#100bm tips

While Koishi's card from Unconnected Marketeers was showcased long ago in another post (see /post/671035007782060033/), it was before the announcement of 100th Black Market so I wasn't expecting another card game. I won't delete that initial post, but I will add here some remaining details.

The card's description is slightly changed between Touhou 18 and Touhou 18.5.

As for the ability itself, you can still fly over regular enemies without being hurt by them.

However, when you are hit by a bullet, you power can actually increase in a specific situation. Being hit while your Power is 1 will increase it to 2. If your power is a higher number and you get hit, it will just decrease by 1 level each time, but it won't go lower than Power 2.

In 100th Black Market, Wakasagihime's card is an Active card which grants you the ability to become invincible for a short period of time.

In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, Orin's wheelbarrow card gives you an additional option from which you shoot spirit-like bullets, while Orin's cat card gives you the ability to not be harmed by stopped spirits (orbs, beast spirits, powered beast spirits and even the red evil spirits).

The stopped powered beast spirits launch from time to time some bullets so you'll need to be careful not to be hit by those. The stopped red evil spirits pulsate periodically and when they do your invincibility towards them won't work anymore and you will lose a life. So please be cautious with these two.

I've also checked if hovering with your scope over a mini Suika will do anything but she doesn't stop and I lost a life when colliding with her. Similarly, any unstopped spirit (orb, beast spirit, powered beast spirit and red evil spirit) can make you lose a life when you try to fly over it.

Utsuho's cards are Active cards which grant you the ability to summon a large sun that deals great damage to the enemies. In Unconnected Marketeers it keeps eating your power while it is active on screen, but in 100th Black Market it only eats 1 power upon being summoned. The appearance and duration of the sun is slightly different, but the card itself is also a little bit different between the games. You can check the cards' description here: /post/701276547738451968/.

Tsukasa's cards are also Active cards which eat from your power when summoned. In Unconnected Marketeers it eats 1 power and unleashes a bomb, even when your bomb gauge is empty. In 100th Black Market it eats 1 power and unleashes a spirit strike.

In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, Tsukasa's cards only grant you additional shot options.

The blue card is called 霊力の標本瓶 in Touhou 18, but 狐入りの管（縦）in Touhou 19. To see the cards descriptions differences between Touhou 18 and 18.5 please check /post/701276547738451968/.

Ran's cards in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, like Tsukasa's from the same game, are only giving you additional shot options.

All three of them are Equipment cards, which offer you an additional option from which you are able to shoot bullets.

Cirno's card gives you a similar option to the Summer sub-season from Hidden Star in Four Seasons, although compared to that, this one shoots more chaotically.

Sakuya has two cards, a grey and a pink one.

The grey card resembles Sakuya's shottype from Unconnected Marketeers: green knives when unfocused and red knives when focused. The unfocus option can tilt depending on the horizontal direction you move (if you move to the left the green knives will be shot to the left at an angle). If you focus, you will lock the current position of the knives so you can keep the knives shooting at an angle to the left even when you are moving to the right. However, as soon as you unfocus, the knives will switch to their regular position depending on the direction you are flying.

The description of the card was slightly updated in 100th Black Market, where it seems that a full stop was added at the end of the second paragraph.

The pink card shoots ricocheting knives. There is a bug where the knives would not be shot from the correct option (for more details please check /post/788725139010437120/).

Youmu's cards give you a phantom option similarly to Youmu's ghostly half. In 100th Black Market, the "Half-Half Ghost" is closer to the player than in Unconnected Marketeers. The "Spare Half-Ghost" exists only in 100th Black Market and sits at a slightly increased distance than the "Half-Half Ghost" in Unconnected Marketeers.

Besides the distance from the player, the behaviour of the phantom is the same, therefore I will only include gifs from Unconnected Marketeers to show how it behaves when you move left-right or circle around, focused and unfocused.

The first paragraph from the description of the "Half-Half Ghost" card was changed in 100th Black Market.

Eiki's cards are Passive cards, which grant you the ability to cancel death in exchange of money (Unconnected Marketeers) or bullet money (100th Black Market). Although it has the same name in both games, the card is different (see /post/701358428995649536/).

In Unconnected Marketeers, you give 200 gold to be spared. However, in 100th Black Market, you need to have at least 300 bullet money to be spared and you will lose all of them when getting hit.

Quite a big price to pay, but you get to live.

Seiran's card in 100th Black Market is and Equipment card which gives you support projectiles that are fired from behind you in groups of 5.

In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, there are two Seiran cards - a pink bunny card and a purple bunny one. The pink bunny card is similar to the one from 100th Black Market, however only 2 projectiles are fired at a time instead of 5. The purple bunny card also fires 2 projectiles at a time, but they are placed at a greater distance from the player, one on each side of the player.

The name of the pink bunny card was updated from 舞い降りた兎 (in Touhou 18.5) to 舞い降りた月の兎 (in Touhou 19).

Shou's card is an Equipment card which gives you an option from which you shoot diagonal lasers.

Both are active cards that help you hide from enemies/bullets. They are similar to the abilities from Impossible Spell Card.

However, as opposed to Impossible Spell Card where you could warp either vertically or horizontally, Yukari's ability can only warp you horizontally in Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market. Also, you cannot hide out of bounds for a short time either.

Seija's card doesn't seem very different from the Impossible Spell Card ability, it doesn't show a timer anymore because it's not relevant in the context of 100th Black Market (you cannot level the nimble fabric anymore).

All of these are cards that erase bullets. They do not make you invincible so you still need to be careful not to get hit by a bullet that's not erased.

Yuyuko's card is a Passive card which erases some bullets while you graze. The card description was slightly updated in 100th Black Market, where a full stop was added at the end of the paragraph.

Okina's card is an Equipment card which gives you a "Back Door" that erases bullets that get into contact with it. The card description was also slightly updated in 100th Black Market, where elipsis (the 6 dots) were added at the end of the paragraph.

Miko's cards are active cards, which erase bullets when activated. The card's art is different between Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market (see /post/701276547738451968/).

Kaguya’s cards are actually not the same between the two games and they even have completely different art and description (/post/701358432697073664/).

In Unconnected Marketeers, Kaguya's card gives you the ability to produce a bomb when dying.

In 100th Black Market, it is said that the card increases the amount of bullet money produced, but honestly I haven't noticed any difference from when you do not have the card equipped. I tried to graze a bullet, but it produced 2 bullet money in both instances.

I even tried to generate bullet money using the magic circle and it produced the exact same amount in both scenarios (32 bullet money in the example below).

So, I don't really know in what situations it gives you more bullet money. If you have any idea please let me know and I'll update the post with a concrete example.

But Kaguya's card in 100th Black Market is not the only card that makes me feel cheated when it comes to bullet money. One of Keiki's cards (the one with the chisels), supposedly converts your money into 3 times as much bullet money when you purchase it from the shop. But if you do the math from the gif below it should be 177*3+317=531+317=848, however I only had 783 bullet money after the card purchase. What a scam...

The chisels card is not the only card that Keiki has. She also has a haniwa card, which changed a bit between Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market (/post/701273793184808960/), but the main purpose remains the same: to erase bullets using your options.