Towards the higher end, you have the Saiyan Saga Hero Start Deck, giving you over 50 cards based on Dragon Ball Z‘s first saga. You get the Super Rare Frieza, who leads the deck, and a selection of 30 cards that range from combat and events, which influence the tide of battle, and more passive cards like allies and setups, whose effects are more subtle. Costing around $20 including postage, this Frieza deck is a build based around the well-known, much maligned villain. If you’re nostalgic and want to start with something you know you’ll recognize, the Warriors Return Frieza deck is a strong deal right now.

Dragon Ball Z offers a variety of starter decks in the original wave, and the Dragon Ball Super version. Not only does this begin your collection, but you also get a rule-book, playmat, and some novelty tokens to use in-game. The Dragon Ball Best DecksĪs with any card game, the best place to start is with one of the boxed, pre-made decks. It’s not unlike the many fighting video games based on the property, just more strategic and, keenly, analog and collectible.

The first player with no life, or no cards left in their deck, loses. The thrust is that you play one of the many warriors from throughout the series, such as Goku, Vegeta, Frieza, and so on, and you use the cards in your deck to power them up and attack your opponent. Borrowing mechanics from Pokémon TCG and Magic: The Gathering, the Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super collectible card games are a compelling, fun way to play out battles as if they’d occur in the anime. That all being said, both the classic and current versions of the game are still worth looking into. That’s four iterations across two official relaunches in the span of 20 years, if you’ve lost count. In 2014, Panini remade the original game, leading to the Dragon Ball Super CCG in 2017, the version that’s still running today. After launching in 2000, the DBZ CCG ran until 2008, when it was replaced by the Dragon Ball CCG with revamped rules, which was discontinued shortly thereafter.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Dragon Ball Z collectible card game.

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