Alt. Dende Dragon Ball 2 - Buu Saga

Common - #2

Dragon Ball

Raise your Main Personality to his highest power stage. While you control this Dragon Ball, all of your physical attacks do +3 power stages of damage.

What an interesting concept. This Dragon Ball doesn't have an immediate effect attached to the normal go to full thing... instead it is a constant effect. This one mimics cards like Red Style Mastery CS and King Kai Thoughts.

This is one of the most interesting and useful of the DBs I've seen for this new set. I can see this DB going into physical beatdown decks, even if the deck is not supposed to run DBs. The sheer fact that characters like Cell can have two automatic physicals doing +6, even +9 with Red CS, and that's not even counting base or other possible modifiers makes this DB one you'd want to get rid of ASAP.

I would run this DB in any Red CS or Orange WGS deck right now, and possibly some Black TS physical and Saiyan physical decks. The down effect of it getting stolen generally won't hurt too much because of the fact that most decks that steal DBs are either energy based decks or DB decks. It won't be impossible to overcome the 10 stages, and can be quite possibly stolen back at the wrong time to continue a direct onslaught.

Also not that this is Dragon Ball 2, so we should look at the other option from the Cell Saga. That DB has a terrible effect if it gets stolen from you; a DB gets shuffled in. A good gamer knows to steal this DB first and send in one that won't hurt too bad to stall DB decks, unless there's something else more crucial like DDB3 and three beefy attacks that will totally screw over the DB deck. More likely than not, this Alt DB will probably be played over the original one because of the sheer fact it won't mess up DB deck strategy as much.

This interesting DB probably will see some play, but Namek 4 and Earth 7 are still the defining DBs of the game. I still see this one as quite powerful and probably will even see some Tuff Enuff play because of the effect, not because it is a Dragon Ball.

Standard: 3.7 out of 5.0 (it has more than one purpose, going into multiple decks... if Dende DB decks take over instead of Earth DB, we'll be seeing this DB probably being played over the older version)

Tuff Enuff: 3.0 out of 5.0 (DBs get stolen so quickly in this format, but I see this DB still being powerful because it can contribute to some overkills and a ton of damage in a direct onslaught after a quick Gohan's Kick)