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When we first put this guide together, FB11 "Brightness of Hope" was still mostly a placeholder on Bandai's release calendar — a set code, a rough release window, and not much else. That's changed. Over the past week, Bandai and the usual hobby-news outlets have filled in most of the blanks: we now know the theme, the first Leader, the full rarity structure, and — less happily for collectors — a price increase that's the first of its kind in the Fusion World card game's history. We've rewritten this guide from the ground up to reflect all of it, while keeping it focused on what it's always been for: helping you understand what you're preordering and when it's actually going to show up.

This is still a preview and preorder guide, not a full spoiler breakdown. If you're after a deep dive on archetypes, deck construction, or a card-by-card read of the set now that the full list is public, check out our FB11 card list and archetype preview. Here, we're sticking to release logistics, pricing, and the handful of confirmed facts that actually affect your buying decision.

The Theme, and the Dragon Ball Legends Crossover

FB11's theme has been confirmed as "Crisis-Awakened Saiyan Power!" — and it's a literal description of the set's Leader lineup, not just marketing copy. All five Leaders in FB11 are Saiyans, each built around some form of awakened ability — a mechanic our Leader Awakening by Color guide covers in more depth across the existing color pool. That's a tighter thematic focus than some recent sets, and it tells you a fair amount about where the set's power level and card pool are likely to sit even before you see individual card text.

The bigger structural news is that FB11 is a crossover set with Dragon Ball Legends, the mobile game. Crossover sets tend to bring their own visual identity, and FB11 is no exception — each color's Leader is getting an alt-art version tied to the collaboration, on top of whatever standard printings exist. If you've been holding out for a specific look on a specific color's Leader, this is worth knowing about before you start buying blind boxes hoping to pull it.

This news comes from SamuraiSwordTokyo's coverage (updated August 26, 2026) and has been corroborated by Bandai's own Fusion World news channel, so we're treating the theme and the crossover framing as confirmed rather than speculative.

The First Confirmed Leader: Shallot/Giblet

Bandai has officially revealed the first FB11 Leader, and it's Shallot/Giblet — already picking up the community nickname "Shallet" — assigned to Yellow as card FB11-073. This is a direct, primary-source reveal from Bandai, not aggregated rumor, so you can take the color assignment and card number to the bank.

What we don't have yet is the card's actual text, stats, or ability wording, and we're not going to guess at any of it here. If you want a primer on how to read a Fusion World card once full text is revealed, our card anatomy guide breaks down what each part of the card means. If you want early speculation or archetype theorizing once more of the set's Leaders are picture-confirmed, that's better covered in a dedicated deep-dive rather than a release-logistics guide like this one.

As for the remaining four Leaders, hobby-media outlets have been circulating a reported lineup of Goku, Future Trunks, Goku Black, and Bardock rounding out the other four colors. We want to be clear about how solid that is: it's aggregated reporting, not something we've seen confirmed through a primary Bandai source the way Shallot/Giblet has been. Treat it as a reasonable expectation for now, not a locked roster — we'll update this guide again if and when Bandai confirms the rest officially.

Rarity Breakdown and Pack Contents

FB11 will ship with 123 total card types, broken down across the rarity tiers as follows: 5 Leaders (L), 40 Commons (C), 35 Uncommons (UC), 25 Rares (R), 15 Super Rares (SR), and 3 Secret Rares (SCR). Each pack contains 6 cards. If you're used to the general shape of recent Fusion World sets, this distribution should feel familiar — it's a fairly standard spread, without an unusually bloated Rare or Super Rare tier to chase.

The one wrinkle worth flagging is at the very top of the rarity chart: every Secret Rare in FB11 also gets its own numbered "SCR★★ Super Alt-Art" parallel version. With only 3 Secret Rares in the set, that means the true chase list at the top end is more granular than the base SCR count alone would suggest — three cards, each with a standard SCR print and a Super Alt-Art parallel to hunt on top of it. If box-break value or single-card chasing factors into your buying decision, this is the number to have in your head before FB11 releases. For a closer look at how pull rates and alt-art rarities typically compare across the game, see our rarity and pull-rates guide.

The Price Increase: What Changed

This is the update most likely to actually affect your budget. In Japan, FB11 is priced at ¥240 per pack and ¥5,760 per box — and that's notable because it's the first MSRP increase the Fusion World card game has seen since FB01. Every set from FB01 through FB10 held steady at ¥220 per pack and ¥5,280 per box, so FB11 breaks a streak that's lasted the entire life of the game so far. It's not a dramatic jump in absolute terms, but it is a real one, and it's reasonable to wonder whether it signals a new baseline for pricing going forward rather than a one-off adjustment. If you're curious how pack pricing and case-hit math tend to trend across Bandai's TCG lineup more broadly, our Bandai TCG finance guide digs into that pattern.

On the US side, FB11's listed MSRP is $4.99 per pack. We don't have a confirmed prior US price point to compare that against in this guide, so we're not going to speculate about whether it represents a similar step-up domestically — just know that $4.99 per pack is the number to plan your preorder budget around once US listings go live.

