Welcome to the first Cipher S18 Weekly Recap! Titled Oratorio of Embarkation, this is the first set to focus on the wildly popular Three Houses. Characters from Awakening and The Sacred Stones also appear. Our first reveal of the week featured all three leading characters from these titles for S18: Male Byleth, Female Robin, and Ephraim.

A new Starter Deck will also be coming out at the same time, solely featuring 3H characters. The headliner for this deck is Female Byleth. Each deck will include this special signed card! We don’t yet know if F!Byleth will also be appearing in the booster set or just the deck.

Further reveals from this week also include our first SR card of the set, going to Edelgard! We also get a good look at her ST-exclusive card. Both of these cards were just revealed today. The left card is from the ST and the right card is her SR.

The last two reveals of the week go to one character each from both remaining games. Gaius shows up again for the first time since S4, also with another R foil card! We also get two new cards for the mercenary captain Gerik.

Read on below for livestream information and other details.

We’ve only had a small handful of cards revealed so far, but tomorrow’s Summer Livestream should give us a fair amount more!

Kubocchan will be hosting for the first time, along with Cipher Producer Ryota Kawade. Voice Actors Kaito Ishikawa (Dimitri) and Hibiku Yamamura (Rinea and Shade) will also join in as guests. You can check out details and bookmark the stream links on the official site here. The stream begins tomorrow at 8pm JST.

That’s all we have for now! Cipher Series 18 will release next month on 26 September. In the meantime, it’ll be an exciting month of news, reveals, and speculation. For further discussion about Cipher, feel free to join us in the Cipher subforum on the forums! You can also check out the Cipher Wiki for translations of the cards and more detailed information.