Blue Style Mastery – Buu Saga
Rare - #128
Mastery

Power: All of your Blue Style physical attacks do +2 life cards of damage. During your "Defender Defends" phase you may remove any amount of Blue Style cards in your discard pile from the game instead of using a Defense. Prevent 2 life cards of damage from the attack for each Blue Style card removed.

Wrong. Just wrong. Well, more annoying than wrong.

This Mastery stalls to death. This Mastery, for all intensive purposes, generally means you have a larger life deck. That, of course, can do a lot of things.

Defensive Buu can reduce life cards, and with this Mastery, very little damage will leak through. That allows anyone with this Mastery to have enough time to finish off other decks with little resistance. It won’t affect Krillin’s Heat Seeking Blast, but for the most part it can endure a lot of the onslaught that is thrown at it.

The problem with this Mastery is most people running this will run a lot less blocks, and thus they will get pummeled if their discard is removed or their Mastery gets shut off (via North Kai, Saiyan Power Beam, Saiyan Charge). One combat can finish off any deck with this Mastery.

This Mastery only prevents the beatdown victory, or more or less stall it. Decks that win by anger, Dragon’s Victory, DB, or Backlash can effectively get around this Mastery since it shouldn’t harm them much. You will have to run a ton of support cards to make this Mastery work in a deck that techs against all archtypes.

Don’t forget the other part of the Mastery; the addition to physical attacks. Blue doesn’t have very many, but it does pack some strong ones like Blue Round Throw. Being able to physical along with a strong Mastery is nice, but Blue really needs better Blue cards to make this used to its full potential.

Standard: 3.6 out of 5.0 (very strong Mastery; can be better than CS but more often not; works nicely against beatdown, but more Blue cards needed) Tuff Enuff: 3.9 out of 5.0 (beatdown predominant)