『Contract Saga: Kan Vol.2 Rebirth of the World』 is on sale from 30th August(Sat)!

From the family, [Urica], featuring [Forest Guardian Contractor, Yum Kaax] that utilizes the new token card [Fungi]. [Fungi] tokens have the ability to destroy itself when your [Fungus] spirits are destroyed or depleted by your opponent, to place a core from your trash onto that spirit and allows it to stay on field exhausted. It has a strong protection effect. Not only that, there are many [Fungus] cards can activate burst or exhaust opposing cards by exhausting or destroying 1 of your [Fungi] Token. As such, you can use this strategy to move the battle forward. With [The Fungus Divine Creator, Big Bang Golem]'s heave exhaust effect，together with this deck's Grand Emperor, [The Fungus Beast King, Washer Kutun -Battle Form-]'s rebirth effect to flood the board and decide the game!

「Celtica」's new Contract god, [Magic Jewel Contractor, Morigan] can use its [Contract Skill] to return your spirit to hand and summon another spirit card. Using power effects on summon and attack to battle. In addition, [Morigan] deck has the long-awaited [GranStone] card, 「The Imperial Jewel's Mega GranStone」. It is able to fulfil your [Flair Wings]'s reduction symbol when summoning/deploying/using them, and becomes a Grand Emperor [Empress of GranStones, Bijour Jewel] after rebirth. With her rebirth effect to be unaffected by opposing effects through [Release],and letting your spirits be unlockable, with the 5 or more counters when attacking, you will not lose the game. Using AX Rare, [Flair Knight Emperor, Dragonic Arthur]'s unguidable -BP effect, aim to gain more advantage using [The Emperor Jewel's Mega GranStone]'s rebirth effect of not losing the game.

Also, [Yamato Takeru] from Amahara joins the fray. Through its [ContractSkill], it sends opposing cards from the trash to the bottom of the deck. It also increases your counter by 2 when it sends either player's cards from the trash to the bottom of the deck. To [Manifest] your Grand Emperor, [Wildlife War God Machine, Yamato Augna -War God Form-] as a goal while removing opposing board and gaining counters. One of the cards that works well with [Yamato Takeru] deck will be the AX Rare [God Sech]'s new form [Heavenly Demon King, God Sechs -Type Aero-]. By paying 1 cost when Yamato Augna attacks, you can retrieve a powerful spirit card from your trash. Not only that, when you have 2 or more colored symbols, your attacking [Heaven Demon King],[Automation] and [Aero Soldier] spirits will gain 1 White symbol. Use Yamato Augna and Heaven Demon King God Sechs -Type Aero- to shave off lives.

In the box purchase campaign, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of anime [Battle Spirits Burning Soul], 1 Contract GranWalker [The Conflagration Contractor, Rekka Yukimura] or the revival version of GranWalker nexus, [Rekka Yukimura] will be obtained. [The Conflagration Contractor, Rekka Yukimura]'s Contract Skill can increase your counter and compare the BP of your [Rekka] spirits against opposing spirit or ultimate and its ContractField can make your target attack or BP comparison unguidable and be unaffected by opposing effects. In [Rebirth of the World], many familiar [Rekka] spirits are included and some of them have [Target Attack] or [Compare BP if opposing spirit]. Use them to aggressively attack and control your opponent's field. GranWalker nexus [Rekka Yukimura]'s Granfield can increase BP, retrieve soul core from your trash. Also, you can retrieve a [Soul Dragon] from your trash and then summon or manifest it. Using these, prepare for the game ending [Sengoku Soul Dragon X] and using its rebirth side [Sengoku Burning Soul Dragon X] to shave 2 life off after its battle. Using reminiscing cards from [Rebirth of the World], please be sure to construct a [Rekka Yukimura] deck and test it out!

In [Rebirth of the World]'s [All Star Signature Campaign], There will be 6 designs of characters from [Battle Spirits Burning Soul], [Battle Spirits Gallet's Revolution] and [Battle Spirits Mirage] for the new Magic card, [Kizuna Burst]. Be sure to collect your favourite [Kizuna Burst]!

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Also, there will also be the Voice Actor Hot-stamped version of the card. Please be sure to get them.

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In [Contract Saga: Kan Vol.3 Arrival of the Ultimates], there will also be a new magic card with Anime character designs. Please look forward to it!

From July to August, to commemorate TV Animation [Battle Spirits Burning Soul]'s 10th Anniversary, [Burning Soul] is focused in products like [Anime Booster Pack Burning Legacy], [Contract Saga: Kan Vol.2 Rebirth of the World] and [Premium Burning Box]. However, to welcome the 15th Anniversary of [Battle Spirits Brave], we decided to gather cards from [Brave] to release [Dream Booster Revolving Stars] on 18th October!

The focus of this product are the [12 Galaxian X rare], that represents [Brave] and [Zodiac Saga], getting their XV Rare forms with power effects. [Revolving Stars] is a BS product where you can play Draft and Sealed battles. Just like last year's [Revolving Miracle], the XV Rares can also be active in the meta due to their strength. We also decided to host the [Dream Booster Cup] and as such, please enjoy the Draft and Sealed Battles where you build a deck using this product. Of course, the product to commemorate [Brave]'s 15th Anniversary is not just yet! We are still actively planning other products focusing on [Brave] and we look forward to the day we can share more information!

The Battle to attain the title of BS No.1 in Asia is far from over! This year's championship is an upgrade of last year's 3 cycles. Each region's new round of Championship qualifier is about to begin. Please be sure to apply and battle with No.1 in Aisa as your goal.

Also, events for BS is not just Championship. To commemorate the 10th Anniversary of [Battle Spirits Burning Soul], we decided to host a special event at TOHO Cinemas Ueno on 9th November! We will invite special guests to reenact reminicing scenes. We will also be selling products and prepare memorabilia for attendees, we hope that everyone will come.

