Crikey this year has flown by! It seems like just yesterday my life had a lot less Balls in it. As is the standard, each year I make a resolution I ultimately don’t keep. In the end however, the follow through isn’t as important as the wish. Instead of equating them to false hope, focus on progress: Continually advancing yourself and those around you. Greetings Dragon Ballers, Didier here and I love this card game. There are a bunch of decks this year that have me excited for all the possibilities 2014 brings. Feast your eyes on my To Do list for this year. Shenron help me find the time….
1) Lots of Vegeta decks.
Who’s got two thumbs? Of course they both will be played at Gen Con this year. We’ll say I’m turning down the cookie cut and turning up the WTF. I also have been playing with the idea of a Hero Freestyle hybrid physical/energy as others have suggested. It’s a shame I can’t use Namekian Remedy Drill though.
2) Goten Ringer. Orange?
The style is up in the air but it already has a lot of freestyle cards. Gotenks Fast Action, Gotenks Potential, and Gotenks Flight seem like staples alone so I’m finding it hard to justify the CS Red Mastery – probably more meant for Goten MBS HT. Ringer seems like he’ll be as close to a full fusion deck as you can get. Black maybe?
3) Captain Ginyu. Black?
Definitely will watch leveling speed on this one. Advice? At first glance I feel like the powers of Zarbon and Broly will be enough to hit Lv. 3 as long as I draw at least one anger card each combat. Many of you are toting the idea of playing him Ginyu ally with the new Ginyu Force levels for field support. Sorry, but the possibility of Burter x3 giving my attacks a massive damage modifier sounds too good to pass on.
4) Tapion Orange/Red/Black.
I just can’t get enough of him. He has to be my favorite personality set released by Retro. I love sword decks AND swords (doesn’t everyone?) so I’m biased but he never gets old. His mechanics are similar, but subtly different from normal sword. I know I lose more games than I win with him and deep down I loathe that Lv. 2 power, but I’m probably going to end up with four Tapion decks…so you can expect another article on him soon.
5) Frieza Freestyle.
Represent! After seeing Tyler do so well in the South Kai with this deck, I can’t help but grow in curiosity. Frieza Free wasn’t even on my radar until that happening. Many nights were spent afterwards lost in the dark side of my mind. How could I let this happen? Was my love for Freestyle just an illusion? This injustice to one of the greatest villains can’t stand. The new Frieza levels released were a sign. Freestylin’ with a Frenchman will make its return!
6) Majin Buu Ally.
Last and probably least, Majin Static Orb has intrigued me since its release. That energy can get big in a hurry, especially if you start placing down some Intense Observation Drills. What better personality to run Majin ally than the one that gets six extra allies? Things get scary quickly when multiple Majin Buu’s Kamikaze Ghost start coming into play. Since Majin Buu is your MP, you can have an extra Majin Buu’s Energy Spray. That’s just one more possible Static Orb in your hand and a nice little drainer combo.
So what decks is everyone shooting to make this year?
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Working on a Broly Saiyan 1-5 MPPV. Been looking at Majin Babidi pretty hard. Would like to build a Gohan using the new Virtual Card and a Goku using the MBS Gatefold. My favorite characters of Frieza and Android 20 are also up there.
My goal is to get these proxy free (minus virtual cards obv).
Saiyan broly/cell (30ish cards left)
Goku freestyle (5 cards left)
Black bojack/18 (2-12 cards left depending)
Orange trunks/hercule? (10 cards left)
Blue metacooler (lol no clue haven’t tried)
Freestyle buu (getting fury’s and champ drills)
Red uub (done!)
Black baba (done!)
Namekian piccollo (maybe 12 cards?)
Vegeta freestyle (like 13? Stupid promos)
Beyond stupid promos. I just recently received my 4th Gutter Wallop (Thanks again Nick!) and still only have 2 Lunges. Good luck sir.
Goals [in the order I thought of them]:
1. Evolve my deck build around the oh so wonderful Red Fireball Drill. I found a way to speed-mill opponents, generating instances ranging from 10-40 cards or more (yes, really) multiple times per combat. Baba ain’t got $*** on me.
2. Continue to evolve as a player and deck builder.
3. Proxy more high-placing tourney decks. I think of it as scouting the competition. We all have our own styles of play and we all like and build different types of decks. I use netdecks to see if mine are up to speed with the tournament thoroughbreds. I learn how the netdecks work in the process, what the strengths and weaknesses are, how to dismantle them with my decks, how I need to adapt my decks to cope with new threats like Baba and Frieza that I simply won’t encounter gaming with my friends.
4. Play in a “major” tournament. By the quotation marks I mean I don’t care if only 3 other people show up to a Kai event, I want to play against some great players that love playing this game as much as I do. Really wish I could make it to Eau Claire on the 18th. A birthday spent playing dbz all day would be amazing.
Yea that Fireball Drill is off the wall good. I think our version is about 18-1 right now.
What I would like to do this year would probably be to fix my Bardock deck, as a right now is meant to be nothing more than a fun deck that it catches people off guard because I mob them with allies(like 20 of them) or bulid a new deck with the new personiltys in mind.
And bulid a goten kamikaze ghost/ fusion? deck with new personality
Then finally tweet and fix some older decks
To kick ass and chew bubble gum. Hopefully I run out of bubble gum.
I didn’t look to see who wrote this. First thing I saw was “A lot of Vegeta decks.” I then knew who wrote it.
At first I didn’t include it and started with Goten. “I don’t want to sound repetitive” I thought. “They know what my one goal in life is.”
Fuck it. I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam.
For non-retro (but Z focused) decks I have a few to build or tweak such as:
Freestyle Android (can’t figure an MP yet)
Black Gohan Discard
Freestyle Goku Beats
Revise red pulverize Buu
WGS Saiyan Majin Vegeta
For Retro fueled decks I’d like to work on:
Future Gohan Saiyan (CS or MBS, I can’t decide yet)
Frieza Freestyle-because I agree with you
Also Frieza MBS black because being untouchable could be nice.
Ginyu Black…but which black to do?—and I also agree, the GF needs to be packed in the sensei for tech use
Kami shutdown
Tien Freestyle
Garlic Jr!!!
Piccolo fireball
If I manage to build 20% of these then 2014 is a success in my book. Also I would like to plan and hold a tournament in Las Vegas for the western folks. I too love this game, and the excitement of your article represents!
Red fireball is an ok deck. It beats bad decks and loses to good ones.
I wish the Gencon 2013 videos were up so I could see the amazing matches. -_-
Have been working on majin pui pui black deck. Have had alot of fruitful results! Please organize an event on the east coast!
Join the dbz ccg championship series page. We run 5-10 tournaments a year and a couple will be on the east coast this year.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/DBZCCGMCS/
Janemba Sword.
Dabura Sword.
Gogeta TE Fusion Beats.
Yamu Red Horrible.