Beastly Mage

J-620 Change in Chakra Nature

Man, what a week of sub par previews...not a good week at all...

Today we have a preview card, Change in Chakra Nature, and it is not something I see being run.  While being dual element is always nice, for what it does, it's just not worth it.  But let's take a look at it's stats, shall we:

Change in Chakra Nature

Fire/Earth

Cost: Fire l One or Earth l One

Target: User

Effect: During this turn, the target can use any Jutsu cards regardless of the Jutsu card's Requirements.

Set 16: Rare

Wow, that's pretty expensive for that effect.  It's cool that you can have any ninja use any jutsu, but for a cost of two chakra before hand, your opponent is going to probably have a counter for it, and you just burnt two chakra to do it.  It's not a good exchange, and in block, there's no jutsu worth paying that much for just to have anyone use it.  At least in constructed, you have DFC, but without it you have no reason to have anyone be an omni user.  It's just something that's not worth it, like it'd be a better effect for a ninja to have...a ninja like Orochimaru...yeah, that'd be cool...

Limited: 1.5/5 There might be something here...maybe...

Constructed: 2/5 DFC is worth the cost, but just barely, as it will win you the game most of the time.

Block: 1/5 Nope, not happening...

Art: Sasuke and Kakashi, lost in the Sharingan black hole...oh no, the world said!/5

Change in Chakra Nature

For our second Pojo preview, we bring you another interesting jutsu, Change in Chakra nature. For a fire or earth and a colorless, your ninja can use any jutsu regardless of requirements. So, your Temari could fire off Snake wave, Hinata can use Flamethrower, Lee can use Chidori, and The Fourth can use Four Pillars Prison. Will this card see play in tournament level decks? Of course not. It's a fun deck card only. Unfortunately, it IS a rare card, and will take up the space of a decent rare in your packs. I do like the art though, so having 1 in foil would be cool. Otherwise, I don't ever expect this card to see competitive play.

Limited: 1/5
Constructed: 1/5
Art: 4/5

1/29 J-620 Change in Chakra Nature
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Another Friday, another exclusive preview and an interesting one at it...

For one Fire/Earth and one colorless, the user can use any Jutsu. Pretty awesome but the problem is that it costs 2 chakras itself so you're going to be using a lot of chakra for one turn of jutsus. This is not so bad for earth since it his a little Chakra generation such as Promato but fire doesn't fair to well with its lackluster chakra generation. I can see it working best in DFC decks while you don't have Yamato out on the field so you can do a surprise DFC, albeit one costing five chakra.

A cute card that may see a little play.

Limited: 2.5/5 Might be a little useful since it makes jutsus easier to pull-off but good luck generating a lot of specific color chakras
Constructed: 2.75/5 Could be useful in Uchiha or DFC decks
Block: 2.75/5 Block means nothing to this card
Random: Star Fox Assault is an awesome game.