Notes
As a reminder if you want to see a card completely, visit https://www.carddass.com/dbh/sdbh_ugm/cardlist/ with a translate add-on or utility, can copy the card text and paste it to google translate or DeepL. Also as extra utility, here's the link to the avatar abilities if you're curious, remember to have a translator on standby if you're not fluent in Japanese, https://www.carddass.com/dbh/sdbh_ugm/play/avatar_ability.php And Dimps-sama, if you are reading this, pls WM2, I get to make 50 decks in 36 hours, you get a tax right-off if it bombs if that's how it works in Japan, and your devs can have a simple dev cycle that shouldn't be too painful, everyone wins. Especially with certain developments, you won't have to fear anything so include every fucking card into the god damn sun. I don't care if I'll be gray when I'm done grinding my promos and HA and apps, I wanna make my bullshit. Also if you wish to buy SDBH cards, good luck with your native customs, https://jp.mercari.com/ is way to look up SDBH cards to personally own them, note its best to search with the card number (UGM6-055 for UGM6-055 Vegeta (Xeno) as an example), and that if you try to go for big name cards like UGM7-SEC3 Goku Black, it can go into hundreds of dollars but other cards are relatively cheap.
Happy Go....
Oh, I see, here I was about to celebrate our hero Goku and be happy but I'm hearing the screams of innocents, smelling smoke, and would you look at that, a new television broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWRnI_fhuM (look, the sub had it as may 9th, dubs changed it to the 13th because unlucky days)
And the chosen sector? 14, huh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_SmC0cRzu0
And with the bandaid ripped, Happy Piccolo Day! SDBH ded, Super Divers is the new arcade game and will have backwards compatbility to SDBH but no further support to that game and Super Divers just looks to be another DBZ game on the list that has little sense of identity or self, it's 2024 and we're advertising our new game with fucking Namek. Is Frieza Arc kino? Yes, how about though you try something that showcases a depth of roster instead of thinking it's perpetually 2003. Ningens, kill yourself, you have to do something different. Also as cursed personal trivia, this is yet another thing that imploded when I got into? First was Battleborn... We all have our guilty pleasures, than we had Borderlands farting in the wind with Wonderlands (how the fuck you did you mess that one up Gearbox?), and now this. The two silver linings is that this is the best chance for WM2 being real since the Heroes playerbase isn't taking Super Divers (and considering this Carrot day thing was replaced with Piccolo Day, same boat) and they probably want to get one last paycheck from them as Super Divers will have to find its own playerbase. And the cards will be turbo cheap unless there's a change in how things will proceed, MM3-SEC is only ~$60 instead of nigh $200 as of the exact day this is posted. Still expensive but we aren't selling our kidneys for it, instead just a blood tithe should suffice. Also on the advertising "Everyone wants to fight with Goku", yeah, that's what Xenoverse and fucking SDBH let you do but so much god damn more. In the former, despite the zero spine and ambition of the devs, you could do a lot of roleplay with your imagination, versus mode, and mods even if the game didn't have any roleplay aspects at all barring Infinite History exactly, and SDBH really went with this with the HAs where it wasn't just fucking Goku, but Vegeta, Gohan, Frieza, Zamasu, Cabba, any crew you could make. There's a big reason I focus on having one card per character and rarely double dip. As for the deck techs, from what I have heard Meteor Mission does plan to go to MM8 but after that I'm done unless Super Divers is just too good to ignore and has its own identity, so these are probably going to be my last deck techs unless the spark of imagination strikes me for something. And as for SDBH itself, cry not that it ended, but that it happened. We practically had SS4Rose Goku Black, SS4God is real with the SS4LB forms, and that blessed form was given to the HAs and it didn't suck. SBBE Berserk Controlled Vegeta, Hearts, Fu and the rest of the demon realm, the little arc of Turles in BM, Baby Hatchiyack and Super 18, and of course what dragged me in to SDBH in the first place, SS4 Vegito (Xeno) and super mecha space pirate Zamasu (UM6-SEC3 if not catching the reference), these are things that existed and we got to see that, while in a thousand years they may be lost to time, until that hourglass is dried up it can be remembered in our hearts, and hey, while MM has had its downsides, they've been really interesting sets so perhaps SDBH can end with a bang (mm1 sucked but MM2 is a masterpiece, MM3 fucked the meta a bit but has cool cards and MM4 also joins the rank of really cool cards, grower of a set).Wasn't expecting Heroes to be related to two fucking funerals this year let alone it being Toriyama and its own but 2020 was the singularity event where we entered into maximum clown world so honk honk. That said, here's to Piccolo Day, rest in peace Akira Toriyama and thank you for everything, and thank you SDBH for being so good when you were running hot.
