Posts Tagged ‘NARUTO’

Recently, the Will of Fire (Series 17) set has been surfacing in a number of markets both online, and in the real world. Some of the previously uncommon cards are anything but today. The great thing about this set is that they don’t command too great a price, and therefore, you might be able to get quite a few of them in a trade for one or two higher value cards.

One of the finest examples of this is the Kekashi Hatake (N-863) card. By deploying him, and placing a growth coin on three other ninjas from the Leaf Village, you can grow your military exponentially. Multiples of this card in a deck stacked with Leaf ninjas will help to install an instantly large force.

Likewise, Anger of the Tailed Beast (J-648) is quite useful, and may be easily acquired. If you have an opponent who obsessively uses Chakra up throughout the game, this card is perfect for ruining their strategy. Many players that have this sort of tactic will carefully plan out how Chakra will be generated, and since Anger of the Tailed Beast moves around cards within it, their plans will surely be foiled.

Finally, there is one other Jutsu card from this deck that’s potentially useful for many players. Howl (J-657) not only has a powerful affect; it has some of the coolest art in the game! An Earth Jutsu that targets an opposing Shinobi and turns them into a stand-by, the Howl card can render even the most powerful of adversaries into nothing. It may only paralyze them until the other player can reactivate them, but that might be all the time you need to be able to mount an effective offensive. Overall, this card might be one of the best pieces for stalling in all of Naruto.

The Tsunade’s Guess (M-272) mission card is another one that will reveal some of your cards if you use it. Nevertheless, it has a certain advantage if used properly. When used, it will show the first four cards of the deck, and discard them if they are not selected type cards. However, a properly assembled deck can use this to deploy multiple cards over a field due to type matching.

This works best against a certain type of player, and won’t always be useful. In fact, carelessly playing it will throw out four cards each time that might have been more useful played individually. Therefore, it may be best for certain niche applications against opponents that have certain ninja or justu cards that are only effectively combated against by certain types.

During competition, many players will keep a side deck of 10 cards with them for shuffling cards in and out for the next match. This is where a card like this shines. Since it’s so specialized, it could be kept in a side deck until needing to be withdrawn for a match against an opponent that you know something about their style of play. In the mean time, your deck could contain a standard shinobi or possibly some regular jutsu card such as a Paper Bomb.

Since proper execution is so important, it might be best to chalk up Tsunade’s Guess to at least an intermediate level. It’s not the easiest card to work with, so it may not have a place in everyone’s deck anyways. However, applied correctly, releasing up to four new attacks can tear apart an enemy’s entire force. Perhaps worse, though, is when an adversary is able to pull out an attack like this on you, because its generally quite unstoppable once released. There’s usually no way to simply draw cards out of your opponent’s hand.