Well sadly you were right and Bandai pulled the license. I hope our local group continues to play but I assume interest will trail off. Best of luck with your local group and hope you guys continue to play and have fun.
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If we had known that Panini only had a 3 year contract with the license before Bandai pulled the plug from them then nobody would've even bothered to pick it up since this further proves that the Dragon Ball franchise in general is nothing more than a scam to cash in on nostalgia. Look at the levels of absurdity that Toei is getting away with for Dragon Ball Super in Japan and compare that to how Panini played us for fools only because we were gullible enough to believe that they'd learn from Score's shortcomings with the old game but they never did since they knew something we didn't and kept it a secret all this time until now.
I don't hate Dragon Ball I just hate what it's become nowadays where companies are taking advantage of the franchise and IP solely for profit instead of giving the fanbase and communities a high quality product as it's still relatively niche compared to Star Wars. There's no love or passion for Dragon Ball anymore since it's all about money and If Bandai thinks they can try to win us over again with a new Dragon Ball Trading Card Game / Collectible Card Game just to promote a half-assed anime series here in the States that was made over a hissy fit of a 2009 Hollywood adaptation then they must think we're dumb enough to fall for the same trick twice.
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Just like last time, there's no way anyone is going to play the Bandai game. It will be extremely over simplified and target kids buying trading cards in big stores like Walmart. It will be dead within a year and never have any tournament or organized play support, guaranteed. Like you said it's just another fast money grab with Super is new.
Sadly they probably stand to make more money in the long run if they stick with Panini, since this game actually has a real fanbase and organized play to keep it going. But as a major corporation they just see it as promotional material for the show, like posters or t-shirts.
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When you think about it it all makes sense, Sets 2-4 were complete dumpster fires, Dragon Ball IC Carddass started September 2015 in Japan, Set 5 came out in late February 2016 as it was the first set to "turn the game in the right direction" via what was in retrospect power creep. It was needed to finally clear out the Big Three (MTG, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!) from a player perspective but given the subsequent sets and what happened the motives are rather obvious.
They were counting down the days until Dragon Ball IC Carddass made it's way to North America by maximizing their profits for each subsequent set via making the most current set necessary knowing they just couldn't have it on the side as a stream of profits since adding in 6 Ultra Rares in Set 7 was a last resort cash grab before going under with the Spheres being the straw that broke the camel's back due to the dumb decision to print them at Ultra Rare in Premiere Set.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
I will definitely say that set 7, in retrospect, definitely has the feel of a final set. From the extra URs to the obviously broken Goku mp stack it was just a huge download of every remaining idea they had.
At the moment I'm mostly annoyed that they didn't have the decency to announce the obvious demise sooner, not to mention their choice to completely abandon organized play immediately. Pretty *****ty not to give out the final promos and support store with some final tournament kits.
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You have to remember there were 15 jank and unplayable MP stacks in the game with the exception of those that recently made top cut at events. Cell, Namekian Knowledge Mastery, Black Smoothness Drill, Wall Breaker, Android #20, and Unleashed were all broken and when the game first debuted back in 2014 Saiyan and Red were both jank. No amount of community support to help revive this game again will make it any more balanced than it once was while the least that Panini can do is have the opportunity to change and update existing cards through a final CRD update even though the credibility they once had as a "gaming" company is forever lost.
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"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Game devs announced they are going to do online sets, starting with Celestial Games in Feb. Not sure how I feel about this, although I guess it's free so I can't complain. If it encourages people to continue to play and run tournaments I guess there's no harm in it.
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RetroDBZCCG is pushing Eternal Format in "Fan Z" hard because the majority of people on RetroDBZCCG invested thousands of dollars into Panini Z and now they're trying to get as much money out of their cards before they realize nobody's going to be playing this format because they're trying to purposely divide the community by taking advantage of an imaginary Secondary Market that no longer exists for a game that was recently discontinued.
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"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Thanks for the link. It's not just RetroDBZ who will support this though. Lots of people have a major investment in this game and would benefit from continuing some sort of organized play. I think it's better for the game to die organically due to lack of interest instead of allowing Bandai to arbitrarily kill it.
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"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
The Fusion format was created by 2015 Panini Z World Champion Tim Batow where as the Legacy format was created by a friend of mine who was dissatisfied with Tim Batow's format by wanting to add GT. Batow's Fusion format is actually maintained by the DBZTopTier community which you can find here:
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Black Devious and Red Enraged remain frozen except for Saiyan Empowered, Namekian Knowledge, Blue Protective, and Orange Adaptive.
