History Anime / FutureCardBuddyfight

** [[spoiler:The first fight of the Buddyfight series is Gao vs Tasuku both using Dragon World. The final fight with Gao as the main character is Gao vs Tasuku both returning to using Dragon World flags. In addation, the first episode of Buddyfight starts with Tasuku bringing down a criminal. The second to last scene is him bringing down a criminal.]]

*** ''Galaxy F'' unlocks abilities if there is an Astrodragon monster in the center, left and an Astrodragon item is equipped.

*** ''D-Share'' gives Link Dragon Order monsters and items each other's abilities allowing multiple effects and advantages.

*** Gargantua Dragon and the cards that are associated with the Dragod and Dragon Deity Tribe type are supports to his ''G-Evo'' mechanic which allows him to change forms mid battle to attack with extra abilities. What's notable about Gargantua Dragon is that his base forms are not associated with any world, but his different forms and the Dragon Deity Tribe are, thus his playstyle revolves around what world you want to use him in. They also have their own Deity Gargantua Punisher with their own conditions. (At this time only Dragon World, Katana World, and Magic World are available)

*** Curse Dragons activate effects when your opponent has cards under their flag, like if they use alternative flags, like Dragon Drei, or if it's forced upon them by the effects of the Curse Dragon themselves. It's primary win condition is ''Sentence of Curse'' which wins the player the game if they can get up to 15 cards under the opponent's flag by the start of their turn.
** '''Unassociated Flags''':

*** ''Dragonblood Sect'' has a strong focus on the Counterattack ability supplemented with abilities to both force attacks on the monsters and put them in a situation where the opponent's attacks fail and remove monsters during their opponent's turn to give them an easy victory.

*** Curse Dragons activate effects when your opponent has cards under their flag, like if they use alternative flags, like Dragon Drei, Infinity the Chaos, [[spoiler:Lost World]], or if it's forced upon them by the effects of the Curse Dragon themselves. This also acts as an out of play zone as most cards cannot be utilized under the flag.

* CerberusSyndrome: While it's still lighter compared to Vanguard, it does start getting dark after the Sengoku Academy arc, [[spoiler: When Kiri pulls a FaceHeelTurn after losing to Gao so many times, and Tasuku gets kicked out of the Buddy Police.]]

*** Plague cards focus on loading cards into the souls of other cards for powerful effects and easy access. Their spells also have a theme of hard controlling the opponents cards.

** '''Dungeon World''': A tribute to Role Playing Games, both Video Games and Tabletop RPGs, as well as fantasy in general, their decks incorporate elements of RPGs, both player's side and villain's side, even coming down to effects that rely on RNG.

*** In ''X'' they have changed to become a weapon exclusive deck utilizing ''"Demonic Descent Sword of the King" Laevateinn'' Allowing the player to equip as many items as possible, but has no monsters to set up a defense relying solely on defensive spells to stay alive.

*** The Dragon Ein flag allows one to use any Dragon attribute card from any world and start with 12 Life, but in exchange the player using the flag starts behind with only a 4 card starting hand. Because of the versatility of the Dragon Attribute between all of the worlds, the Dragon Ein deck can be extremely versatile, but its main goal is to support the monster Azi Dahaka and its multiple forms.
*** Its counterpart, the Dragon Zwei flag, allows one to use any Dragon attribute monsters from any world (and ''just'' monsters) and starts with a whopping 20 Life. Like Dragon Ein, the player starts with a 4 card starting hand and the strategy is similar to its support towards Azi Dahaka and his different forms. However, because you can only use monsters, items, spells and impacts (unless it's a Dragon attribute Impact Monster) cannot be utilized to respond to your opponent and thus monster abilities must be used to compensate. That being said, you can respond with one card...
*** Dragon Drei, the third flag of this type and like Dragon Zwei, you can only play Dragon attribute monsters from any world. Unique to all other flags, you cannot start with this flag and can only be in a deck with the Dragon Zwei flag. When your life points hit 0, you can place the Dragon Drei flag on top of Dragon Zwei and your life now goes to 5. In exchange for this second wind, you must send all other cards on the field to the drop zone.

