Welcome to the third article highlighting the various Characters within Set 4 of the My Hero Academia Collectible Card Game: League of Villains!

This week, we’re covering a fan-favorite: Himiko Toga (II)!

Himiko Toga

Himiko Toga (II) is a defensive Character whose gameplay is closely tied to momentum. As Toga (II) generates momentum through her fast attacks and momentum-ramping Enhances on her cards, her rivals will struggle to keep up!

As a 6 hander with 28 health, Toga (II) has enough health to allow her to opt into scrapping and trading attacks as well as playing defensively. Paired with the Life, Water and Death symbols, Toga (II) has a ton of great deckbuilding options to take on even the most fearsome rivals out there!

Starting with Toga’s First Enhance, Toga (II) lets you re-use your “Momentum Flip” abilities! Cards like Piercing Needle from “Heroes Clash” and Zero Gravity Capture from “My Hero Academia Base Set” synergize very well with this new strategy!

Her second Enhance is simple, but powerful. Every turn, your first attack gets +2 Speed. This synergizes very well with Toga (II)’s “poke once and pass” strategy, as Toga (II) prefers longer games that can take advantage of this speed and the momentum it creates.

Lastly, her Response is incredible for both keeping yourself safe and extending your attacking turns. Late game, you’ll be flipping your Momentum often and devastating your rival’s resources with cards like Dual Needle Lunge and Gory Stab (featured below) while simultaneously re-using powerful foundations like Creepy Realization or Prone To Dry Eyes will let you keep Toga (II) in the driver’s seat at all times.

Dual Needle Lunge

Dual Needle Lunge is one of Toga (II)’s standout Attacks in her kit, and for good reason! Dual Needle Lunge has below average combat stats, with a +3 Low Block and only 5 damage, but brings immense value with an EX:2 that serves as an effective late-game finisher, as well as powerful Enhance effects.

The first Enhance lets you Flip 1 Momentum to mill your rival for 2 cards. This may seem trivial, but it’s important to remember that this effect lets you ready foundations with Toga (II)’s Response during your rival’s turn, and can even interfere with cards like Destined for Mainstream Success and Quick Creation!

The second Enhance is the cherry on top — you can pay 3 health to kick Dual Needle Lunge straight to your momentum when it resolves! Being able to consistently add cards to your Momentum is essential for Toga (II)’s strategy, making Dual Needle Lunge the perfect attack for the job!

Gory Stab

If Toga (II) is able to add Gory Stab to her Momentum, her rivals will find themselves falling even further behind!. Defensive foundations like Release, Rescue Completed, and Creepy Realization are put in a very tough spot by Gory Stab’s first Response: if you use them, you lose them! Further, since Toga (II) can un-flip a momentum every turn, the ability to consistently pressure your rival’s resources while being able to dedicate all of your cards and foundations to defense makes Toga (II) a tough character to attack into.

But the frustration for your rivals doesn’t end there! Gory Stab’s second Response forces your rivals to make a tough decision each time it’s played. Does your rival value their foundations or their momentum more? Whatever their choice, Toga (II) will drain their resources dry. 

Conclusion
Featuring all of your favorite Villains for the first time – My Hero Academia: League of Villains lets players join the League of Villains and show those Heroes what they are capable of!

My Hero Academia: League of Villains can be seen for the first time at the Hero League Championship this month, but if you can’t make it make sure to attend a Pre-Release at a Local Game Store near you! Find one here: https://play.mhacardgame.com/play/events

Unlike Constructed games where you bring your own prepared deck – Sealed Play is all about building an entire deck out of just six booster packs. These events are perfect for building your collection, as well as an excellent onramp for newer players – it’s a great way to learn to play with friends!

Sealed Play events start with getting everyone together and providing each player six booster packs. If the Sealed event has a promo card associated with it (like with a Pre-Release), any entry promotional card can be part of your Sealed Deck as long as there were enough promos for each player in the event.

Resource Symbols are ignored for deck construction in Sealed Play – you can play with any of the cards you opened with any character, leading to sweet interactions you’ll never see in Constructed!

Lastly, you can play with as many copies of any card you open as you’d like – if you pull five of the same card, you can play all five!