Non-visible game zone clause - Whenever a card moves to a non-visible game zone (such as a player’s hand
or Life Deck), it ceases to resolve any remaining sentences/effects. Similarly, you would cancel any
referential floating effects that target a card that has moved into a non-visible game zone.
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"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Saw those. I'm glad to have set 1 Saiyan master back since Dynamic isn't nearly as good with Broly. I think it's lame that they are essentially permanently banning set 1 red and black (although my group isn't going to bother honoring the frozen list). They did say in the blog that they would consider ways to unfreeze the remaining masteries, whatever that means.
Speaking of Broly, I took 6th out of 17 players at the local ARG yesterday with Dynamic Broly. This was my first and likely only tournament for Panini DBZ.
Rnd 1 Retribution Vegeta - L
I makes several play mistakes due to early jitters, including not having him lose stages when advancing to lvl 2. He wins by anger victory right as I'm getting my bearings.
Rnd 2 Tag Team Gohan - W
This is relatively even thanks to Ox King for a while until I get Saiyan Targeting attached and his drill can't mill me anymore. I have a combat with a Face Crusher into Saiyan Grab, into Elbow Drop to close out the game.
Rnd 3 Ascension Yamcha - W
He's outmatched the whole game and somewhat nervous about the match-up in general. I get rid of Puar early and stay on lvl 2 to control his setups. He can't get out of the gates and dies from 3 mediocre combats on my end. Very nice guy but his nerves got the better of him (he chose not to end combat several times for some reason).
Rnd 4 Dynamic Goku - W
His deck was the usual with Dballs and tried to reuse the card drawing Dballs via the Saiyan energy attack I can't remember the name of. He's beating me soundly off of Kaio Ken advancing to 4 early, and gets a bad break when he Confrontations and I reveal Saiyan Tantrum to steal Namek Dball 3. This takes my totally awful hand and replaces it with Face Crusher, Unleashed and Time. I Unleashed to 4 and dump him to 1 where he stays for the rest of the game and finish up the next combat when he can't draw a physical stop and I dump 4 or 5 physicals on him with no prevention or endurance. His deck was good but seemed like it was lacking real damage output. It was relying on lots of combats and trying to grind out the game with energies. He's polite but understandably salty about losing to Unleashed when he was ahead by about 30 cards.
Top 8 Retribution Broly - L
My knowledge of the Orange matchup is extremely bad so I go hard early with a first turn Saiyan Body Blow into Unleashed to get to lvl 4. After that we have 5 combats where I never draw more than 1 attack and I get slowly beat down while he advances. I'll call this a little bad luck, a good opponent, and a total lack of understanding the matchup. He eventually goes on to the finals against Ascension Vegeta and I think he might have won the whole tournament.
Had a great time, got a top 8 playmat and some packs that didn't have anything good in them. My opponents were all very nice and I would gladly play again if my local store holds the events since ARG says they will continue to support the game.
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Frieza, Resident of HFIL - Level 1: The cost to advance a personality level is too high when it would've been better If the Named cards were discarded instead of being banished to allow Frieza's Supernova to still check them. Unfortunately this Level 1 doesn't have a CONSTANT which means his Premiere Set Level 3 doesn't gain any benefit from it which pigeonholes you into Golden Frieza decks with cards that set you back down to Level 1 because natural anger (which Premiere Set Frieza Level 1 already suffers from).
King Cold, Caught Off Guard - Level 1 Ally: Definitely makes up for Frieza's new Level 1 being lackluster due to de-levers like Unleashed but not enough to push him to Tier 1 due to being pigeonholed in Blue Tag Team builds and even then you want to open the game with Cooler Ally to prevent your opponent's MP from advancing a personality level. His parenthetical text does add value to Frieza and Cooler's Supernova so I'll give him credit for that while I probably would've preferred If the Named card rejuve wasn't a HIT effect.
Android #16, Focused - Level 1: Doesn't quite push aggressive MPPV as much as Roshi while not providing as much control as Drawku and Gohan. He's obviously busted in Red Enraged which will never be legal again while bouncing between Level 1 and Level 2 in Red Ascension and Red Ruthless could be interesting to say the least while his Level 3 and Level 4 are still relatively lackluster. It's a shame that the Non-visible game zone clause makes him not as playable as he was in Blue Protective let alone the potential he probably could've had in Blue Resolute.
