Cloudchaser and Flitter Spoil: Marks in Time

Of course I’m impatient! I love showing off spoilers!

Especially this time. I don’t mean to brag, but my card? Absolutely the best card we’ve ever gotten to spoil.

Oh? I bet it’s not nearly as amazing as my card is.

I dunno. It’ll be real tough to beat my card. It’s going to see a lot of play, I guarantee it.

Well, stop bragging about it and show everypony!

Don’t have to tell me twice!

…Well that was an awful lot of buildup for a pretty boring card.

B-boring?

Well, it’s not like we don’t have a whole bunch of TM Busters already…

Yeah, but…

Okay, I guess I can see where you’re coming from. At first glance some ponies might just dismiss this.

But Cracking the Case has a lot of things that make it stand out!

First off, it’s immediate. The very first immediate event TM Buster in the game. Which is really important, since you can use it when the opponent’s about to beat a Troublemaker to deny them the points.

Secondly, it banishes the troublemaker. For good! The only other card that banishes a troublemaker is Fluttershy: Monster Tamer , and she costs 4 and only banishes it temporarily.

Third, it’s got an amazing 5 flip average. Most TM busters cap out at 4. I can only think of 3 others at 5, two of which are situational and one is Repulsor Blast from the next set.

Fourth, you can choose an opponent’s Troublemaker or your own, so you can even use this when your own Epic TM is giving you trouble. Or, again, just to deny your opponent points.

And lasty, it does all of this for 1 AT and 2 req. That’s the same as Damsel in Distress , which was already good, but is so, so much better!

This is an insanely good card!

Sorry, Cici. But that’s just not very interesting to me. I won’t deny it’s good, but it’s just not exciting.

I think it’s plenty exciting…

Awww, I didn’t mean to rain on your parade.

It’s good that you’re excited for it! That means other ponies like you will be too. It’s perfectly okay for a card to appeal to you and not to me. We don’t need to like the same things.

I mean, I’m the one who likes building silly hat decks, or decks to flip dozens of cards, or even decks built for the sole purpose of trying to flip The card with no name when you’re at 14 points!

Yeah, why do you try and do that anyway? You’d win if you’d just not intentionally put that on your deck and flip literally anything else.

Cause it’s fun!

Weirdo.

There’s the Cici we all know and love.

Anyway, I guess that’s it for my card. And even if it’s not for you, I like it a lot.

Now let’s see whether yours can out awesome mine.

Oh, it’s not even a contest, Cici. Mine is trillions of times better. Maybe even zillions!

Zillion isn’t a number.

That’s just how much more awesome it is. Wanna guess why?

Oh, oh, I know.

It’s me!

You egotist!

But nope, guess again. You’re close, though.

Um… you?

Still close! One more guess!

Uhhh, Rumble? Bulk? Thunderlane? I have no idea.

No, silly. It’s both of us!

Weren’t we just adorable at that age?

Augh! Where’d they get that picture?

Beats me. They manage to get some really crazy ones.

Like I’m pretty sure some of these pictures are from alternate time lines. How do you even begin to take a picture of that?

Take it away! I don’t want everypony to see me as a filly!

But just look at how cute you are! You’re smiling and dancing and having a great time. What’s not to love?

Besides, it’s official card art now. It’ll be in everyone’s hooves in a month or two anyway, regardless of whether I cover it up now or not.

The other cadets are going to tease me about this for days…

Oh, you big baby. You’re tough enough to withstand a little teasing.

Besides, you haven’t noticed the best part yet. Check out the flavour text.

“Everything changed the day that Flitter borrowed Cloudchaser’s bo—”

It’s a lie! Slander! No one can prove anything!

Who do these ponies think they are, sharing private information like that? I’ll show them!

Maybe I could bribe them not to release this card? I’ve got the cash… though I guess everypony already saw it… maybe I could bribe them too?

Augh! How did they even find out about that in the first place? This is just awful!

Sigh, I guess there’s really nothing I can do now, is there?

Wow, you just blazed through those five stages.

Anyway, yes, it’s totally true. Cloudchaser was the one who originally wore a bow, not me. In fact, it’s how we met!

Don’t tell them that!

She looked totally awesome in it, and I just had to go up to her and talk about it. Then I asked if I could wear it and, well, I liked it so much I may have decided to keep it.

She was bawling her eyes out when at the end of the day I told her I wouldn’t return it, hehe.

It was mine and you stole it, hmph.

But somehow we wound up friends anyway. And we’ve been besties ever since!

Dunno why I’m best friends with somepony who just goes around blurting secrets to everypony. Hmph.

Awww, I didn’t mean to get you so upset, Cici. I was just teasing.

I know what’ll cheer you up! Soon as we’re done here, I’ll tell Pinkie to whip up a huge lemon pudding cake. Just for you!

L-lemon pudding?

No, I’m mad at you.

Aww, Cici…

Hey, no, don’t hug me! Gah!

I’m sorry, Cici. I really didn’t think you’d get this upset.

…

Still besties?

Yeah…

But that cake better be amazing.

Does Pinkie ever make non-amazing cakes?

So, feel like analyzing the actual card now?

Oh yeah. Probably a good idea.

Hrm. I’m actually not sure we’re all that good. Card draw is nice and all, but it’s pretty expensive in our case.

I guess as a side benefit if you’re going to be Cutie Marking lots of friends, it’s not that bad. Not sure it’s going to be terribly relevant to cutiemark us, though, at least not without other reasons to do so. Paying 2 for 1 power and 1 card is exactly why Berry Dreams ’ card isn’t terribly great after all.

You get more maximum handsize too!

Yeah, not sure that’s going to matter much.

Well…

Heh, okay, I suppose that’s cute. Not great, but cute.

I dunno. Seems like a fairly average card, really. Depends a lot on whether or not Cutie Marking is a part of your strategy or not. And I’m not certain we’ll be seeing loads of Cutie Marking decks, you know?

Are you kidding? I’m totally going to make one! Maybe three or ten!

That’s not how counting works.

But the most important part? Now I can foalsit myself, hehe.

I…

Why would you even…

Aww, c’mon. That’s amazing and you know it.

Goofball.

Though I totally lied before. Know what the actual best part of the card is?

You and I get to be on the same card together!

You know…

That is kind of awesome.

Just wish they didn’t decide to do it when we were foals.

Also, you’re finally in a colour besides Blue now.

Wait, what?

Did you seriously not notice this was a Pink card?

But I liked always being Blue…

Guess you’ll just have to get used to change. Besides, Pink is pretty awesome.

Anyway, that’s both our spoilers, so I guess we’re done. Ready for that cake now?

Absolutely! Let’s go!

Haha, slow down, Cici!

Well, she certainly took off, hehe. I’d better catch up.

Bye, everypony! Hope you liked the spoilers!