Power: Stops a physical or energy attack. Remove from the game after
use.
Funny how this card is actually one of the best cards in the game.
Or it used to be. But it is still good regardless. This is one of
the few “unSphereable” omni-blocks, meaning it can’t be Trunks
Energy Sphered and it can stop both physical and energy attacks. It
can’t stop focused, but that doesn’t matter too much with a good
block like this. If you can’t find a good block, this one is by far
one of the ones I’d throw in; others would be Goku’s Flight and
Goku’s Super Saiyan Blast, which can do the same thing. Flight has
now taken the place of the other two as of late.
The fact that it is Energy Combat is what makes it a good card. It
was used widely in Namekian, and I would still run it in many
versions. It can be searched out with Namekian Strike and Namekian
Energy Focus, and other cards like Orange Uppercut as well. When
Cosmic Backlash was still in standard, people ran this with GSSB so
that if Krillin’s Solar Flare was played and successful, there would
still be YSD or GSSB that could show up and stop the Cosmic
Backlash. There are just very few good Energy Combat physical
blocks.
This definitely should see play in Tuff Enuff just so you can stave
off Backlash, which is still decent.
There isn’t much of a difference between this and GSSB, but GSSB can
actually be used with Yamcha the Amazing but can’t be played if
Tien’s Power Burst was successful. Thus, you can argue either way.
This is one of Yamcha’s good named cards, while Goku has a wealth of
them, like Goku’s Flight, with is by far much better for Goku,
except for the lone fact one is physical combat and one is energy.
Then again, I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t run both.
Standard: 3.3 out of 5.0 (powerful and versitale omni-block) Tuff
Enuff: 4.1 out of 5.0 (needed to stave off Backlash)
Sealed: 3.7 out of 5.0 (omni-blocks are powerful in this format
regardless) ~matthewlow
Trunks
Yamcha's Skillful
Defense - Frieza Saga
A nice uncommon that was and still is useful in some decks. It was
pretty much a goku's super saiyan blast in frieza saga. Dunno why
they made a rare and an uncommon that did almost the same thing.
Anyway, its an okay card though fusion saga did give us goku's
flight which is a little bit better since it can raise either
players anger by 1 and its a physical combat card so it can stop
Orange Energy Discharge. Plus if its used by goku it goes back into
the deck which isnt to bad for a common. But it goes by how you
build your deck in the end.
Rating 2.9
TrunksTheSwordsman
flameboy1@mindspring.com
Da Krillin
Wednesday - Yamcha's Skillful Defense
Another Omni-Block, the thing thats special about this one is that
it isn't a combat card, so it can't be sphered..thats about all
there is to say about it..
Standard: 3.5
Tuff Enuff: 3.8
Andrew
Dill
Yamcha's Skillful Defense, #59 from
Frieza Saga
Power: Stops a physical or energy attack. Remove from the game after
use.
There is only one interesting thing with this card; and that is that
it is
an energy combat card. I am pretty sure that this is the only energy
combat card that stops both physicals and energies; while most of
them are either physical combat or combat. If you want to put an
omni block in your deck, first use Goku's Flight. This card is
alright, but there are much better things out there.
Ratings:
Standard - 2
Tuff Enuff - 2.2
Sealed Deck - 1.7
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