No one ever talks about the Unlimited format, but the fact remains
that it's still a format that people play. Today I'm going to talk about some decks that are competitive and at least Semi-Competitive in Unlimited.
Let's Start with the card on the Left, Five-Pronged Seal:
[NOTE: These Decklists might not be of the best way to run a certain deck, this should merely be used as a guideline instead of a way to play the deck competitively.]
FPS is a Deck that tries to use Five-Pronged as early as turn Zero with the use of Kakashi (Childhood), Draw Jutsus and Burst of Lightning blade:
So the idea is to get yourself to a hand with both Burst of Lightning Blade and Five-Pronged Seal in your hand to return your opponents Lone Ninja and their hand to their deck so that they can't fight back while you just curve in and win.
The Deck has some major quirks and kinks to be aware of though:
-Kakashi (Childhood) Makes Burst of Lightning Blade cost 1 more, so you have to have 2 fire chakra area +1 Random to play it.
-If you don't have a Kakashi in your hand the combo won't go off turn one unless you can charge 5 chakra of every color, and that's easier said than done.
-The combo only works if your opponent has a Ninja to return. so there's no point in over-extending if they do.
Here's a Basic Build of the deck:
Jutsu: 17
3x Big Bang
3x Getting Ready
3x Release of Chakra [Non Limited one, charge 3 draw 3.]
3x Burst of Lightning Blade
3x Five Prong Seal
2x Change of Chakra Form [makes specific symbols cost (2) instead]
Clients: 3
3x Takamaru
Missions: 10
3x Just Like Drifting Clouds
3x Make-Out Tactics [Search for 2 one drops]
3x Inari's Decision
1x Succeeded Will of Fire
Ninjas: 20
3x Kakashi (Childhood)
3x Naruto's Mom
3x Ink Leech
1x Sasuke [Solo Attitude]
3x Ink Fish
1x Temari [wind Scythe]
3x Konohamaru Ninja Squad
2x Sakura [Puts in Play Inner Sakura]
1x Obito [Negate Jutsu]
Reinforcement: 4
3x Inner Sakura
1x Kakashi/Sasuke
Now there's 9 draw jutsus, all draw and search missions, and a curve up to turn 3, but there's a Jutsu that's not either Burst or FPS, what is it?
Change in Chakra form makes it so your jutsus specific symbols become (1) For example: Five Pronged Seal would cost (5) instead of its specific symbols, making it extremely easy to play without the help of Burst of Lightning Blade, which plays it for free.
This is the alternative way of hitting the Win-Con, and it works for Burst of Lightning Blade as well if you can't get 2 Fire Chakra and still want to combo.
The Biggest Restriction of the deck though is that it is the biggest one-Trick Pony in all of Unlimited, if you can't Five-Pronged, if your user gets removed, or if your opponent negates you're pretty much out of steam.
Over 9000 [O9k, Gaara-Centric, etc. etc.]
There's a familar face if you've been playing the CCG for as long as I have [I started During Revenge and Rebirth] Garra Ip Let's you Look through the top 5 cards of your deck for a Gaara Jutsu and add it to your hand.
So The Up is that he's a Tutor for his own Missions, the downside is he's a turn 4.
However there are always ways around these, and I'll present two options:
You Charge Gaara from your hand and then you can use Leaf Headband to put him into play, you don't get to deploy, but you played your main ninja on Turn 2, 2 turns ahead of when you should.
The Other Option:
Same Turn, pretty much same effect, the advantage of Leaf headband is that you could charge an immense power on turn 0 and already have him ready for turn 2 without worrying if he's in your hand or not, but the benefit of Leaf Academy is that you can still deploy a ninja for that turn, which is what I believe the better of the two.
Now that we've discussed cheating gaara into play, let's discuss the decklist:
0:
3x Rock Lee [Loopy Fist]
3x Sasuke [Solo Attitude]
3x Hanare
2x Hotaru [Either the Flashpoint one or the Flip a Coin one.]
1:
2x Temari [Wind Scythe]
2x Yakumo Kurama [With a Monster Within]
2x Shikamaru [Flexibility]
2:
2x Sakura [Identity Swap]
2x Konohamaru Ninja Squad
3:
1x Naruto Uzumaki [Reliance]
1x Hinata Hyuuga [Reserved Character]
1x Shikamaru/Temari Platoon
4:
3x Gaara of the Desert [Immense Power]
5:
1x Baki [Cleaning Up]
1x Assuma [For the Next Gen]
1x Assuma/Shika Platoon
Jutsu:
3x Double Sand Blade
3x Sand Tomb
3x Sand Shield [A New Chronicle]
1x Negation Jutsu [Gigantic Fan, Wind Scythe, Labryth, anything along those lines.]
Missions:
3x Never Ending Love
2x Protean
2x Ino's Tears
3x Ninja Academy
O9k Has lots of Removal at its disposal, but its all Single-Targeting and Only Gaara can use most of the Jutsu base, which is the major crippling point of the deck, there does however exist another version of this deck, from another Ninja:
Over 2000:
This Naruto Happens to be my favorite card that was ever made in the entire game. Why? Because He's a BETTER Gaara [Immense Power] He comes in a Turn Earlier and He Searches for either a Jutsu with "Rasengan" in its name, or a jutsu with Requirements "Naruto Uzumaki." So His Jutsu Pool is a lot bigger, and since he can search for Rasengans he searches for a jutsu with more than one user, not to mention he has a bunch of ways to cheat himself in early, but the most common one is Leaf Headband.
Deck List:
0:
3x Rock Lee [Loopy Fist]
3x Messenger Ninja
3x Kisuke [Death?]
2x Sasuke [Solo Attitude]
1:
2x Ink Fish
1x Temari [Wind Scythe]
2x Naruto Uzumaki [Clone]
2:
1x Biscuit
1x Iruka [Strategic Placement]
2x Konohamaru Ninja Squad
1x Lee/Tortise Platoon
3:
3x Naruto Uzumaki [MTHT]
2x Jiraiya[Childhood]
4:
3x Might Guy [Passion]
6:
1x Fourth Hokage [Discard 2 Lightning Put him in play to Injure a Ninja]
Jutsu:
2x Naruto 2k Barrage
2x Explosion of the Rasengan
2x Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu [+6/+6 and unaffected by jutsus to Naruto or Jonin^]
2x Rasengan [either FP, WOF, The Block Super Rare or the Block Rare]
1x Giant Rasengan [A New Chronicle]
1x Nine Tails Cloak
Missions:
3x Leaf Headband
1x Sage's Training Ground
2x Four-Times Faster
2x Group Lesson
2x Messenger Ninjas
The Deck has a lot better removal than the 09k build for the most part, and it has a lot more jutsus that have multiple users, so its a lot easier to manage, but it still suffers the same Kinks as 09K.
These are a couple decks that are at least Semi-Competitive in the unlimited format, next time we'll be talking about the real meat of Unlimited, See you then!
-TurboTMoses Aka Kunoalpha
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