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  Top 10 Cards of 2013

#5  Eternal Haven

- #S1/S10 l 9SHA

Date Reviewed: Jan. 8, 2013

Constructed Rating: 4.75
Limited Rating: 2.50

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1 being the worst. 3 ... average.
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Hello my fellow Kaijudo Duel Masters! Today we’re taking a look at one of our top rated cards from Shattered Alliances and also our number five card on our top ten list of 2013. Today’s card single-handedly challenged people to come up with alternative strategies to defeat the card and it’s still a force to be reckoned with to date. Let’s take a look at Eternal Haven.

Name: Eternal Haven
Civilization:
Light
Type: Creature
Race:
Monarch/Angel Command
Level:
10
Power:
15500
Flavor Text: N/A
Rarity: Super Rare
Set Number: S1/S10 l 9SHA

Abilities:
18px-Blocker.jpgBlocker
(You may tap this creature to change an enemy creature’s attack to this creature.)
Triple Breaker
Blockade
- When this creature enters the battle zone and whenever it attacks, you may draw a card. Then you may put a non-evolution creature that is level 9 or less and has “Blocker” from your hand into the battle zone.
Aurora Armor- This creature can’t be the target of your opponent’s spells or abilities.
Light Monarch- Each of your other Light creatures gets +4000 power. 

Eternal Haven gave us the largest Blocker in the game without any of the weaknesses that usually come with it; it can’t be targeted by your opponent’s spells or abilities! Much like Keeper of Laws, Tricky Turnip, and King Neptas, spells have little effect whatsoever on this card unless they don’t specifically target a creature. If this wasn’t the case, Comet Missile would have seen a huge increase in play. Instead, everyone’s initial reaction was to stock up on Crimson Wyvern to deal with all of the Blockers on the opponent’s side of the battle zone instead of just focusing on just one.

We didn’t see a lot of success in that strategy and that’s when I started focusing on using Queen Kalima and it inevitably earned me my invite to the Winter Championships! Kalima didn’t care about targeting and was the best answer to Eternal Haven if you weren’t able to get rid of it before it hit the battle zone. Overall though, the amount of answers to Eternal Haven were limited and made people cringe every time it was played. In one match at the KMC in Ohio, run by the good people of Alter Reality Games, Christian Van Hoose was playing against Richard Zapp. Zapp was using a mono-light rush deck and broke a turn two Bottle of Wishes into Christian’s Eternal Haven! Talk about a bad situation for Zapp! Of course, not too long after this event, Bottle of Wishes was “retired” from the game.

Eternal Haven is also another card that automatically provides the player using it a free card. It then allows you to play a Blocker that’s level 9 or less, which basically means you can play any non-evolution Blocker in the game outside of Haven herself. What makes it worse is that this occurs when you attack with the card as well and your opponent can’t do much to stop it. Being genuinely untargetable, Haven becomes the coup de grace or the final blow in most games. Not having to worry about Terror Pit, Root Trap, or Piercing Judgment allows most Haven players to stay calm and finish the game with ease.

Don’t forget that Haven also boosts all of your other light creature’s power levels by 4000 as well. This makes cards like Keeper of Laws, Lyra, and Andromeda even stronger than ever before. New combos started coming out of the woodworks involving Orion, Radiant Fury and even Major Ao. If Orion was banished you could potentially bring out Haven and a bunch of other creatures that were now supercharged. If you played Haven and were fortunate enough to have Major Ao in your hand, you could swing in and attack over your opponent’s creatures with an 8500 beatstick, untap him, and attack again!

Haven is a true powerhouse and will be for quite some time. It can be dealt with but requires some specific cards or strategies to do so. This is why Eternal Haven is number five on our list of the best cards from 2013. 

Constructed: 4.75/5.00 (It still takes a little bit of time to set this card up but it will likely win you the game after you play it… unless you play against a dedicated Kalima deck of course ;). )
Limited: 2.50/5.00 (If you can manage to survive long enough to play this card, let alone pull it from your packs, you’ll win the game. Otherwise, it just sits in your hand doing nothing but take up space.)

Make sure to stop by again tomorrow for number four on our countdown!  Until next time my fellow Kaijudo Duel Masters, keep calm and game on!


Tyrone Cleveland
Had this at #5 on his list

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