How many cards are in a MHA CCG deck?

This quick guide will help you understand the official formats of play for the My Hero Academia CCG!

Sealed

In a sealed event, each player receives 6 packs and will form a deck using a minimum of 40 cards from those packs. The cards in your deck do not need to all share the same symbol with your character, but every card must share at least 1 symbol. If a player does not have enough cards to complete a 40-card deck, they may play a card that does not match symbols with their character face down as a 2-difficulty foundation with no text, and a +3 mid block modifier. (For this reason, we highly suggest players use sleeves if possible for a sealed event). These deviations from the standard deck building rules allow players to create decks from such few cards.

Your starting character can be chosen from any character opened in one of your packs, a Quirk Pack character available, or additionally the venue may provide draft format characters for players to choose from which are returned to the store at the end of the event.

In addition to the deck building alterations for sealed, there is one gameplay rule change as well: when you run out of cards in your deck, you only remove 5 cards from your deck instead of the standard 10 when you cycle your deck.

Additionally, decks are not restricted to only 4 copies of a card as they would be in the constructed format. In limited formats such as Sealed and Draft, players may run as many copies of a given card as they open (or draft) from their packs.

Draft

The draft format uses the same rules structure as in a sealed event, but with two major differences; you only use 6 packs in Draft, and you open your packs alongside other players and each time you select a card from your pack, you pass the remainder of the pack to the next player and continue until everyone has run out of cards.

The first, third, and fifth packs opened are passed to each individual player’s left, and the second, fourth, and sixth packs are passed to the right of the player after they have selected their card.

Plus Ultra Events

Plus Ultra events are for players to bring their A-game! These events will be held using the standard deck building requirements for the My Hero Academia CCG, being a minimum 50 card deck and one character. Each participant will receive one Plus Ultra pack for showing up, containing one random card from a pool of Plus Ultra cards for that series.

An additional pack will be given to the Winner and the Judge after the event, unique to each of those people. The Judge pack contains one card from a smaller pool from the same Plus Ultra cards from that series, but stamped with a foil JUDGE icon! The Winner pack contains one card from a different pool of cards from the same Plus Ultra series, but with a VICTORY stamp instead.

Starting this week we are going to begin a series of advanced deck building articles for some characters in Series 1 that we’ve received requests for help building. These decks may not each be extremely competitive, but they should help to get you back on the path to winning! We will be using https://uvsultra.online/ for the deck builds, and each deck will be publicly available for viewing through the site on the same account.

These deck builds will each be on different symbols to try and highlight the differences, but by no means is that us trying to tell you what the best symbol is for each character. The My Hero Academia CCG has lots of options for each character, and generally there is no one “best” symbol for each character. You can explore lots of options, and even bring a different version of your favourite character to your local game shop each week!

With each article we will go over a few essential choices when building your own deck. These include deciding which symbol is best for your deck, if your deck should be more than the minimum of 50 cards, and let’s not forget that some symbols have access to some actions and assets so we’ll have to figure out how to slot those in accordingly as well. 

Additionally, lots of players have had problems identifying how many copies of a given card to run in a deck. A 0 difficulty foundation that synergizes with your character is an easy card to run 4 copies of, but what about a unique 2 difficulty foundation that works well, but not astoundingly with your character? What if you reshape your game plan AROUND that card? There is a lot more work that goes in to the creation of a deck than some would expect, so it is crucial that you make the right choices both in game and out of the game.

We are going to start off with our two rival decks, Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo. These two characters have access to twice as many cards as every other character in Series 1, so we will have to start by discussing which cards won’t make the final cut and which cards to focus on to create a competitive deck!

We hope you check out our advanced deck building articles over the coming weeks, and we welcome any experienced players to give advice through the comments of these articles as well.