Got them in for my tournaments and thought I'd let other know.

Faithful Bodyguard

2/5

Foundation

[Earth, Good, Life]

E destroy this foundation, discard 1 character card: Reduce this attack's damage to 1.

White Crane*

[Chaos, Life, Water]

6HS 27Life

F discard X face down cards in your card pool: If the next card you play this turn is an attack, it gets +X speed. Only playable once per turn.

R Commit, discard 1 momentum: After your opponent play an attack with at least 2 keywords, discard it from their card pool and cancel its effects.

Horray Lu Chen's support got a little more useful! (that and multiples) Thanks White Crane!

I don't like the look of that Faithful Bodyguard... Especially when life already has Flexible Body...

Nekuro said:

Why? You have to destroy it and ditch a character which is most cases would just be better to block with. It's only really good against Throws and Hilde and requires you to add characters to your deck otherwise it will just be a blank foundation if you don't have one in your hand. It's a good card but Right now I see no point in running it.

Also a whole crapload of 4 point cards once again. I just don't know what to say about this...We are stockpiling 4 point crap at this point and my owner wants to know if he should just toss it out =/

Sol Badguy said:

AGAINST HILDE YOU SAID?!?

Look carafully... it has good. Hilde can use it to kill you more than you using it against her. It's an E, nothing prevent them from pumping it again after.... Hilde specially. Another card Hilde can abuse.

Cass said:

It doesn't matter how many cards she gets Paid to protect and faithful bodygaurd own her.

Paid to Protect really adds more to Hilde on her side than it takes away across the table. Siren's Call laughs at it, and it's way easier to play Pommel Smash on your turn than Hilde's :]

Faithful bodygaurd hurts Hilde more than it helps. It does help 'good' Hilde's but requires damage pump to start to be really useful and perhaps a little too much setup (addition of character cards in a good character deck is more clunky than it's worth)...

That's all I got to say. Our buddy has had a White Crane deck for the past 2 weeks (his lovely cardboard proxy that is) and it works really nifty with Lu Chen's action...

Once Water is developed she will be quite competitive I imagine.

- dut

if you dont want all the 4 point support you are getting send it to jasco to add to support for the Pro Tour stuff, we will be doing legacy stuff and would use it as support for that...

Deck dont matter said:

Remember the last one shot enhance that reduced an attacks damage to 1? Yes you have to pitch a character, but a lot of decks run characters these days anyways for the block. I'm not saying it's as bad as Rejection, but if there's a way to recur foundations coming up at some point in the future, I could see this potentially being a problem

at least they arent gaining 3 health afterwards...plus its a bit expensive to play, it can also be blanked (cant blank cards in a hand) and stunned down. Or just commited due to a flurry of attacks preceding the attack they must reduce.

B-Rad said:

tannerface said:

Goddammit Tanner, stop breaking cards.

Sol Badguy said:

I play Hilde, that's part of why I don't like the card But seriously, the card DID remind me of Rejection, that's why I worry about it. Although Hayamachop is right, it can be shut down, but I still don't like the look of it ^^

tannerface said:

Tanner I love you so much <3

Someone git me Omar! I needs a copy of his card

tannerface said:

So what you're saying is that Omar broke a card before it even came out?

MegaGeese said:

Possibly, its off of earth and earth already has DR and other control cards to work with so i really dont want to play against that deck

Plus Omar already wants to run characters so he can recur whatever he wants

Heihachi is also going to have a field day with Bodyguard. Mix Earth and Chaos, and run G-Corp Leader. gives you the option of taking 3 damage instead of whatever they pumped it up to. Add in the mandatory Man Behind the Mask in any Earth Heihachi deck, and welcome back, Earth Wall.

-Tinman

Tinman said:

You forget of The Hunt is On to never run out of characters ever. I know that Spinning Demon helps in that regard but still.

hunt doesnt share symbols wtih bodyguard does it?

Hayamachop said:

no it doesnt thankfully but im sure somebody will find a way to dual-symbol a deck and run them both

Da_ghetto_gamer said:

ssssssshhhhhhh.......

its pretty hard to dual symbol right now with lil Chaos/Earth out there and running characters means more dead draws. but im working on it

Dueling Chaos and Earth is not too hard. Manaical Laughter, Mishima Family Bloodline, Double Face Kick, Boxing Is Life all share the symbols. Loop in some Ragnar support for Fire/Earth chaining, and it is really not that hard for Heihachi to make it work.

-Tinman