It’s been nearly five years since we made our debut in June 2015: as a company, everything about trading card games, from publishing to ongoing service, was a totally new experience for us. We only made it this far thanks to all of our customers, our retailers and our distributors coming together.

It gives us so much pride to know how much entertainment we brought to you all with Cipher. We will continue to support Cipher for one year further, but it would mean the world to us if you all continued to enjoy Cipher to the very end.

From all of us here at the Fire Emblem Cipher team, thank you so, so much for all of the patronage you’ve given us to date.

April 2, 2020
Intelligent Systems
Fire Emblem Cipher Project Team

(English translation originally provided by bookofholsety)

This past spring, Intelligent Systems shared a major update regarding the Japanese trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher: product development is to finish with the Series 22 booster expansion slated for October, and will mark the end of Cipher.

In a follow-up broadcast, Cipher producer Ryota Kawade explained that the card game’s discontinuation is due to various reasons which he could only share a few of. The reasons given were namely that times have changed, and mediums connecting Fire Emblem fans such as Fire Emblem Heroes and Fire Emblem Expo will be focused on.

Mr. Kawade also provided a schedule of remaining Cipher events to be held, but for the purposes of this article, we will get back to this after going over the main topic. Now, without further ado…

With less than two months until launch, the epic conclusion to Cipher draws near! Are you prepared? Here is everything we know about the final set, including confirmed characters, when to expect new reveals, and where to import products.

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To mark the occasion of Fire Emblem Cipher’s new booster release, Intelligent Systems has updated the Cipher official site with another Cipher Frontier column update where characters Emma, Shade, Yuzu, Randal, Alice, Valjean, Niamh, and Poe discuss the launch and occasionally share us a glimpse of some exclusive news.

Of note this time around, the group was able to share official uploads of select card artworks for the trading card game’s final set in October; those of higher quality than of previous photos grabbed in the past. Some of these we haven’t even seen before!

Note: Artworks are said to be in development and are not final.

They also took the opportunity to share the crown jewel of the set, all of the heroes who’ve appeared in Cipher gathered for one last hurrah. For your convenience, we’ve edited the image to perfectly align its parts so it would appear in a straight line, like so:

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The Series 21 expansion of the Fire Emblem Cipher trading card game is rolling out in Japan as we speak! Fans can pick up boxes of the latest booster, Tempest of Apocalyptic Flame, and collect all-new cards of characters from Three Houses, The Binding Blade, The Blazing Blade, and Heroes. For anyone overseas, boxes may be imported via AmiAmi when available.

Card artwork of Hector (and Lilina) from The Binding Blade, as shared by the artist Daisuke Izuka on their personal Twitter account.

To commemorate the release, we’ll be taking a tour of all 100+ cards releasing with this set, as well as reviewing other information alongside the release.

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