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  • Awesome Art: There are several cards that could count, making it one of the biggest appeals of this game for Fire Emblem fans to see some of their favorite characters in stunning artwork.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • The cards "The Undead Monarch of Despair, Chrom" and "The Nightmarish Rampaging Hero, Ike" are popular among the fandom for depicting Superpowered Evil Sides for characters who never had them in their home games. They even made it into Fire Emblem Heroes as playable characters.
    • The release of "Leader of Flame and Thunder, Lilina" has also become rather noticeable amongst the fanbase, because for a long time, there have been many fan theories and fanart involving Lilina wielding Armads, which she cannot do in her home game, as well as being used to predict what Lilina's brave variant would be like in Heroes, should she be able to win a round in a CYL. Not only does this version wield Armads, but she's also depicted wielding Forblaze, which she's often associated with.
    • The original Cipher characters themselves: Emma, Randal, Shade, Yuzu, Alice, Valjean, Niamh, and Poe have gotten this status as of late. Despite its abrupt end and fairly niche status thanks to being a Japan-only card game, the characters have earned a fairly loyal fanbase. So much so that there's ceaseless demand to include them in Fire Emblem Heroes alongside making them eligible in the Choose Your Legends voting event. The first four's appearance in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia's DLC only furthered the desire to see these characters get another chance.
  • Funny Moments:
    • Along with the intentional joke cards, Owain's R+ variant from Series 14 has a quote so long it takes up most of the card image. (And it's taken directly from the game, too!)
    "...I leap into the center of the enemy formation, blade drawn, and spin! I'm no longer a man, but a whirling dervish of death and steel! My showdown with the evil general begins! My sword flashes out, a flickering blur of cold blue steel. Ka-thwack! Schwing! "Ha ha ha! I'm impressed, General. No one has blocked that before." The general wobbles on unsteady feet and then drops to his knees in shame. "Mercy, Owain Dark! Have mercy on me! For I cannot abide another mighty blow!"
    • Even the wording of some cards' skills can be hilarious. For example, Danved's "Same Person?" skill:
    "If you think that "Devdan" and "Danved" are the same person, then you may Class Change an allied "Devdan" into this card."
  • Narm: Mystery!Tiki's cipher card by Kawasumi where she's punching a mook. What should've been a comical picture instead looks a bit creepy by said mook appearing to be enjoying getting slugged in the face by the young manakete, even blushing! Doubles as Squick.
  • Misblamed: When Cipher was announced for discontinuation, many fans started accusing Fire Emblem Heroes for killing the game in its place, when, in reality, this was more Intelligent System's decision, since live stream host Ryota Kawade said that both games were only made to fill in the gaps between the main series titles. Also, outside of having several of its original characters appear and both having the Intra-Franchise Crossover aspect, Heroes has little to no similarities with Cipher at all due to the two being published on completely different mediums, with the latter being physical media.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
  • Sequel Displacement: Though both TCGs are already obscure themselves due to never seeing a localized release, the original Fire Emblem trading card game from the early 2000's is not only long out of print, but also it's even lesser known than Cipher, given how long it's been discontinued, its ruleset lacking a proper English translation, and the fact that most non-Japanese fans only know about it through its various artworks, most of which were made by Katsuyoshi Koya.
  • Unexpected Character:
    • While it was expected for them to get to the substitutes of Geneaology eventually, would anyone have expected Tristan and Jeanne to be the first ones up to bat? Especially since they came long before their counterparts Diarmuid and Nanna.
    • "The Nightmarish Rampaging Hero, Ike" depicts a What If? scenario that never happened in the actual games, and proved so popular it made it into Heroes.
    • As part of Pack 16, "O, Courage! O, Soul Aflame!", one of the characters is Altina, one of Ashera's Three Heroes. This is especially notable since back in her home game, she had only one flashback sequence to her name.
    • Characters from the manga Fire Emblem: Champion's Sword getting their own cards surprised some fans, especially considering how unpopular most of them are with the fandom sans Jemmie and Zeed.
    • Three characters who each got their own cards are Fetra, Vampa and Eliu, Duke Bloom's sister magi squad. All three of them were only generic enemy units who appear in Chapter 7 and die in Chapter 8. This is especially notable since Bloom himself never got a card, despite having a little more prevalence to the story than them even though he also only appears in Chapters 7 & 8.

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