Dragon Ball Super Divers Advance Packs and Retail Products

Advance Packs are Bandai’s convenience-store and hobby-shop SKU for Dragon Ball Super Divers. They let collectors pull cards without feeding ¥100 into a cabinet, but they do not replace arcade set releases. Each product name on the wrapper maps to its own card pool on the official cardlist.

What is an Advance Pack in Super Divers?

English news describes Advance Packs as sealed retail packs containing three random cards from a fixed product lineup. The first wave reached Japanese convenience stores on 2024-11-30 with 30 newly illustrated cards, each pack holding a random three. Later waves follow the same three-cards-per-pack pattern in their respective articles.

Advance Packs are not the same product type as Fusion World booster boxes. They are smaller SKUs aligned with Japan store distribution. For franchise context see Super Divers vs Fusion World.

How does arcade dispensing differ from retail packs?

Cabinet play, confirmed in English preview coverage and the Japanese beginner guide, costs ¥100 (tax included) per play and always prints one card tied to the live set rotation. Retail packs draw from the product named on the packaging.

That split explains why some cards only appear under Advance Pack Battle of Saiyans in the cardlist while others only drop from Set 12 machines. Collectors browsing eBay need the product name, not just the set code (see buying from outside Japan).

Which retail lines does the cardlist track?

The Japanese cardlist 収録商品 product filter on dbsdv.com includes at least:

• Location Test and Sets 1 through 12 machine pools
• Promotion Cards
• Entry Deck Set 地球を守る戦士 and 立ちはだかる強者 (Japanese titles on the filter)
• First Pack
• Advance Pack (first wave)
• Advance Pack 2
• Advance Pack DRAGON BALL 40th Anniversary Edition
• Advance Pack Battle of Saiyans
• Ultimate Divers BOX
• Official Deck Case 40th Anniversary Edition
• 9-Pocket Binder 40th Anniversary Edition

Use those exact names when searching Japanese shops or proxy carts. Sellers sometimes shorten titles; cross-check against the filter list above.

What did each English news post announce?

The table below gives the Japan on-sale dates stated in Bandai’s English news on dragon-ball-official.com. Convenience stores got each product first; the same articles say other retailers followed a week later.

This wiki does not republish MSRP or yen prices here. Bandai hobby pages may list tax-included pricing for some SKUs, but our collecting policy skips live numbers. Card counts per pack (three cards) do come from the English articles cited above.

What is special about themed Advance Packs?

Advance Pack #2 highlights action skills such as Vanish Combo on Jiren and introduces Limited Type support cards in its news copy.

The 40th Anniversary Edition news stresses Toriyama illustration cards, God Rare Goku and Frieza slots, Targeting Bomb action skills, plus Gold Alt-Art and SP Alt-Art variants on select cards.

Battle of Saiyans packs guarantee every card is R or higher in English news text and include four God Rare slots, with Alt-Art chase language for a Goku card. That guarantee is product-specific; it does not apply to the first Advance Pack wave.

Alt-Art vocabulary matches the rarity guide star parallel section.

What is the Ultimate Divers BOX?

The 2024-12-14 article says the Ultimate Divers BOX hit stores in Japan that day, bundling:

• Nine-pocket binder
• Sleeves
• Limited-edition Battle Cards (seven warriors in the news copy)
• Advance Packs
• Limited Avatar Card for quick start play in Japan

It is a lifestyle SKU aimed at new Japanese players, but importers buy it for the promos and binder as well.

How do Entry Deck Sets fit?

The cardlist filter names two Entry Deck Sets with Japanese titles. They are starter products distinct from random Advance Packs. English news we verified in this pass focuses on Advance Pack waves; deck-specific card lists still live on the official filter. Treat them as fixed deck lists rather than three-card random products unless Bandai says otherwise on the product page.

How do you build an advance pack card list without copying Bandai data?

1. Open dbsdv.com/cardlist.
2. Open the 収録商品 modal and tick one product (for example Advance Pack Battle of Saiyans).
3. Export mentally: note IDs, rarities and whether a star row exists.
4. Cross-link chase IDs to card profiles such as SDV12 SEC Vegeta when those cards also appear in set pools.

How do Advance Packs relate to current sets?

Machine sets such as Set 12 Innate Attack rotate on a different schedule from retail exclusives. Set 13 Awakened Resolve news is live, but the full cardlist was still pending on 2026-11-11. When Bandai adds new retail waves, they will appear both in English news and in the product filter.

Track cadence on the release timeline and refresh collectors via the glossary when new action skills debut in pack-only pools.

Sources and verification

Last verified: November 11, 2026. Built from Bandai’s official Super Divers cardlist product filter, English news posts linked in the table above, and rewritten in our own words. English names marked “unofficial translation” are ours, not Bandai’s. This is an independent fan reference, not affiliated with BANDAI NAMCO, Dimps or Toei Animation.