Orange Destruction Ball – Buu Saga
Rare - #141
Energy Combat

Power: Sensei Deck only. Energy attack. For the remainder of Combat, when your opponent tries to discard or remove from the game one of your cards in play, you may remove from the game 2 cards in your Sensei Deck to keep it in play. Remove from the game after use.

Hmm… well, at least Orange Energy gets a Sensei Deck only card. This one is not shabby, and I can see it filling holes in Sensei Decks. But, unfortunately, this one is very situational as well.

The fact it is Sensei Deck only hurts as it has to be Senseied in, with the possible loss of some really good cards. That’s not terrible, but GBS should already be going in, and you don’t want to lose too many cards.

It will be a nice card to help save your Orange Focusing Drill for a turn. But… how often do you expect to have played this card right before a Drill like that or another Non-Combat or ally would be discarded or removed? Not too often. Of course it is still nice, but more often than not, if your opponent see you play this card, they will just wait a turn.

Also, the effect is limited as well. Senseis like South can only use this twice, where North has the maximum use at 6. Elder Kai, which should release, will get 10 uses, which isn’t too bad. But the problem is the fact that while this card can help, it can only help a couple times, which might not be enough.

The attack itself is weak. A normal energy attack… oh wow. If this attack did a few more life cards and had a more game breaking effect, like cutting the Sensei Deck removal, it would see a lot of play. Right now, it is hard to tell if this card will see a lot of play. I see some Orange Energy decks coming back with a ton of Drills that need to be protected, and hence this might come in handy. But with Orange Focusing Drill still holding down the fort, this will only have backup duty.

This will probably only find a home in Orange Energy / Drill decks. It might in Ally, but more likely than not no because of how limited and situational it is.

Standard: 2.7 out of 5.0 (not a bad card to put in Sensei, could be good West Kai tech, still weak though)

Tuff Enuff: 2.0 out of 5.0 (many cards that need protection don’t in TE)

Sealed: 0.2 out of 5.0 (um… the chances of getting a Sensei? The chances your opponent will have removal if you use this card right before?)