Dragon Ball Fusion World Guide 2026: Rules, Sets, Decks

How to play Dragon Ball Fusion World on one page

Everything below comes from Bandai's comprehensive rules, version 1.08. Our how to play Dragon Ball Super Card Game Fusion World guide walks through a full turn with examples.

Attacking. Rest your Leader or a Battle Card to attack the opposing Leader or one of their rested Battle Cards. Battle Cards can attack the turn they come down.

Combo. This is the step to practice. Both players can add combo power by revealing Battle Cards from hand, or by using their own untapped Battle Cards. The attacker wins ties. Every card used for a combo goes to the Drop Area afterward, so each fight costs both players cards.

Damage and losing. Damage moves your top Life cards into your hand, which means taking hits refills your options. You lose when you have no Life cards left or no cards in your deck.

Awaken. Every Leader prints its own flip condition. FB11's Son Goku flips at 4 Life or less, or with 2 energy and an Evolve card in play; Shallot/Giblet flips at 5 Life or less.

If you'd rather watch a turn, Bandai's own video (Ver1.10) covers the same ground:

Where Dragon Ball Fusion World stands in October 2026

The newest set is FB11 Brightness of Hope, out in English on October 16 with five Leaders: Son Goku, Trunks: Future/Son Gohan: Future, Goku Black, Shallot/Giblet and Bardock. A booster box sold for about $195 on TCGplayer on October 20.

Image: Bandai, official FB11 Leader card images from the Fusion World card list.

Next up is FB12 Reach the God on December 18, 2026, at $4.99 a pack. Two new starter decks, The Saiyan Raised on Earth (FS13) and The Prince of Saiyan (FS14), follow on January 22, 2027.

Nothing rotates. Bandai's rules page has no rotation schedule, and the banned and restricted list is short: three cards banned, five limited to one copy, last changed in March 2026. Our Dragon Ball Fusion World standard format guide lists all eight and the color rule that trips up deck lists. When a new player on r/dbsfusionworld asked in August whether older sets would rotate out, u/No_Ragrets76 answered that "you would be able to find any card in abundance and dirt cheap."

Which FB11 Leader to start with

All five FB11 Leaders have 15000 power on the front, 20000 once awakened, and draw a card when they attack on the front side. What changes is how they flip and what the back side does. We read each one off the official card list.

Son Goku (Red) flips at 4 Life or less, or once you have 2 energy and an Evolve card in play. Awakened, he moves an opponent's Battle Card attack onto one of your Evolve cards. Pick him if you want a straightforward deck that protects its board. Our Son Goku deck guide has a full list.

Trunks: Future/Son Gohan: Future (Blue) flips with 2 Ki in your Battle Area. Awakened, he gives a Future card +1 Ki once a turn and can return a cheap Future card to your hand to replay it. He suits players who like reusing their own On Play effects. The FB11 Trunks deck guide has a 50-card list and how often he flips by turn 2.

Goku Black (Green) flips when Goku Black or Zamasu is in play and you have 2 Ki. Awakened, each attack draws 2, discards 1, then adds Ki to Goku Black and Zamasu. Once it's awake, every attack builds more Ki; see the Goku Black deck guide.

Shallot/Giblet (Yellow) flips at 5 Life or less, the easiest condition of the five. The catch is printed on the front: you can't play cards that cost 4 or less and have Evolve, for the whole game. Awakened, with both Shallot and Giblet out, he untaps 2 energy once a turn. Our Shallot deck guide covers the build.

Bardock (Black) flips once he has 2 Ki on himself. Awakened, he spends 1 Ki to fire the When KO'd skill of a cost-2 Bardock's Crew card in your Drop, then puts it at the bottom of your deck. His turns take the most bookkeeping of the five, so start elsewhere unless that kind of recursion appeals. The Bardock deck guide explains the loop.

What Ki means in Fusion World

Three of the five FB11 Leaders care about Ki, so it's worth learning early. Ki is an energy marker placed under a card instead of in your Energy Area. It can't be spent to pay costs the way a normal energy marker can, and it doesn't count when a card asks whether you "have an energy marker." When the card leaves the Battle Area, its Ki goes with it, so a KO also strips the Ki you built. That's why Ki Leaders want to protect the cards holding it. Our Ki mechanic guide goes further.

Which Dragon Ball Fusion World starter deck to buy

The newest starters on sale are Starter Deck EX The Phase of Evolution (FS11) and The Beat of Ki (FS12), both released March 13, 2026 at $23.99. FS13 and FS14 will be cheaper at $15.99 when they arrive in January.

Image: Bandai, official product images from the Fusion World products page.

If you want to start this month, buy FS11 or FS12. If you can wait until January, FS13 or FS14 costs less. Our starter deck guide compares the options, and best cards for beginners covers what to buy after that.

Our take: don't buy booster boxes to learn. A starter, a handful of singles for one Leader and a few games at a store teach you more than a box of FB11. Pick whichever of the five Leaders above you like the look of. No rotation has been announced, so that deck stays legal until Bandai says otherwise.

All Dragon Ball Fusion World guides

Rules and mechanics (plus the how-to-play and standard format guides linked above)

• FB10 format and rotation guide: what was legal when Cross Force launched.
• Energy guide: what to charge and when.
• Evolve mechanic explained; the Ki guide is linked in the Ki section above.

FB12 Reach the God

• FB12 release date, price and first cards: December 18 in English, six days after Japan.

FB11 Brightness of Hope

• FB11 release, prices and pulls, the FB11 set guide and FB11 chase cards by real sales.
• FB11 Leaders: all 5.
• Deck guides for Son Goku, Trunks, Goku Black, Shallot and Bardock are linked in the Leader section above.

FB10 Cross Force and Story Booster 01

• FB10 Cross Force set guide, FB10 Leaders and best FB10 Leaders ranked.
• Deck guides: Vegito, Vegito meta snapshot, Son Goku Ki, Gohan, Boujack, Cell.
• Story Booster 01 guide.

Meta

• Tier list, our current cross-set ranking.
• FB10 history: post-launch tier list, July tiers vs results, July meta report, results after ST01.
• Regionals 2026 Wave 2: every date and prize.

Buying and collecting

• FB10 where to buy, FB10 best cards to pull, FB10 SCR art and value, FB10 SCR price guide.
• the price ranking across sets and card grading guide

Compared with other games

• Fusion World vs One Piece TCG, Fusion World vs Pokemon TCG and Union Arena vs Dragon Ball.

How we checked this

Rules from Bandai's comprehensive rules version 1.08; release dates and prices of upcoming products from Bandai's products page; the banned and restricted list from Bandai's rules page; FB11 Leader text (front and back) from the official card list; the FB11 box price from TCGplayer market data (via tcgcsv.com), all read on October 20, 2026.

References

• Comprehensive rules v1.08 (PDF), Bandai
• Official rules page, Bandai
• Fusion World products, Bandai
• FB11 Brightness of Hope product page, Bandai