Reminder for Action Ability Seals
| Main CAAs | Main TAA |
|---|---|
| Transformation | Block Burst |
| Lock-Ons | Super/Ultimate Energy |
| Double/Triple Attack | Super/Ultimate Slash |
| EX/Double Dragon Fist | Keysword Locks |
| Spirit Bombs | Dark Shenrons |
| Change Switch | Team Impact |
| Kamehameha Rush/Combined/EX/God | Dokkan Impact |
| Freeze Attack | x |
| God Meteors | x |
The Reign of Demon King Piccolo
| Card | Why |
|---|---|
| HGD4-19 Demon King Piccolo | Alright so here's the problem, our demon king isn't the best track record with cards. He has Truncated Evil is a DBH ability that lest him have extra PWR at the end of R1 based on DMG dealt to the enemy, maxing out at 15k PWR. Then there's the HG8-SEC2 where he starts with 16k PWR but halves it at the end of each round, note his paper start is 1k with 15k being from the ability so no synergies to be had there unless you want his lock-on as it is STA DMG for some lock-on aggro meaning this is what we're left with. Double-Edged Superpower makes him deal 3x DMG but at the end of the round as an attacker he'll take 2x DMG, this negative DMG reduction can be used by some cards for strong effects and his burst isn't bad either, 3k fixed DMG on a 4 HE super attack is very strong, especially with his DMG multiplication. |
| MM2-SEC2 Gogeta | Since we're working with a card that has negative DMG reduction, tallyho to this. First he doubles the team's PWR at the start of the game and then gives you 40% DMG reduction when being attacked, further increased to 80% when you have someone with negative DMG reduction. |
| MM2-072 Vegeta | When you have someone with negative DMG reduction, your team gets 5k PWR/GRD and 2 bars of STA in the PLBP which is really efficient, furthermore he boosts the Dokkan ability of himself and Gogeta so they may deal 1.4x DMG and have 40% DMG reduction. |
| BM10-SEC2 Masked Black | And with your choice of retargeting, the deck is now up to you as to how it'll go. UGM10-SEC Godku incentivizes a slow deck, ABS-23 Candy Vegito, MM4-SEC4 Super Buu, UM12-SEC Gogeta (UM), and BM5-047 Jiren are all solid options but considering this is a celebration on SDBH as well as Piccolo Day, there's no other choice than Goku Black going SSR3 with a fucking monkey tail. Look at this chad, the only issue is that we need to win the PLBP R1 and onwards. |
| UM8-047 Fin / HGD9-44 Future Trunks / BM6-068 Broly | Our R1 stun since I think Masked Black will be good for speed as long as he can be targeted R1, each with their benefits. UM8 Fin is the best at winning the PLBP, only fearing enemy fixed PWR LV alongside HGD9-44 Future Trunks but that isn't the most common thing so all should be good here. HGD9-44 Future Trunks lets us be parity with other ones even if they have fixed PWR LV as well as increase enemy CI speed, making winning CIs easier, and then there's BM6-068 Broly who does the most damage amongst the options and sets enemy STA to 1, sadly is bad against MM3-052 Frieza (Revived). UGM6-060 Demon Goddess Robel could be explored but comes with the issue of really incentivizing an EL Dark King/Demon God Demigra which gets in the way of the next card. |
| PUMS9-02 Super Fu | Byproducts of an Experiment can seal enemy co-op attacks as long as the card has less than a bar of STA when an attacker, consume all the STA and that'll be true and with Masked Black, this will make him tanky with all the extra GRD/HP since he's getting it from each attacker and not each co-op group. Can make games annoying and last a long while though. |