With regards to the [BS Standard Demo] hosted in all regions in July and August, we thank everyone for participating. Also, thank you for everyone that given the feedback after downloading the deck from official HP.

In the [Shin Kaihou Project], not only are we focusing on the current players, we also want to allow those that have not played BS or those that have left the game before, be able to enjoy the fun of BS. As such, for [Eternal] format, we plan to plan it such that it is the same as before, where all cards can be used so that players can enjoy the game together with [Standard] format. We will be planning our products and events with this in mind.

On the other hand, for [Standard] format, as we want to allow one to enjoy BS for a longer period of time, we created a simple yet deep game. In the midst of simplifying BS text, we also added new rules and mechanics.

In the production of BS in the early stage, we noticed the need of using simple text. But due to the accumulation of history, each card have now long text and are all complicated. Even though it grants many styles of tactics, and constructed the flavour of BS. However, on the other hand, for those who have not played BS or those who have left the game, it is a big obstacle to start the game. We believe that is one of the main points that we need to carry out. As such, this round's [Shin Kaihou Project] has the aim to maintain the game by allowing people to enjoy BS, we carried out the simplification of text. But if it is just simplification of text, it could just be a simple reduction in current players' point of view. So, we included elements like [Second Main Step] and [Shin Kaihou] to balance [simplification] and [depth]. In addition, we will not do any modification to the deck size, basic rules and BS settings of [Standard] format.

From this point, it will be regarding the new rules and mechanic. Firstly, there is a big change in [Standard] with the arrival of [Second Main Step]. It might have shocked many as it is a change to the [Main Step] element. As one of the flavour of BS, you can move cores and stengthen cards this way during the [Main Step]. With the addition of [Second Main Step], you can have more timings of when to move your cores. Not only that, as you can have your main step after attacking, you can use the cores from spirits that attacked to prepare new blockers etc, enhancing the gameplay. As such, we inserted the [Second Main Step].

Next, regarding the replacement of Lv with [Shin Kaihou]. Even though Lv is the familiar mechanic of BS, having many forms in 1 card will seem complicated as the number of cores can change the form of a card and many forms can appear on 1 card. It is changed in order to make the game easily understandable as a goal. Also, in order to attain the [Shin Kaihou] condition, not only did we maintain the requirement of [having a certain number of cores], we improved the traditional Lv system. In order to improve the flavour of core management using the soul core, we also prepared cards that can attain [Shin Kaihou] through [placing a soul core]. Furthermore, after attacking using a spirit with a strong attacking effect under the [Shin Kaihou] state, you can move its cores onto other spirit or nexus to attain [Shin Kaihou] during the [Second Main Step]. This mechanic is included to further improve the strategical mechanic of BS.

[EX Symbol] and [EX Reduction] is the improvement of the unique [symbol reduction] element of BS. The traditional [symbol reduction] mechanic can effectively aid in summoning or deploying, but once your field's symbols are being cleared by your opponent, it is difficult to make a comeback without having cards for [symbol reduction]. Furthermore, cards with [EX Reduction] can reduce their cost by banishing cards with [EX Symbol] from your trash so that you can rebuild easily even though you have no symbols on the field. This also includes a strategical planning where you have to plan how to store cards with [EX Symbol] into your trash.

[Soul Magic] is a mechanic in [Shin Kaihou] to further improve the Soul Core mechanic. Till now, the soul core has contributed to BS's flavour for its use in mechanics such as [Radiant Descend] and [Manifest] As you can use a [Soul Magic] by paying soul core as its cost while you have [Target colored symbol on your field], the strategy of planning a symbol on your field while not allowing your opponent to have one becomes of one the charming point of a battle.

Apart from changing some rules and mechanics, we also adjusted the deck size from [40 and above] to [exactly 50] and changing the play set from [3 pieces] to [4 pieces]. This will allow players to use more type of cards in their deck as one can choose to include 1~4pcs of a single card into their deck. We believe that this has improved the versatility of deck building. However, we also noticed that the difference in [Standard] and [Eternal]'s deck construction rules may cause confusion. As compared to other rules and mechanic's change, this will be a bigger adjustment. We will consider everyone's opinions and make our judgement on a later date.

Also, with the inclusion of [Standard] format, we also released new card design. It has inherited the current [Unique BS] elements, together with improvement to card frame, text frame and symbol designs. However, we received feedbacks from players that part of the card design and [EX Symbol] does not have enough visual recognition We believe that our priority is to ensure player's comfortability and aim to improve the card design to present a better visuals.

Now, we're reading everyone's opinions and with the aim to improve BS and explore what [Standard] should look like. Regarding the new rules and mechanics, we understand that are mixed opinions. Many experienced BS players might feel resistance against the change to BS, but in order to maintain BS for the next 10~20 years, we feel that it is time for a change. But, a change would also need to be close to everyone's heart. As explained previously, the current rules and mechanics used in the current [Standard Demo] is not in its final version. This time, with everyone's feedback, we intend to do some changes from the current version. We are still in the midst of adjustments and aiming to give an update on [Standard] rules and mechanic in mid October. Please look forward to it.

I joined events in various regions this month and was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of everyone involved. It was a truly exciting summer. Also, in the feedbacks from [Standard Demo], we received many voices expressing their love for BS. With such enthusiasm, I can feel why BS is able to last for 17 years.
Regarding [Standard], we will improve using feedbacks gathered from everyone and it would be my honor if you would wait for my updates on more details.
And so, the next cycle for each region's Championship is about to begin! How [Contract Saga: Kan Vol.2 Rebirth of the World] will change the meta will be everyone's focus! Please continue to support Battle Spirits