Card Release 01

Just a few thoughts about the upcoming new cards for June 01 starring Law and and Xiaoyu. These can be seen at the official Tekken Card Tournament site.

New Cards

• Wolf Fang: 22 Damage, Kick, Before the attack, Strike: Opp cards nul. & Opp -15 Prot

This card is amazing, it's the answer to all those Lili Parry decks out there. It has good damage and an amazing effect that destroys abilities that occur before the attack. As for abilities that occur after the attack, Law has plenty of cards in his current arsenal that deal with that. Literally a "Poison Arrow" 2.0 with better damage, easier to activate ability and a better ability.

• Dragon Roar: 20 Damage, Punch, Before the attack, Opp cards = 5: Opp 5th card -60 Hit

Sounds like a decent defensive card which Law is in need of, pushes opponents to strike with 4 cards or less. Decent hit for a Law card. Works great if the card appears the same time as opponents 5th card. Not sure what happens when facing Paul's SR Power Card. I think it becomes a 20 hit card with a useless effect. The only thing is, I don't think a lot of players would 5 card strike a Law since Law has many strong cards that activate when opponent has more cards than none.

• Flash Fist: 24 Damage, Punch, After the attack, Focus: Both -1 card & +10 HP

Good damage, a heal that Law can control. Allows law to cycle his cards around and keeps the opponent on their feet. Extremely dangerous when in position 5 for the opposition, kind of like Trout Sweep in this case (since Law's 5 cards can potentially kill a lot of characters), fortunately this occurs only when this card is in position 5 and it is unique.

• Rainbow Kick: 15 Damage, Kick, After the attack, This card appears & Cards ≤ 2: +2 cards

Card that vastly increases the speed of Law's deck. Not sure if focusing with 2 cards and the 3rd card appearing is Rainbow Kick, triggers the effect, or if it only occurs when focusing with 0 or 1 card(s). In order to maximize the potential of this card in your deck, strike with 1-2 cards. If this card ever pops up, it will extremely put you in the lead. Synergizes well with the other new card, Flash Fist. Upgrading from silver to gold is not very attractive.

• Phoenix Tail: 10 Damage, Kick, After the attack, Opp Focus Break: +1 card & +25 HP

This card is like Hypnotist (10 Hit, Opp Strike: +25 Protection) except, it heals (which I think is better) and it gives you the card that you lost from focusing. Seeing as how Xiaoyu's only block when the opponent has 5 cards, I think this will boost Xiaoyu up the Tier more so. If combined with Hypnotist, Xiaoyu really has the perfect defense, can probably focus facing 5 card Opponent, lol.

• Street Sweeper: 10 Damage, Kick, After the attack, Opp cards ≥ 4: Opp -2 cards

This card has an extremely powerful ability. This card forces the opponent to strike at 3 or 4 cards, it makes the opponent predictable (they will most likely strike with 4 cards if this card just appeared) and offers gives Xiaoyu the card advantage more so if they do not strike.

• Wave Crest: 10 Damage, Punch, Before the attack, Strike: Opp -1 Parry & Opp -50 Prot

Good card to battle the parries of Lili, and the Protection of Panda. Unfortunately it doesn't add to Xiaoyu's card speed which is what makes her powerful. Would rather much have draw speed and Phoenix Talon (below).

• Phoenix Talon: 10 Damage, Kick, After the attack, Block: Both -5 cards & +5 HP

A card that just poops on Trout Sweeper, or any Heal per turn cards. The downside to this card is it puts Xiao at 0 cards, which is where a Xiaoyu never wants to be. Fortunately, you can activate the ability by blocking and take any card advantage that the opponent has. Don't bother upgrading from bronze to gold.

Conclusion

Law gets some pretty damn good cards. The new cards should boost Law's fighting capabilities to a more competitive level. Looking forward to what Law can dish out now and hopefully many players who've been hording gold will switch over to Law so I can see more Law activity during the championship.

Xiaoyu gets beast cards that were not really needed (I think). I would imagine Xiaoyu's going to be amongst the top of the Online WW Championship for this week.

I wish they gave something to Kazuya or Yoshimitsu. Those 2 characters I feel are at the bottom of the list in terms competitive play. In the last Online WW Championship, at 1290 rating, I rarely ran into Kazuya or Law and almost never ran into Yoshimitsu. Probably being biased but, hope they buff Yoshimitsu =]