#udoalg 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.

This is applicable for the full version. Posting this list to have a quick reference when needed.

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.

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.

The card with a skull gives you an additional option from which you shoot similar bullets to that of Zanmu's.

The card with flames and red eyes gives you the ability to obtain bomb pieces via gauge attacks. Charge 1 and Charge 2 attacks will produce nothing, but Charge 3 and Charge 4 attacks will generate a bomb piece. You need 3 pieces for a full bomb and you can carry up to 7 bombs.

Alice's card is an Equipment card which gives you a doll which seeks and shoots enemies, but only shoots them if you are also shooting. The description of the card has changed a bit between games, but otherwise the card's ability is the same.

Hisami's grapes card gives you something similar to Alice's doll, an option which seeks and shoots enemies, but shoots them as long as you are also shooting (see left side gif below for reference). Hisami's spirit card is said to slow down some bullets. The description is quite vague and I haven't noticed any significant difference in bullet speed while having this card equipped. I asked some people and they told me it slows down the pellets generated by killing enemies, but honestly I don't see any slowdown there either (see middle and right side gifs below for reference). This card feels like Reimu's talisman, it might work but it's extremely difficult to showcase it in a post.

Sekibanki's card grants you Sekibanki's head which will go and collect items (gold and bullet money).

Eika's card grants you a jellyfish which floats around and clears bullets. It's not actively going for the bullets, it just chooses where to fly and if a bullet happens to be there, it gets erased.

In /post/751472439784095744/, you can find information about Marisa's cards from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market.

In Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost she has two cards, her usual blue card showing the mini-Hakkero, which fires a laser (similarly to the previous two games) and another card depicting a purse in which money fall into. The purse card increases the item collection radius, meaning you can collect the purple items that fill up the spell gauge from a farther distance. For reference, left side gif shows her blue card, middle gif shows item collection with purse card equipped and right side gif shows item collection without purse card.

EDIT (19-Jan-2026): There used to be an incompatibility between the blue card and Saki's shottype in ver. 1.00a (see /post/806118899277004800/). It was fixed in ver 1.10c.

If you thought the purse card looked familiar, it's because it resembles Nitori's card from Touhou 18 and 18.5. They even have the same ability of expanding item collection radius.

If you look into the game files, the ability_tr.txt from the trial version said "NITORI", but it was changed to "MARISA2" in the ability.txt from the full version. I don't believe this means that Nitori was supposed to be in Touhou 19, it just shows that Marisa's card is heavily based on Nitori's card.

As presented earlier, Nitori's purse card from Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market expands the item collection radius.

The description of the card has been changed between games.

In 100th Black Market, Nitori has another card, which has the ability to randomly change the prices during a black market (while buying from the shop). Let's take a concrete example (depicted in the gifs below). Top row gifs are without Nitori's card equipped. Life card costs 85 and Narumi's card costs 45. You buy a life card and Narumi's card still costs 45. Bottom row gifs are with Nitori's card equipped. Life card costs 148 and Narumi's card costs 323. You buy a life card and Narumi's card now costs 402. Not to mention the life card price jumping to an unreasonable price of 960.

But why would one ever use this particular card of Nitori when it makes buying cards more difficult? This card is special because it unlocks the secret boss of stage 6, Takane. Similarly, Nitori is the secret boss of stage 4, which can be unlocked by using Chimata's card.

While both Nitori's cards can be either equipped by default or purchased in the shop, Chimata's card in Unconnected Marketeers can only be purchased in the shop, while in 100th Black Market it can only be equipped by default. Also, as shown in /post/701358428995649536/, the image and description of Chimata's card has changed between games.

Once you unlocked it, Chimata's card in Unconnected Marketeers will be present in every shop. It costs nothing, but when bought it will discard of all your existing cards.

While having this card equipped, you will automatically get all the "rare cards" from next shop and Chimata's card will be discarded. The "rare cards" are those which don't appear in each shop by default. After this, Chimata's card won't appear in the shop anymore for the rest of your run.

If bought before stage 5, it will not affect the ending you get. You will get the regular ending (for example ending 4 when using Marisa). But if you buy this card at the end of stage 5, you will obtain the alternate endings (for instance ending 3 when using Marisa).

In 100th Black Market, the shop is available at the end of each stage during regular markets. In End of Market, shop is not available so you need to rely on your initial card equipment to clear it. Similarly, if you have Chimata's card equipped during a regular market, you will be prevented to access the shop.

The first card gives you an additional option from which you shoot similar bullets to that of the character whose card you equipped.

The second card gives you invincibility to certain beast spirits (Biten - otters do not harm you, Enoko - wolves do not harm you and Chiyari - eagles do not harm you).

The second card's ability only applies to regular beast spirits. The powerful beast spirits that are sent by Yachie, Saki or Yuuma will still kill you.