In fact, unless a player purchased six starter decks and luckily-and-perfectly got the correct random card pools from those starters, that player is going to be buying booster packs. Most Dragon Ball Z players are not going to buy just one booster pack. The problem is that many players will own TOO MANY Level 1 Trunks. It's not cool that some of these cards are common, despite the fact that this means most DBZ players will have the chance to own these main personality cards. It's cool that you can open up main personality cards in the DBZ booster packs you purchase. More specifically, the main personality cards you can find in booster packs of Set 1: Trunks and Captain Ginyu.
But starter decks are still aggravating, and I'll get to why this is later. Each starter deck does come with a perfect set of Levels 1 through 4 of a random character. With the eight different main personalities to choose from with the first card set release of this reboot, and with a growing number of main personalities to add to the mix with the additional sets that are releasing, almost no one is going to require more than a handful of four-card sets of main pesronality cards.ĭBZ TCG cards are found in two different types of products: starter decks and booster packs.
With that, also, most folks only have a single deck to a handful of decks. This means each average DBZ TCG player only needs 1 of each of the level cards for each main personality. So, most people are going to have their one Vegeta deck, or their one Krillin deck. You cannot insert these personality cards into your deck - they sit outside of your deck. You only need one copy of each of these cards, but you always need one of each of, say, Level 1 Gohan, Level 2 Gohan, Level 3 Gohan, and Level 4 Gohan. In the DBZ TCG, every deck needs a set of four cards that represents Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 of a character, called a "main personality." This could be Goku, Frieza, Piccolo, etc. However, my beef is not with these crazily-rare cards. Cards of this scarcity only show up once in every 48 12-card booster packs. Those of you who are playing this DBZ reboot already know about the "ultra rare" card rarity.
Panini is screwing up with card rarities. However, there's one thing that really bends creases into my metaphorical cardboard. This is an awesome thing made even more awesome that group of friends of mine, which includes the same high school friends, started playing this reboot.
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UPDATE : Read Part 2 of this post: The Uncommon Solution of Panini's DBZ TCGīaseball-card maker Panini rebooted the Dragon Ball Z TCG, a trading card game that I played during high school lunches a decade or so ago.