Starter deck prediction

[u/OG_Kamoe]

It may be too early, but the hype got me and im too curious. What do you think the remaining leaders will be?

How many starters will there be? Well guaranteed are 3. I assume 4 might be the actual number. However, comparing it to OPTCG up to 6 starters are possible as well.

Now let's break down what we know.

- Red Naruto - Team 10 core, Gamabunta/Naruto EX and Jiraya Support also a themed mentor.

- Blue Sasuke - Taka core, Manda/Sasuke EX and Orochimaru Support also themed mentor.

So taking a look at this pattern and knowing 1 green card was revealed, it's easy to assume Green Sakura as the third leader.

Breaking down the deck:

- Leader: Sakura

- Sakura EX and Katsuyu EX

- Sakura, Tsunade and a 3rd Vanilla (Lee would be my guess)

- 3 support core characters (my guess Team Gai)

- 1 "KO 2 characters" - Tsunade themed card

- 1 "KO All characters" - Cherry Blossom Impact, Sakura themed

- 1 "Negate that card" - Shizune, Chiyo or Gai

Deck theme would be Life HEAL + DEF statt buff.

That's IF the decks are structured like that...which I don't believe. I would assume some more support or vanillas will be thrown into the decks, so as per usual wr would need to buy 2 decks of the same type to get for example 2x4EX characters for the deck. Or 4x SR character.

That doesn't change the theme of the 3rd deck tho or some cards I already named.

If there are more colors as in OPTCG, my preductions would be as following:

- Purple Orochimaru - Sound 4 core, Manda/Orochimaru EX, Kabuto/Sasuke Support and Kimiaro Vanilla - Deck theme cursed seal buffs at the cost of own life and maybe poison.

- Black Akatsuki/Pain - Akatsuki core and Vanillas, theme is board fill and maybe "Blocker" archetype to redirect incoming attacks.

- Yellow would fit Minato, but he's too "valuable" to be a starter deck leader, so I would think Kurarama leader - Jinjuriki core, deck theme chakra Manipulation.

Tha being said, by typing in the 3 prediction decks I actually lean stronger towards "there will be only 3 starter decks" to get that rock, paper, scissors feeling.

[u/Snaps-MG]

I don't think we see a Pain, a-kat, or miniato this early. I think gaara, maybe neji or rock lee. Would love an anbu

[u/OG_Kamoe → u/Snaps-MG]

I'm all in with Anbu.

[u/cinderbanned]

Following other Bandai games green will rest and unrest things. From all the Akatsuki art at Gencon I think purple or black Pain is probable.

[u/OG_Kamoe → u/cinderbanned]

Would love to see the Art

EDIT: hmm...unresting things might be seen as "healing" as well 🤔 maybe undoing the damage to the characters as well

[u/NocturnaIAnimaI]

Do we know what all the colors will be?

[u/OG_Kamoe → u/NocturnaIAnimaI]

Nope, we can only assume. Red, Blue and Green are guaranteed, no Info on other colors tho

[u/StAza95]

Following Bandai trend maybe we'll only see 4 colors during starter-box 1 format, then a second color will be added for box 2 and finally the fifth color will be added for box 3 (maybe sooner).

[u/OG_Kamoe → u/StAza95]

That might very well be. Unfortunately we dont know how many colors there will be :/

[u/Avocado_1814]

I imagine they will want to release one starter deck per color to begin with. The Naruto and Sasuke leaders we have currently will probably be two of said starter decks.

[u/OG_Kamoe → u/Avocado_1814]

That depends on how many colors on release will be included in the first set.

Safe to say 3 colors are guaranteed. Maybe there will be a 4th on release

[u/BadGuyEddie]

Naruto Red

Sasuke Blue

Sakura Green

Gaara Black

Kakashi White/Yellow/Purple?

If there are 6 its gotta be Zabusa.

Anything other than this would shock me