With 98 players attending Australia’s largest ever Dragon Ball Z tournament in either Score or Panini Z, the scene is set for an amazing day of play!

The following Masteries and Personalities are in play today:

Black Devious Mastery – 17
Black Perceptive Mastery – 1
Blue Tag Mastery – 7
Blue Protective Mastery – 5
Namekian Knowledge Mastery – 11
Namekian Restored Mastery – 4
Orange Adaptive Mastery – 9
Red Enraged Mastery – 17
Red Ruthless Mastery – 12
Saiyan Empowered Mastery – 14
Saiyan Rampaging Mastery – 3

Captain Ginyu – 4
Gohan – 2
Mastery Roshi – 7
Android 16 – 1
Frieza – 2
Krillin – 2
Lord Slug – 1
Goku – 3
Raditz – 1
Garlic Jr – 1
Cooler – 15
Broley – 22
Vegeta – 1
Piccolo – 12
Android 13 – 8
Trunks – 4
Android 20 – 2
Yamcha – 8
Cell – 3

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Today brings our last preview for Awakening, and this is definitely a favourite for the new set. But before we get to the preview, this weekend is the Australian National Qualifier in Melbourne. Two lucky players will earn invites to this years World Championships in a little under a month.

If you want to check out the action, during the US Friday and Saturday evenings, you can check out our stream HERE.

With the Black Devious Mastery getting the Frozen List treatment soon, Black will have to conjure up some ways to help maintain some form of hand manipulation. Black Memories offers up a way to bring back those discarding from hand feels Black Style players will start missing.

Initially, the power of the card gives it enormous value. With the cost of getting rid of one of your setups or drills, you can forgo something that might not be helping in your current matchup, and pillage your opponents deck for something like a Visiting The Past, to hit them back with what they want to dish out to you. The possibilities are huge.

Being a Setup, its sometimes hard to make the space, but offering the parenthetical text just doubles the value of this card further. While it doesn’t give you the same return as a Black Declaration by being placed into play on discard, it does give you a pitch to the new Black  Conflict Mastery which emulates the old mastery in a way.

It also doesn’t have a stipulation on what causes the discard to occur, so like with Black Command, you can could gain some benefit from any discard of the card when your opponent has 2 or more cards in hand.

This is definitely going to be fighting for some space in new Black Conflict Mastery decks.

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

Regionals season has come to a close, with five great events stretched from coast to coast. Competition was definitely intense, and well played by everyone who attended.

To round out the results, we have attached below the top 4 deck lists from each of the last four Regional events.

Perth

The far west saw a top cut where new Vengeance decks started to dominate, but a splash of the old guard was still there in the form of Black Krillin and Blue Ginyu. The final was played out, brother against brother, Gian Consentino (Ruthless Broly) vs Pier Consentino (Blue Ginyu).

Top 4 decks here

Sydney

Players came from up and down the Eastern Seaboard to push for World Invite points. Blue Protective Cooler, and Saiyan Broly made up half the top cut, with two Red Enraged decks, and two Black Devious decks rounding out top cut. In the end, David Spencer with his Red Roshi edged out Chris Kimber and his Black Roshi to take the win, and valuable points.

Top 4 decks here

Brisbane

Everything was reaching a fever pitch in Brisbane with the points wide open for anyone to stake a further claim to the title. Top Cut saw the resurgence of an old favourite, Namekian Piccolo, to take on the Red Roshi’s that had proved tough earlier in Regionals. The meta was truly diverse as we saw decks like a Tag Team Roshi make it into top cut with the likes of stalwarts Broly, Cooler, and 13. The final saw Jono Chabowski (Namekian Piccolo) take all the points against Lin Htat (Red Enraged 13). Both Jono, and Chris Kimber made up huge ground on David Spencer for a World Champs invite.

Top 4 decks here (to be added shortly)

Newcastle

Tensions mounted as the top 3 for the World Championship Invite descended on Newcastle to stake their claim. Jono Chabowski and David Spencer, both with Red Roshi, made top cut of the highest ranked players at that time. Android 13 moved back into the fold in a big way with Black and Red versions making top cut. But it was Daniel Scanes with a trusty Namekian Piccolo beating out David Spencer for the title.

