Favorite Spellcards?

[Milkyway64]

Simply put, what are your favorite spellcards in the touhou series? Be it prettiest to look at, funnest to dodge, or one you can beast through like nothing.

I haven't played many of the games, but I absolutely love Event Horizon/Stardust Reverie from IN. I can easily dodge it in anything under Lunatic with a, IMO, fun to use method, and it just looks awesome.

[LHCling]

"Virtue of Wind God", Scarlet Sign "Scarlet Meister", Recollection "Terrifying Hypnotism", Recollection "Flying Insect's Nest".

[Garlyle]

Hmm, just off the top of my head...
(Well, actually, browsing Touhou Wiki)

EoSD: Rainbow Sign "Wind Chime of Colorful Raibow" always was a favourite of mine for some reason, Heaven's Punishment "Star of David" was neat to me as a new Touhou player (Still prefer it over Young Demon Lord), and Taboo "Kagome, Kagome"

PCB: Great Funeral Concert "Ghostly Wheel Concerto Grosso" was the first noticable spellcard to me, Hell Realm Sword "200 Yojana in 1 Slash" is another favourite (Although ARGH), and "Resurrection Butterfly -__% Reflowering-" of course.

IN: Where Danmaku starts to REALLY get interesting to me.  Pseudo-History "The Legend of Gensokyo", Border World "Hakurei Danmaku Bounded Field", Black Magic "Event Horizon", Lunatic Gaze "Illusion Seeker", Lunar Eyes "Remote Rabbit", Mind of God "Omoikane's Brain", Esoterica "Astronomical Entombing", Impossible Request "Hourai Barrage -Rainbow Danmaku-", Reincarnation "Returning-Bridge Ichijo", Forgiveness "Honest Man's Death", "Blazing Star", "Deflation World", and "Profound Danmaku Bounded Field -Phantasm, Form and Shadow-"  @_@

MoF: Flood "Ooze Flooding", Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split", "Mountain of Faith"/"Virtue of Wind God", Native God "Long-Arm and Long-Leg"

SA: My other favourite Danmaku.  Envy "Green-Eyed Invisible Monster", Malice Sign "Day 7 of the Midnight Anathema Ritual", Four Devas Arcanum "Knock Out In Three Steps", Recollection "Terrifying Hypnotism", Malicious Spirit "Spleen Eater", Response "Youkai Polygraph"

[Ghaleon]

4 of a kind baby...just wish it lasted longer sometimes.

[Nuclear Fusion]

EoSD - I ahte everything in this game. They are almost entirely random.

PCB - Border of Motion and Silence. I do it the same way every time, but it's still always fun.

IN - Eh. Nothing here really comes to mind.

MoF - YAMATO TORUS!

SA - Heaven and Hell Meltdown/Whatever you call it on Hard/Lunatic. It's freaking sweet.

[stargroup]

Bold ones I especially like. All cards are Lunatic or Extra/Phantasm.

EoSD:
- Flower Sign "Selaginella 9" (Stage 3)
- Rainbow Sign "Wind Chime of Colorful Rainbow" (Stage 3)
- Illusion Sign "Flower Imaginary Dream Vine" (Stage 3)
- Colorful Sign "Extreme Color Typhoon" (Stage 3)
- Metal Sign "Silver Dragon" (Stage 4)
- Metal & Water Sign "Mercury Poison" (Stage 4)
- Scarlet Sign "Scarlet Meister" (Stage 6)
- "Scarlet Gensokyo" (Stage 6)
- Taboo "Four of a Kind" (Extra)
- Taboo "Kagome, Kagome" (Extra)
- Forbidden Barrage "Starbow Break" (Extra)
- Q.E.D. "Ripples of 495 Years" (Extra)

