Guide
UniVersus is a collectible card game from UVS Games where characters from different anime, video game and pop culture franchises fight head to head. Its best trick is that every set is cross-compatible, so a Cowboy Bebop deck can run cards from My Hero Academia, Critical Role and Tekken alongside each other, and the licence list runs from Godzilla and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. For collectors that means the run is unusually deep and unusually varied: two decades of sets, each with its own licence and its own chases. This guide covers how the line is built, what is worth chasing, and how to keep a collection of it current.
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The game started in 2006 as the Universal Fighting System, published by Sabertooth Games and later by Jasco Games, which rebranded to UVS Games and renamed the game UniVersus in 2020. UFS cards and UniVersus cards are the same game, which is why a collection here spans far more sets than the current branding suggests. Nearly sixty sets are catalogued, from the UFS years through the newest releases, and because they interlock, cards from wildly different franchises end up in the same deck and the same binder.
My Hero Academia is the anchor and by far the deepest, running across a long line of sets from the original release through League of Villains, Heroes Clash, Jet Burn and Final Battle, and for a while UVS pushed an MHA-only format because the roster had grown large enough to stand alone. Around it sits an unusually broad licence list. Fighting games are well represented with Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6, Mortal Kombat, SoulCalibur VI, King of Fighters XV and Guilty Gear Strive. Beyond them the line reaches into Godzilla, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Attack on Titan, Yu Yu Hakusho, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun Stampede, Critical Role, Star Trek Lower Decks and Solo Leveling. All of it is one game, which is the part that surprises people coming from a single-IP card game.
Because the sets interlock, UniVersus collections tend to take a shape the game itself does not dictate. Some people follow one licence wherever it appears. Some chase a single character across every set they show up in. Others work a set at a time toward a full run, then a master set once the base list is done. HoloHoard is built for all three: collections group cards however you actually think about them, and set completion tracks the base list and the printings separately so a master set is a real target rather than a guess.
A licensed set pulls in people who do not otherwise play, and that is where some of the most sought-after cards sit. Reign of Kaiju is the clearest case: a Godzilla set inside a fighting card game, which means kaiju collectors and UVS players want the same cards. Sets like it are worth watching, because demand comes from two directions rather than one, and a Godzilla fan can cross-collect here without ever building a deck. See the Tekken 8 chases and what they are worth.
The top of almost every recent UniVersus set is its Chrome Rares. Each one is printed in a run of 100 copies, and every copy carries its own serial from 001 to 100 stamped on the card face. They are short runs of the set's headline characters, and they have appeared across My Hero Academia, Yu Yu Hakusho, Attack on Titan, Guilty Gear Strive, Critical Role, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Godzilla and Tekken 8, where they come in two treatments, one of them with a stamped autograph. HoloHoard tracks every Chrome Rare as a serialised card, so you record the exact number on your copy, see which serials the community has already found, and post your pull when you hit one. Below are a few of the serials collectors have already found.
Every UniVersus card prints its rarity next to the set code and number, so the code in the corner tells you where it sits. Commons and Uncommons fill out a set, Rares and Ultra Rares carry most of the playables, and Secret Rares are numbered past the end of the checklist. Character cards have their own Character Rare line, and alternate arts run alongside nearly every rarity rather than forming a tier of their own, so a Common can have an alternate art twin. Earlier sets also printed Xtra Rares and Xtra Secret Rares and ran a 1st Edition printing, which collectors generally favour over Unlimited; recent sets have moved away from all three.
| Code | Rarity | What marks it |
|---|---|---|
| C | Common | The bulk of a set, usually no foil |
| UC | Uncommon | Scarcer than Common, usually no foil |
| R | Rare | Traditionally one per pack, usually foil |
| UR | Ultra Rare | Foil, insertion rate varies by set |
| SR | Secret Rare | Foil, numbered past the end of the checklist |
| CH | Character Rare | A character card, foil or not |
| ALT | Alternate Art | New artwork, paired with another rarity code |
| CR | Chrome Rare | Serial numbered, 100 copies of each |
| XR, XSR | Xtra Rare, Xtra Secret Rare | Earlier sets only |
| P | Promo | Events, conventions and tournament prizes |
Cards come as Normal and Foil, and the sets that run editions add 1st Edition and Unlimited Edition printings on top, each with its own foil. Not every card carries all of them, so the honest answer to "how many are there" is per set rather than per game. HoloHoard catalogues each printing as its own entry, so marking a Foil leaves the 1st Edition still open on your list and your completion percentage counts what you actually hold.
| Printing | Where it applies |
|---|---|
| Normal | Every set |
| Foil | Every set |
| 1st Edition Normal | Sets with an edition run |
| 1st Edition Foil | Sets with an edition run |
| Unlimited Edition Normal | Sets with an edition run |
| Unlimited Edition Foil | Sets with an edition run |
| Chrome Rare | Sets with Chrome Rares, serial numbered to 100 |
UniVersus is played with a character card that sets your health and hand size, a sixty-card deck, and five card types to balance. Most collections here belong to someone who plays, which means what you own and what you want move constantly. Deck lists can hold cards you have not picked up yet, want lists cover the gaps, and trade lists cover the spares that come out of buying for a deck rather than for the set. All of it works across every set at once.
As the pile gets bigger the interesting questions stop being about single cards. The dashboard totals what you own, tracks value over time, breaks it down by set and shows which sets you are closest to finishing, so the next thing to buy is an obvious choice rather than a hunch. Every printing carries its own daily value estimate as it trades. See UniVersus card values.
Every UniVersus set is catalogued on HoloHoard with its printings shown per card, Normal and Foil, plus 1st Edition and Unlimited in the sets that use them. Because UniVersus sets stay cross-compatible, browsing by set is the practical way in. You can browse any set for free without an account.
Yes, and it is free. HoloHoard already holds the UniVersus catalogue from UFS onward, every licensed set in one place, so a collection that spans Street Fighter, My Hero Academia, Tekken and the rest reads as one run instead of a dozen. You mark what you own rather than typing it in, set completion tracks each release separately, and printings stay distinct so a 1st Edition copy never overwrites an Unlimited one.
Yes. The game was published as the Universal Fighting System from 2006 and renamed UniVersus in 2020, and the sets are cross-compatible, so UFS cards belong to the same collection. Every set from both eras is catalogued together on HoloHoard.
Yes. Each printing is its own catalogue entry, so 1st Edition Normal, 1st Edition Foil, Unlimited Edition Normal, Unlimited Edition Foil and the standard Normal and Foil are tracked independently. Set completion counts the printing you own, which is what makes a master set a measurable goal.
Yes. Every Chrome Rare is printed in a run of 100 copies, each stamped with its own serial from 001 to 100, and that includes the Tekken 8 Autograph Versions. HoloHoard tracks them as serialised cards, so you can record the exact number on your copy and see which serials have already been found.
HoloHoard shows a daily value estimate for cards with enough market activity behind them, per printing, and totals your collection from those. Coverage grows every day as more cards trade. Values are estimates blended from real market activity, not appraisals.
Yes. The HoloHoard app is a free download on Google Play for Android. It covers UniVersus the way the web does: every card and variant, serial numbers and grades, your own photos and daily values. There is no separate app account, so what you add at a shop or an event is already there on the desktop. See the HoloHoard app page for the store links, or just use a mobile browser.
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