Dragonball Z Collectible Card Game

Shenron's Close Look at the Saiyan Style

Super Saiyan or Just a Monkey?

Weakness and Strength of the Saiyan Style  

Ok we all know about the saiyan style, this style combining huge attacks with the biggest card drawing abilities out there makes for a monster attacker. Does the saiyan style really have all the power its dreamt up to be? Lets go the way of the saiyan and find out for sure.  

Saiyan Style

When we hear this word we think of physical attacks doing plus 8 stages of damage. Saiyan has some of the biggest physical attacks out there and if a deck is made correctly you will see a range of attacks that don't do less than 5 stages of damage. Saiyan is all about the physicals hitting your opponent hard each turn. While playing against a saiyan deck one should never forget that one hit could be the end.  

Saiyan Energy

Saiyan has some huge energy attacks as well, we don't see these attacks because they have been ran over by the too perfect set up by the Trunks Saga Mastery. Why do 6 life cards of damage when you can do 8 and have your opponent at zero? Saiyan does have some monstrous energy attacks but not as monstrous as its physicals.  

Saiyan and its Mastery

The saiyan's Trunks Saga Mastery is just what every physical beat down wants, lowering your opponent to zero so you can inflict pain. This is the first mastery allowing you to draw a card and hurt your opponent without even making an attack. We can't, though, forget about the new mastery. Yes, the old one hurts your opponent without doing anything, but don't you have the hankering for one more attack, for one more physical killer doing plus 8 stages? This is what the new mastery brings up to the plate, a nice extra card to eliminate your opponent by.  

The Weakness of the Style

The cons of this style greatly slow down this monstrous deck eating machine, for example, the saiyan style doesn't have the amounts of anti non-combats that a deck needs to defeat a dragon ball deck. In tournaments dragonball decks so far have been in great numbers and a saiyan can't live long enough to stop your opponent from playing those annoying dragon ball searchers that ultimately defeat you.

Next saiyan card drawing ability, this ability is a double edged sword, yes you gain that extra card to defeat your opponent but you also take one extra life away from you. In the late game you start to wish that you didn't have that mastery slowly eating away at your deck. This can be exploited by a weaker deck just playing defense until you defeat yourself.  

Saiyan Defense

Yes saiyan can dish it out, but can it take it? I would say no, yes it does have good blocks, but just not enough. With energy beat downs roaming around the saiyan style just doesn't have the defense it needs to stay alive.

The pluses of the saiyan style are huge. Taking the ability to pound your opponent away with little or no strain, but the cons of this style extremely hurt you in a tournament scene. I suggest you not playing this style in any major event until you have played every deck and figured out a strategy for each one.  

Sincerely,  

David C./ShenronGod2 

IQ's Crew  

IQ's Note:
In order to be able to declare a Saiyan Tokui-Waza (TW) your main personality must be a saiyan like Goku or Gohan. If your main personality is not a Saiyan then you may not declare a Saiyan Tokui-Waza. Guess it's a family thing n_n