PCB:
- Blue Sign "Benevolent Orl?ans Dolls" (Stage 3)
- White Sign "Chalk-White Russian Dolls" (Stage 3)
- Hungry King Sword "Ten Kings' Retribution on the Gaki" (Stage 5)
- Deva God Sword "Components of Konpaku" (Stage 5)
- Shikigami's Shot "Unilateral Contact" (Extra)
- Illusion God "Descent of Izuna Gongen" (Extra)
- Shikigami "Dakini's Heavenly Possession" (Phantasm)
- Bounded Field "Balance of Motion and Stillness" (Phantasm)
- Evil Spirits "Xanadu of Straight and Curve" (Phantasm)
- Bounded Field "Boundary of Life and Death" (Phantasm)

IN:
- Origin Sign "Ephemerality 137" (Stage 3)
- Black Magic "Event Horizon" (Stage 4 powerful)
- Lunatic Gaze "Illusion Seeker" (Stage 5)
- Lunar Eyes "Tele-Mesmerism" (Stage 5)
- Esoterica "Astronomical Entombing" (Stage 6A)
- "End of Imperishable Night -Half Past 2-" (Stage 6B)
- Fujiwara "Flaw of Forgiving Shrine" (Extra)
- Everlasting "Phoenix's Tail" (Extra)

MoF: (Favorite game overall)
- Leaf Sign "Falling Leaves of Madness" (Stage 1)
- Bad Luck Sign "Biorhythm of the Apotropaic God" (Stage 2)
- Scar "Broken Charm of Protection" (Stage 2)
- Water Sign "Kappa's Great Illusionary Waterfall" (Stage 3)
- Crossroad Sign "Saruta Cross" (Stage 4)
- Wind God "Storm Day" (Stage 4)
- "Peerless Wind God" (Stage 4) (hehe I'm such a masochist)
- Esoterica "Secretly Inherited Art of Danmaku" (Stage 5)
- Sea Opening "Moses's Miracle" (Stage 5)
- Preparation "Takeminakata Invocation" (Stage 5)
- Divine Husk "Divining Crop" (Stage 6)
- Mystery "Yamato Torus" (Stage 6)
- "Virtue of Wind God" (Stage 6)
- Frog Hunting "Frog Is Eaten by Snake due to the Croak" (Extra)
- Native God "Froggy Braves the Elements" (Extra)

SA: (by far the best Extra stage)
- Spider "Cave Spider's Nest" (Stage 1)
- Malice Sign "Day 7 of the Midnight Anathema Ritual" (Stage 2)
- Oni Sign "Mysterious Powers and Disrupting Spirits" (Stage 3)
- Feat of Strength "Wind Blowing Down from Mt. Ooe" (Stage 3)
- Recollection "Double Black Death Butterfly" (Stage 4)
- Recollection "Border of Wave and Particle" (Stage 4)
- Recollection "Pandemonium" (Stage 4)
- Recollection "Wind God Hidden Among Tree Leaves" (Stage 4) [from MoF]
- Recollection "Spring Kyoto Dolls" (Stage 4)
- Recollection "Return Inanimateness" (Stage 4)
- Recollection "Mercury Poison" (Stage 4) [from EoSD]
- Recollection "Kappa's Pororoca" (Stage 4) [from MoF]
- Blazing Star "Ten Evil Stars" (Stage 6)
- "Subterranean Sun" (Stage 6)
- Miracle "Miracle Fruit" (Extra)
- Instinct "Release of the Id" (Extra)
- Suppression "Super-ego" (Extra)
- Response "Youkai Polygraph" (Extra)
- Subconscious "Rorschach in Danmaku" (Extra)
- Rekindled "The Embers of Love" (Extra) (yay phallic symbols)

[RainfallYoshi]

Ahh, a lot of my favorites are also rage-inducing.

