Every card game generates a stream of meta reports: which Leaders are winning, what share of a field each one holds, which decks are tier one this month. Dragon Ball Fusion World is no exception, and because the game ships a new main booster roughly every quarter, the reports move fast. The problem is that most of them are not comparable with each other, and a reader who does not know how a share was produced will draw the wrong conclusion from it. CardSpicy has no interest in publishing a tier list, so this page explains how to read one.
Quick answer
A meta share is a proportion of a sample, and the sample is the weak point. A share drawn from one large event says something about that event. A share drawn from a handful of local results says almost nothing. Before you act on a number, find out how many events it covers, where they were, how large the fields were, and whether the decks were reported by the players or by an observer. A tier list without that information is an opinion with a table around it.
What the format is called
Fusion World names its competitive format after the set that defines it, so the same game is played under a different format name each time a main booster lands. The deck lists circulating in one season are not directly comparable with the ones circulating in the next, because the card pool underneath them has changed. When you read a report, check which format it is describing before you compare it with anything else. That single check removes most of the false conclusions people draw from month-old results.
Why a share moves the way it does
Three things drive a Leader’s share up or down, and only one of them is strength.
The set rotation of card pool. Fusion World introduces mechanics on a rolling basis rather than all at once. Later sets have added keywords and structures that earlier sets did not have, and a Leader that was competitive when it launched can be overtaken without anything about it changing. A report that does not say which format it covers is describing a card pool you cannot identify.
How easy the deck is to play. A new-and-strong deck gets picked up faster than an old-and-strong one, so its share climbs for reasons that have nothing to do with its ceiling. Early in a format the shares reflect who is willing to learn something new; later they reflect who has learned to beat it. The two moments look identical in a table.
Where the events were. A share is assembled from events, and events differ. A large national event with a cut produces a different sample from a series of local store events, and mixing them into one percentage hides that. If a report does not tell you which events it drew from, treat the share as a direction of travel rather than a measurement.
What a tier list cannot tell you
A tier list tells you what was played and what converted. It cannot tell you what was under-played, which is where the value usually is. If a Leader holds a modest share but a high conversion rate at the events it does appear at, the share is understating it — the deck is not popular, not weak. Reading the two columns together is the whole skill. Reading only the first is how a table turns into a shopping list for the most popular deck in the format, which is usually the answer to a question nobody asked.
What we will not do
CardSpicy will not publish a tier list for Fusion World, and we will not present a share as a number we produced. The reason is not modesty: a share we assembled from third-party event reports would be a figure we cannot verify against the publisher’s own data, and the publisher does not publish win rates at all. What we do instead is explain the structure — which events award what, how a format is named, what changes between sets — so that a reader can judge someone else’s numbers rather than take ours on faith. The prize card page covers the event structure side, and the set list places the card pools in order.
Frequently asked questions
What is the current Dragon Ball Fusion World meta?
CardSpicy does not publish a tier list, because any share we assembled would be built from third-party event reports we cannot verify and the publisher publishes no win rates. What can be checked is which format is current, which is set by the most recent main booster, and which events are running in the season.
How is a meta share measured?
In the usual way: the number of decks of a given Leader in a sample, divided by the total decks in that sample. The number is only as good as the sample. Ask how many events it covers, how large the fields were, and whether the decks were self-reported or observed.
Why do tier lists disagree with each other?
Usually because they are measuring different samples over different periods. One may cover a single large event, another a month of local results, a third the submissions to an online platform. If two lists disagree, the formats and sample windows are the first thing to compare, not the rankings.
Does a new set always change the meta?
A new main booster adds cards to the legal pool, so it always has the potential to. Whether it settles into a new top deck depends on whether the cards it added give an existing Leader a better plan, rather than on how many cards it contains. Fusion World ships a main booster roughly every quarter.
Where should a new player start with all this?
Ignore the reports at first. Learn the game with a starter deck, decide which Leader you actually enjoy playing, and only then read what is winning. A deck you cannot pilot well will lose to a deck you can, whatever a table says about either of them.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- Bandai — the official DRAGON BALL SUPER CARD GAME Fusion World rule manual (Version 1.20), which sets out deck construction, the colour rule and the charge, main and end turn structure.
- Bandai — the official Fusion World event pages for the November 2026 Shop Battle and Ultimate Battle EX, and the BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 Championship listing, which are the source of every prize card number quoted on this page.
- Bandai — the official Fusion World booster and starter-deck product listings and their published release dates, and the official card-list finder, which is the source of the set make-up quoted here.
- CardSpicy — the Dragon Ball card index, which tracks how many cards each character has and how many carry a graded value.
Event details, prize line-ups and product contents are taken from the publisher’s own announcements at the date stated and can change without notice. Prices quoted anywhere on this site are secondary-market observations and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation. Our own asking prices for the cards we hold are on each product page.
Where to go next
- The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
- The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).
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