Quick answer
CardSpicy tells a booster family apart by the code printed on the box rather than by a reseller’s description, and Fusion World prints three booster families of which only one is the numbered FB main line.
Most guides treat DRAGON BALL SUPER CARD GAME Fusion World as a single booster line numbered FB. It is not. The game prints three families of booster, and only one of them is the numbered main line. Reading a code correctly is what tells them apart, and the premium on some of the cards inside them is set by which family they came from.
The three families
FB is the main booster line, running from FB01 Awakened Pulse in February 2024 onward. It carries the game’s story and its newest mechanics, and it is the line most players mean when they say “the new set”.
SB is the Manga Booster line. Manga Boosters print manga-panel art, which makes them a different proposition from a normal set: the appeal is the illustration, and an illustration that exists in one product and nowhere else is the whole basis of its value.
ST is the Story Booster line. Story Boosters are built around the anime’s narrative rather than the competitive card pool, and they are the line most likely to include product-only cards that a deck builder has no reason to look at and a collector has every reason to.
Why the distinction moves money
Because a card’s scarcity in Fusion World is a function of which product it came from as much as of its rarity letter.
The clearest example is the Energy Marker. Energy Markers are not character cards. They have no power, no combo value and a printed cost of zero, and their codes carry a bare E prefix with their own numbering. What they have is art, and the Manga Booster line is where the art becomes the product: the publisher states that energy markers were included in a booster pack for the first time in the first Manga Booster, that all 21 designs were originals obtainable only from that product, and that the booster also carries rare parallel versions of them.
That combination — a card type nobody was collecting for gameplay reasons, an art that exists in one product, and a parallel printing of it — is why several of the highest-priced Fusion World printings in the Dragon Ball data we track are Energy Markers rather than the Secret Rares of the main line. The Energy Marker article sets the whole argument out, and the price article shows it in a table.
How to tell which family a card came from
Read the prefix. FB is the main booster line, SB is Manga Booster, ST is Story Booster. Starter decks use FS and are not boosters at all. The rest of the families, including the Masters side of the game, are covered in how to read a Dragon Ball card number.
What this means when you buy
Two practical consequences. First, a box of a Manga Booster and a box of a main booster are not interchangeable and are not priced as though they were; the card counts differ, and so does what is inside. Second, when you see a card you do not recognise at a price you do not expect, the prefix is the first thing to check — a product-only Energy Marker and a mid-tier card from the main line can look identical in a photograph.
Frequently asked questions
How many booster lines does Fusion World have?
Three: the main FB line, the Manga Booster line under SB, and the Story Booster line under ST.
What is a Manga Booster?
A Fusion World booster line that prints manga-panel art. The publisher states that its first release was the first booster pack to include energy markers and that all 21 designs were obtainable only from that product.
What is a Story Booster?
A Fusion World booster line built around the anime’s story rather than the competitive pool, and the kind of product most likely to carry cards that exist only inside it.
Are Energy Markers cards?
They are a card type of their own. They stand in for energy, have no power, no combo value and a printed cost of zero, and carry their own E-prefix numbering and their own art.
Do these lines carry the same rarity tiers?
The ladder is shared across the game, but the treatments and the art differ by product. That is why two cards with the same rarity letter can sit at very different prices.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- Bandai — DRAGON BALL SUPER CARD GAME Fusion World official product pages, including the booster and starter-deck listings and their announced release dates.
- Bandai — the official DRAGON BALL news announcements covering the Fusion World booster reveals and the set contents summarised here.
- CardSpicy — the Dragon Ball card index, which tracks how many cards each character has and how many carry a graded value.
Product details are taken from the publisher’s own announcements at the date stated and can change before release. 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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