EoSD
- Ice Sign "Icicle Fall"
- Freeze Sign "Perfect Freeze"
- Flower Sign "Gorgeous Sweet Flower"
- Rainbow Sign "Wind Chime of Colorful Rainbow"
- Water Sign "Princess Undine" (Except I can't do this spell at all. RAGE)
- Metal & Water Sign "Mercury Poison"
- Maid Secret Skill "Marionette" (RAGE!)
- Curse "Curse of Vlad Tepes" (More RAGE!)
- Taboo "Lavaetin"

IN
- Lunatic Sign "Visionary Tuning"
- Spread Sign "Invisible Full Moon"
- Spacesphere "Earth in a Pot"
- Revival "Game of Life"

MoF
- Flawed Sign "Broken Amulet"
- Evil Spirit "Wheel of Misfortune"
- Wound Sign "Pain Flow"
- Optics "Optical Camouflage"
- Flood "Ooze Flooding" (Rage inducing but cool looking)
- Kappa "Exteeeending Aaaaarm" (Best Name Ever)
- Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split"
- Divine Festival "Expanded Onbashira"
- "Mountain of Faith"

SA
- Jealousy Sign "Green-Eyed Monster"
- Grandfather Cherry Blossom "Jealousy Againsth the Bright Good Man"
- Four Devas Arcanum "Knock Out in Three Steps"
- Recollection "Border of Wave and Particle"
- Recollection "Straw Doll Kamikaze" (Fun, if just a bit intimidating)
- Recollection "Return Inanimateness"
- Malicious Spirit "Spleen Eater" (This is such a fun card.)

Well that took awhile...

Most of these are really nice to look at but really frustrating, but there are a good few that are just a lot of fun.

[stargroup]

almost all touhou spell cards are fun to look at

that's why I judge purely based on how well they play. besides, in the end, that's what matters the most

[Drayen]

virtue of wind god arrhghhh <3

[fluentLOVE]

Pretty much any of Yuyuko's or Utsuho's spellcards.

Can't think of specific ones off the top of my head.

[Zengeku]

Hmm... let me see...

I mainly play on Hard mode so unless stated otherwise, those are the versions i'm referring to.

EoSD:

-Flower Sign "Selaginella 9
-Rainbow Sign "Wind Chime of Colorful Raibow"

Pretty easy, but still pretty and fun to play.

-Illusion Sign "Flower Imaginary Dream Vine (Intense fun. Lovely)
-Colorful Sign "Extreme Color Typhoon" (Fun as well, but i fail it more than i like to admit.)

-Earth Sign "Trilithon Shake"
-Earth & Metal Sign "Emerald Megalith"
-Illusion World "The World"
-God Art "Vampire Illusion"
-Scarlet Sign "Scarlet Meister"
-"Scarlet Gensokyo"
-Sun Sign "Royal Flare" (Fun now that i know how to do it. Makes me look like a bad-ass.)

-Taboo "Four of a Kind"
-Forbidden Barrage "Starbow Break"

Oh... look at the time. I'll need to go to work now. I'll be back with some more spellcards i enjoy playing later.

EDIT: Okay, back again. Damn the weather's hot today. Oh well...

PCB Time:

-Ying Yang "Douman-Seiman"
-Darkness Sign "Foggy London Dolls" (Normal version. This one seems to be harder than the Hard version. Then again, that's not unusual in Touhou.)

-Human Era Sword "Approaching Disillusion"
-Shikigami "Banquet of 12 General Gods"
-Shikigami's Shot "Ultimate Buddhist"
-Illusion God "Descent of Izuna Gongen"

I don't know much about Phantasm right now. Its ages ago i beat it and i probably won't get around to do it again anytime soon.

IN:

-Deadly Toxin "Poisonous Moth's Dance in the Dark"
-Scattered Spirit "Fantasy Seal -Fader
-Divine Arts "Omnidirectional Demon Binding Circle" (beautiful~)
-Black Magic "Event Horizon" (Pretty easy, but damn beautiful.)
-Divine Treasure "Brilliant Dragon Bullet"
-Divine Treasure "Buddhist Diamond"
-Limiting Edict "Tsuki no Iwakasa's Curse"
-Hourai "Fujiyama Volcano"
-"Hourai Doll"

MoF:

-Leaf Sign "Falling Leaves of Madness" (On lunatic)
-Bad Luck Sign "Biorhythm of the Apotropaic God" (On Hard or Lunatic)
-Wind God "Storm Day"
-Cork Sign "Advent of the Divine Grandson"
-Esoterica "Secretly Inherited Art of Danmaku"
-Sea Opening "Moses's Miracle"
-"Virtue of Wind God"