Android #17, Entertained - Level 1: Instant POWER is solid against Drawku, not much else to say really.
Android #18, Prepared - Level 2: A lot more flexible compared to her Evolution Level 2 by allowing you to filter your draws as a means of putting high endurance cards on top of your Life Deck similar to Premiere Set Trunks' MP stack while also netting you anger, ally, and Dragon Ball control in the process not to mention the fact that the damage mods off of running her in Orange Adaptive now that it's unfrozen could be really solid. There's also rumors that she's going to be getting a new Named card in this set as well.
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"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Looks like the McBride brothers finally caved in and decided to put the final nail in the coffin for this game and all it's properties for good by shutting down DBZTopTier thus discontinuing both the Fusion format created by Tim Batow and Fan Z altogether which is a shame since I would've liked to have seen Fan Z take off aside from getting a Fusion format deck put together just for fun.
As for the Legacy format that my friend created that nobody wanted to play because of GT power creep, we're currently in the process of buying out an old Score Z/GT Collection from a friend of ours before he moves to Florida soon and he's asking $120 for the whole collection since he got burned on trading Force of Will TCG for it due to the game currently on it's death bed.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Future Gohan's MP stack for Fan Z is really good since he punishes players from using the effects of personality cards including Allies, not sure what King Kai and Pikkon will have in store for us though.
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"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
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"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
I like future gohan for sure. He's really good with Gohan's backlash to jump up and get extra attacks or shut down the opponent's hand. His level 3 is really brutal considering how common active card powers are.
Hopefully Pikkon gets a nice stack since he's been a running joke in my group since he came out in score z.
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I don't hate Dragon Ball I just hate what it's become nowadays where companies are taking advantage of the franchise and IP solely for profit instead of giving the fanbase and communities a high quality product as it's still relatively niche compared to Star Wars. There's no love or passion for Dragon Ball anymore since it's all about money and If Bandai thinks they can try to win us over again with a new Dragon Ball Trading Card Game / Collectible Card Game just to promote a half-assed anime series here in the States that was made over a hissy fit of a 2009 Hollywood adaptation then they must think we're dumb enough to fall for the same trick twice.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
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"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Sadly they probably stand to make more money in the long run if they stick with Panini, since this game actually has a real fanbase and organized play to keep it going. But as a major corporation they just see it as promotional material for the show, like posters or t-shirts.
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They were counting down the days until Dragon Ball IC Carddass made it's way to North America by maximizing their profits for each subsequent set via making the most current set necessary knowing they just couldn't have it on the side as a stream of profits since adding in 6 Ultra Rares in Set 7 was a last resort cash grab before going under with the Spheres being the straw that broke the camel's back due to the dumb decision to print them at Ultra Rare in Premiere Set.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
At the moment I'm mostly annoyed that they didn't have the decency to announce the obvious demise sooner, not to mention their choice to completely abandon organized play immediately. Pretty *****ty not to give out the final promos and support store with some final tournament kits.
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"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
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RetroDBZCCG is pushing Eternal Format in "Fan Z" hard because the majority of people on RetroDBZCCG invested thousands of dollars into Panini Z and now they're trying to get as much money out of their cards before they realize nobody's going to be playing this format because they're trying to purposely divide the community by taking advantage of an imaginary Secondary Market that no longer exists for a game that was recently discontinued.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Current Decks
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GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
http://dbztoptier.com/forums/index.php/topic/7478-welcome-to-the-fusion-format/
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
referential floating effects that target a card that has moved into a non-visible game zone.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Speaking of Broly, I took 6th out of 17 players at the local ARG yesterday with Dynamic Broly. This was my first and likely only tournament for Panini DBZ.
Rnd 1 Retribution Vegeta - L
I makes several play mistakes due to early jitters, including not having him lose stages when advancing to lvl 2. He wins by anger victory right as I'm getting my bearings.
Rnd 2 Tag Team Gohan - W
This is relatively even thanks to Ox King for a while until I get Saiyan Targeting attached and his drill can't mill me anymore. I have a combat with a Face Crusher into Saiyan Grab, into Elbow Drop to close out the game.
