Collecting the My Hero Academia CCG

On October 15th, North America saw the release of the My Hero Academia card game, based on the hit anime and manga series. The game uses the UniVersus system to replicate fast head-to-head fighting action. The system has its roots in the Universal Fighting System series released in 2006. The name was changed as the game stopped focusing exclusively on fighting games like Street Fighter and Soul Calibur and used properties ranging from the Mega Man to Cowboy Bebop.

Players select a character to build their deck around. Players build foundations and assets, use action cards, and unleash attacks to try to reduce the opponent to 0 life. Each card has a difficulty printed on it and success is determined by putting the top card of the player’s deck into the discard pile, hoping for a check number that is equal or higher than the difficulty. A successfully played card remains in the staging area, increasing all other card difficulties by 1. For more information, check the resources page.

The release of the MHA set has created a new format as a soft reboot of sorts. The differences in the MHA format compared to standard are mainly in deck building. MHA uses 50 card decks instead of 60. MHA format also requires every card in the deck to share a common resource symbol. Standard allows use of any of the three, but all cards played in a turn must have a matching symbol.

Based on this, the supplies you need depend on the format you wish to play. While something like the Elite2 Deck Guards will be useful in either case, but storage depends on your format. A Deck Case would hold a double sleeved deck of either format. The Prime X4 deck case may be more useful. It will hold 4 decks of either format, as well as having space to hold a life counter and any tokens you may need to track limited use abilities. However, the Deck Vault 100 or 200 would hold tokens and have space to hold your character in a Mini-Snap for extra protection. As your collection grows, a Modular Sorting Tray will help organize your cards for efficient deck building.

Regardless of format, My Hero Academia and the rest of the UniVersus system offers a fast-paced game that focuses on interaction. If you are a fan of the series, or of games with limited card pools, this comes highly recommended.