Card-Jitsu Shadow

Card-Jitsu Shadow
The badge from the Nightfall Coat
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Players	Unknown
Controls	Unknown
Minigame location	Unknown
Date released	Unknown

“	Some have found the way to practice forgotten styles like Shadow... and Cheese	”
	— Sensei, issue 460 of the Club Penguin Times

Card-Jitsu Shadow was a theoretical game that could have been in Club Penguin. Due to the small black gem in the center of Amulets, rumors circulated about a "fourth" element, of shadow. At one point, the Club Penguin Team seemed to have began to consider making this game a reality, and came up with various ideas about it. While little official information relating to Card-Jitsu Shadow as a game has been given, multiple staff members have commented on it when asked.

Various ideas among staff for what the game could have been included a deck-building game (building a custom set of cards to play), and a twin-stick shooter (using one control stick to move and another to shoot, independent of movement).

It was not made into a real game before Club Penguin's shutdown in March 2017, and did not appear in any capacity in Club Penguin Island before it was discontinued.

Info on the game/element

On June 1, 2011, four items, forming a shadow-themed ninja suit, were added to Club Penguin's files: the Shade Sandals, Nightfall Coat, Midnight Mask, and Helmet of Shadows. None of these items could ever be obtained without cheating, but were originally planned to be available from a Card-Jitsu mobile port that ended up never being released. The items were added to the files roughly two weeks after the Club Penguin Trading Card Game – Card-Jitsu: Water Second Wave set of cards was released in stores. Codes from this set could have potentially unlocked any of four cards, themed around shadows. These four cards (all seen in the gallery below) did not have real-life card equivalents, unlike almost all other cards that appeared in online Club Penguin (the only other being the "Amulet Construction" card). One of these cards, a power card named "Mobile Fire Power Card 1", featured a penguin wearing the shadow-themed ninja suit. The animation of this power card caused the user to temporarily wear these items, while their shadow grew large and moved on its own, chasing away the opponent's shadow.

The shadow-themed suit

According to Polo Field, the Shadow ninja items were intended to be available through a canceled Card-Jitsu App.

In January 2013, when Spike Hike was asked if Card-Jitsu Shadow would be released, he responded with "Snow first" implying that if Shadow were to be released, it would not be until after Card-Jitsu Snow was (Snow was not released at this time). A few months later, shortly before Snow's release, when asked if Shadow was real, Spike Hike responded that it is "currently a rumor", but he "believes in it".

On April 23, 2014, Polo Field stated on Twitter that the Club Penguin Team was "not working on anything Card-Jitsu-related at the moment." However, a few days later during a Spike Saturday meet-up on April 26, 2014, Spike Hike mentioned that "Card-Jitsu Shadow will take a while". However, he may have meant "would" instead of "will".

A comic in issue 459 of the Club Penguin Times featured a Yellow Ninja Belt-wearing penguin claim there are more elements than fire, water, and snow. This prompts a Black Ninja Belt-wearing penguin, in surprise, to question if the penguin with the yellow belt "knows shadow", who instead remarks that they "know cheese". In the secrets section of next issue of the newspaper, issue 460, Sensei shared a list of five "secrets", asking for his students to discover which one of them is true. One of the claims is "Some have found the way to practice forgotten styles like Shadow... and Cheese".

In February 2015, a player visited Club Penguin's headquarters in Kelowna and conducted an interview with Polo Field. Polo stated that the Club Penguin Team "definitely want [to work on] Shadow", and they "have really, really good ideas for what [they] want Shadow to be". However, he stated that the team wanted to port the original Card-Jitsu game to mobile devices first. The mobile Card-Jitsu port never ended up releasing.

During a Megg Monday meet-up on July 18, 2016, after asking players for party suggestions, Megg passively stated "no shadow" in response to a player stating "SHADOW CARD JITSU!", although it is ambiguous whether she meant there would be no Shadow party, or no Card-Jitsu Shadow whatsoever.

Trivia

• When asked about the game during mascot meetups, Sensei commented "There might be Shadow some day" and "One Element at a time".
• Moderator Ninja once had an image of a penguin wearing Card-Jitsu Shadow items as his avatar on his Twitter account.
• At one point, shadow was conceptualized to not be an element, but rather reverse the other elements (such that fire would defeat water, etc).

Gallery

The "Mobile Fire 1" card; this and the following three cards are shadow-themed, and were unlockable from Second Wave code cards

The "Mobile Snow 1" card

The "Mobile Water 1" card

The "Mobile Fire Power Card 1" power card, which features a penguin wearing the shadow ninja suit

A penguin wearing the shadow ninja suit, seen in the animation for the "Mobile Fire Power Card 1" power card

Sensei commenting on it during the Hollywood Party

The comic in issue 459 of the Club Penguin Times, referencing shadow as an element

Sensei's list of claims relating to ninjas from issue 460 of the Club Penguin Times, with "penguins practicing shadow" listed as one of the possible truths

The special dance from the shadow suit set

The special wave from the shadow suit set

Video

*EXCLUSIVE* Shadow Ninja Power Card!

A video showing the "Mobile Fire Power Card 1" animation

Names in other languages

These names are conjectural, and are derived from a combination of their language's version of "Card-Jitsu (element)", as well as their language's translation of "Shadow" used in issues 459 and 460 of the Club Penguin Times.

Language	Name
Portuguese	Desafio Ninja Sombra
French	Card-Jitsu l’Ombre
Spanish	Card-jitsu Sombra
German	Card-Jitsu Schatten
Russian	Ниндзя-Карты Тени

See also

• Card-Jitsu (disambiguation)

External links

"Mobile Fire Power Card 1" card swfs

• Mobile Fire Power Card 1 (card image)
• Mobile Fire Power Card 1 (attack animation)
• Mobile Fire Power Card 1 (react animation)