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Beastly Mage
Kabuto
Yakushi
Today's card is another exclusive (which seem to be
a lot of water cards). Kabuto Yakushi [Prominent
Medical Skill] is pretty good IMO. First off,
Ambush, second, a cool effect. During YOUR mission
phase, you can discard two Water Chakras to put in
play one Water/Chunin Ninja from your discard pile.
Granted, right now we've got pretty few of those
right now. But, that could change with the new set.
Remember, it HAS to be a Chunin. Not higher, not
lower. That's kind of a downside, but he does have
stats to make up for that (good in Healthy, so-so
Injured) plus mental of 2. In limited he could be
good just for the stats, but in constructed he could
Pwn. Try it and see.
Ratings:
Limited: 2/5
Constructed: 4/5
Art: The Doctor is in!/5
Nick 2008 Stone
Village Kage
Pojo Preview #2
Kabuto Yakushi
[Prominent Medical Skill]
Anyone see this card and think of Sasori from
Fateful Reunion? Well, he has a similar effect, but
with a few differences. First off, his target is
VERY limited; Water + Chunin symbol. But, Kabuto
here puts them in play, unlike Sasori who “deploys”
them and uses your deploy for the turn. Sasori’s
Toys also go away, whereas Kabuto’s do not. The best
use I can see for this card is End of the Demon
spam. Use EotD, then use Kabuto to bring your ninja
right back, and do it again! However, if I recall
correctly, the water card previewed on the podcast
was a chunin, so expect to see Kabuto rezzing him.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Kabuto in water
decks, and this one might actually make it back into
the spot depending on how many water chunnin we see
in the future. He has potential, that much is
certain. If you are running Kabuto and the Second
here, you’ll have to watch your Chakra. Those guys
can burn through it quickly, but with Threat of the
Tailed Beasts, it shouldn’t be that much of an
issue.
Limited: 2/5
Constructed: 3/5. Can’t say much more until we see
more of the set.
Matthew Low
Friday 7/17 - Kabuto Yakushi [Prominent Medical
Skill] - Water - Ninja
Interesting card to say the least. At the cost of
two chakra, you can permanent Ghost Panic random
Water Chunin. This card can only get better with
time, as the Chunin options are limited to the Demon
Bros, Mizuki, Tsubaki, St. Simon, and the new one
St. Simon in this set. I'm probably missing one, but
whatever. None of them scream "game changing" if
they were dropped in at random (except the new St.
Simon), but field presence is always good, and
Kabuto is pretty much two drops on his own until he
manages to get injured. It could make End of the
Demon very interesting, as you can sacrifice the new
St. Simon to it, Ghost Panic, then Kabuto him back
into play [feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
about this, going on memory of the new St. Simon
text].
Top it off with Kabuto having Ambush. While it's a
minor plus, it allows players to have two drops
almost at will, which is nice in chumping
situations.
Decks will have to be built around using him (as in,
running Chunins), but I wouldn't count this card out
just yet. If anything, it'll be a sleeper until
techy game-changing Water Chunin come out.
Constructed: 4.0 out of 5.0 (Great effect, great
potential.)
Limited: 2.0 out of 5.0 (Likely never get his effect
off.)
~matthewlow
N. Jolly
N-606 Kabuto Yakushi: Prominent Medical Skill
Unexpected SR review no jutsu! It's like Pojo's best
jutsu!
So again, here's another piece of EA with Kabuto's
newest form, and it's pretty cool. Let's look at his
stats first; 6/3 2/2 is Kakashi awesome, which Water
doesn't have a lot of for T5 Jonins, which makes him
really good stat wise. He's also Medical, Mental: 2,
and has Ambush! That's really awesome, which besides
having one less combat and one less mental that
Kakashi, only lacking Sharingan Eye (which doesn't
matter in Water, as being a Jonin does all he heavy
lifting for your jutsu needs) makes him worse that
Fire's poster boy for T5.
Now onto his effect: During your mission phase, you
can burn two Water Chakra to put a chunin with a
Water symbol into play...hark, I hear my End of the
Demon calling! This is a sweet effect made worse by
a lack of targets. Right now, it only hits the Demon
Bros and St. Simon (who I've heard is getting a new
form in EA) and none of them are really game
changing at the moment. Still, building up board has
never been a bad thing, and it's not a deployment,
which makes it even better so you can still play
something that turn. While right now outside of EOTD
there's really no big combos with this, I expect
this card to get big soon...heck, I'm probably not
even thinking of all the cool stuff you could do
with it.
Constructed:3.75/5 Great card, great stats, loads of
potential depending on what comes out in EA
Limited:X/5 I don't know all of EA, and I don't
care, because I like this card, so it gets an X
Art: Creepy, skinny Kabuto/5...he'll haunt your
dreams!
Naruto
FanBoy
Kabuto Yakushi N-606
This Kabuto carries his average stats which is
always a cool turn 5 drop with ambush :)
His effect lets you revive any Water Chunin for
the cost of 2 "water" chakras which is a nifty
strategy with "The End of the Demon" a mission that
has lost play but this Kabuto might inspire a new
deck around it which is awesome, however with all
these RFG's cards his effect loses playability.
However, this effect PUTS the ninjas in PLAY so it
doesn't waste your deployment and it doesn't remove
it from play at the end of the turn which is a good
plus. We can say he is the smaller version of Sasori
[The Best Toy] but still, I prefer to run other
Kabutos over this one and I guess this one would
only work in his own deck made around him but other
than that unless a lot of good Chunin ninjas pop
that are water lemme remind you guys to make this
guy playable in a mono water deck or so.
A good approach to water but lacks other support
for him but when it does appear he might become a
hassle.
Limited: 3.5/5 (Good stats but effect looks hard to
shoot off)
Constructed: 3.5/5 (I'd like to leave it inbetween
till I see more of the set)