SA:

-Feat of Strength "Wind Blowing Down from Mt. Ooe" (Lunatic)
-Recollection "Border of Wave and Particle" (Just Normal here. I haven't learnt the Hard version yet.)
-Recollection "Throwing Mt. Togakushi"
-Recollection "Pandemonium"
-Cat Sign "Vengeful Cat Spirit's Erratic Step"
-Atomic Fire "Nuclear Excursion

[Ghaleon]

blah blah

I thought Mountain of faith was your all time fave.. Could have sworn I saw some youtube video where you said that >=p.

[Zengeku]

blah blah

I thought Mountain of faith was your all time fave.. Could have sworn I saw some youtube video where you said that >=p.

I don't know why i said that. I consider all the games, with some exceptions, masterpieces.

[Helepolis]

I am suprised that noone mentioned Marisa's: Shoot the Moon spellcard.

That one is just wonderful to view in my opinion. Like a night lasershow from a disco.

[Vile Lasagna]

I actually like Ressurection Butterfly O.o

And I would probably like Repository of Hiirokawa as well if I could do it properly.

[Milkyway64]

Having now completed IN Extra, I absolutely love dodging Flaw of Forgiving Shrine.

Also, Heaven's Spider's Butterfly Catching Web is nice to look at.

[stargroup]

resurrection butterfly is not a bad spell card at all, but as a final attack it's really annoying

[BoLaD]

EoSD-Probably Q.E.D, even though I would say (with 3 exceptions) the extra stage is harder than Flandre.
Scarlet Gensokyo-Amazing attack, even though I only play on hard.

PCB-All of Yuyuko's spellcards, even though she has A LOT of health.
I would like Alice's spellcards but since Alice is using them, I must hate them.
Letty's spellcards are also pretty nice.
ALL of Yukari's spells. I've fought Yukari about 100 times now (102 times according to my spellcard history) and she's still amazing fun.

IN-Marisa's Dual-spark
Just about all of Mokou's cards except Everlasting Phoenix Tail. That stupid card would be nothing to me if the bullets were animated.
All of Reimu's spellcards with the exception of her last spell.
Flawless Saigyou Nirvana-Seeing SadisticPenguinOfAND time this out is always amusing.
Profound Danmaku Field "Shadow and Foam"- What can I say? I love Yukari.

MoF-All of Sanae's cards-So pweety
Virtue of the Wind God-Another amazing attack.
Most of Suwako's Cards.

SA-All of Satori's Cards when you are playing as Reimu-A.
All of Utusho's cards. It doesn't matter what they are... if Utusho is using them they are awesome.

Absolute Favorites- Boundary of Life and Death (See username)
Ressurection Butterfly 80% Reflowering and it's last word
Danmaku Bounded Field and it's last word.
Reimu's Cards

[Azinth]

I would like Alice's spellcards but since Alice is using them, I must hate them.

WHAT.  You best be trollin'. 

Anyway, I keep forgetting to post in this thread for some reason, so how about a nice concise top 10:

1.  Resurrection Butterfly (PCB) (VoWG might be objectively better, but this one wins out just for aesthetic reasons)
2.  Virtue of Wind God (MoF)
3.  Eternal Meek (EoSD)
4.  Benevolent Orleans Dolls (PCB)
5.  Ghost Wheels (SA) (I can't remember the real name atm.  Shame on me...)
6.  Asteroid Belt (IN)
7.  Wondrous Concerto Grosso/Hanged Hourai Dolls (PCB) (I couldn't decide which one was better so I put them both.  Damn my PCB fanboyism.)
8.  Brilliant Dragon Bullet (IN)
9.  Flower Dream Vine (EoSD)
10.  Flying Insect's Nest (SA)

[Gambit]

My favorites are:

-Flawless Nirvana/Resurrection Butterfly
-Fujiyama Volcano
-Subterranean Rose
-Deadly Toxin "Poisonous Moth's Dance in the Dark"
-Blind Night bird
-God Art "Vampire Illusion"
-Deva Realm Sword "Displeasure of the Seven Sins"
-Explosion Sign "Mega Flare"
-Monster Train "Spare Umbrella Express Night Carnival"
-Recollection "Straw Doll Kamikaze"

[Naut]

Border of Wave and Particle, Unseasonable Butterfly Storm, Kogasa's non-cards...