*** Thunder Emperor's Fangs flag allows usage of all Thunder Empire attribute cards with 7 starting cards in hand and 11 life, but you only have 1 gauge to start with. Originally a Dragon World exclusive attribute, the Thunder Empire deck have an extremely explosive offense, most cards dealing multiple attacks and high power. However, many of these abilities are activated [[OneHitPointWonder when the player is at low life]]. In addition, some ace monsters have the ''Overturn'' keyword, a once per Buddyfight ability that can turn the tide of the game. Taken one step further with the ''Overthrow'' keyword, another once per Buddyfight ability given only to ''Turbulent Warlord Dragon, Barlbatzz Dragoroyale''

*** Multi-World cards are cards associated to two or three worlds that are based off the worlds it is attributed to.

*** Armorknights best show off this kind of playstyle.

*** Tyrant attributes play around with their life by [[CastFromHitPoints using it as a resource for some of their spells and abilities]]. In return, some spells allow them to regain just as much life, thus careful management of their life is important.

** '''Dragon World''': A [[JackOfAllStats generally balanced world]] that favors high offence with its monsters and items and a strong defense with its various counter abilities.

*** Jackknife Dragon is typically in a deck to himself upgrading him by calling other forms on top of the previous form.
*** The Fifth Omni Calvary are a series of Armordragons that serve the Fifth Omni Dragon Lord, Tenbu [[spoiler: and Drum]] and have effects that punish the opponent by countering any type of damage inflicted on the player, even if the player inflicts damage upon himself.

** '''Ancient World''': This flag extremely powerful monsters, normally size 3 monsters, with incredible stats and abilities but [[{{Synchronization}} but inflict damage upon their owner when destroyed]] and some of their cards [[CastFromHitPoints use the player's lifepoints as resource]] since they live or die by these monsters.. These monsters are often supported with Size 0 monsters and items.

*** Adventurers are individually weak, but gain power in combination, resulting on a reliance on link attacks and a ZergRush Strategy. In addition, their ''Mission Card'' series of spells whose effects go off after fulfilling specific actions.

*** In ''X'' they have changed to become a weapon exclusive deck utilizing ''"Demonic Descent Sword of the King" Laevateinn'' Allowing the player to equip as many items as possible, but has no monsters to set up a defense relying solely on defensive spells to stay alive.

*** In '''Triple D''', they changed their strategy to focus more on field control and added an element of deck destruction gaining advantage whenever the opponent has a lot of cards in their drop zone.
*** In '''X''', they now focus on powerful Set cards to streingthen their field and stopping the opponent's and in turn, protecting these set spells. Most important of these in the Set Impact card ''Death Count, Requiem'', which puts the player behind in life, but automatically wins the game if the card manages to aquire at least 3 soul cards at the end of the turn.

*** The Purgatory Knights Reborn are a variant of Purgatory Knights but these monsters are also affiliated with the normal Dragon World. These monsters can be sent to the soul to help recycle the cards destroyed and have additional effects while in the soul. As they are associated with Dragon World and Darkness Dragon World, they can either utilize the previous generation of Purgatory Knights, or create combos with Dragon World's pool of cards.
** '''Hero World''': A flag based on both super heroes, giant mecha, aliens and even the police and military. Almost all of them share the same mechanic of equipping a monster as an item. This comes with the benefit of a defensive stat to the player allowing them to block attacks that are less powerful. Note that depending on the attribute, this ability will be represented as different keywords.

*** Superheroines all have the ''Move'' ability along side many on-call effects and effects when they leave the field. However, they typically do not have high defense so cards like ''Bandage Warrior, Masked Vantage'' can rescue his heroines by transforming at the last second and recover them back to their hand cards, which also wastes one of their opponent's attacks.

*** The Dragon Ein flag allows one to use any Dragon attribute card from any world and start with 12 Life, but in exchange the player using the flag starts behind with only a 4 card starting hand.
*** Its counterpart, the Dragon Zwei flag, allows one to use any Dragon attribute monsters from any world (and ''just'' monsters) and starts with a whopping 20 Life. Like Dragon Ein, the player starts with a 4 card starting hand. However, this also means that, unless you are using monster abilities, you cannot use spells or items to respond to your opponent. That is unless you have...
*** Dragon Drei, the third flag of this type and like Dragon Zwei, you can only play Dragon attribute monsters from any world. Unique to all other flags, you cannot start with this flag and can only be in a deck with the Dragon Zwei flag. When your life points hit 0, you can place the Dragon Drei flag on top of Dragon Zwei and your life now goes to 5. In exchange for this second wind, you must send all other cards on the field to the drop zone.
*** The Parade of Hundred Demons flag allows one to use any Hundred Demons attribute card from any world, Hundred Demons specialize in restricting the opponents options with their Thunder Mine ability, dealing damage whenever the player does a specific action.

