Myke`s Predictions for "Chase Cards"

[MykeXero]

Hello all you fellow Humans!,
Im going to do some metagame predictions, and try to predict the cards that will be the "chase cards" in the set.

Some of you ask, "What is a chase card?". Its a card that is so good that nearly everyone wants it for their deck. Making the card, reguardless of rarity, hard to find, because few want to trade it it away.

Obviously, Some cards mentioned here, may be included in starter decks, and truly wont be that hard to find, but i`ll include it anyway.

So lets go though what we belive will be in the English Set #1, and see what we can find.

When i mention a card name, im pulling it from my semi-accurate spoilers located here:
[url]http://www.bandaicg.com/naruto/showthread.php?t=263[/url]
[url]http://www.bandaicg.com/naruto/showthread.php?t=264[/url]
[url]http://www.bandaicg.com/naruto/showthread.php?t=265[/url]

The names im using are from the spoiler, and may not be the offical english names as seen in Shonen Jump, so when in doubt, check the collectors number, the english and japanese collector numbers always match.

Chase Ninjas!:
Sasuke Uchiha (Ninja-2)
Sasuke has the best healthy stats for a turn 0 ninja in set 1 at 3/1. Since i belive fire/thunder decks and even fire/water decks will be popular choices, Sasuke is a great choice for both.

Konohamaru (Ninja-7)
Although, I think this is the worse of the 2 Konohamaru in the first set, i belive this one will see more people chasing it. Mainly cuse it allows you to get out your high level ninjas quicker, Turn 5 Hokage? SURE!

The Third Hokage (Ninja-13)
HELLO! Heal 1 Ninja a turn? OKEY! Every fire deck will be running him. Hes one of the best ninjas in the deck as well. His 6/4 healty stats makes him a force to be reckoned with.

Uchiha Sasuke (Ninja-20)
Sure, this Sasuke cannot be sent out with teams consisting of other genin, but with a 4/0 healthy stat and a turn cost of 1, this Sasuke (like the other version) is a beatdown waiting to happen.

Hatake Kakashi (Ninja-23)
Why will this one be a chase? Beacuse he powers up with no effort. He copies any Jutsu that powers up an attack of a ninja he is in combat with. At his 6/3 healthy stat, it makes him one efficent beatstick as well.

Zabuza Momochi (Ninja-24)
The only ninja in this set that can send an entire team to the discard pile. Yeah, He will see play.

Hatake Kakashi (Ninja-37)
Kakashi will be popular. His ability powers up Konoha Genin on his team. Since hes a 6 healthy attack as it is. His teams will be attacking for AT LEAST 8. Blam!!

Now lets move on to Mission Cards:

Disaster of the Nine-Tails Spirit (Mission-5)
FWOOOSH!!! Deal 1 Damage to all ninjas in play. All good decks run "reset buttons" and this is as close to that as you are going to get in Naruto.

End of Battle (Mission-21)
And the exact opposite of the above. Heal all your injured Ninjas in one swell foop. This reverse "reset button" is the pinnacle of healing efficency. It only has a turn cost of 2 as well. Nice.

A vow of Pain (Mission-24)
Mulligan in the middle of a game! This lets you take your hand, put it at the bottom of the deck, then draw that many cards. How good can this be? In Magic: The gathering, a card that did the same thing was banned. In Pokemon a similar card was not reprinted (Prof. Oak). This, in the early game, can fetch you answers quickly.

Visitation of the 4 red leaves (Mission- 35)
Search your deck for any Mission card. This shold just read "search your deck for a card that may as well win you the game next turn". Bwhaah.

Shooting Star (Mission - 40)
Have a Sasuke in play, but another in your hand? Shooting Star basicly changes the name of a Jounin or lower ninja in play. So now you can have both sasukes in play. I think some decks will definalty run this, so they can pack their deck full of sweet sweet Sasukes!

Moving on to the Jutsus!!!

Sexy Jutsu (Jutsu - 3)
Surpise! Your ninja now has an attack of ZERO. Great combat tricks, and a great card. A Sexy card, if you will.

Harem Jutsu (Jutsu - 4)
Yes, its requirements are very steep (male + replication) BUT turning an entire team of males to a total attack power of zero is AWESOME. Talk about wrecking.

Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu (Jutsu - 5)
When you see an "X" in a cost, greatness usually follows. With this sucker you can easily pump your ninjas into situations that will net an outstanding victory.

8 Trigram divination seal spell forumla (Jutsu - 6)
Maybe you dont realize how good this card is yet. Its VERY good...play with 3 in every deck (if you run fire)....Play with 3 until you are not allowed anymore haha. Not only do you wreck your opponents teams attack power, you make your opponent lose a ninja, and basicly lose a draw. 3 things in one. Awesome Sauce.

Silennt killing technique (Jutsu - 14)
Hint: When use this with Zabuza 24 it bascily reads "your opponent discards an entire team that just blocked Zabuza". The cost is very steep and so are the requirements, but MAN when you pull this combo off, you probably won the game.

Lighting Blade (Justsu - 30)
Sure it requires a Kakashi to use, but its +7/+0 for (Lighting and 1), At least 12 damage if kakashi is by himself, add kakashi up with some decent backup, and you can easily attack into 18+ range. BOOM.

Im sure some cards will end up being chase cards that we cannot predict, but these are my choices. What do you think?