Some quick tips for building a good Sealed deck:

• In a 40 card sealed deck, you’ll want to play about 24 foundations and 16 attacks for consistency
• Look for cards that work well together – if you opened a lot of punches for example, look into any foundations you opened that lean toward punches to make your deck as strong as possible
• Sorting your pulls by difficulty and card type helps analyze what cards you should build your strategy around – don’t play too many 5+ difficulty attacks!
• As a rule of thumb, start out by reading your Rares and Characters so that you have an idea of your most powerful cards
• Low difficulty foundations are stronger than they look – don’t underestimate them!
• For the full MHACCG rulebook, click [here]
  

Why Play Sealed?

Sealed events are a great way for new players to experience the MHA CCG before investing and creating their own decks, but it’s not just that –

• Alternate deck building rules allow players to experiment in never-before-seen ways to create some exciting combos. You never know what to expect!
• Super-low barrier to entry is very new player friendly – bring a friend! 
• Earn the latest Extra Credit promo cards by participating in Sealed events at your local game store!

Where can I play sealed?

At your local game store, of course!

Sealed Play kits are rolling out to hundreds of LGS over the next couple weeks, and you’ll be able to find the nearest Sealed event for you on UGN:

Play.mhacardgame.com

If your LGS would like to host Sealed Play events, have them email us at lgs@universusgames.com and we can get them set up!

Welcome to the second of many articles highlighting the various Characters within Set 4 of the My Hero Academia Collectible Card Game: League of Villains!

Let’s get things cookin’ with Dabi‘s brand new, fiery-hot kit!

Dabi is an offensive powerhouse with two Enhance effects that both revolve around removing your own cards from play to get the upper-hand over your rivals. However, Dabi can’t get those cards back — you’ll need to be strategic in using his effects to not run out of steam too early.

His first Enhance is pretty simple —burn through your deck to burn through your rival! Many of Dabi’s new cards such as Flame Flicker (featured below) also grow progressively stronger for each card you’ve Removed! 

As a general reminder, Removed cards do not “cycle” back into your deck when you run out of cards. As soon as you start using Dabi’s Enhance, you’re on a clock — you’ll need to take down your rival before you have no cards left to work with.

Dabi’s second Enhance is what truly makes him unique. Once per turn, during your turn, you can remove an Action from your hand to replace it with an Action from your discard pile that matches two or more of Dabi’s symbols.

There are a ton of great cards from previous sets that synergize very well with this ability. Think of cards like Summon Dark Shadow, Concentrate, Sugar Rush Power-Up, and Capture Evil-Doers. The flexibility of Dabi’s second Enhance will make it easy to pick the best action for every situation. 

But this does beg the question — what are the NEW Action cards Dabi has access to?

Introducing your new favorite Action card, Cremation.

This new action card for Dabi is a banger – giving your attacks speed always feels great, and it’s important to note that Cremation’s health drain can reduce your rival to 0 life – even on their turn!

On top of that, the Response is great too – being able to effectively guarantee having at least one momentum going into your second turn feels great since Dabi can also grab cards like Capture Evil-Doers to spend that momentum at the same time!

Flame Flicker

Leading with an attack like Twisting Azure Inferno and buffing it with Cremation should set you up perfectly to play Flame Flicker, as Flame Flicker’s Combo Enhance clears your card pool and gives you a momentum to play with at the same time!

The second Enhance is where Flame Flicker’s power is on full display. Dabi’s ability to burn through his deck will pay tremendous dividends later in the game as Flame Flicker powers up. A late-game Flame Flicker can easily reach over 10 speed; good luck trying to block that attack!

Featuring all of your favorite Villains for the first time – My Hero Academia: League of Villains lets players join the League of Villains and show those Heroes what they are capable of!

My Hero Academia: League of Villains can be seen for the first time at the Hero League Championship this month, but if you can’t make it make sure to attend a Pre-Release at a Local Game Store near you!

We can’t wait to see what kinds of interesting and exciting combos you have in store for these cards. Stay tuned — there are many more Set 4 previews to come!

Greetings, Villains

We are excited to announce the Hero League Championship will feature guest appearances from the following My Hero Academia Voice Actors:

All three voice actors will be present with scheduled signings from Noon to 4PM on Friday and Saturday!

Make sure to sign up for the Set 4 – League of Villains World Premier at the Hero League Championship if you haven’t yet!

League of Villains World Premier Event Registration

For any last second attendees wanting to meet their favorite Pro Heroes in-person, there are still hotel rooms available in the Alexis Park Hotel Block. The cut-off date for discounted pricing is Monday, January 16th, so make sure you get your booking in while you still can!

Alexis Park Hotel Block