100 thoughts on “Panini America Offers New FAQ, Final Batch of Images for 2014 Dragon Ball Z TCG”

1. FIRST QUESTION: let’s say i’m using the red mastery and i’m currently at 3 anger. i play a red energy attack that does enough damage for a critical and it says HIT: Gain 2 anger. it hits. what’s the order for resolving effects given that HIT effects come before Critical Damage Effects if MASTERY effects are also involved? is it:

   i hit my opponent with this energy attack for critical damage, i use the HIT effect of “Gain 2 anger” and am now at 5 anger so I advance a level before activating any Critical Damage Effect. The MASTERY effect of “Draw 1 and discard 1” cuts into this chain before I activate any Critical Damage Effect so I do this next. After, I then can use a Critical Damage effect (and thus, raise my anger 1 more level due to the Mastery’s other effect). so, i pretty much assume the red mastery’s effects cut into a chain on a “when it happens, it happens” basis.

   SECOND QUESTION: if i’m on Piccolo level 3 and just performed an attack that did critical damage with him and am also at 4 anger, can I CHOOSE to activate his constant effect first (since I did critical damage) or does the Mastery kick in first (since I did critical damage) and level me before I can activate his power?

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   • Here’s how best to look at the order of effects: Damage, Hit, “when you deal critical damage”, Crit, “when you use a critical damage effect”

     In your first question, yes, the Mastery happens when it happens…which is after the Hit effect resolves.

     Second question: If the attack is causing the anger gain from the Mastery, it would most likely occur before Piccolo’s DB searching power, since both immediate and hit effects occur beforehand (in the above sequence).

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2. Ok, I have a couple of questions.

   1. Can both of these cards only be used on your turn?
   2. Can these cards be used on your opponents turn?
   3. When entering combat can you use both of these cards and if so can you choose which one goes first.

   Visiting the past (limit 2 per deck. Banish after use) “immediate Effect” “Power” Use when entering combat, search your discard pile for a card and place in into your hand. If you have more then 3 cards in your hand, place a card from your hand at the bottom of your life deck.

   Quickness Drill (limit 1 per deck.) “Immediate Effect” “Power” when entering combat you may discard a card from your hand to place the bottom card of your discard pile into your hand.

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   • You can use those cards on either your or your opponent’s turn. If you used both, you choose the order.

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   • I’m a little confused about the quickness drill. So say it is my turn and declare combat, and I use quickness drill, then after combat it goes to my opponents turn, and he declares combat on me would I be able to use the quickness drill again or would I have to wait until it is my turn again?

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     • You can use it on both turns.

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3. A couple of rule questions:

   1. Can damage that is Banished (e.g. from Red Left Bolt) have its endurance used?

   2. Can endurance be used on an effect that ‘Destroys’ cards from the top of your life deck (e.g. Orange Destruction)? In the rulebook, “Destroy” is defined as discarding a card that’s in play, so when trying to figure this question out you could come to the conclusion that cards in your life deck can’t be destroyed(obviously wrong).

   3. Are an Ally’s power rating ever used when defending against an attack? Clearly they can perform actions, and use their power rating when called for, however defending does not seem to be defined as an action. If your main personality is at 0, can the ally ‘take over’ defending and compare power rating, or is an AT attack against you always compared to the MP power rating and you can just take the stages on an ally?

   Thanks so much for all these clarifications!

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   • 1) Yes.

     2) Endurance is only used on damage from attacks. It does not work on non-damage effects.

     3) Essentially no. Allies are only in control to make actions, whether that’s performing an attack, using a power, etc. They cannot take over just to calculate damage while defending.

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4. For Black Disorienting Blow, if you hit, do you
   1) immediately play the event, effectively taking two actions in a row?

   And

   2). When you trigger “play” effects like this or Black Reflection, do you have to pay the costs?

   Thanks in advance!

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   • Black Disorienting – Heroes/Villains only and Named card rules are for deck construction only, they do not affect which cards you can play with Disorienting Blow. However, it does not allow you to play Events that are out of their required timing (blocks, attacks, use when X if the condition isn’t met). Since it states to “play” the card, you have to pay any costs.

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5. If I use confrontation against a namekian deck and shuffle their card back in their deck do they again anger?

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   • Yes, they would gain an anger.

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6. So for Allies , you can use their power level to pay stages, but all damage dealt to you is always solely measured against your MP?

