Back in the Wixoss tales we mentioned that some games have promos exclusive to a region or country. In Wixoss case, it was a full set that only had a partial release in the EN version, making 4 of the 12 cards "Japan exclusive".
Vanguard's case is far far weirder.
Cardfight!! Vanguard is a Japanese TCG owned and distributed by Bushiroad. The game launched in 2011 but had two soft relaunches ever since, dividing the game in G, V and D series, chronologically.
Globally, only the D series ever got a Halloween promo. They were distributed in the "Trick or Trigger!" events.
The restriction was mostly due to the prizing, as the 2025 event had a playmat for the winner but the 2026 only had a foil version of the participation promo.
The promos themselves were just reskins of the energy token, D-PR/905EN, D-PR/1239EN and D-PR/1240EN (Foil version of 1239):
But wait! This is only half of the story!
Vanguard actually have something around 3 to 10 more Halloween promos. But there's a catch: They were only ever released in the Thai version of the game.
Going by collector number we have our first Halloween card T-PR/027TH "Candy Cane, Pyrorin" (from the original "แคนดี้เคน, ไพโรริน"), distributed in the "Special!!! Halloween Package" pack on 2018.
Along with Pyrorin, the pack also contained a matching art pair of "Revenger, Phantom Blaster "Abyss"" and "Blaster Dark Revenger "Abyss"", one random acrylic card and a deck box.
Neither the promo pair nor the acrylic cards were Halloween themed, so it's up to the reader to consider them a Halloween promo or not. Personally, I do not.
The second Halloween promo was D-TPR/039TH "Halloween Day (October 31)" (from the original "วันฮาโลวีน (31 ตุลาคม)"), a seasonal reskin of D-BT01/069EN "Selfish Engraver".
This card was part of a larger "Holiday" set, with other holidays such as the International Dog Day (August 26) and Royal Thai Navy Day (November 20).
There is very little info about this set on the internet, as is unfortunately very usual with Thai cards. Most of the info I could find was derived from Thai shops such as VGCardShop and other vendors at Thai Shopee.
The third and last Halloween promo I am aware of was even hard to dig up: D-TPR/140TH "Halloween Day (October 31, 2568)" (from the original "วันฮาโลวีน (31 ตุลาคม 2568)").
The only two pieces of info I have on this one is that 1. It came after the original Halloween Day due to it's printing number 140TH and 2. It's probably from 2025, as Thailand uses a combination of the Gregorian calendar and the Buddhist lunar calendar, and 2568 in the Buddhist Era equates to 2025 of the Gregorian calendar.
Image credits to the Vanguard fandom wiki.
I'll end this very belated post with a call for help: I've been trying to get in contact with Thai card stores to get these promos to my collection without much success.
If you have more info on the history of these promos, please let me know so I can preserve it.