Thread:Elit3Blaze/@comment-25951915-20160419190724/@comment-25435121-20160427162157

I know you say you are OK with not listing the numbers category, but I feel like you are missing an important distinction here which I feel compelled to explain.

Previous/Neo track art/skill/rarity changes to the exact same character. Oracle Ascendant, Oracle Chair, and Summer Oracle are all the same character as Oracle. Angel is the same character as Celestia. All the Alchemists are the same character. etc. etc. etc. Some of them are more obvious then others, but that is what those 2 categories are tracking. All the cards are still available in some fashion and not considered "retired". These categories are simply to track updates to the same character within the VC world.

Swordsman (Old) is an example of a retired card. Most retired cards are simply remakes with new art. Generally the skills, stats, and rarity are close enough to be identical with the exception of the new art. Very few of these card change the number of evolutions possible, but some do. The main delimiter for this category is that a new card with the exact same name replaced and older card in all the same aspects (map locations, drop rewards, skill, rarity, etc). The "retired" category does not denote character updates in any sense.

The only relation that the "Numbers" have is that they were in the same event. I don't want to start creating categories for every event. Grouping these cards does not show character history, does not show a unit bonus, does not show any kind of retirement status for old art. There is no extra information to be gained by grouping these except for knowing what event they were in.