Lycoris Re-Recoil

With the release of Lycoris Recoil’s premium booster, the series came with a bunch of new goodies that also supported the old series. As I sit here waiting for my upcoming shipment to drop me off my new cards to play with, I felt like breaking down the release and sharing my thoughts on the cards as a whole in a general sense.

Beginning with the reprints, we have all of the tournament promotional cards (PR) that came out as participation prizes have now been re-released in alter arts. They do come with a bit of a steep price tag since they are all SP versions this time around. This set itself is quite interesting as the art featured in the set are all original fan-arts for the characters. I think this is a wonderful way to involve the community and also introduce unique arts for a series (considering most Weiss arts are screenshots, asset arts, or still frames).

Beginning with the deck that is probably on everyone’s minds, the swimsuit girls return with boosted support from the new 3/2 combo piece in the new series. When we revisit the deck profile on another day, we’ll go into deeper depth on this new support itself, but for now, what you need to know is that this card is a consistency tool that makes it easier for a player to pull off the Chisato/Takino combo in its entirety. This card is great, and in my opinion, is exactly what the deck needed the most. This single card simplifies the combo, allowing players to accomplish the devastating finishing turn of the Lycoris girls more easily.

The LycoReco cafe deck has two more nice tools at its disposal. Chisato is a climax swapper profile just for that deck specifically. Takina gave a large amount of power and consistency to the deck by acting as essentially extra copies of both your level one combo and level three Chisato and Takina.

In addition to the above decks, some of the other decks also received some specific support. Although not exactly powerful on their own, these cards above act as either filters or advantage engines to help propel their respective deck themes. It is always nice to see support for older series.

That being said, if you don’t have access to the older series or don’t want to play the older cards, the set can be played standalone. The set has its own finishers and early-play combos alongside a number of tech and other cards that don’t need to reference old cards. Additionally, you can also mix and match some of these new combos with older cards as well if you’d really like.

Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore these cards above with their beautiful bordering and flashy frame breaking art. However, I’m not a fan of serial designs in general. I’ve got my own sentiments regarding these rarities as well, but that’s for another time. Art-wise, these cards are absolutely gorgeous. If you manage to pull one, congratulations I’d be jealous. I don’t know if this is the first time that Bushiroad has made serial alter cards; I know it exists in English, but I just wish that there were non-serial versions of these cards personally. I prefer the cards themselves without both the very hefty price tag and the large noticeable golden number within the golden frame. But that is just my opinion.

So, what do you think about the set? Did you like the additions the premium set gave and the support that was printed to help the older series? Feel free to shoot us a comment or two and let us know.