The Best Saiyan Style Cards from Older Sets

This page is part of a series for beginners, highlighting the best cards from older sets of the DBZ TCG from Panini. Adding these cards to your collection will enable you to build better and more competitive Saiyan decks, without getting bogged down in the sheer number of cards. This list will be updated as more sets are released.

While there are other good situational cards available, the focus on this list is versatility and usability, cards that have kept their value through several releases and meta-game changes. The biggest bang for your buck.

Best Saiyan Cards from Set 1 - Premiere

• Saiyan Empowered Mastery - It's good to own the masteries, even if they might be (temporarily?) on the frozen list.
• Saiyan Arm Catch - A block with anger gain and good endurance. (available as a reprint in the Evolution set)
• Saiyan Cheap Shot - Good damage and endurance, and helps in preventing your opponent from using their discard pile against you.
• Saiyan Pinpoint Blast - Use a critical damage effect regardless if the attack is successful, plus endurance. (available as a reprint in the Evolution set)
• Saiyan Elbow Drop - Staying in play gives you extra actions in a combat to overwhelm an opponents defenses. Belongs in almost any deck relying heavily on stage damage.
• Saiyan Energy Deflection - Another block with anger gain and endurance. (available as a reprint in the Evolution set)
• Saiyan Domination - Some of the best blocks in the game are events ( Time Is A Warrior’s Tool and  Namekian Hybrid Defense ) and disrupting them at the right time can sometimes win you the game.
• Saiyan Energy Focus - Catch your opponent by surprise by knocking out the effects of a key drill, setup, or Dragon Ball.
• Saiyan Enraged - Anger gain, rejuvenation, and possible card draw.
• Saiyan Gut Kick - Good for aggressive decks, and if your opponent has a key setup or card they are itching to use, this is good interruption. (available as a reprint in the Evolution set)
• Saiyan Left Kick - Anger gain, endurance, and direct damage to the life deck. (available as a reprint in the Evolution set)
• Saiyan Wrist Block - A block that makes your opponent lose stages, possibly stage locking them and/or causing them to mill unexpected cards from their life deck.

Best Saiyan Cards from Set 2 - Heroes & Villains

• Saiyan Body Blow - Pull out a card that can attach to your MP, and Saiyan has some good ones to choose from.
• Saiyan Grab - Unstoppable under the right conditions, plus card draw.
• Saiyan Hand Swipe - A block that adds big damage to your next attack, plus great endurance. (available as a reprint in the Evolution set)
• Saiyan Outrage - An omni-block, which also lets you pull out an attached card.
• Saiyan Rescue - One of the best cards in the game. Choose whatever card you want and rejuvenate it. Rejuventate your blocks back in, like  Time Is A Warrior’s Tool , or rejuvenate a card that has a good effect whenever it rejuvenates, like  Saiyan Menace .
• Saiyan Spin Kick - Gains anger while lowering your opponent's anger, destroys an ally, and has good endurance. A good utility that finds its way into many deck types. (available as a reprint in the Evolution set)
• Saiyan Prepped Ball - Grab  Saiyan Rescue from your discard pile, or grab something like  Overwhelming Power and get the free critical damage effect.

Best Saiyan Cards from Set 3 - Movie Collection

• Saiyan Backbreaker - Great for getting rid of a pesky  Wall Breaker , plus it can stay in play to be used for a second time.
• Saiyan Menace - If your opponent has a board of allies, this card packs a big punch.

Best Saiyan Cards from Set 4 - Evolution

• Saiyan Overhead Kick - Pull out an ally while doing decent damage. Better for villain decks.
• Saiyan Smack - Devastating against an opponent with a board full of allies.
• Saiyan Sword Strike - Can be pulled with other sword cards, and has the potential to be unstoppable and unpreventable.

Best Saiyan Cards from Set 5 - Perfection

• Saiyan Ki Burst - Great endurance, and stopping non-Styled cards on a key combat can win you the game.
• Saiyan Crunch - Helps you keep the combat going, grabbing any Styled card in your discard pile you want. Great for the end game when you have a thick discard pile. It can even pull a copy of itself, which creates a nice loop, and if you are playing a deck that adds heavy modifiers, it can be devastating.
• Saiyan Face Strike - Lots of anger gain, with beneficial effects if it is stopped. Timing it so you raise a level makes the downside of this card non-existent.
• Saiyan Rapid Fire - One of the best energy attacks in the game. If it hits, you get guaranteed critical damage and anger. And it only costs one stage to perform.

Best Saiyan Cards from Set 6 - Vengeance

• Saiyan Assistance - Both of its effects are good against decks that try to win by MPPV, with good endurance.
• Saiyan Clash - Not much damage, but it mills for one, and if you have a lot of modifiers, staying in play for a second use is powerful.
• Saiyan Severing Punch - Decent damage, good endurance, slight anger control, and stops your opponent from using cards like  Unleashed .
• Saiyan Tantrum - One of the best energy attacks in the game. Good endurance with a great hit effect. It's reveal effect is potent with Broly.
• Saiyan Terrifying Strike - Anger gain that has the potential to be unstoppable.