*** The Chaos flag only allows usage of Chaos Attribute cards but the player must start with 4 cards in hand. However, it also increases that player's size limit from 3 to 99, thus it allows for massive size cards with powerful effects and stats to flood the field. In fact, any monster with size 30 or more are protected under this flag by preventing these cards from being destroyed and their abilities cannot be nullified. This naturally comes at the cost of relaying on the [=GearGod=] monsters to call monsters in order to bypass their otherwise highly restrictive costs. All of the [=GearGod=] monsters also have the Chaos Territory ability which allows another monster to occupy the center position along side them.
*** With the same The Chaos Flag, The Autodeity Army are [[LightingBruiser Lighting Bruisers]] who have very powerful abilities and even ''call from the deck''. They are all even EvilKnockoff of the Thunder Empire monsters. However most of their abilities cost Life to use.
*** Finally, [[spoiler: just like with Dragon Zwei, The Chaos can be upgraded to Infinity The Chaos if you have ten or more cards in your drop zone. It brings back five of those cards to your hand and removes the size cap completely. What makes it special though is that ''the flag itself can attack.'']]
*** Thunder Emperor's Fangs flag allows usage of all Thunder Empire attribute cards with 7 starting cards in hand and 11 life, but you only have 1 gauge to start with. Originally a Dragon World exclusive attribute, the Thunder Empire deck have an extremely explosive offense, most cards dealing multiple attacks and high power. However, many of these abilities are activated [[OneHitPointWonder when the player is at low life]].
*** Generic cards are not affiliated with any world and as such, can be used in any deck.
*** Omni-Lord monsters are similar to generic cards where they can be used in any deck but are affiliated with a specific world. In that respect, if they are used outside of their natural world, the deck may only have one copy of that monster.
*** Dual cards are cards that exist between two words, thus they can be used in either world gaining effects based on both worlds or effects based on which flag you are using.

* ABoyAndHisX: It's what Buddyfight is all about.

* CompetitiveBalance:
** Dragon World units are [[JackOfAllStats generally balanced between offence and defense]] between all of it's decks in between the many Nullifies and Shields they utilize as well as strong monsters. Armordragons best highlight these abilities.
*** Jackknife Dragon is typically in a deck to himself upgrading him by calling other forms on top of the previous form. However, this tends to take up a lot of resources and typically must be called to the left or right, leaving the center open.
*** Dragon Knights are Dragon Riders who gather resources for late game through gaining gauge and having several Dragon Knights in the drop zone.
*** Blue Sky Knights give the player life through various methods and abilities creating a strong defense with a lot of life to back it up.
*** Thunder Knights utilize the Move mechanic which changes the location of one monster to another location, often having supporting cards that give the player advantage after moving.

*** The Fifth Omni Calvary are a series of Armordragons that serve the Fifth Omni Dragon Lord, Tenbu [[spoiler: and Drum]] and have effects that punish the opponent by countering any type of damage inflicted on the player, even if the player inflicts damage upon himself.
*** The Sun Dragons either have Penetrate or gain an effect if the opponent's center is empty, so they focus on attacking or destroying any monster in the opponent's center.
** Magic World units are [[SquishyWizard weaker than average, but compensate with powerful effects and spells]].

*** Plague cards focus on loading cards into the souls of other cards for powerful effects and easy access. Their spells also have a theme of hard controlling the opponents cards from effects that reduce their stats to huge ones including flipping over the opponent's flag, forcing them to be unable to play any of their respective cards.
** Danger World units have [[GlassCannon overwhelming offensive power at the cost of defense]] and some of their cards require the player to leave their center open, or have a certain amount of life left, but compensate with very powerful item cards. Armorknights best show off this kind of playstyle.
*** The "A" units can put themselves into the soul of a weapon to give it additional abilities if the player's life is low enough.