Rnd 3 Ascension Yamcha - W
He's outmatched the whole game and somewhat nervous about the match-up in general. I get rid of Puar early and stay on lvl 2 to control his setups. He can't get out of the gates and dies from 3 mediocre combats on my end. Very nice guy but his nerves got the better of him (he chose not to end combat several times for some reason).
Rnd 4 Dynamic Goku - W
His deck was the usual with Dballs and tried to reuse the card drawing Dballs via the Saiyan energy attack I can't remember the name of. He's beating me soundly off of Kaio Ken advancing to 4 early, and gets a bad break when he Confrontations and I reveal Saiyan Tantrum to steal Namek Dball 3. This takes my totally awful hand and replaces it with Face Crusher, Unleashed and Time. I Unleashed to 4 and dump him to 1 where he stays for the rest of the game and finish up the next combat when he can't draw a physical stop and I dump 4 or 5 physicals on him with no prevention or endurance. His deck was good but seemed like it was lacking real damage output. It was relying on lots of combats and trying to grind out the game with energies. He's polite but understandably salty about losing to Unleashed when he was ahead by about 30 cards.
Top 8 Retribution Broly - L
My knowledge of the Orange matchup is extremely bad so I go hard early with a first turn Saiyan Body Blow into Unleashed to get to lvl 4. After that we have 5 combats where I never draw more than 1 attack and I get slowly beat down while he advances. I'll call this a little bad luck, a good opponent, and a total lack of understanding the matchup. He eventually goes on to the finals against Ascension Vegeta and I think he might have won the whole tournament.
Had a great time, got a top 8 playmat and some packs that didn't have anything good in them. My opponents were all very nice and I would gladly play again if my local store holds the events since ARG says they will continue to support the game.
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RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
Frieza, Resident of HFIL - Level 1: The cost to advance a personality level is too high when it would've been better If the Named cards were discarded instead of being banished to allow Frieza's Supernova to still check them. Unfortunately this Level 1 doesn't have a CONSTANT which means his Premiere Set Level 3 doesn't gain any benefit from it which pigeonholes you into Golden Frieza decks with cards that set you back down to Level 1 because natural anger (which Premiere Set Frieza Level 1 already suffers from).
King Cold, Caught Off Guard - Level 1 Ally: Definitely makes up for Frieza's new Level 1 being lackluster due to de-levers like Unleashed but not enough to push him to Tier 1 due to being pigeonholed in Blue Tag Team builds and even then you want to open the game with Cooler Ally to prevent your opponent's MP from advancing a personality level. His parenthetical text does add value to Frieza and Cooler's Supernova so I'll give him credit for that while I probably would've preferred If the Named card rejuve wasn't a HIT effect.
Android #16, Focused - Level 1: Doesn't quite push aggressive MPPV as much as Roshi while not providing as much control as Drawku and Gohan. He's obviously busted in Red Enraged which will never be legal again while bouncing between Level 1 and Level 2 in Red Ascension and Red Ruthless could be interesting to say the least while his Level 3 and Level 4 are still relatively lackluster. It's a shame that the Non-visible game zone clause makes him not as playable as he was in Blue Protective let alone the potential he probably could've had in Blue Resolute.
Android #17, Entertained - Level 1: Instant POWER is solid against Drawku, not much else to say really.
Android #18, Prepared - Level 2: A lot more flexible compared to her Evolution Level 2 by allowing you to filter your draws as a means of putting high endurance cards on top of your Life Deck similar to Premiere Set Trunks' MP stack while also netting you anger, ally, and Dragon Ball control in the process not to mention the fact that the damage mods off of running her in Orange Adaptive now that it's unfrozen could be really solid. There's also rumors that she's going to be getting a new Named card in this set as well.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
As for the Legacy format that my friend created that nobody wanted to play because of GT power creep, we're currently in the process of buying out an old Score Z/GT Collection from a friend of ours before he moves to Florida soon and he's asking $120 for the whole collection since he got burned on trading Force of Will TCG for it due to the game currently on it's death bed.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Hopefully Pikkon gets a nice stack since he's been a running joke in my group since he came out in score z.
Current Decks
GTitania midrange
RGThromok tokens/goodstuff | UB Grimgrin zombie tribal
GW Sigarda enchantress | R Godo voltron
U Braids aggro | WR Kalemne punisher
RU Mizzix storm | BUG Mimeoplasm competitive reanimator | UG Ezuri infect