By Crossave · Updated: August 2026
The Dragon Ball Super Card Game now exists as two separate lines that live side by side on the secondary market: the long-running series (often called Masters, with codes starting BT) and Fusion World, the newer line with codes starting FB. They are distinct games, with distinct cards and distinct prices — and confusing the two is the first mistake made by anyone shopping by character name alone.
The format is set prefix, dash, card number: in FB01-041, "FB01" is the first Fusion World booster set and "041" is card number 41. FB01, FB02 and so on identify the Fusion World sets in release order; prefixes starting with BT belong to the earlier series. Here too, as with One Piece and unlike Pokémon, the number is not a fraction: there is no set total inside the code.
When you are looking up a price, the full code is the most valuable thing you can hand a search engine: "Son Goku" returns hundreds of cards from different series and eras, "FB01-041" returns one.
Fusion World uses seven rarities: Leader (L), Common (C), Uncommon (UC), Rare (R), Super Rare (SR), Secret Rare (SCR) and Promotion (PR). The letters you see in a listing title — usually right after the code, as in "FB01-041 SR" — account for most of the price difference between two cards of the same character from the same set.
Secret Rares deserve a closer look because there are two kinds: standard SCR and SCR Alt-Art, the latter being versions with alternative artwork and special visual effects. The Alt-Arts are generally the most sought after. With each release Bandai publishes the full list of that set's alt-art cards on the official site: it is the most reliable way to check whether the card you are looking at really is the special version you think it is.
Unlike other games, where the Japanese market runs months ahead of the international one, Fusion World keeps the two releases very close: for the FB08 set (SAIYAN's PRIDE), for example, the Japanese version reached shops on 13 December and the English one on 12 December. That shrinks the window in which importing buys you an early release, but it does not remove the price differences between markets: those remain, driven by demand and availability country by country.
If you order from Japan, remember that the listed price is not the final cost: shipping, import duty and VAT or sales tax are added on arrival, and how much depends on where you live. Comparing a bare Japanese price against a local shop nearly always leads to the wrong decision.
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