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Swordmaster13 on Naruto
Previewing Eternal Rivalry:
Hey, it's
Swordmaster13 with a look at Eternal Rivalry and the
cards we have seen so far as well as a few other
things. First of all, I like what bandai is doing with
this set as it kinda reminds me of what Hasbro and
Wizards of the Coast do with Magic: the Gathering.
Showing the people who play the card game and are
adamant about it the cards they are making over a period
of time before they are released generates interest in
the product and the cards which to me is just good
business sense, but it also gives people a chance to
whine and gripe that the cards are "broken" and too good
for the game. We talked about a ban and restricted list
for the game when the cards in Revenge and Rebirth came
out like Kabuto Yakushi, Covert Operative and The Third
Hokage, Adressing Past Wrongs to name a few, and if
you've looked on the forum, the idea is being pitched
again. A ban list for Yu-Gi-Oh in English wasn't done
until about Ancient Sanctuary or so if I can recall,
maybe Invasion of Chaos when they really needed it, but
that was about 8 or 9 sets into it and Magic:the
Gathering had the same thing happen around when cards
like Necropotence were being abused(if I am speaking
Greek, these card games have their own pojo.com page so
check them out to learn a bit more). Nothing in Naruto
is that broken just yet, especially since many of the
cards in Eternal Rivalry counter the so-called broken
stuff. The set itself is being called "broken" but we
only have about 20 or so cards out of about 113 we're
getting and I'm about to show why the cards are good,
possibly staple quality but not really broken.
I think the
number one card being whined about right now is the new
Shikamaru Nara. Our new Formation Shikamaru can negate
the effect of a head ninja, which shuts down
automatically any ninja effect that requires the ninja
to be head ninja. Combined with the new Ino, you can
pick the ninja on a team to make head ninja so
Shikamaru's effect shuts down their effect. If a Kabuto,
Third or some other ninja is hiding out in the back
being a pain in the neck, Ino and Shikamaru shuts them
down. Alone Shikamaru stops players from using Dosu,
Sonic Impact and Naruto, Self-Sacrificing Attack to
chump block and forces the players running the Chidori/Sasuke,
Beyond the Limit combo from being able to use their
awesome Jutsu for free. The new Shikamaru will cause a
lot of headaches with people until they realize he's
powerful but more annoying than anything. Shikamaru's
effect isn't valid, so once he's injured(take your pick
on the million ways to injure him) and you've shut down
his effect. Ino, Choji and Hinata, whose healing
ability makes the whole Ino-Shika-Cho trick a repeatable
trick, all have the same problem: injure them and their
effects are gone. The most broken effects are those
that work even when the ninja is injured. Most ninja
get worse if injured and most ninja are pretty easy to
injure. Just pick the Jutsu of your choice and use it.
A few more cards
that have the Mono-Fire players sweating are the new
Temari and Gigantic Fan. Temari allows the players to
look at the opponent's hand and discard a Jutsu or
Mission from it, while Gigantic Fan negates any Jutsu
with 2 or more specific symbols. With these cards
in the playing field, people who run 8 Trigrams, Giant
Vortex Jutsu and many others will be forced to try out
new things, which I think is good rather than bad. A
card game that simply uses the same cards over and over
with each new set begins to get dull as each deck
has the same cards in it. Decks will learn to adapt,
sideboarding things that aren't negatable by Gigantic
Fan and learning to deal with discard effects from Temaris.
Really, though, Temari's effect will target at the most
only 3 cards out of 40, and the odds of her not hitting
a Jutsu or Mission are pretty good, better than her
hitting a Jutsu or Mission considering most decks run
10-12 Jutsus and 4-6 Missions.
If you have been
reading the bandai forums, you would think Mono-Fire is
dead. Freedori decks may be in trouble, but not really
Itachi-Intervention. Speaking of which, the new Itachi,
a rare I may add, discards a ninja with Sharingan Eye in
play, so in a match against Freedori or another Itachi
deck, the Itachi deck has an effective counter where the
SR's effect no longer would be useful. It does however
look as if Lightning is getting good. The new Naruto
combines the old Nine-Tailed Chakra Naruto with an
improved ability and the Oil attribute so he can use
Summoning Jutsu. Rock Lee, the ninja also known as
Broke Lee, combines unnegatable Jutsus(and you will want
to negate the new Primary Lotus) with immunity to
effects that send him back to the hand or deck. For
anyone looking for a good Jutsu that deals damage and is
unnegatable by Gigantic Fan, the new Primary Lotus is
your Jutsu. We're also getting a new Gamabunta who
can't be returned to the hand or deck, which may make
people want to run more Toad decks. Gaara fans are
getting some cards that were special in Japan, Possessed
Mode Gaara, who gets out Shukaku who like Gamabunta is
immune to effects that return it to the hand or deck.
Sand decks will finally be playable as the new ruling on
Possessed Mode means you can run a version of Gaara and
Possessed Mode, the Gaara you'll want to run in a Sand
deck to fetch Possessed Mode will be
Conversation(remember Sand Cocoon? You can finally fetch
something good for it). As Dream Legacy made Medics,
Itachi decks and a few other decks like Snake and Toad
decks, Eternal Rivalry will make Sand, Taijutsu and a
host of others playable. It will also make a few other
decks that have stolen the spotlight weaker so that new
decks can rise to the top. We'll be seeing more cards
some exciting, some sparking controversy and some
not-so-great, but to check out the Featured Cards coming
to us soon, go on to bandai.com, click on the Community
link to reach the forums and click on Featured Cards to
check them out. Also, check out what people are saying
about the cards on the Eternal Rivalry section of the
Forums. For deck help, you can also email me at
zeno9d9@yahoo.com. I'll talk a little more about
Eternal Rivalry as more cards come out. Take it easy,
world.
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