Sakura Haruno Super Rare: Good or Bad?

[KamigawaChampion]

nara...the Sakura my friend ripped up had the correct wording. He misunderstood it.

My understanding is that the effect doesn't stack. If they wanted it to stack it would also say..."this boost lasts till the end of the game" or something of that nature. So, it's either +0/+0, +0/+1, or +0/+2. It will never become +0/+3 and up.

Also, when she's not with Genin Males...that boost drops. Therefore, it's not a permanent boost. So, as it goes up and down...it doesn't stack. It may never stack, unless errata is issued to say so otherwise.

[Jyoushiro]

If the boosts were permanent, she would get ninja blade coins like Rock Lee does.

[nara-shikamaru]

i wasnt saying permanent...
regardless if your genin ninja dont get killed you could have a team of genin with her at 8 without boosts.
id say logically to make her SR her effect would stack which would be a phenominal effect for her turn count, and until ruled otherwise i will play her so, and shes proved useful both times

[KamigawaChampion]

*sigh*

Let me try to clear things up a bit...

When I was talking about the +0/+0 (and so on) I was talking about the boost in general. Not the actual changed stat. She would become a 0/3 with a +0/+2 boost from having TWO Genin Males on the same team as her. She will never receive a +0/+3 boost...ever.

If you were talking about staking the effect, so she could become an 0/3 you would be right about that. But she would never reach 0/4 and up, which is probably where all the confussion was in all of those posts.

In short, yes the effect would stack up. Only making her a 0/3. It can't be stacked up so she can be higher than that during the same turn.

I can't be any more clearer than that.

[TheYellowFlashofKonoha]

There is not an official ruling on this card, please refrain from posting a ruling on it. Currently Sakura DOES NOT gain more than the single +0/+1 boost making her a 0/2 card.

As to the Gold rare, this card was not originally a gold rare in the Japanese set.. It was likely a starter deck card as Bandai has done with cards from prior translated sets. The card might not be overly powerful but it was with the other 2 of the team and they were being made gold rare so it would not make sense for her not to.

[KamigawaChampion]

Yellow...I wasn't making an official rulling on the card. I was clearing things up with regards to all the confussion posted before.

At most she will be a 0/3 (she won't pass that), we know that for a fact. That's if they say the effect stacks. People were posting a +0/+3 (and up) boost...she would only get a boost of +0/+2 at the max. That's what I was clearing up.

Yes, as the card stands...she'll work the same way as Ino would. Only giving her a +0/+1 boost. You would play her, like you would play Ino at this time...making the SR Sakura worse than Ino (as Ino gets a +1/+1 pump from opposing a Female Ninja).

The debate was if she could become a 0/3 from having Two Genin Males on the same team as her. In effect, it would be like saying Ino would get a +3/+3 pump from facing a three Female team on your opponents side of the field. So as a result, if they say Sakura stacks...Ino would stack as well. We know that Ino doesn't stack. So Sakura doesn't stack.

You'll also notice, that I mentioned "...talking about staking the effect, so she could become an 0/3 you would be right about that." Notice the would...I didn't say "could be right", nor "should be right"...I said he would be right. "Could" would be saying that I agree, "Should" would be a rulling, but "Would" is saying it's still up in the air. Read the post better next time Yellow, it would have saved me some time with this response.

[nara-shikamaru]

im sorry for my wording, by boosting i meant as in her with her effect would boost a lead ninja three as in her 0/+3 i didnt mean for it to sound like shed get her 0/+3 plus more. sorry if the confusion was my fault.

[KamigawaChampion]

It's okay nara. You're not the source of all the confusion.

The source of it all...is that little "a" on Sakura. The same can be said about Ino.

As I mentioned before, if they say that Sakura stacks...than Ino would stack. That would give Ino a huge +3/+3 boost if she faced three female ninja. That would make her "broken" as a turn 0 drop.

Since Ino's effect doesn't stack (for now) we have to play it like a +1/+1 boost when she faces any number of female ninja. The same can be said about Sakura, as she would only get +0/+1 at this time. I stress the "at this time" part of the last sentence.

[VermilionOne]

cool your jets people, I've re-submitted the question to Andrew Lupp. Also, remember that the Japanese rulings were made for the CCG as it appeared in Japan at the time the card was printed. The game has changed, and the rulings may change as well. Waving around "but in the JAPANESE GAME" doesn't mean anything here, this is the forum for the North American game; the rules people here don't go to the Japanese FAQ list, we go to the game designers.


Bandai selects it SRs to be useful, but not game breaking. Unlike Yu-Gi-Oh, a person why buys more does not necessarily get the super-duper WIN cards. For a collector, yes you'd want to get them all, for a player, you can survive without them.

If people degrade this thread into simply reiterating complaints and taking sarcastic pot-shots at each other, I am closing it down.

[KamigawaChampion]

I think all the arguing is over VOne. Altough I may be wrong.

I've made my points about Sakura, and tried to clean up a huge mess.

For now, all I can say is...we'll have to wait and see for the official ruling on Sakura.

'Nuff said about that.

Now to give the thread about a 180 degree turn...

Sakura...how good is she for your deck (if you're running her)?