(“The Cipher Frontier! With Emma, Shade, Yuzu, Randal, Alice & Val” is a regular column on the Fire Emblem Cipher website which summarises upcoming news concerning Cipher and other Fire Emblem materials. It is hosted by the six mascot characters. The following is a full translation of the 34th issue of the column, which was originally published on the 8th of December, 2017.)

More Fire Emblem Cipher translations!

Heh heh… Now, with no further ado, let’s have a look at the contents! Firstly, product information!

“Glorious Twinstrike”, huh? It’s pretty neat how appropriate it feels as a way to close out 2017!

It is entitled “Glorious Twinstrike”! It is available for purchase even as we speak!

Quite so! You mustn’t permit an illness to rob you of your leisure time! After all, today is…

Now, now, Emma. You mustn’t be so careless. Naught is more important than your health.

When I’m riding my pegasus, the skies are a bit chilly… But I’m completely fine!

It’s gotten so cold, but we haven’t come down with colds. I wonder why?

Promoted units with support skills, powerful support skills that demand a cost to be used… This could be an interesting way to fight.

The newly debuting cards from “The Sacred Stones” are marked with the “Legendary Weapons” symbol, but set themselves apart with all sorts of variations on skills that affect supports !

Indeed… ‘Tis brimming with deep meaning, if in an almost nonchalant manner.

Heh… That’s right, and in fact the set was named to sound so, er, “twinny” because of those three pairs.

Dame Eirika and Sir Ephraim… Sir Alm and Dame Celica… And Sir Rowan and Dame Lianna! My, my!

Oh! I just noticed! This time, all three of the featured titles star two lords!

What marvelous package art, with all of these lords standing together!

Another improvement is the addition of skills that can manipulate the cards you play as supports.

And this series’ showpiece is the new type of special skill that Eirika and Ephraim possess: Twin Skills (TS)!

Anyway, I’d also like to point out that Eirika and Ephraim each received illustrations by Sachiko Wada, Rika Suzuki and Kotaro Yamada!

Whoa! Twin Skills! I’d do well to master them promptly, and to put them to use in combat!

I’m not sure I understand it entirely, but it sounds incredible! Val, I wish to play at once!

Bah! It’s still a perfectly comprehensible idea after simplifying it this much!

Oho! But, er, Shade? Isn’t that a bit too simple a take on it…?

I’m glad you asked! Put simply, these skills allow Eirika and Ephraim to share orbs and fight as if you have two lords!

…T-Twin Skills?! What kinda skills are these supposed to be?

Moving on, in the “Echoes: Shadows of Valentia” cards, overclasses such as the conqueror, rigain and harrier make their card debut!

And now they’re all together in one place? …Heh, that’s not a half bad idea there.

I see! I do believe that Dame Sachiko Wada was the character artist for “The Sacred Stones”, Dame Rika Suzuki illustrated the novelization of “The Sacred Stones”, and Sir Kotaro Yamada was responsible for Ephraim in the downloadable content for “Awakening”!

Eh?! Why’d they give them so many great ones?!

And of course, we also expanded on superpromoted cards: one of the other features of “Echoes”.

That’s right! For overclass cards, changing class is costlier than deploying, unlike other cards. Because of this, when you class change into them, you get to use a devastating skill!

Hold a moment! Do these overclass cards… not have steeper deployment costs than class change costs?

Overclasses?! Wow, that’s sorta got a cool ring to it as well!

Moving on, moving on! I’d like to draw your attention to the legendary heroes from various titles being featured with “Fire Emblem Warriors”, which is also making its first appearance!

Overclasses and superpromotion… It’s important to put them to proper use in your strategies. Far as I’m concerned, that’s what makes battles interesting!

Superpromoted cards are the opposite: it’s cheaper to promote into them than with regular cards!

Also! Here are the bonuses included in this series’ booster boxes!

Hrm… It looks like these make it easier to build a deck with other symbol-less cards… Seems like a fun way to fight.

What?! Sir Marth and Sir Chrom now have cards devoid of symbols?!

Oh? Forgive me, my colleagues, but am I correctly seeing that these lack symbols?

Witnessing gallant heroes and cute heroes alike being brought together like this is truly a sight to behold!

Hehehe! But of course… But of course! These are the signed cards and panorama artworks for Series 11!

By the way… There are signed cards in Series 11 too, right?

Be at ease, milady. I have already ordered them.

V-Val! You must purchase boxes so I can collect all of these! Please!

Not to mention, also included are original sleeves for either “The Sacred Stones” or “Fire Emblem Warriors”

That’s right! This time, two cards of Eirika and Ephraim are the bonuses included only in boxes! One of these will be a shiny holographic card!

Oh? So this time, there are no preview promotional cards to be found?

Also, also! Accompanying the launch of Series 11, the “Cipher Winter Campaign: Original Notebook Presents” is also underway! Buy 16 booster packs or one box, and you’ll also get a special notebook and sticker set!

They contributed to some truly inspiring broadcasts! I certainly plan to get ahold of their signed cards.

Taku Yashiro, Atsumi Tanezaki and Saori Seto have all appeared on Cipher Live Broadcasts! They were all really fun there, too!

We’ve gotten a good crop of signed cards this time, too! Cipher’s a hell of a pretty card game, huh?

This time, we have cards signed by Taku Yashiro, the voice of Ephraim; Kaori Mizuhashi, the voice of Eirika; Atsumi Tanezaki, the voice of Faye; Hiroshi Kamiya, the voice of Clive; Yuuma Uchida, the voice of Rowan; Maaya Uchida, the voice of Lianna; and Saori Seto, the voice of Anna!

Notebooks are most convenient! I’d imagine these will be useful for planning Cipher decks and taking notes on strategies!

V-Val! Purchase boxes as well!

I have also already ordered some, milady. …And some for myself, of course.

Oh, by the way, Shade. I was wondering about those overclasses from “Echoes” you were just talking about… What the heck is an overclass, anyway? If a superpromoted class is higher than a promoted class, are overclasses even higher than those?

Huh?! Er, I, that’s…. Ahahaha… I… don’t actually know?

How discourteous. If I may, permit me to answer.

What? You… know, Val?

Yes, milady. I did not at first, either, but the director of “Echoes: Shadows of Valentia” graced me with this explanation.

“The "over” in “overclass” connotes not only being situated above other things, but also of otherworldliness and the surpassing of limits. The altars in which each class’s power is sealed represent the “old gods” once worshipped in Valentia in the era prior to the coming of Mila and Duma, as well as the legendary warriors who once followed them, and through prayer one can attain the power of these pagan gods for oneself.“

…So he said.

Whoa! That’s what they are? That was really helpful!

I… I didn’t know any of that…