Power: Energy attack doing 5 life cards of damage. Costs 1 power
stage to perform. If successful and your opponent has more than 2
cards in his hand, he discards down to 2 cards in his hand.
King Kai owns. I said so. Yet again.
This new King Kai is so much better than all the others in the past.
The weak 4 stage physical that raised your anger one if you played
black, or the energy costing one and forcing a discard if you
declared black and it hit are nothing compared to this ultimate one.
An energy doing five and costing one is already decent, and the
ability to make your opponent’s hand two cards can easily turn the
tide in your favor in the sense of card advantage.
In all CCGs, card advantage is key. King Kai totally shuts that
down. Let’s see… Saiyan, the king of card advantage: holding one
card, draw 3, Goku the Hero draws one, Saiyan CS, discard a Saiyan
and draw 2… what’s that, a SEVEN card hand? King Kai doesn’t care,
throws his energy, and viola, if it hits, Goku’s down to just two
cards. I mean sure it has to hit, but that forces card advantage
decks to play enough energy blocks so that they have one each turn.
The energy costing one makes it easier to throw out, and regardless
the attack isn’t bad. The effect making your opponent go to two
cards can easily be even better with the help of Black Style Mastery
CS. There are many cards that discard, especially in the Black
Style, that easily compliment him. The fact that this King Kai
doesn’t need to be in Black to use all of his card power makes him
even better.
Z power stages are still decent with the ability to play all the
Underdog cards as well as Piccolo’s Power Ball. He can still dish
out some decent physicals with two base, and won’t take too much
damage regardless of who he is facing.
Now what makes him just awesome is he can be used as an ally. As a
level 1, there’s no hero ally, or actually ally for that matter,
that does even close to what he does. Your opponent will be gearing
for the ally energy onslaught, and with King Kai around, you can
easily throw off a lot of your opponent’s plans if he’s on the
table. He’ll most likely need to stop him, and if not, your other
energies in your hand with awesome if successful effects have a
better chance at hitting. Not to mention if he does go through, that
can only be a good thing.
Standard: 3.7 out of 5.0 (Blue CS/DB deck don’t mind to much, screws
up card advantage decks) Tuff Enuff: 3.9 out of 5.0 (easily controls
Saiyan and Namekian, or forces them to take a different gameplan)
Sealed: 4.9 out of 5.0 (ownage ally with broke ally power… what more
can you ask for?) ~matthewlow
Mewfive
King Kai, Earth's Mentor Level 1
All who read my review get a free turkey. Go forth and smite thine
newfound turkey in thy oven. Like, all Happy Thanksgiving and stuff.
To business. This Lv.1 is screaming Black CS deck. An energy for 5
life is about average, give or take 1 or 2 life. If it hits, your
opponent discards down to 2 cards in hand! Yay! I like this! With
the power of the Black CS Mastery, you can take out another one, and
both if you decide to Black Thought Focus. Such a manuver leaves
them with no hand, and you can proceed to beat them senseless or
just control Combat. Black has many cards that can make an opponent
discard a card from their hand, so even without Black Thought Focus,
you can easily deprive an opponent of their hand if they have no
energy blocks. And of course Black Manip decks should be running
Confrontations/Stare Downs for even more fun.
If you wanted to use this Lv.1 in any other deck, it could work to a
degree.
The only bad thing is your opponent picks the cards they keep. I'd
recommend him as an Ally because it'd be one more energy attack, and
your opponent would likely block this energy over most others. If
this one hits, they ditch all but two cards, which means only two
energy blocks at most, unless they used TIAWT, NEA, FFB, Absorbing
Drill, or something.
This card is screaming at me to put it in my Ally deck. Just need it
first.
Standard - 3.6/5. If you use King Kai in Standard, this is likely
the level you'd want to go with.
TE - 3.8/5. Redundancy is your friend. >_>
Andrew
Dill
King Kai, Earth's Mentor Level 1
#104 from Kid Buu Saga
Power: Energy attack doing 5 life cards of damage. Costs 1 power
stage to perform. If successful and your opponent has more than 2
cards in his hand, he discards down to 2 cards in his hand.
This card gives King Kai so much more possibilities, he now doesn't
have to be black, if he doesn't want to, and now he can actaully be
a good ally!
King Kai is probably the best personality to play with "Z" power
ratings if you plan to stop attacks (I mean if you want to go the
opposite route of Supreme West Kai). With really good new cards in
Kid Buu Saga, like Hercule's Dream Sequence, King Kai will see a lot
more play. One bad thing about the new level 1 is that if you want
to use it any deck besides a black deck, you will probably stay on
the level 1 the whole game (I mean you should), which isn't that bad
considering you can do some major damage with this. A lot of decks
will now be forced to have some energy defense or pay the price.
Let's say you are playing a saiyan deck, well he has 8 cards in his
hand, all physical attacks, now that won't cut it against King Kai,
all you gotta do is use your power and he discards down to 2. A
pretty good deck for this new level 1, at least I think, would be an
orange drill deck, using energy attacks. Now you can still use all
those good cards that say stuff like "if your power rating is 3
times lower than your opponents ..." (crap like that, there is a lot
now!). Anyway, awesome as a personality and as an ally.
Ratings:
Standard - 3.75
Tuff Enuff - 3.5
Sealed Deck - 4.5 (level 1 ally, not a lot of energy defense in
sealed deck, abuse that!)
KingBroly
King
Kai, Earth's Mentor (Lv.1)
Power - Energy attack doing 5 life cards of damage. Costs 1
power stage to perform. If successful and your opponent has more
than 2 cards in his hand, he discards down to 2 cards in his hand.
Standard: 3/5
This card is the first King Kai Personality card where you
don't have to spend $25 to get one. So, there's some points in that
if you spend less than $25 to get this card. Note, it's not that
rare, but anyway onto the Review. Is this the Cheap man's King Kai
Uber Rare? Most likely. It's better because it does an extra card of
damage. WOW! (Notice the sarcasim). Again, a 1-power stage cost. The
thing that drags the card down is the secondary effect of the whole
discard effect. So, basically it makes it a first attack, which can
be a good or bad thing if he's your Main Personality. As an ally,
he's not that playable unless your opponent did nothing that combat.
Tuff Enuff: 2.5/5
A defensive deck maybe? I'm not sure. Most likely you need to
play this card as a Main Personality over an ally to be successful,
but you never know if you can pay for it. But,making it 1 stage
helps a lot in Energy Beatdown decks.
DaKrillin
Wednesday - King Kai, Earth's Mentor
"Power: Energy attack doing 5 life cards of damage. Costs 1 power
stage to perform. If successful and your opponent has more than 2
cards in his hand, he discards down to 2 cards in his hand"
NO! An even more evil level 1 King Kai -_-'. Energy for 5 thats
costs a stage is ALREADY pretty good :p, not great, but pretty good.
But, if it's used early in a combat, when your opponent has..4+
cards in hand....and they have no blocks for energies..ouch. Anyway,
he's a good personality, and a good ally, but he's better in the
ally spot..yep.
Standard: 1.4
Tuff Enuff: 2.3
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