Now that all the Gen Con 2013 Tournament Videos are up, it’s finally time to get 2014 started. The first few events have already been announced, our rooms and events for Gen Con 2014 are booked and now it’s time to start rolling out the new Virtual Cards for 2014. It seems almost like a tradition to always start the year with a new 1-4 personality, so here’s one of the last movie villains (at least of the Retro Era) to get their time in the sun (seriously, does the mindless Hirudegarn even count?).
At the request of the tournament organizer, these cards are not legal for the North Kai Championships.
This big guy starts creating his own zone and starts warping attacks in and out of them, just like in the movie! He depends on the use of a Mastery and Endurance, so no Non-Tokui Waza decks for this guy. The cards he stores in the “Janemba Zone” are neither in play or removed from the game, they are just in their own little world.
Another thing of note is that Janemba joins Majin Buu in being affected by the “Overpower Rule” since he starts in the “D” power bracket on the Physical Attack Chart. Unless you are up against another Janemba or Majin Buu, Janemba is going second in the match.
Janemba continues to build on his Level 1 Constant Combat Power all the way up through Level 4. We wanted him to get off the impish Level 1 ASAP so we gave him a leveling up power, but we didn’t want it spammed for a cheap Most Powerful Personality Victory so we took away his ability to use Advanced Basics.
Also note the seldom used purple border, indicating that Janemba is indeed a Celestial Fighter (for the one card that even affects).
Tune in later this week for the rest of Janemba, as well as some support cards for him. Later, BroZ!
So Janemba is technically a hero?
I mean use hero cards since the rule book says celestial can use them I believe?
After checking the CRD, it does say that, so it will be updated to follow the alignment of the card itself. Thanks for the catch.
Cool beans. He’s super good, doesn’t need any other advantages.
Really like where this is going. Basically “build around me – endurance style”.
why do i have a feeling that this dude is going to be a problem? …he’s straight beef.
Should check out the Facebook page for the community and read all 185+ comments about it. Most people aren too happy about it. He’s quite powerful and almost broken, on level two access to two black right kicks every combat is pretty bonkers.
Should also say that we’re also thinking of options to help balance him. It’s not all complaining.
I don’t want to say that I don’t like him yet, but I was hopping for some thing else from this guy, maybe even some sword styling combat from him. I just have to wait and see the next two levels first.
The current levels plus Red Sword Cleave make an excellent Red Sword deck. With Red Sword Cleave, every attack in your deck could be considered Sword for Trunks Sword Slice. And you can Sword Cleave every turn. Sword Cleave, Sword Slice, Red Axe Heel Kick GG.
I would personally clarify him so that RFG cards aren’t tutors back with his powers. Cards like Last Ditch Effort would make him impossible to beat using a standard beatdown deck otherwise.
Or even worse, you could tutor for Energy Lob, then Lob every turn, potentially twice a turn for the rest of the game.
NVM, Read him wrong about using cards with endurance, but I’m still looking, lol.
Should have stronger power levels.
I have a feeling this is going to get abused. I think it would be a little more balanced if his level 1 power has you remove a card in your hand from the game to grab a card from under your mastery.
Really cool idea! Seems really strong and potentially in need of some balance. Awesome card, hope to try and make my own deck with this guy!
ok, after some additional research — this guy is broken. level 1 needs to be nerfed.