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   • Allies can only take over to make an action (pay for an attack/use their power/use a block or defensive card). If they are not doing one of these things, they cannot be in control to calculate damage.

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7. I’m curious about a couple things regarding Krillin. First of all, given the lack of clarification regarding the difference between the SDCC promo Krillin’s power and the starter personality Krillin’s power, am I to assume that they do operate differently and the promo Krillin would not raise his anger 2 off of a discard?

   Also, how do the effects of Krillin’s level 1 power work? To get more specific, let’s say I use Krillin’s power, and in my opponent’s next Attack phase, they discard a card off of, say, Black Style Mastery. Does Krillin’s power activate as soon as that cards hits the discard? As in, before any effects of discarding a card from Black Style Mastery take place? Or would I remove the bottom two cards of my discard pile and possibly discard a card, THEN Krillin’s power would activate for a critical effect/possible 2 anger?

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   • 1) We are allowing both versions to play as they are written.

     2) Resolve the Mastery effect and then Krillin.

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8. Have a couple questions on anger that arose during the previous tourney:

   1. Say one player is trying to win by MPPV but the other is using Saiyan Style Mastery or a card effect to nullify MPPV (e.g. It’s Over 9000 or Captain Ginyu’s Body Switch). If that player hits anger 5 at lvl 4 before the opponent that is trying to win by MPPV does that eliminate that player from winning MPPV as well?

   2. If a player that cannot win by MPPV hits anger 5 at lvl 4; does the anger reset to 0 and his Main Personality powers up to full or does only the anger reset to 0 or nothing happens and the anger stays at 5?

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   • 1) No, it does not.

     2) If you cannot win by MPPV and reach enough anger to advance while on Level 4, you would reset your anger to 0 and power your MP up to full.

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9. Here is a question that a few of us had at my local game store. Rejuvenate states “Place a card from your discard pile at the bottom of your life deck.” The rejuvenation step you take the top card of your discard pile and put it on the bottom of your life deck.

   With the referred “rejuvenating” term above, this leads me to believe that Rejuvenate actually refers to the top card always unless specified, where as the glossery at the back of the rules book just states any card. Which is technically correct for Rejuvenate effects??

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   • It is the top card unless otherwise stated.

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10. Two more questions:

    1. With the change on Captain Ginyu’s Lvl 3 & 4 powers it now only prevents his allies from being discarded by either critical damage effects or cards the state to ‘discard’ an ally and not from cards that state ‘destroy’ an ally that’s in play?

    2. Will there be a downloadable file with these changes/clarifications on the cards in the near future? Such as a Card Rulings Document (CRD).

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    • 1) Correct, although there are no cards that ‘discard’ an Ally from play.

      2) It is already listed in the FAQ PDF that is downloadable on the page. We will be adding more frequently asked clarifications and rulings to the document as time goes on.

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11. If Allies never use their Power Rating when defending, do they use it if they’re attacking? Example: My MP is at 0 and I use Recoome’s POWER: Physical attack. DAMAGE: AT stages. HIT: You may have your MP pay 2 stages to draw the bottom of your discard pile. Let’s say Recoome is 8 stages above 0, you wouldn’t calculate the damage with Recoome’s power rating?

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    • You would, he is performing the attack. If you are using a defensive card on any Ally where you would need to calculate the AT, then it would be fine. They can’t take over just to calculate though.

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      • and then I would continue to use my MP’s Power Rating if I play attacks from my hand?

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        • You can have your Allies perform attacks (if your MP is at 1 stage or 0), that’s up to you if you want your MP to do it at that point.

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12. If possible, can you please try to limit cards like the Goku – Super Saiyan God? One of the reasons I stopped playing the first game was the exorbitant number of promo cards that were released, some of which were required in decks to be competitive..

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    • Yes, we will be limiting the amount of promo cards that are not alternate art. He is the only intentional one in this first set (Krillin unfortunately got through).

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      • So dose the Krillin promo gain 2 anger then?

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        • We are allowing players to use Krillin as he is printed (on whichever version of the card you have).

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13. I love the promo pics. I’m still trying to get my store here to order some kits, but from what I can see, the first kit only has Goku’s kame. and Tool. Are there other kits out right now? How often will the kits be switched up? Will all these promos be in kits someday or are some reserved for “big” tournaments?

