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Dragon Ball Z Awakening Preview #3: Black Confinement

Awakening continues to leave us excited for the direction of the game. With Set 1 Masteries being placed on the Frozen List, its time to see what value you can extract from the Evolution and Awakening Masteries in each style.

Competing with Namekian for most text on a card
Competing with Namekian for most text on a card

Our preview today helps provide that extra value in both the Perceptive and Conflict Masteries.

At first glance, you can see that this card could start competing with some Namekian cards for the amount of text and effects in one textbox. But there is also some great potential there.

There are three separate effects that can trigger a card being milled from your opponents deck, and the MPs that will look to use this feature in Black Style decks will be able to achieve most, if not all these in a combat to create a maximum effectiveness. The favourites in this class would be Wheelo, Raditz, and Nail.

Ideally, you want to be using the Black Conflict Mastery to gain two of the three effects. But you could also gain value with Perceptive and Cooler as well, to leverage his discard abilities.

Team this with Black Chomp, and you could be milling your opponent for 6 cards. Include Black Remembrance Drill and you can turn those destroyed cards into banished cards.

While you would have to be careful on the number of these that you run in your deck, it could help pay dividends to swing a game in your favour.

Check back for more previews later this week.

Game on!
– Trent (@TAKGames_Trent) and Kyp (@JustKyp).

Dragon Ball Z Awakening Preview #2: Blue Friendliness

Awakening is proving to be lifting the bar when it comes to new and interesting effects. Three very strong Main Personalities have been revealed so far, and deck ideas are flowing thick and fast. Today, we reveal a new Blue Style rare that works well with the Blue Resolute Mastery revealed.

Everyone likes a friendly cat
Everyone likes a friendly cat

The power of the card works as the name intends, a friendly effect that helps give plus 1 card to each player. So you’re hoping with this effect, that you’re using cards like Blue Blanketing Blasts, or Blue Positioning Drill to put high value cards back on top of your deck to draw, and hope your opponents blind draw comes out as a lower value card. Teaming it with other cards like Blue Crouch, or Blue Narrow Escape can help you leverage potential game swinging cards as well.

However, the best thing about the card is that it can be pitched to the new Blue Resolute Mastery and be placed into play. So your -1 card ends up giving you a playable action, and potentially more. And becoming a dead draw isn’t a worry for the card as it gives you the same value on either your turn, or your opponents.

New Blue Resolute decks will likely see some use in this great new rare.

Game on!
– Trent (@TAKGames_Trent) and Kyp (@JustKyp).

Dragon Ball Z Awakening Preview #1: Red Tilt

Preview season is here again and the excitement is reaching fever pitch. Over the last few days, the new Goku and Vegeta MP stacks, plus the Blue and Orange Masteries for Awakening have been analysed in great depth. Could Vegeta be the saviour we have been waiting for?

With that question yet to be fully answered, we hit the ground running with a new Red style card, one that may put your opponent “on tilt”.

Going full tilt
Going full tilt

Red Tilt offers up an Energy Block with an effect that further expands on some of the mechanics built into Red since the launch of Evolution. Having multiple actions, and potential card advantage over your opponent is a massive premium to have, so this card’s effect must be weighed up if you are looking to leverage some of the new Red style strategies.

While the card draw is conditional, in that your opponent has had to throw an energy at you so you can block, then have a matching card effect that can trigger the draw, the potential benefits could outweigh the risks.

You could team this card with Red Eye Beams from Evolution, which would net you a +2 action. Or if you want to help put a dent in the new freestyle focused Vegeta, team it with Red Chest Pierce to manipulate your own discard pile, and then banish all the non-styled cards in both discard piles.

We are really excited for all the previews we have to bring you over the coming weeks. All of them have great all round effects, and we can’t wait to see what else comes out.

Game on!
– Trent (@TAKGames_Trent) and Kyp (@JustKyp).