This game feels more and more like a card game as you learn about it.

So we have ninjas with Sorcery speed, ninjas with Instant speed, and there's a priority system of first in first out that can bog down the rest of your casts even if they have higher Initiative.

Course there's a trick to getting around that... delaying casts and waiting for the proper timing. My jutsu won't get delayed if I wait to activate your jutsu until I've finished mine.

Understanding cast order also matters in PVP because it lets you accomplish hidden jutsu. If you know the timing of when the cast will occur, you can hold off on queuing the cast until the last possible moment so it appears to just come out of nowhere. This helps against control and interrupt ninja attempting to shutdown your jutsu. Sometimes you might even WANT to wait until after all the ninja attack so your jutsu moves to the next round. This is someone like Gaara can do a "Surprise" Desert burial.

:lol

That just means Prompt isn't an absolute, it's a bonus to Initiative.

Yeah same, but the problem with that is some players won't cast any jutusu at the start. Then you waste your interrupt and THEN they cast the jutsu. You can cast a jutsu at any point during your turn. :lol