Fighter's Collection 2016 part 1: A card that is clearly not generic.

With Fighter''s Collection 2016's poster art having being revealed about 3 weeks ago, I have been hyped about it to no end, and the Sub-Clan's that I think are going to get support. (It does look like the majority of the support will be generic, however.)

To drive the hype train ever further, today I'm going to talking theory going around that all the cards in FC2016 are generic, and the main piece of evidence I use to believe this not to be true.

So without further ado,

Towermaster2 presents:

Fighter's Collection 2016

 part 1: A card that is clearly not generic.

First example: Aqua Force's (Assumed) RRR Stride. 

This is a great card to start with, as it is incredibly likely (99.9% likely) to be a Blue Storm stride, which kind of puts a massive hole in the theory that all the strides in FC2016 are generic.

 "But it might be a Marine General of Heavenly Silk!" You might say. Here's why that isn't the case:

The other generic Aquaroid strides are the first pieces of evidence. All Marine Generals of Heavenly Silk thus far have all wielded swords, whilst the new stride clearly wields a gun.

"That's semantics! Just because all the other generic Aquaroid strides have swords doesn't mean this one isn't generic!" Very true, but there are other factors to this card that tell us that this card is not generic.

So let's focus on the weapon itself a bit more, or more specifically, the colour scheme: Green and Black. There are a few cards that have weapons with this colour scheme, which are:

Here are all the examples I can think of, and note that every single one is a member of the Blue Storm Sub-Clan. There may be a few more but I can't think of anymore.

However, two other cards with black weapons even combined with my last point is nowhere near strong enough of a trend to rule out the possibility of the card being generic.

So, do I have any strong evidence using only the revealed card's art and trends of Blue Storm to prove that this card has an element specific to the Blue Storm Sub-Clan?

In fact, I do. All Blue Storm Cards with four exceptions (All forms of Maelstroms bar Maelstrom Reverse and Sebastian) has one distinctive element to them: A Green, Teal or Turquoise Hexagon. In other words, out of the 42 Blue Storm cards currently in print, 38 of them have this insignia.



I have chosen these 4 examples as they clearly show this hexagon I'm talking about and they are all from different sets, I've put a ring around the hexagon to make it even more visible.

So, does this new card have this hexagon shape on the cards clothing?

Yes it does! In the same place as Gregorios (The left shoulder) no less!

So that concludes part 1 of this series. In part 2 I'll be talking about an art that has got many, many people speculating about exactly what it is!