[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

I think the main issue with cards these days is that they don't do anything by themselves. That's not the biggest issue, most of the Raise Buckles don't either, but it probably is something the Toei design team is considering. Then again, Ultra Seems to work fine with them, but Ultra also doesn't have as many roleplaying gimmick toys that they have to work between.

People are being too limited thinking that cards can only be little squares of cardstock.

If Gotchard uses cards in some way, it's not a stretch to imagine those cards might be based on credit cards or Pasmo/Suica cards. In that case, they could be little plastic slabs with an RFID chip and a speaker in it, like basically every other collectible widget from the last 15ish years.

Modeling the collectibles off of payment cards would pair well with the theorized Gatcha component. Like, maybe you have to use points/credits by scanning Suica-like cards to pay for your transformations. That's just an idea, but you see what I'm saying. There are a lot of ways "cards" can be interpreted.

Whatever the case, I don't think a card gimmick automatically means we'd be getting a rehash of the early-00s when trading cards were the main collectible for every franchise.