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							N-685 Sakura Haruno & Tsunade [POWER OF kUNOICI] 
							
							
							  
							
							
							Welcome back to "couple's skate" on Pojo.  It's me, 
							your old friend N. Jolly guiding you through our 
							world of partners this week, and it's getting closer 
							and closer to Valentine's Day!  And tomorrow + 
							Friday, we get preview cards!  Isn't that great?  I 
							love love! 
							
							
							  
							
							
							Today's card is a rather fun one from set 15, 
							featuring the two most prolific female ninjas on the 
							show.  But that right there is a problem with this 
							card, that is takes both of those ninja off the 
							board.  I guess I just like having my Sakura and Tsu 
							both on field.  But let's take a look at it's stats, 
							shall we: 
							
							
							  
							
							
							T7 HC0 Wind/Earth 
							
							Leaf | Female | 
							Chunin | Satoosa | Sannin | Medical | Mental Power: 
							6 | Mastery | Squad 
							
							9/4 7/3 CA: 
							
							
							Medicine 
							
							Set 15: 
							
							Super Rare 
							
							
							  
							
							Lots of keywords 
							with this card, but a few stand out, like Mental 
							Power: 6!  That's a six card draw off of Sakura's 
							Decision, a card any deck running this would play. 
							 Mastery is also quite potent here, as it allows the 
							recycling of all of your Saku/Tsu jutsu, like Cherry 
							Blossom Impact, Clean Hit, and Heaven Kick of Pain. 
							 Wind has pretty good chakra generation, so being 
							able to repeat jutsu like these is a pretty strong 
							ability.  Being a 9/4 monster doesn't hurt either ;) 
							 But even with that, there's the problem of being 
							both Sakura and Tsunade on board, which hurts 
							medical decks (which this probably will be in).  Is 
							it worth it to lose them both?  Let's check out this 
							card's effect, shall we: 
							
							
							  
							
							
							[POWER OF KUNOICHI] 
							
							
							Valid: While 
							you have only "Female" Ninjas in play, each of your 
							"Female" Ninjas, including this Ninja, cannot be 
							affected by the effects of Jutsu cards used by your 
							opponents "Male" Ninjas and effects of your 
							opponnet's "Male" Ninjas. 
							
							
							  
							
							This is really the 
							clincher in most Female decks, but the problem is 
							right now, Female isn't a full deck.  And losing 
							it's two stars (really the only knock I have on this 
							card if you can't tell) isn't great.  Not being able 
							to have any males on board also hurts a lot, as most 
							decks will have the random Shika/Kabu(in medical)/Sasuke 
							in deck, and losing them does not help at all.  For 
							this, your ninjas are almost invincible except to 
							missions, but it's hard to have all females on field 
							all the time.  Seeing some of the things we have 
							received in Set 16, I have a bit more faith in this 
							card to pull the deck together, but only time will 
							tell on this card. 
							
							
							  
							
							Limited: 2/5 Stat 
							beast, but it's hard to pull off... 
							
							Constructed: 3/5 A 
							solid card, I like it. 
							
							Block: 3.5/5 A 
							little better here, less to contend with. 
							
							Art: Girl's night 
							out is very dangerous in Konoha...but totally worth 
							it!/5 
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