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.