Setsuki is a quick learner and she or he’s quick basically. She’s the hero of the Whitestar Order’s Ninjutsu spec:
Her first capacity displays how nimble she is. She will be able to soar out of the best way of an assault until the attacker is further cautious. Her center capacity 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 degree capacity 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 preserve your handsize of 5 playing cards. With a max degree setsuki, you possibly can play 1 employee and three different issues with out happening in hand dimension, so that you’ll need numerous actually low-cost playing cards. That’s much like how she works in Yomi too: you get to play numerous playing cards, although every one might be not that robust by itself. That stated, killing a max degree Setsuki needs to be a prime precedence to your opponents. They may get buried beneath all that card benefit should you stick with it.
Setsuki has some early sport Ninjas she will combat 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 might probably make your opponent not patrol within the slots they actually need to with the intention to keep away from your sparkshot. Extra related than that, you possibly can buff your white models 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’s one Ninja who you received’t need to buff although:
When you 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 hassle 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 downside, drag it elsewhere so you possibly can assault a distinct factor. You may additionally pull their Technician patroller to a distinct 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 should you’re max degree and drawing 2 playing cards per flip. 0 is the fitting worth!
Transferring on to Setsuki’s spells, one can energy her up:
She already will get swift strike at degree 4, and this spell offers her a slew of different combat-related buffs. You should utilize 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 directly, 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 buddies 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 degree simply because of her card draw, however now think about that at max degree she will additionally forged this spell again and again. That’s numerous Ninja buddies.
Switching over to Ninjutsu models 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 must have issues which are broken however not useless in order that he can heal them. Typically you received’t handle to make these stars align. When you do although, it’s an enormous swing. Therapeutic two injury on EVERYTHING you will have that’s broken is fairly wonderful when it really works. Attempt utilizing Fuzz Cuddles with issues which are already onerous to kill, reminiscent of this:
If you combat 1,000 Ninjas, they are usually fairly weak. However if you combat simply ONE Ninja, it’s often epically robust. That’s why Inverse Energy Ninja is at her greatest when she’s alone. You get an absurd 6/6 for simply 3 gold should you’re prepared to go it alone together with her. You may want at the least 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:
Superb Ninja is among the causes to make use of the Ninjutsu tree in any respect. Haste and swift strike collectively have an unbelievable synergy. For five gold, he’s mainly a kill spell AND a unit. As quickly as you play him, you possibly can assault with him and kill something with 4 HP or much less and you continue to get to maintain your Superb Ninja. Are you frightened about him getting attacked again in your opponent’s flip? Superb Ninja will STILL deal his fight injury first (because of swift strike), even when he’s attacked, in order 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 superb.
Ninjutsu can be a fan of Cute Animals:
Whereas most of Ninjutsu is aggressive, this little man offers you a defensive possibility 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 very well along with his talents, which depend on each Ninjas and Cute Animals. So if in case you have two Masked Raccoons in play, they will each slip by patrolling models 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 do this EVERY flip as a result of a pair of Masked Raccoons is tough 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 College is hidden within the forest, and is invisible to these with out detection. That makes it very onerous to assault. It makes all of your Ninjas and Cute animals invisible, which implies they’re untargetable, unattackable, they usually can ignore patrollers. The College may even prepare different models to change into Ninjas!
Look again at among the earlier playing cards to see how Fox’s Den College impacts them. Fox Viper and Smoker out of your beginning deck each change into invisible. Even these early models should not unhealthy once they get to disregard patrollers AND change into unattackable themselves AND change into untargetable by opponents. Similar goes to your Inverse Energy Ninja at tech I. And an invisible Superb 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 College 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 dwell. You may make it even sooner by utilizing different Ninja models you will have laying round.
The Ninjutsu spec is stealthy, quick, and formidable in fight. The Fox’s Den College has taught them nicely.