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    • I think Kamehameha and Time will be in kits for another 3-5 weeks, depending on how many we have left. Then they will be switched out.

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14. Could you please explain Red Power Rush and Blue Fist Smash interaction? Which card gains priority?

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    • Red Power Rush would have priority and also wastes Blue Fist Smash’s effect.

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15. For cards like Black Lunge, which deal “DAMAGE: AT +4 life cards”, if my opponent and I are both at B on the AT, does it deal 5 life cards, or does it deal 1 power stage and 4 life cards?

    The rulebook is not clear, and there are attacks that deal “AT stages” – it seems unusual that “stages” would be assumed given the amount of clarification work done in the new game to make sure players don’t have to remember random numbers/definitions. I would love a final, definite answer to this.

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    • Since it only mentions life cards, it would deal 1 + 4 life cards of damage (AT being the base damage, and +4 being a modifier). Cards that deal multiple types of damage would specify what type with what number.

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      • what about Saiyan Direct Strike that says damage AT +3 stages and +2 life. would it be the first damage type listed so AT would be damage?

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        • Saiyan Direct Strike does AT+3 stages of damage and an additional 2 life cards of damage.

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16. Does Vegeta’s Anger mean if your opponent is in the A category you are in the B? The card does not specify the level.

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    • Vegeta’s Anger does not change your actual power level, it is only for card effects such as Saiyan Uppercut (your base damage would be 7, even if your MP’s actual power level is lower than your opponent’s).

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17. What’s up with the “No Purchase Necessary” mail-in on the back of the booster packs? Could I mail away for Promos?

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    • You get 1 random card with the same drop rate as from a booster pack.

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18. With Namekian Knowledge Mastery, do I gain an anger for every card Rejuvenated or is it 1 anger every time something makes me Rejuvenate? For instance, Namekian Concentration makes me Rejuvenate 4. Do I gain 4 Anger or 1?

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    • You would gain 1 – it is for an occurrence of Rejuvenating/shuffling and not each card.

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19. Question #1:
    While using S13 Krillin Level 1’s ability, it states “the next time a card is discarded from a hand this combat, use a critical damage effect and raise your anger 2 levels.” Do you only get the 2 anger if you do the critical damage effect? Or do you get the anger and ‘CDE’?
    Question 2:
    While using Orange Hiding Drill, do the “-2 life cards” mean any 2 life cards from an attack, such as when a Physical attack does 5 stages of damage to a MP only 3 power levels above 0, would the two life cards still be considered life cards, so they would be negated? Or are they still stages that are dealt as life cards, so they would still do the 2 life cards of damage?

    Thanks!

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    • 1) You get both.

      2) Orange Hiding Drill (and other cards that lower the amount of damage that attacks deal), are damage modifiers and part of damage calculation. This occurs before dealing damage and before stages are converted to life cards. In your example they would still take 2 life cards of damage.

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20. We had a couple of questions come up in a tournament yesterday.

    1. When damage is ‘split’ between power stages and life cards, does that damage come in one ‘packet’ after lowering your personality to 0 power stages? e.g. If I’m at 1 above 0, and get hit by an attack doing 3 life cards, 3 power stages, lower my power 1 stage, start taking life cards, and on the 2nd ‘power stage’ of life card damage I hit an Endurance 3, can I prevent the 3 life cards of damage with it?

    2. How much do personality cards ‘remember’? e.g. If I use Captain Ginyu’s level 1 power, and choose Recoome to be able to use his power regardless of power stages, then my opponent discards Recoome, but I bring him back with overpowering attack, does Recoome remember he was chosen by Ginyu(and is thus able to use his power regardless of Ginyu’s stages)?

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    • 1) While you are at 0, any power stages of damage would be converted into life cards. In your example, you have 5 life cards of damage remaining to take after losing the 1 stage. If you banished the card with Endurance 3, you would still have to take 1 more life card of damage.

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21. This might be a very silly question, but someone insists that you can do this: When you use Blue Trapped Strike once, it stays in play to be used again. Can you, while it is in play to be used again, use it with your blue mastery to stop an energy attack?

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    • Since it isn’t in your hand, you cannot discard it for Blue Protective Mastery.

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22. If a card tells you to gain stages and does not specify MP, do you choose your mp or an ally in play, or does it go to the personality performing the action.

