Setsuki is a quick learner and she or he’s quick generally. She’s the hero of the Whitestar Order’s Ninjutsu spec:
Her first capability displays how nimble she is. She will leap out of the way in which of an assault until the attacker is further cautious. Her center capability could make up for her low stats. She’s quick sufficient to strike an enemy earlier than it strikes her, letting her keep away from taking injury. However it’s her max stage capability that’s really highly effective: drawing 2 further playing cards per flip is A LOT.
You’ll usually play 1 employee per flip and 1 different card if you wish to keep your handsize of 5 playing cards. With a max stage setsuki, you may play 1 employee and three different issues with out happening in hand dimension, so that you’ll need plenty of actually low-cost playing cards. That’s much like how she works in Yomi too: you get to play plenty of playing cards, although each might be not that sturdy by itself. That mentioned, killing a max stage Setsuki ought to be a high precedence in your opponents. They may get buried beneath all that card benefit in case you stick with it.
Setsuki has some early sport Ninjas she will be able to battle alongside. Right here’s a easy one from the white beginning deck:
A 2/1 for two isn’t unhealthy, and the sparkshot can generally deal an additional 1, or on the very least it may make your opponent not patrol within the slots they actually need to as a way to keep away from your sparkshot. Extra related than that, you may buff your white items so this 2/1 turns into a 3/2 with Aged Sensei’s assist (I confirmed him within the Self-discipline spec article). Or use Sensei’s Recommendation:
There may be one Ninja who you received’t need to buff although:
If you happen to attempt to goal him, he’ll disappear in a puff of smoke. He could be actually annoying as a result of he slips previous patrollers. Opponents usually don’t need to even trouble killing him, but when they don’t he can get away with doing 5 injury over 5 turns or one thing.
Right here’s one other Ninja-like trick for you:
Don’t like an opposing Squad Chief? No drawback, drag it some other place so you may assault a unique factor. You may additionally pull their Technician patroller to a unique slot, then kill it, in order that it received’t give your opponent a card when it dies. That price you a card, sure, however Setsuki hardly cares about that in case you’re max stage and drawing 2 playing cards per flip. 0 is the suitable value!
Shifting on to Setsuki’s spells, one can energy her up:
She already will get swift strike at stage 4, and this spell provides her a slew of different combat-related buffs. You need to use this to play a management model the place you threaten to dominate the board and kill something your opponent performs.
Throw down a rain of shurikens, dealing 1 injury to every patroller. Some methods contain a bunch of 1/1 tokens, so Shuriken Hail can threaten to kill a number of of these without delay, or to melt up some greater patrollers in order that the remainder of your forces can do cleanup.
Talking of methods that contain a bunch of 1/1 tokens, that’s you. That’s your technique:
Setsuki calls her associates for backup, they usually arrive able to strike instantly, because of haste. The stealth half lets them ignore patrollers and assault no matter you need. Setsuki is already harmful at max stage simply as a consequence of her card draw, however now think about that at max stage she will be able to additionally solid this spell time and again. That’s plenty of Ninja associates.
Switching over to Ninjutsu items now, at tech I you will get Fuzz Cuddles. And who wouldn’t need such a ridiculously cute canine? Gameplay-wise, Fuzz Cuddles could be difficult to make use of. He has to outlive a flip for his therapeutic to set off, and you need to have issues which are broken however not lifeless in order that he can heal them. Typically you received’t handle to make these stars align. If you happen to do although, it’s an enormous swing. Therapeutic two injury on EVERYTHING you’ve gotten that’s broken is fairly superb when it really works. Attempt utilizing Fuzz Cuddles with issues which are already laborious to kill, akin to this:
If you battle 1,000 Ninjas, they are typically fairly weak. However if you battle simply ONE Ninja, it’s often epically sturdy. That’s why Inverse Energy Ninja is at her finest when she’s alone. You get an absurd 6/6 for simply 3 gold in case you’re prepared to go it alone along with her. You may want not less than one different unit or hero on the desk, however she’ll shrink in energy for every a kind of. She’s fairly totally different than most tech Is within the sport, so this opens the door for some distinctive rushdown methods for Ninjutsu.
Let’s see what tech II Ninjutsu can do. First, a ridiculous Ninja:
Wonderful Ninja is likely one of the causes to make use of the Ninjutsu tree in any respect. Haste and swift strike collectively have an unimaginable synergy. For five gold, he’s mainly a kill spell AND a unit. As quickly as you play him, you may assault with him and kill something with 4 HP or much less and you continue to get to maintain your Wonderful Ninja. Are you nervous about him getting attacked again in your opponent’s flip? Wonderful Ninja will STILL deal his fight injury first (as a consequence of swift strike), even when he’s attacked, so that they higher assault him with one thing that has greater than 4 HP or that has swift strike additionally. That’s the reason he’s so wonderful.
Ninjutsu can be keen on Cute Animals:
Whereas most of Ninjutsu is aggressive, this little man provides you a defensive choice too. Who needs to assault right into a 6 HP patroller with deathtouch? Ouch!
Ninjas and Cute Animals, you say? What if we mixed each of these into one?
The Masked Raccoon is each a Ninja and a Cute Animal. That works rather well along with his talents, which depend on each Ninjas and Cute Animals. So when you have two Masked Raccoons in play, they will each slip by patrolling items and on opponents’ turns, nothing can assault your Masked Raccoons both. Discover {that a} pair of those provide you with a complete of 6 ATK and that’s sufficient to destroy a tech I, II, or III constructing in a single flip if the opponent is not patrolling any heroes. You are threatening to try this EVERY flip as a result of a pair of Masked Raccoons is difficult to kill.
Right here’s one other card that interacts with Ninjas and Cute Animals:
That is the varsity Setsuki trains at. It’s an all-girls faculty of Ninjas, taught by an previous grasp named Jade Fox. The Fox’s Den Faculty is hidden within the forest, and is invisible to these with out detection. That makes it very laborious to assault. It makes all of your Ninjas and Cute animals invisible, which implies they’re untargetable, unattackable, they usually can ignore patrollers. The Faculty may even practice different items to turn out to be Ninjas!
Look again at among the earlier playing cards to see how Fox’s Den Faculty impacts them. Fox Viper and Smoker out of your beginning deck each turn out to be invisible. Even these early items will not be unhealthy once they get to disregard patrollers AND turn out to be unattackable themselves AND turn out to be untargetable by opponents. Similar goes in your Inverse Energy Ninja at tech I. And an invisible Wonderful Ninja now will get to disregard patrollers and go for the kill, too. You are placing an opponent on a clock right here, and they’re unlikely to have the ability to kill any of your Ninjas OR the constructing that’s making all of your Ninjas invisible. Keep in mind, the Fox’s Den Faculty itself is invisible!
Now let’s meet the varsity’s headmistress:
The venerable Jade Fox is a Ninja herself, so which means she additionally has flying and swift strike. Between her and the Ninjas she arrives with, your opponent solely will get 3 extra turns to reside. You can also make it even quicker through the use of different Ninja items you’ve gotten laying round.
The Ninjutsu spec is stealthy, quick, and formidable in fight. The Fox’s Den Faculty has taught them properly.