Top 4 decks here

We’d like to thank all the players who turned out to make Regionals in 2016 a huge success. And congratulations again to David Spencer earning his invite to the World Championships in four weeks time.

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

We’re surging with excitement for Awakening in a few weeks, and today’s preview should have a few people excited as well. But before Awakening hits, we also have the Australian National Qualifier next weekend. We will be streaming matches over two days, Swiss on Saturday and Top Cut on Sunday with the Top 2 earning invites to Worlds. You can catch the action on our Twitch stream here, so get subscribing.

This card has been described to us as “the best card in the set”, and it’s easy to see why they had that opinion. Namekian Surge offers so much on one card, it is just overflowing with value.

If we look at the basics of the card as an attack, its a 5 life card energy attack, for a cost of 1 stage! So even without modifiers you have a chance to access critical damage for an amazing cost. It also has 2 endurance, so its just one of those cards that you have to take notice of just for the value it provides as an attack and in deck for damage prevention.

But then, you look at the immediate effects of the card and you can realise what was meant when being called the best card in the set. Without diving too much into a combo, you could grab Earth Ball 1 and pump the damage to 6 Life cards for this attack. If you’re using the new Radiant Mastery, and its the 3rd Earth Ball in play you own, that’s another 2 life cards. So you could be hitting for 8 life, costing 1 stage!

Fan’s of Slug and all his potential new combos will also see some benefits with the end of combat effects of shuffling back a Dragon Ball you control. The combos with this card are potentially limitless.

With all the value on this card, it will be hard to top. But our last preview later this week will go very close, and in some eyes may even be better.

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

The last regional of the season is upon us and 30 Z Warriors have descended on the regional town of Newcastle to do battle. A number of players are fighting it out to win the Worlds invite on offer for the regional season.

An interesting array of decks are on display today with the following in the field:

Black Devious Mastery – 5: Android 13 x 2; Master Roshi x 2; Turles
Blue Tag Team Mastery – 4: Android 13, Captain Ginyu x 2; Master Roshi
Namekian Knowledge Mastery – 3: Piccolo x 3
Namekian Restored Mastery – 2: Cell x 2
Orange Adaptive Mastery – 2: Tenshinhan, Yamcha
Orange Adept Mastery – 1: Yamcha
Red Enraged Mastery – 7: Android 13 x 2; Cooler x 2; Master Roshi x 2; Yamcha
Red Ruthless Mastery – 3: Broly x 3
Saiyan Empowered Mastery – 3: Broly x 2; Goku

Round 4 Update

There are four players undefeated heading into Round 4, with Red style the real MVP today.

David Spencer – Red Enraged Roshi
Zac Gray – Red Ruthless Broly
Reece Burns – Red Enraged 13
Jono Chabowski – Red Enraged Roshi

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Top Cut Update

Listed are the top 8 players in no particular order:

Joshua Craig – Red Enraged 13
Jono Chabowski – Red Enraged Roshi
Chris Hellmann – Black Devious 13
Dylan Mancinelli – Saiyan Empowered Goku
David Spencer – Red Enraged Roshi
Neville Pearson – Red Ruthless Broly
Daniel Scanes – Namekian Knowledge Piccolo
Reece Burns – Red Enraged 13

Top 8 Matches

Reece Burns vs Dylan Mancinelli
Jono Chabowski vs Neville Pearson
Joshua Craig vs Daniel Scanes
David Spencer vs Chris Hellmann

Top 4 Update

Dylan Mancinelli vs David Spencer
Jono Chabowski vs Daniel Scanes (stream feature match)

Top 2

Congratulations to David Spencer who has been the most consistent performer this season and has secured an invite to the 2016 World Championships!

He now plays Daniel Scanes on the stream for the Newcastle title.

Champion

Daniel Scanes wins the Newcastle Regional, keeping the title in the state again this year.

Congratulations again to both Daniel and David. We’ll see you all in Melbourne next week for Nationals!

Game on!