Been experimenting with Leona builds a bit. This is the Earth version I came up with at work on Saturday, and so I put it together and played it yesterday, with a good deal of success.

Characters: 0 + 1
1x **Leona**

Actions: 7
4x Tag Along
3x Genocide (CUTTAH)

Assets: 2
2x Assassination Arts

Attacks: 11
4x Close Throw
4x Monster Lariat
3x Sardine's Beach Special

Foundations: 48
4x Blinding Rage
4x Inhuman Perception
4x Program Malfunction
4x The Glare from the Abyss
3x Ka Technique
3x Revenant's alling
3x Stand Off
3x The King of Fighters 2006
3x Torn Hero
3x The Ways of Punishment
2x Battle Prowess
2x Blood-Stained Fate
2x Cutting Edge
2x Distractible
2x Dormant for Millions of Years
2x Holding Ground
2x Hulking Brute

Sideboard:
3x Criminal Past (forgot for the mainboard until ten minutes before and couldn't work it in well)
3x Lynette's Shop
2x Will for the Fight

The sideboard was just made up of cards that didn't make the mainboard, but I think I'd swap out Distractible for Criminal Past, easily.

The deck works well enough - mostly tanking like a mother until Sardine goes bam with Genocide. Close Throw with Genocide is amusing, and ProMal combos nicely with it as well. Several tech cards for random situations, like Blood-Stained and Dormant. Originally, Glare and Rage were in more for the 6-checks than anything else, but the full hand strip is an extremely effective tool as well. They also work nicely as spam, as originally intended.

At any rate, the deck walls well enough that the lowest Leona's vitality dropped was 7, barring the one game she lost to Kuzuryu Reppa silliness, making the low vitality a non-issue. She's played more for her handsize and check-preview ability than anything, though the one time her ability did go off, it was on what would have been a fatal Close Throw (was already 8 damage - had I enhanced with my three Stand Offs like I was going to do, hoping I'd flip an attack, but decided not to in case it WASN'T...would have been 37 damage ;_; ).

With that said, methinks Sagat will play this deck a bit better, given his ability to tutor like mad, thus giving up the foundations for Genocide. Then I pound away with Tiger Fury instead of Sardine's, as there were two matches where my opponent was so far behind in the building game that a turn three Sardine's was only getting +5 on its own pump. One of my opponent's scooped a match because I was using Close Throw -> Ka Technique to blank out Red Lotus and Torn Hero, then committing his board down with Program Malfunction.

It's not bad, but I think I like the Fire version more.

But then again, this is mostly just preparation for King...