| Flex Slot | For HAs the big ones are BS Kai HA, SS4LB Note, and maybe a Namekian HA (could be some flavor of being Piccolo's right hand man as you fuse with his bastard son). As for non HA cards, sky's sort of the limit but probably something to deal with enemy GRD/DMG reduction to help with hitting hard, MM4-SEC5 Vegito can give the deck an otk edge as long as you win the PLBP, MM4-029 Great Saiyaman is defense and offense as long as you have the STA generation to maintain it, and MM4-SEC Vegito is able to be fast even if you won't stay having 0 HE throughout the game. |
So yeah the most you could do with the lad is make something with HGD4 and make use of his negative DMG reduction, that said who he fuels are really good so the rest of the deck is up to you. I decided to meme with supporting Masked Black. There are other ways to build the deck though, depending on what retargeting you pick and how you want to support them but in general the DMG reduction and GRD from Gogeta/Vegeta should give a good baseline to make Masked Black tanky as he tanks every card's hits while healing off of it, so long as you win the CIs of course, that does make the deck difficult to play but that was always going to be the case with him. Demon King Piccolo gets to be cozy on his thrown hitting hard while Masked Black, another certified Goku Day hater who'd probably enjoy partaking in Piccolo Day festivities takes all the punishment. Main issue I could see of the deck is lacking DMG which the last slot could help with in a variety of ways.
Alternative Cards
| Card | Why |
|---|---|
| BM6-062 Demon Goddess Robel | With MM2-SEC2 Gogeta's native 40% DMG reduction, you could implement a deck based on Robel as she'll target him instead of Demon King Piccolo, can go so far as to use MM4-049 Future Trunks or MM4-029 Great Saiyaman for stun prevention or even more DMG reduction but I wanted to go a bit of a different direction with the retargeting. Especially with MM2-072 Vegeta boosting the native DMG reduction on both of them. |
| MM4-049 Future Trunks and Mai (UM2-037/MM4-CP2) | So we need speed huh? We need stun prevention? How does 4x PWR LV, a bar of STA and stun prevention sound? Good? Then there's why he's in the deck. Fast boy and with the retargeting, all should be good, just that he doesn't do well against our enemy HGD9-44 Future Trunks or the PWR LV Limiter apps. As for the Mais, the latter is STA disruption to help win the PLBP while the former is CI disruption to help with Masked Black, note that this could be some other core like MM3-052 Frieza (Revived) and MM3-SEC Vegeta/UGM10-023 Goku or make use of UGM8-SEC3 Bardock/BM8-SEC2 Vegeta alongside BM11-017 Goku as your speed and CI disruption card respectively. Or if you want to be normal, HGD9-44 Future Trunks since he is both for R1 and then this is a complete flex slot depending on what you want, especially since Masked Black's fixed PWR LV should be good enough. |
| UGM9-059 Black-Clad Warrior / SBPSJ-03 Vegito / MM4-018 Adult Gohan | All of these offer STA DMG resistance which can be very important for Masked Black as another way to prevent him from getting stunned, UGM9 requires a Goku on the team while Vegito is PWR generation at the cost of some STA for the team (good for Super Fuu technically) and requires Masked Black to have a bar after being an attacker for the bost which can be an issue with only two bars of STA generation, and finally there's Adult Gohan. You could fit in his unit to help win the PLBP against Majin Ozotto since we already have Vegeta, when a supporter he's 40% DMG reduction and STA DMG resistance while being an attacker he increases enemy CI speed and disables their miracle perfects giving him good utility either way for Masked Black. |