onslaught of Dragon Souls

Booster 3: Demonic Lord Invasion

Booster 4: Eclipse of Illusionary Shadows

Booster 5: Awakening of Twin Blades

Booster 6: Breaker of Limits

Here's the latest CF!!V deals:

To start, each player selects a Grade 0 unit from their deck, placing it face down as their first Vanguard. They then shuffle their deck and draw 5 cards. Either player can then declare a 'Mulligan' if they don't like their hand - if they do so, they can shuffle thier hand back into their deck and draw five new cards - tihs hand MUST then be kept.

First player is then decided randomly, with the player going first being unable to attack in the first round. The goal is to inflict 6 damage points to your opponent (represented by cards in the damage zone). Each players turn proceeds through the Stand Phase, Draw Phase, Main Phase and Battle Phase. We'll bring you a fuller guide to gameplay very soon.

Here's what's available on eBay right now...

This guide to Cardfight!! Vanguard was brought to you by BSTS, a United Kingdom based toy and hobby retailer. We currently stock the Korean-Language and English-Language versions of CF!!V and offer worldwide shipping.

To view our Cardfight!! Vanguard range, go here.

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