Advent Decks

The Advent Decks are special card decks used by the Kamen Riders to transform and battle in the world behind the mirrors. They contain the Advent Cards, which allow the Riders to access a wide range of abilities. The Advent Decks are used to summon the Advent Belts, which they are then inserted into to initiate the transformation into a Kamen Rider.
==Functionality==
Advent Decks allow holders to sense the presence of Mirror Monsters and see into Ventara. They are initially equipped with a Seal Card and a Blank Contract Card. When inserted into the Advent Belt, it can change the owner into a Blank form Kamen Rider (Dragon Knight and Strike are the only ones seen with Blank forms). To become stronger and obtain more cards, the owner must use the Contract Card to form a contract with a Mirror Monster. Each Deck has different weapons and abilities based the Rider's Contract Monster/Advent Beast. All Decks include an Advent/Attack Vent Card that summons the Contract Monster and a Final Vent in which the Rider and Contract Monster do a combination attack. Besides these cards, there are different categories of Advent Cards, e.g. Sword Vent, Strike Vent, Guard Vent, or Shoot Vent, that multiple Riders have their own versions of. Some Riders also have cards exclusive to them, like Freeze Vent, Spin Vent, and Nasty Vent.
When a user transforms into their Survive Mode, their Deck changes color (i.e. Dragon Knight and //Wing Knight's Decks turning from black to red and blue, respectively), increasing the Rider's power, giving them new Visors, and allowing access to new and stronger cards.
==History==
The Advent Decks were created by Eubulon while he was in Ventara. Originally, only 12 of these Decks were created, and they were given to the 12 best warriors of Ventara. These Decks were DNA-locked, meaning that only the Riders themselves or individuals with similar DNA could use them. Xaviax took advantage of this key point when he gave the Decks to the Ventaran Riders' Earth counterparts. However, Eubulon is able to reassign the Decks to another user's DNA, as shown when he handed the Siren Deck over to Maya Young.
Due to a filming error, Kit Taylor is once shown to have cards used by his Survive Mode in his deck many episodes before his actual Survive Mode Card is introduced. In the video game, however, a Rider's normal cards become their Survive cards when they enter Survive Mode; it's unknown if this game mechanic is meant to be canon to the series.
Eubulon also possess his own Advent Deck known as the Void Key, which he uses to access the Advent Void, though he had to repair it first sometime after he was reactivated. The Void Key can also be used to free a vented Rider from the Void's stasis pods, though doing this eventually drains the Key of its energy, and some time is needed for it to recharge before Eubulon can enter the Advent Void again.
Eventually a 13th Deck known as the Onyx Deck was created by Eubulon and given to Kit Taylor after he was rescued from the Advent Void, as the Dragon Knight Deck had been reclaimed by its original user at the time. After Adam retired from being a Kamen Rider, the Dragon Knight Deck was given back to Kit with Onyx being returned to Eubulon, but it's unclear what if anything happened to it after that.
All of the Advent Decks remain intact at the end of the series.
== Gallery ==
==Notes==
*In Dragon Knight, the first three Card Decks introduced are all black, despite their respective Riders having other primary colors that, in the style of later Riders, should arguably have been used instead. This may have been to allow Dragon and Wing Knight's decks to turn red and blue when they gained Survive forms later, but raises the question of how the already-colored Decks of other Riders may have changed were they to have gotten onscreen Survive forms.
**Based on the concept art of Kamen Rider Raia's unused Survive form, it could be reasonably assumed that Kamen Rider Sting's Survive Deck would look identical (gold with the Evildiver symbol in magenta).
*Dragon Knight initially reuses the style of blank Deck from Ryuki for Kit that Shinji first found, only gaining the dragon symbol after Contracting with Dragreder. However, later Decks given to Riders by Xaviax were shown to already/still have their symbols even before Contracting. As all the Decks had previous users, why only Dragon Knight's was blank is unclear.
**A possible idea is that Dragreder "severed" his tie to the Deck after Adam's betrayal, so Kit had to "reattach" him to it; however, nothing similar happened after the other Advent Beasts met the less than savory Earth Riders.
*The durability of the Advents Decks are portrayed to be different than the Card Decks as seen in Ryuki. In Ryuki, the Decks can be destroyed upon a direct hit or when the Rider receives massive damage, however in Dragon Knight the Decks appear to be near-indestructible, being able to sustain direct hits from attacks without leaving a dent.
==See Also==
*Card Decks (Ryuki) - Ryuki counterpart
==Nagivation==
Category:Arsenal (Dragon Knight)
Category:Transformation Gear
Category:Item Carriers