*** Duel Golems, much like Duel Dragons, have very high statistics, but includes powerful effects to disrupt their opponent's field. However Duel Golems will destroy themselves as soon as they finish attacking unless the player pays a cost (usually a gauge). Thus the player will usually burn through almost all of their resources after a major turn, leaving them wide open.
** Katana World have a trick play style to them allowing them to gain advantage through alternative means:

** Ancient World units have incredibly high stats, [[{{Synchronization}} but inflict damage upon their owner when destroyed]] and some of their cards [[CastFromHitPoints use the player's lifepoints as resource]], and mostly focus on their size 3 monsters.

** Dungeon World units (the "Dungeon Monster" line at least) potentially have powerful effects, but their success is reliant on chance.
*** Adventurers and Knights are individually weak, but gain power in combination, resulting on a reliance on link attacks and a ZergRush Strategy. They can even duel-wield certain items.
*** Demon Lord cards are stylized like Final Bosses in {{Role Playing Game}}s, and to that end, they have various powerful abilities, and while most have Lifelink, they also have methods to stay on the field.
** Legend World focuses on items and some of their cards can act as counters to specific decks. However, their weapons requires the center to be open and the counters are useless against anything else.

*** The Hero units focuses on [[CombinationAttack link attacking]] the opponent.

** Darkness Dragon World units can damage the opponent even if their center is occupied with their effects.
*** Black Dragons have high power and can inflict damage when destroying monsters with their "Spectral Strike" skill, but most of them have [[GlassCannon low defense]].
*** In '''Triple D''', they focus on Deck Destruction and gain benefits when their opponent's drop zone has a lot of cards in it.
*** In '''X''', they now focus on powerful Set cards, most notably Death Count, Requiem which allows the player to win automatically at the end of the opponent's third turn. Supporting cards help protect the set card as well as the player.

*** Purgatory Knights have high aggro, but need you to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness sacrifice your own monsters]] to use their abilities.
** Hero World units can be equipped to the player like they were items, which has the benefit of giving the player a defensive stat that can block direct attacks from monsters without enough attack.

*** Superheroines all have the Move ability along side many on-call effects and effects when they leave the field. However, they typically do not have high defense so cards like Masked Vantage can rescue his heroines by transforming at the last second and recover them back to their hand cards, which also wastes one of their opponent's attacks.
*** The Zetta and Gemclone archetypes all revolve around Impact Monsters with the Zetta cards allowing for Impact Transformations and the Gemclone cards allowing players to use other Impact Monsters that do not have to come from Hero World. Because of this, their entire turn will often take place during Final Phase allowing players to call and attack without changing phases. While Impact Monsters are incredibly powerful, they typically use a lot of Gauge to call meaning resource management becomes very important.
** Star Dragon World units use the Crossnize mechanic to put themselves in another monster's soul, and have effects that activate when in the soul. By default this has to be done from the field, so the effects of other cards need to be used to work around size limits.
*** Prism Dragons focus on a GradualGrinder and StoneWall strategy, having high defense monsters with Soul Guard and items that gradually chip away at life.
** In addition, there are different flags and other monsters that can mix the worlds together:

** ''Star Dragon World'':
*** Galaxy F unlocks abilities if there is an Astrodragon monster in the center, left and an Astrodragon item is equipped.
*** Oppress literally invades the opposing field by having them take over an unoccupied left or right space on the board as their own (the monsters you own still must adhere to size limitations despite one or two of them moving to your opponent's side of the board).
** ''Ancient World'':
*** D-Share gives monsters and items each other's abilities allowing multiple effects and advantages.
** ''Danger World'':
*** Plunder allows the player to steal life, monsters and gauge from their opponent and use them as their own to pay for costs and effects.
** ''Katana World'':

** ''Dungeon World'':

** ''Unassociated Flags'':
*** Gargantua Dragon and the cards that are associated with the Dragod and Dragon Deity Tribe type are supports to his G-Evo mechanic which allows him to change forms mid battle to attack with extra abilities. What's notable about Gargantua Dragon is that his base forms are not associated with any world, but his different forms and the Dragon Deity Tribe are, thus his playstyle revolves around what world you want to use him in. They also have their own Deity Gargantua Punisher with their own conditions. (At this time only Dragon World, Katana World, and Magic World are available)

