Deck Profile - Secret Ninjas (Outdated)

Like my Devil's Era (Creation Control) deck, this is another deck that attempts to utilize a certain mechanic available to a World and take it to the extreme. This time, we'll be heading over to Katana World. While there are multiple unique builds in Katana outside of the standard Ninja and Skull Warriors decks (like Water), I've been more interested in trying to get Secret Swords to work. They cost a lot of gauge and they require a lot of forethought, but each Secret Sword is really worth its weight in gold. 3 damage and the ability to negate an effect is incredibly powerful - it all just comes down to how you build and prepare for it.

This deck not only tries to catch your opponent with Secret Swords, but also constantly reuse Secret Swords in a massive counterfest. To complement this heavy-resource strategy, the only other cards we're running are gauge-ramp and stall-related. Essentially, you burn your opponent down until they have no choice but to step on your Secret Sword landmine, where you kill them off anyways. Win-win.

I'm sure there are a lot of skeptics out there, but rest assured - I actually based this deck off a real deck I saw my friend playing with moderate success. By streamlining some of the numbers and adding more resource engines, I think I've got it to the point where it does what it wants to do best.

Ninja

So many people are playing Ninjas wrong.

It's not that surprising to me, since the entire Katana World is built up around a high-knowledge high-skill level of play. You definitely can't do well just by slapping some cards together and playing by a general idea of field control and card advantage. Ninja decks have to go beyond that. To make the most of their superb prediction and highly advantageous traps, a player must be willing to consider every possibility and take calculated and intelligent risks. We're not talking about risks that can lose advantage if they fail. We're talking about risks that bait all but the smartest of opponents into continuing their predicted strategy. When a Ninja slips into the shadows, he forces the entire enemy army to waddle around like ducks, poking at every shadow out there.

Ninjas thrive on a non-optimal way of play. To them, field advantage and field control have entirely different meanings. Card advantage is gained not only from drawing extra cards but also from forcing your opponent to commit more cards than necessary. Ninja's start off relatively strong and increase their attrition as the game goes on. Sapping advantage like a leech, Ninjas force their opponents to die a slow, painful death all while waiting for the chance to strike. And when they strike, there can only be one acceptable outcome.

One slash. One kill.