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dust2dust
Uchiha Sasuke [Battle
Sense]
Pro:
- Early game drop
- Flexible Chakara Payment
Con:
- Injured status
- Rivaling Sasuke's
Ending this week of Fire cards review is one of the
first promo cards to hit Naruto CCG, so let's get
into it.
General-
This Sasuke's ability let's you to use Fire Jutsu
with less specific Chakara. So you can play Fire
Ball Jutsu with just 1 fire and 2 other chakara,
Kage Bushi with 3 non-specific chakara, or the card
we just reviewed yesterday with a non fire element.
The point is, you can consider more options even if
you don't got enough fire chakara.
However, numerous, shall I say 'better', fire jutsu
cards either require [Sharingan] character status
(I.E. "Negate and Discard" Sharingan) or [Jonin]
Status (I.E. 8 Trigram), to play, and this Sasuke
has neither, making the potentially great ability
less effective. Should the same ability belongs to a
copy of Kakashi, that'll make a more game breaking
card.
Lastly, another reason that this card doesn't see
play is the fact it is a Sasuke; there are other
copies of Sasuke that can easily over power [Battle
Sense] or perform better control strategies with the
same physical statistics. Since you can't play more
the 3 copies of the same 'ninja', there are less
incentives to play [Battle Sense].
Constructed: 1.5 / 5
Limited: 1 / 5 (Since I can't give a 0, I'll give it
the lowest score possible because you can't possibly
pull this from a pack.)
Beastly Bruin
Sasuke Uchiha [Battle
Sense]
A turn 0, 3 Combat powerhouse that can ease the pain
of multiple Fire Chakra jutsus? Purdy good.
A Sasuke without Sharingan Eye? No thanks.
Sorry, but that effect just isn't necessary enough
for me to let him take up one of my 3 Sasuke slots.
I honestly can't think of a Sasuke I'd take out of
my Fire build for this card...even with the high
Combat. (Due to his effect, he's just an offensive
bullet in any other deck) His effect could be useful
in a Fire Hybrid deck, being that you may not have
any Fire Chakra when you really need to drop that
Fire-based jutsu. This card would be SO much more
effective if he had Sharingan Eye, as you wouldn't
need a Fire card in your Chakra pile to play it.
All right, after my small
disappearance due to Technical Errors (AKA, My
internet is CRAP!!), I have returned just in time
for the final card of the week, Sasuke Uchiha
[Battle Sense]
First off, he has the standard Sasuke Stats, being a
3/0 healthy and a 0/0 Injured, which I’ve ALWAYS
hated, and unlike most Sasukes, he doesn’t have
Sharingan Eye built in. Though, his ability
definitely isn’t something to pass up too quickly.
Whenever Sasuke becomes the user of a Fire Type
Jutsu, he can change one of the [Fire]’s into a [1]
instead, much like Anko can turn [Water] Chakra into
[Lightning] Chakra. Still, even with the ability he
has, it’s hard to recommend him over [Power of the
Curse Mark] or [Analysis of Competence].
Is he a good card? To an extent, yes.
Is he the BEST? HIGHLY doubt it.
Limited: Whoops, can’t pull a Promo in a booster
draft. J
Art: 1.5/5 (What’s with this odd fascination with
Sasuke in this game? And why is he always trying to
be the bad boy? He fits being just a whiny emo SO
much better. ~Ensue Hatemail~)
Rakath
Sasuke Uchiha (Battle
Sense)
This is the least splashable Sasuke Uchiha in the
game. He's asking to be used in a purely Fire deck.
He's Turn 0 Hand 0, not a surprise. 3/0 - 0/0 is
pretty standard play for Sasuke these days too. He's
got Leaf|Genin|Male which is boring and unhelpful
and a Flame Combat type lets him do one thing, not
get hurt by the Monday card of this week. Anyway, on
to his effect.
Replace a Fire in a Jutsu cost with a One. What does
this mean? Well, it means that Fire Style: Fire Ball
Jutsu is now a Fire|Two, and Phoenix Flower is payed
like Fire Ball. A perfectly balanced effect useful
just about any Fire deck that is hybrid with another
Symbol. Mono-FIre can't use this.