** ''Star Dragon World'': Galaxy F unlocks abilities if there is an Astrodragon monster in the center, left and an Astrodragon item is equipped.
** ''Ancient World'': D-Share gives monsters and items each other's abilities allowing multiple effects and advantages.
** ''Danger World'': Plunder allows the player to steal life, monsters and gauge from their opponent and use them as their own.
** ''Katana World'': Using the item ''Kagura-bell of Worship'', Size 3 Electrodeities can "posess" the fighter via equiping them as an item during the turn. In addition they each have one of two effects to choose from.
** ''Dungeon World'': Folktale utilize on destruction effects with support cards destroying monsters to forcefully proc these effects. When used with ''Illusions Folktale, Echt Biblio'', they are able to send it to its soul after destruction to play it out again.

*** Gargantua Dragon and the cards that are associated with the Dragod and Dragon Deity Tribe type are supports to his G-Evo mechanic which allows him to change forms mid battle to attack with extra abilities. What's notable about Gargantua Dragon is that his base forms are not associated with any world, but his different forms and the Dragon Deity Tribe are, thus his playstyle revolves around what world you want to use him in. (At this time only Dragon World, Katana World, and Magic World are available)

* ShipTease: Huge ones between Yuga and Miko. She even moves to Aibo Academy and even to Yuga's class [[spoiler:after Ranma's disappearance]]. Interestingly enough, Yuga's first alternative deck is a Katana World deck, the same flag that Miko primarily uses.

*** Gargantua Dragon and the cards that are associated with the Dragod and Dragon Deity Tribe type are supports to his G-Evo mechanic which allows him to change forms mid battle to attack with extra abilities. What's notable is that Gargantua Dragon is that his base forms are not associated with any world, but his different forms and the Dragon Deity Tribe are, thus his playstyle revolves around what world you want to use him in. (At this time only Dragon World, Katana World, and Magic World are available)
*** [[spoiler: Lost World is much like Dragon Drei in which you play the flag in a deck. But once you "Cover the Flag", you now have an entirely new deck for the remainder of the fight (it replaces your existing deck and has a different back to it). What's important about Lost World are that the monsters have no size (not Size 0, but an unprinted size), thus the remainder of your monsters can squeeze into the battlefield. Finally, it only replaces your deck, not your hand, gauge or drop zone. Thus the possibilities for a Lost World deck are massive.]]

*** Gargantua Dragon and the cards that are associated with the Dragod and Dragon Deity Tribe type are supports to his G-Evo mechanic which allows him to change forms mid battle to attack with extra abilities. What's notable is that Gargantua Dragon is that his base forms are not associated with any world, but his different forms and the Dragon Deity Tribe are, thus his playstyle revolves around what world you want to use him in. (At this time only Dragon World and Katana World are available)

** Counters can be played more than once while resolving effects. For example one player plays a spell, the opposing player uses a counter spell and the turn player uses his own counter effect. Before Ace, no more counters could be played, but now players can keep using counters in the same chain as long as they can.

** ''Dragon World'': G-Evo allows Gargantua Dragon to change forms mid battle to allow him to attack once again with extra abilities. Note that Gargantua Dragon is not associated with a specific world.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: [[spoiler: Lost World. ''You don't start off using a Lost World deck'' and most importantly Lost World cards have a black card back. This is because you ''use two decks.'' You start off with a normal world deck and need to use the Lost World Flag card from the deck much like Dragon Drei. Once you use it you swap to your Lost World Deck.]]

* CompetitiveBalance: Every world has a new keywords alongside their primary mechanics.
** ''Dragon World'': G-Evo allows Gargantua Dragon to change forms mid battle to allow him to attack once again with extra abilities.

-->-- ''' The Narrator''', ''at the beginning of episodes 1-33.''

After the premiere of ''All-Star Fight'', a sequel was announced for a premiere in June 2018--''Future Card Buddyfight ACE'' (''Shin Buddyfight'' in Japan), which stars Gao's son Yuga and his Buddy, Gargantua Dragon as the new protagonists.

Not to be confused with [[Anime/BuddyComplex Buddy Complex]], another Sunrise mecha anime that airs on the same season.

* WordSaladLyrics: The OP, "Card of the Future".