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dust2dust
Fire Style: Phoenix Flower
Jutsu
Pro:
-multi-target
Con:
-chance
-cost
We move on today with more fire cards. Today’s card
is a gamble. For those of you lucky people out
there, this is the card for you.
General-
For 3 fire chakra, you can potentially discard every
ninja on a team with Zabuza as the user. Of course,
I said potentially, which is usually not a good
thing. For each ninja, you need to flip a coin. From
there you have a 50/50 chance to give a ninja 1
damage. There is the possibility that you will
discard every ninja, but there is also the
possibility that you won’t even get 1 damage out.
For 3 fire chakra, it’s better to use fire ball
jutsu to get one guarantee damage.
The cost for Fireball Jutsu is greater as well,
because you can use 2 fire chakra and 1 anything.
This makes it more friendly for decks that have both
fire and another element. Verse Phoenix Flower,
which cost 3 fire, it would be harder to gather
those chakra compare to Fireball. This card requires
more dedication to fire in a deck.
Construction: 2.5/5
Limited: 1.5/5
Beastly Bruin
Fire Style: Phoenix Flower
Jutsu
I really wanted to like this card. Really. But three
specific Chakra for an effect that isn't guaranteed
to go off is a waste of space in a competitive
environment. There are more than enough good Fire
jutsus out there (and even more heading our way)
that you don't have to include this card.
As for the effect, the good thing about it is that
it's a three-Chakra jutsu that doesn't require a
Jonin. Also, it has the potential to obliterate an
entire team/strategy. But that's about where the
pros end. The cons are that it costs three specific
Chakra. Although if you're throwing this in a Fire
or Fire Hybrid deck, it probably wouldn't be too
hard...the question remains, is it worth it. Plus,
the effect is chancy. Best case scenario would have
you get three heads, but it's not guaranteed, and
you DON'T want to use this on a team of less than
three nin.
Bottom line, this card bows at the feet of 8
Trigram. This card is a rare, so you probably won't
come across it in Limited. But, if you do, and
you're drafting a good amount of Fire cards, this
card would be more valuable to you there than in
Constructed.
Constructed Fire: 2/5
Limited: 3/5
Art: 2/5
Rakath
Fire Style: Phoenix Flower
Jutsu
Now, remember back on Monday how that card was
slightly less useful with a new card looked at this
week. Here it is, Phoenix Flower Jutsu is a riskier,
rentsier, Fire Ball. Let's compair:
Cost:
- Fire Ball is Fire|Fire|One
- Phoenix Flower is Fire|Fire|Fire
Target:
- Fire Ball is "1 Ninja"
- Phoenix Flower is "Every Ninja Battling Against
the User"
Effect:
- Fire Ball: 1 Damage to the target, no damage if
the target has a Flame Combat.
- Phoenix Flower: Flip a coin for each target, Heads
makes 1 damage happen to them.
This is a case of greater risk for greater reward.
Fire Ball is an upper hand card, Phoenix Flower is a
under hand card. Phoenix Flower works best when they
have a full team, and based on your luck changes if
you win out or get nothing. I like hedging on luck a
bit more than others, and this card is a fine choice
to do it. You're risking a misfire of 0 damage (50%
for 1 target, 25% for 2 targets, 12.5% chance for 3)
to chances at 1 damage (37.5% if the team is 3), 2
damage (37.5%) and 3 damage (12.5%). Since three out
of four options are benificial to you (87.5% for a
good thing to happen for you) not much reason not to
run 1 of them. However, it's a Fire only due to the
Fire|Fire|Fire cost.