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    • If it does not specify, then you can choose which personality.

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      • Interesting – so just to clarify:

        1) Bryan is playing Captain Ginyu and is at his 0 stage. He also has Guldo in play, who is at 1 above 0. Mike uses Battle Pausing, which says his “opponent gains 5 stages”. Can Bryan choose to gain the stages with Guldo?

        2) Bryan enters combat with Captain Ginyu at level 2, at 4 power stages above 0. Bryan also has Jiece in play, at 1 above 0. Bryan’s first action this combat is to use Black Energy Toss, paying all of his stages. Mike does not block. Bryan is instructed to “Gain 3 stages” on hit – can Bryan have Jiece gain those stages even though Ginyu performed the action?

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        • Yes to both.

          And just a side note, the old/original Battle Pausing specifically state MP, but this one does not.

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      • Can you chose your opponent’s MP to gain the stages? My friend has the opinion, specifically with Dragonball 5, that you could give the stage gain to your opponent instead. Now some people may wonder why you’d even want to do that, but it would be useful for making Bodyswitch usable, or making an opponent unable to use allies.

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        • Unless specified, gaining stages refers to your personalities.

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23. Brian played Red Shoulder Grab earlier in the combat, then attacks with Red Burning Stance. Brian is at 0 power stages, and Rodney is at 9,001. Rodney does not block, and suffers 0 power stages from Red Burning Stance – effectively no damage. Does Brian get to use a critical effect due to his Red Shoulder Grab’s effect?

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    • Yes – since the attack was not blocked, it is considered to have done critical damage (regardless of the actual damage, in this case 0) and would enable a critical damage effect.

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      • What if an attack had all its damage prevented by Blue Rest? Does “Prevent all damage” also prevent its “critical damage”?

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        • It would stop it from the mechanic (having to actually deal 5 life cards of damage). It doesn’t stop, say, Red Shoulder Grab’s effect.

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24. With quickness drill now being a instant power that can only be used once per turn, can it instantly be used at any time during any turn? Or does it require you to use it in place of an attack?

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    • It is still used when entering combat. The clarification is issued so people don’t use it more than once per turn.

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      • Does this mean other cards without that clarification CAN be used more than once per turn?
        Examples: Trunks 1-4

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        • Trunks will also be once per turn.

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25. This may seem like a silly question but how do events work exactly? Is it a card you can play during combat that stays in play until you use its power, or do they stay in hand until you use them?

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    • You would keep them in your hand until you wanted to use it (generally as an action in Combat).

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      • Sweet thanks! Also if I have a style drill in play and a copy of it on my hand…is my option not playing it at all since there can be only one copy in play, or play it thus destroying the other copy in play?

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        • You would not be able to play the second copy.

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26. I have a question. With Red Flares last ability, can I choose this ability even if damage isn’t done?

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    • You actually make that decision when you play the card, because that is an immediate effect.

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27. I have Vegeta level 1 and 4 anger and play an attack that gives me an anger so I level to 2. dose the attack still have “hit: gain 1 anger” from Vegeta since I played the attack wile at 1 or dose the hit effect go away with leveling to 2?

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    • It would go away when you level to 2 since it hasn’t resolved yet.

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28. How does Endurance work with Critical Damage?

    If an attack is doing 6 life cards of damage, the first 4 cards are discarded with no endurance, the 5th card has endurance 1. Would Critical damage happen with the above statement, when the card is banished for the endurance to cover the 5+6 life cards of damage

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    • Yes, since you’ve taken five life cards of damage in that scenario, a critical damage effect would be available.

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29. Do cards that say “…stop all physical (or energy) attacks this combat” affect your own attacks? (ie: if you lower your anger 3 to use Red Shielded Strikes’ effect to “stop all physical attacks this combat” or use Namekian Narrow Escape “all styled energy attacks cost -1 stage to perform…” do they affect my opponent as well?)

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    • Yes, they affect both players.

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30. I am assuming that although I did not see it directly stated in the rulebook only personalities printed as Allies can be used as allies, is this correct?

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    • Yes, only cards marked as Allies can be used that way.

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31. Do you have an ETA on the next FAQ?

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    • I would say 10-12 days.

