The most recently revealed cards from G Extra Booster 2: The AWAKENING ZOO are a couple new Rares from Great Nature. On the one hand, we have a new Immortality Professor G Guardian and on the other, yet another panda. I hope no Great Nature fans out there hate pandas, because the panda train is going full blast and has no breaks.

First up, we have Immortality Professor, Sankalpa:

[G guardian] (Usable when both fighters’ vanguards are grade 3 or greater, and the number of face up G guardians in your G zone is three or less)-Opponent Turn’s Guard Step-[Choose a card with “Heal” from your hand, and discard it] Call this card to your (GC) from face down.

[AUTO]:[Counter Blast (1)] When this unit is placed on (GC), you may pay the cost. If you do, choose one of your rear-guards, that unit and your vanguard get [Power]+4000 until end of that battle for each of your circles without a unit. After that, if the chosen rear-guard’s [Power] is 20000 or greater, draw a card.

This is an interesting approach to take with a G Guardian. We have already seen something similar in design with Ardillo, but this takes the design in a more way by giving power based on your empty Rear Guard Circles. It can also net you a draw to recover the card you had to discard in order to G Guard in the first place. Another bonus is that with the optimal field of one Rear Guard and four open circles, Sankalpa provides the biggest single-card guard value Great Nature has had to date.

Unfortunately, there are a few downsides to this card. First and foremost, you are not always going to have a single Rear Guard in order to gain the 16k power boost. This card is obviously designed to be used with cards like Greybelly who help clear your field, but you will not always be able to kill everything off as efficiently as this card wants you to. In addition, Sankalpa costs a Counter Blast. This may not be the biggest deal since the new Bigbelly no longer uses a Counter Blast for his on-Stride skill and we have a decent number of cards that can Counter Charge for us, but it is still a solid drawback when you could instead be using that Counter Blast for Spangled in order to filter your hand for the combo pieces you need.

I can see this card potentially being run in some decks but overall, it feels like a card many will pass up.

Up next is Physical Action, Moache:

[AUTO](RC):Success 20000 (When your rear-guard’s [Power] becomes 20000 or greater, this unit becomes successful until end of turn)

[AUTO](RC)[1/Turn]:When this unit boosts, until end of turn, this unit gets “[AUTO]:When this unit is retired from (RC) during the end phase, draw a card. Then, if it is retired as successful, you may put this card on the bottom of your deck.”.

Here we have a card that proves further that Bushiroad has learned their lesson from the limitations of the timing of Greybelly. Moache gains his ability when he boosts, but the ability does not check to see if he is Successful until he is retired. This means that you will not miss the opportunity to use his skill if you boost with him before he becomes Successful. The nice thing about Moache is that he passively benefits from your retire skills. If you happen to use a skill that clears him from the board during the End Phase after you boosted with him, you will get that draw. You can also combat Great Nature’s mortal enemy – deckout – in a small way with Moache, though really all you are accomplishing is not further slimming down your deck from his own draw.

More than anything, I see potential in this card in an Honorary Professor deck. In Bigbelly decks, you often focus almost solely on buffing up one Rear Guard in order to perform powerful multi-attacks using that unit and various restanding skills. Because this power and the retires that tend to go with it generally get tacked on to a front row attacker, you may often find yourself without a way to efficiently remove Moache from the board to use his skill. However, Honorary Professor decks have Meilleur Chatnoir, a card that is going to nuke everything on your board no matter what. This means that not only is Moache a valuable booster, but you will receive something upon seeing him retired as he is not limited to being used only when you have a Bigbelly Vanguard.

What is true of Sankalpa is true of Moache as well: I can see some players using this card with reckless abandon and I can see others abandoning it.

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