Power: Physical attack doing +5 power stages of damage. If you
stopped an attack during your last "Defender Defends" phase, raise
your anger 2 levels.
Since this is a judge promo, don’t expect to see this very often.
The good thing is there are very few decks that actually need this
card, so there isn’t that much demand for it.
It is a decent sized physical attack, but the key is the secondary
effect. There aren’t very many Blue attacks that give you two
straight anger; only one coming to mind is Blue Stance. While this
doesn’t exactly do that, you can easily run it in a Blue CS deck and
the anger is pretty much automatic.
If it didn’t have that stipulation, it would be a really good card
for a wacky Blue anger. You’ll need to run blocks or some way to
guarantee blocks for this card to work, so unless you run a ton or
Blue CS, it won’t do you much good at all. Also, you can’t forget
that not all decks run attacks, so against those, this is more or
less useless.
Regardless, Blue doesn’t have a ton of good options for anger. If
you want to attempt Blue anger, go with this card, but until Blue
gets more anger cards, it isn’t an archetype I’d go after right now
with a lot of other faster anger decks out there.
Standard: 3.2 out of 5.0 (good in Blue anger, that’s about it) Tuff
Enuff: 2.1 out of 5.0 (anger not as important here)
Sealed: N/A
~matthewlow
Trunks
Blue Backbreaker
Type: Physical Combat
Power: Physical attack doing +5 power stages of damage. If you
stopped an attack during your last "Defender Defends" phase, raise
your anger 2 levels.
Hm. Not that bad of a blue card. Considering how blue is always
getting the crap cards these days. This card is great if you can get
3 of them. You can get them by either being a judge or from the
cookie bag. Dunno how else you can get it besides ebay. Nice in blue
physical beats. It gives you some anger if you stopped an attack
during your last defender defends phase. With Kid Buu saga adding in
more blue style physical attacks that do +5 and up, you can have a
deck full of nothing but +5 and up physical attacks. And add in the
Buu Saga blue mastery your attacks are gonna do alot of damage. And
a lot of preventing as well.
Rating 3.0
TrunksTheSwordsman
flameboy1@mindspring.com
Andrew
Dill
Blue Backbreaker, #J2
Power: Physical attack doing +5 power stages of damage. If you
stopped an attack during your last "Defender Defends" phase, raise
your anger 2 levels.
This is the second judge promo, and let me just say that it is
complete crap compared to Fatherly Advice. This card would be a lot
better in almost any other style, or freestyle. Blue is seriously
the worst style for beatdown.
The Buu Saga Mastery is ok with physical beatdown, but there really
are not too many good blue style physical attacks, or blue cards in
general (minus blue terror). Anyway, this card is very hard to get
for the average person, and it not even that great. It is alright in
a blue physical beatdown deck, but it isn't anything major like a
red axe heel kick is to red.
Standard - 2.5 (way too hard to get for such a crappy card)
Sealed Deck - N/A (doesn't come in packs)
KingBroly
Thursday:
Blue Backbreaker
Physical attack doing +5 power stages of damage. If you
stopped an attack during your last "Defender defends" phase, then
raise your anger 2 levels.
Standard: 2.5/5
Tuff Enuff: 3/5
Not much to say, it gains you 2 anger if you stopped an
attack, and it's not red. If it was red, it probably would have been
better. But, then again you never know where a card like this could
come in handy. Since Anger is 12 feet under in Standard, the mode
of suprise would be the only benefit. For Tuff Enuff, where anger
is more viable, but not important really, getting you up a level for
a Blue beatdown deck is good, but not that good.
surlio
Blue Backbreaker
An interesting judge card. A blue attack that is very nice, since +5
is nothing to be laughed at, and if you stopped an attack right
before you played this, raise your anger 2. Blue anger is nothing to
be taken lightly, since it can sneak up on you in a heartbeat. Most
don't really expect it, which is what makes it a powerful tool and
stratigy to use.
The card itself is iffy. A big attack that might raise your anger. A
good combo card in Tuff enough, if you don't have Are You Tuff Enuff
in your hand, but other than that, its not a great card. Big
physicals aren't much unless they have the nice special attacks to
back them up. I would rather run Blue Sledgehammer, bigger attack,
large anger drop.
Personally, it was a big waste of a judge card, since most of the
others were decent.
All Formats: 2.5
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