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

VoWG might be objectively better, but this one wins out just for aesthetic reasons

Except that VoWG is aesthetically better than Resurrection Butterfly as well :V

Anyway, my top 10:

#1) VoWG
#2) Asteroid Belt
#3) Eternal Meek / PC-98 Eternal Meek (Yuki Solo's penultimate attack)
#4) Apollo 13
#5) Resurrection of a Small Fairy
#6) Peta Flare
#7) Rising World
#8) Hollow Giant: Woo
#9) Hourai Doll
#10) Satori Recollection version of BoWaP

[Kanako Yasaka]

My favorites, not in any particular order.

VoWG (well duh)
Froggy Braves the Elements (fun to play and it looks nice)
Profound Field (...yeah)
The Phantom of the Grand Guignol (Just great to look at and fun to play)
Satori recollection version of Philosopher's Stone (I don't know why)
Satori recollection version of Return Inanimateness (I really don't know why)
Hourai Jewel (on hard, lunatic is awful)
Resurrection Butterfly

And Satori's nonspells are my favorite in the series.

[Helepolis]

VoWG (well duh)

A-ARIENAI!

[Nuclear Fusion]

Can I just like all the spell cards for one person?

Youmu :wub:

[?q]

EoSD:
Colorful Sign "Colorful Light Chaos Dance"
Earth Sign "Rage Trilithon High Level"
Water Sign "Bury In Lake" (why do people think this attack is hard?)
Taboo "Four of a Kind"

PCB:
Deva Realm Sword "Displeasure of the Seven Sins"
Deracination "Lost Soul's Village -Suicide-"
Deadly Dance "Law of Mortality -Poisonous Moth-"

IN:
Deadly Toxin "Poisonous Moth's Dance in the Dark"
Spiritual Birth "First Pyramid"
Resurrection "Game of Rising"
Purification "Returning-Bridge Ichigo"
"Emperor of the East"

StB:
2-5 Freeze Sign "Minus K"
(Alice's nonspell 3-1)
4-7 Owing Sign "Vulnerary of Ohnamuji-sama"
4-8 Mad Dream "Dream World"
7-6 Scarlet Sign "Bloody Magic Square"
8-2 Ghostly Elegance "Fatal Light Trap"
8-3 Secret Sign "Hierarch's Arcanum"
9-7 Secret Elixir "Lunar Incense"
10-5 Old Rain "Rain in the Afterworld Journey"

MoF:
NOT Old Lady Ohgane's Fire, but again, I don't understand why people think it's hard.
Water Sign "Hydro Camoflauge"
Preparation "Takeminakata Invocation"

SA:
Malicious Spirit "Spleen Eater"
Explosion Sign "Mega Flare"

[stargroup]

I think it's almost safe to say that VoWG is one of the highest rated/most favorite spell cards of all.

Either that, or people either COMPLETELY hate it or TOTALLY love it.

[Generalguy]

"And Then Will There Be None?" because it looks hard but I captured it easily and I can show off or something.

Anything with a Master Spark.

Concerto Grosso.

[Lopsidation]

StB:
3-6, 4-1, 4-4, 5-6, 7-4, and 7-7 are my favorites. Especially Patchouli's 5-6, puzzle danmaku is always fun.

IN:
Lots of stuff from the extra stage, but especially
Returning-Bridge Ichijo (even though you can stay in the corner for most of it)
Immortal "Fire Bird -Flying Phoenix-"
Flaw of Forgiving Shrine
Forgiveness "Honest Man's Death"
"Imperishable Shooting"