@Captain:
Good catch on the Gifters. I wonder if all the Emperors will manage to get their own EX sets. Shanks and Blackbeard don't seem like they have a lot of mook level guys. Kind of a shame the crew-specific EX cards don't get the crew's colour and only go with the generic light blue.
And while I'm in the thread, what's with Shueisha being so slow with the cover reveals this month? We're barely more than a week out from release and there's no covers here, no high quality image of volume 100's cover and nothing about which series is getting colour volumes in September. Hope this doesn't become the norm.
I think the reason why the Whitebeard Pirates got their own EX card was due fact that their pack only had five characters from that crew who got their own cards (Newgate, Ace, Marco, Jozu, and Vista). While the rest of the pack was three of their allies (Jinbe, Oars Jr., and Squard), the Hancock Sisters, Sabo, and Sterry.
Currently the Beasts Pirates has the least amount characters with cards (two, until the their pack is released), but after that the Red Hair Pirates will the be Emperor crew with the least amount of character cards at four, not counting alternate cards (such as Shanks at a younger age).