[ALL] Revival of this blog... and Daisuke Izuka update!

Hello everybody.

So, it has been more than 5 years since the last post of this blog. You can treat as though we time-leaped 5 years into the future. During this time, a lot has happened:

• To the Cardfight!! Vanguard trading card game: Shortly after our last blog post, the G-era meta became extremely cancerous with Gyze and Gear Cancer-related shenanigans. There was no longer any way for our fun decks to compete, and Bushiroad knew this as well. The game was then rebooted into the V-series where they tried to redo everything on a clean slate, but in a short span of 2 years we once again arrived into unbridled power creep hell. There was then a SECOND REBOOT (Overdress) where completely new units and mechanics are currently being introduced.
• To us: When Vanguard became increasingly irksome to play for us during the late G-era, we started our foray into other TCGs, such as Buddyfight and Dragoborne. We spent some time focusing and playing these games, while at the same time joining back to Vanguard during the V-series reboot. Interestingly, both of these games have now been discontinued. Some of us also went into Digimon Card Game, which has its own slew of issues. At the same time, we also got busy growing up and getting into adulthood (most of us are born around 1993). Right now though, we found it worthwhile to revive this blog during this exciting time for Vanguard where all 3 formats of Premium, V-Premium, and Standard are being revitalised to some extent.

Moving forward, this blog would focus on the V-Premium and Standard (Overdress) formats. Post titles would be tagged with [V-PREMIUM] or [STANDARD] depending on the format in question, as well as with [ALL] if the post is a general discussion transcending format boundaries. We hope to capture some of our states of mind during this time of Vanguard TCG gameplay, and whatever is recorded here can serve as a point of discussion in the present as well as a time capsule snapshot for our future selves to possibly laugh at.

Now moving on to the actual content of this post. What has Daisuke Izuka been up to for these 5 years?!

(Refer to our first Daisuke Izuka post here: http://weakness-is-a-sin.blogspot.com/2015/12/random-lets-idolise-daisuke-izuka.html)

During the late G-era, Daisuke Izuka contributed the artwork of upgraded forms of cards that he had illustrated in the past, with Stride bonus effects. These include:

Continuing his reign of terror in the Link Joker Star-Vader Chaos series, here are the mayhem cards that were drawn by him:

He also drew the Stride forms of cards that he illustrated in the past:

And how could he miss out on the Gear Cancer?

Moving into the V-series reboot, we see some of his previous works in new artwork by him as the returning illustrator of these iconic cards:

He also contributed illustrations to new cards that were previously not in the G-era of Vanguard:

In the Overdress reboot, so far we have not seen much from him except mainly the Cardinals of Brandt Gate. The art style is reminiscent of his previous Link Joker work on Deletors and Star-vaders:

Sadly, you won't be seeing much of his artwork if you play the Cardinal deck as it involves filling up the field with Shadow Army Tokens. Ah well.

And that brings us to the end of this post. Hope you enjoyed the cards/artwork compilation, and see you guys in our next post!