Box vs. Pack: Weighing the Increase

A price bump this early in a set's life doesn't necessarily change the basic math of box versus pack buying, but it's worth running through anyway now that real numbers exist. Buying a full box still gets you a fixed, predictable card count in one purchase, which matters more than usual here given how top-heavy the chase list is — with only 3 base Secret Rares and their SCR★★ Super Alt-Art parallels sitting at the very top of 123 total card types, single-pack buying is a genuinely long shot if a specific Secret Rare or its alt-art parallel is your actual goal. If you want to run the actual math beyond FB11 specifically, our booster box vs. singles budget guide walks through how that calculation generally plays out.

If your interest in FB11 is more about the Dragon Ball Legends crossover art on the Leaders than about hitting a specific Secret Rare, the calculation shifts a little — Leaders show up far more reliably than Secret Rares do across a set's print run, so picking up singles once the full card list is being actively bought and sold may end up being the more efficient route than gambling on packs for a specific alt-art color. Either way, treat the ¥240/¥5,760 Japanese pricing and the $4.99 US per-pack figure as your planning numbers, and decide which route fits your goal before packs actually hit shelves.

No Digital Promo Codes This Time

One more change worth flagging before you preorder: FB11 packs will not include the digital-game promo codes that have shipped with prior Fusion World sets. That's a departure from the pattern collectors have gotten used to, and it's been noted by db-fusionworld.com as a possible shift going forward — but it's not being reported as a confirmed permanent change yet, just something worth watching with future sets. If redeemable codes have been part of your calculation for pack value, factor their absence into how you think about FB11 specifically, without assuming it carries forward automatically to FB12 and beyond.

The Full Card List Is Now Public

As of August 29, 2026, the complete FB11 card list has been fully revealed and is publicly browsable. You can look through the entire set at db-fusionworld.com's collection database if you want to see every card before it hits shelves. We're keeping this guide focused on release logistics rather than walking through the list card by card — if you want that kind of coverage now that everything is out in the open, see our card list and archetype breakdown for a full rundown.

Release Dates

The release window itself hasn't moved. FB11 is still tracking toward a Japanese street date of approximately September 12, 2026, with the English-language release following on October 16, 2026. That gap between the Japanese and English launches is fairly typical for Fusion World sets, and it's part of why a lot of the confirmed details above — the theme, the first Leader, the rarity breakdown, the pricing — are coming out of Japanese sources first. If you're planning to import ahead of the English release, keep that mid-September window in mind; if you're waiting for English product, mid-October is your target.

One thing that's worth factoring into an import decision specifically: since the digital promo codes that used to ship with packs aren't part of FB11, there's less of an incentive than there used to be to prioritize sealed Japanese product purely for code access. If your main interest is the physical cards and the crossover alt-art Leaders rather than any digital tie-in, the September-versus-October decision comes down to patience and pricing rather than any feature you'd be missing by waiting for the English release.

Worth Knowing: FB11 Isn't the Last Word This Year

While we were confirming the FB11 details above, Bandai's site quietly added listings for what's coming after it. FB12 "Reach the God" is now visible with a Japanese street date of December 12, 2026 and an English release window described only as "Winter 2026" so far. Alongside it, two new Starter Decks — FS13 "The Saiyan Raised on Earth" and FS14 "The Prince of Saiyan" — are also listed for that same December 12, 2026 Japanese date, priced at ¥1,650 each. All three were originally announced back on July 18, 2026 and are now marked "Coming Soon" on Bandai's listings.

We're not treating this as anything you need to act on right now — there's no English release date and no preorder information for FB12 or either Starter Deck yet, so there's nothing to buy or reserve. It's just useful context: FB11 is a well-defined, well-confirmed release at this point, but it isn't the end of the Fusion World calendar for the year, and it's worth keeping half an eye on what follows once more details land.

How to Use This Guide

If you're deciding whether and how much to preorder, here's roughly where things stand today. The set's identity is locked in — a Saiyan-focused, Dragon Ball Legends crossover set with a confirmed rarity structure and a modest but real price increase in both Japan and the US. The first Leader is officially confirmed, and the rest of the lineup is a reasonably well-sourced expectation rather than a guess, though not yet nailed down. The full card list is out in the open if you want to see everything before you buy. And the release dates that matter for your calendar — mid-September for Japan, mid-October for the English release — haven't changed since we first published this guide.

What's still genuinely open is anything that requires seeing actual card text: ability wording, how the awakened-Saiyan mechanics play out on the table, and how strong any individual color ends up being relative to the others. None of that changes what you need to do right now, which is simple enough — decide on box versus pack, decide on a September import or an October wait, and lock in a preorder before shelf stock (especially of anything carrying a crossover alt-art Leader) gets tighter closer to release. If that's what you're after, our card list and archetype preview is exactly the kind of thing a card-by-card look is for, now that the list is public — this guide's job is just to get you to release day with the logistics straight. If you're new to Fusion World generally and want the fundamentals before you dive into a brand-new set, our how-to-play guide and strategy hub are both good starting points.

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