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32. If AT always refers to the words in the modifier, (I.e. black lungs and saiyan left kick having AT refer to life cards) as you mentioned in a previous comment, why is Saiyan Energy Rupture worded the way it is 3+AT instead of the other way AT+3? It seems counterintuitive, and that card was the main reason our playgroup thought AT always meant physical u less stated, like in energy rupture

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    • Sorry about the double posting, I just wanted to include additional information on my previous post. In addition to energy ruptures abnormal templating (which I’m now assuming is due to it being a reprint), namekian side kick, black lunge, and saiyan left kick are all semi-reprints that originally did AT stages, and then x life cards (2, 3, and 4 respectively). So, to clarify, this has changed, and now all of their damage would be life card based?

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      • Yes, Namekian Side Kick, Black Lunge and Saiyan Left Kick deal all life cards of damage.

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    • The first number is the base damage, anything after the + is a damage modifier.

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33. Can a Dragon ball that is not in play be banished if I play Blinding Energy Move.

    Blinding Energy Move (limit 2 per deck) You must banish the top 2 cards of your life deck to play this card.) Energy Attack Damage 3 Life cards. At the beginning of the next action this combat, End Combat.

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    • Yes.

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34. Say for instance I play Blue Trapped Strike from my hand with an opponent’s Dragon Ball on my side of the field, but my opponent stops the attack with Namekian Flinch, does Blue Trapped Strike check to see if I have a Dragon Ball in play when I played it, or does it check only if it resolves?

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    • A similar question was answered, the effect would check regardless of whether it hit or not. Only HIT effects would be negated if the attack was stopped. Effects that occur after the damage indicator occur immediately after the card is played.*

      * – that’s from the rulebook.

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35. Should games be best out of 3 or best of 1 for tournament at a shop?

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    • Either is fine, depending on how many players and how much time the shop has.

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36. Aik,
    I have a couple of issues that are direct and extremely specific changes from rulebook rules to your rulings. If you could please clarify, that would be awesome.

    1. In the rulebook, it says “Dragon Balls are a set of seven mystical
    objects that will grant the wish of anyone
    who can collect them all. When you place
    a Dragon Ball into play, you must
    immediately use its effects. Whenever
    you discard or destroy a Dragon Ball,
    place it on the bottom of your deck.”

    Notice the line of text that says “When you place a Dragon Ball into play…” Yet, in your FAQ it says that placing into play is different than playing. But the rulebook specifically states otherwise.

    2. In the “Allies During Combat” section, it says “When an Ally performs an Action, it acts just like your
    Main Personality. This means you can do things like use
    the Power of an Ally, use the Power Level of an Ally when
    referencing the Attack Table…”

    This is clear cut definition that you can use an ally’s power level (non-specifically as an attack or defense), but you said here, “3) Essentially no. Allies are only in control to make actions, whether that’s performing an attack, using a power, etc. They cannot take over just to calculate damage while defending.”

    If you could please clarify both of these and the mechanics behind it, that would be great.

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    • 1) An updated version of the rulebook will be released with FAQ text.

      2) As mentioned in the first section that you quote, an Ally has to be performing an action. Taking over combat only to calculate damage while defending is not an action.

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      • So, is the following scenario correct?

        My MP is at 0, and my opponent performs a physical attack. I have an Ally in play in the C bracket. I play Blue Rest in response to the physical attack, but I declare that my ally is performing the action, not my MP. My opponent plays a Sphere to stop the effects of Blue Rest, therefore the damage from the attack will not get prevented. In this case I would be using the Ally’s power level to calculate damage?

        Same thing could happen if I replace Blue Rest in the above example with Time is a Warrior’s Tool (or any other event block).. I can’t think of any other situations where I could play a defensive action that would still result in needing to calculate damage.

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        • Yes, that scenario is correct.

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37. If you capture the last Dragon Ball for a Victory, do you wait until your next turn to win, or do you win automatically?

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    • You win immediately, this is a change from the old game.

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38. Please email all gameplay questions to our DBZ address – dbz@paniniamerica.net – thanks!

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    • Wouldn’t gameplay questions be better served in a public forum like this? So A) everyone gets to see rulings, not just the one person who emailed the question, and B ) so you don’t get the same questions sent to you 713 times?

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      • I would agree with you if this was an actual forum-style page (which we are still working on). But, since there are questions essentially on every post in this blog, it isn’t any easier for someone to find an answer if their question has already been asked – we are still getting numerous repeated topics.

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