Notes & Combos

So I found this Noble Knight Shield-Bearer tech that's starting to catch on with other Ninjas (ran into a guy from Japan running it randomly lol). At first glance it doesn't seem like a card that would go in Ninjas, but it searches a wind beast from deck. And who's a wind beast? Our goodest boy, Baku. This triggers his special summon effect, so Shield-Bearer effectively becomes emergency teleport for ninjas.

The great thing about this is it's always useful. Turn 1, it's an extender, giving you an extra body to fuse or link with, and on your second turn, Baku's effect to return a card to your hand from grave makes great recovery plays with Hanzo. Top decking a shield bearer alone can often be enough to win you the game.

I also added Hop ear as a search target since it's nice with Meizen and Jioh. Meizen goes into Accel, into satelitte warrior with 2 pops. If you do this after triggering Meizen's effect and summoning Jioh, you've effectively dealth with FOUR of their cards. It's very strong when you get it off and will often win you the game single handedly. Though it never came up for me, in desperate times you can also use hop ear with Mitsu or Green Ninja to make Arc light for an extra negate on the opponent's turn.

Forbidden droplet is also a nice tech in this deck. Since you discard for the cost, you can easily get back what you discarded with shield bearer into baku, generating tons of value and giving ninjas options to deal with boards going second.

Try it out and let me know how you like it!