Two series, one checklist of 240

DeAgostini sold this game as a newsstand partwork: a magazine about the show (Beyblade: Metal Fusion in its English dub) with a pack of cards in each issue. The cards are numbered straight through both series, and every one of the 240 is photographed on the game page.

  • Series 1, cards 1 to 160. First released in France in September 2011 per the French collector sheet; reported on 18 October 2011 in a World Beyblade Organization thread as a European release for Germany, France, Russia, Portugal and Italy; on sale in Russia from 9 February 2012.
  • Series 2, cards 161 to 240, first released in France in January 2012 and presented on the French three-pack blister as an extension of Series 1 (the back prints “EXTENSION de la Série 1”).

Series 1 holds 33 Character, 79 Beyblade, 27 Customizer and 20 Effect cards plus the standalone 160; Series 2 holds 20, 35, 10 and 14 plus the standalone 240. The French blister backs fold the standalone card into two buckets at once: the Series 1 back prints 21 Effect cards and 9 ultra rares, the Series 2 back 15 Effect cards and 4 ultra rares.

Rarity, by number range

Rarity is a block of numbers, though every card also wears a rarity letter in a badge. For Series 1 the English checklist, the French sheet, the Russian checklist and a Russian reader’s own count posted on 10 February 2012 agree on the boundaries; for Series 2 the English checklist and the French sheet agree.

Series 1

  • Common: 1 to 117 (117 cards)
  • Rare: 118 to 141 (24)
  • Very Rare: 142 to 151 (10)
  • Ultra Rare: 152 to 159 (8)
  • 160: the Ultimate card

Series 2

  • Common: 161 to 215 (55)
  • Rare: 216 to 230 (15)
  • Very Rare: 231 to 236 (6)
  • Ultra Rare: 237 to 239 (3)
  • 240: the second Ultimate card

The Russian panel on the German-market box describes the nine Series 1 ultra rares as glitter cards; all nine in the French set, 152 to 160, have a foil finish.

One trap: the Effect names repeat across tiers. In Series 1 each of the four names (Beystorm, Piège de Merci, Mécanicienne and Esprit de puissance) is printed twice at Common and once each at Rare, Very Rare and Ultra Rare, so “Mécanicienne” is five different numbers. In Series 2 the four names (Mécanicienne, Esprit de puissance, Arène, Sortie d’arène) appear at Common and Rare only, and Arène alone takes four Common numbers. Complete by number, not by name.

The Ultimate cards, 160 and 240

Each series ends on one card outside the four types. Its French name is Hyper Vitesse, printed with an exclamation mark (Hyper Speed in our English); the Russian checklist files it under a section called “Absolute Weapon” and renames it, loosely, “Onward to victory”. The French sheet gives it its own tier, “Carte Ultimate Ultra Rare”; the English checklist and the French packaging count it as a ninth Ultra Rare in Series 1 and a fourth in Series 2.

The two cards do different things, and both texts are read from the site’s French copies. Card 160, in our English: discard this card to take the top two cards of your deck into your hand. Card 240: when this card is revealed, if you win the battle, you start a new turn as the Attacker.

The pack of eight

Every pack holds eight cards, printed on the French packs (“8 cartes par pack”) and the German box (“8 Karten pro Pack”) and confirmed by a Russian buyer on 9 February 2012.

The same buyer reported at least one Rare or better in every pack, and that three issues had yielded six packs. Both are one collector’s report from launch week, not a publisher’s statement: nothing on the packaging we photographed states odds, and the packs-per-issue count is unresolved.

In Russia the pack came with the magazine, in a run planned at 52 issues, one every two weeks, per a reader’s repost of the marketing text on 9 February 2012. The same repost listed the extras bundled with the first issues: issue 1 came with a 56 by 56 cm playmat, issue 2 with a box to store the cards, issue 3 with a wristband. The blog post itself says packs were also sold on their own, from issue 1.

Boxes and blisters

Three sealed formats are in the products section, photographed from items the site holds and read on 11 September 2026:

  • The 24-pack box. A display box with the packs standing inside. The photographed one is the German-market box, with a printed price of €1,99 per pack, the address beybladecards.com, and one panel in Russian.
  • The three-pack blister. 24 cards on a hanging card. Series 1 is blue and names Jouéco of Toulouse as French distributor; Series 2 is green and names DeAgostini Publishing Italia of Novara as maker.
  • The single pack. Silver foil with Gingka for Series 1; green foil with a gold seal band and five characters for Series 2.

What the Russian buyers pulled

Two LastSticker.ru readers posted tallies in the days after the 9 February 2012 launch. These are anecdotes, small samples in the readers’ own abbreviations, and nothing more.

  • 11 February 2012, twenty packs: 101 of 160 numbers, with 82 commons (of 118 by that reader’s count; the checklists say 117), 13 of 24 rares, 4 of 10 very rares and 2 of 8 ultra rares; duplicates were 58 commons and one rare.
  • 12 February 2012, forty packs: missing six ultra rares, three very rares and three rares; doubles were no ultra rare, one very rare and eight rares.

Forty packs is not a study.

Prices seen

  • 59 roubles for a pack sold on its own, from issue 1, in Russia (the LastSticker.ru blog post of 9 February 2012).
  • €1,99 per pack, printed on the German-market 24-pack box, read 11 September 2026.

No price for France, Portugal or Italy has turned up, and what any of this sells for today is not yet sourced.

What a complete French set means

240 distinct numbers: the 160 of Series 1, the 80 of Series 2, both Ultimate cards. The French printing is the one photographed here and the one the card pages follow, each French name paired with our English rendering. Since Series 2 was sold as an extension, a Series 1 set of 160 is the natural halfway mark.

Telling editions apart

The numbers do not change between countries. The packaging and the names do.

  • French. “Serie 1” or “Serie 2” on the pack front, Jouéco on the blisters, French card names.
  • German. German box text and a price in euros; the German card names are not yet sourced.
  • Russian. On sale from 9 February 2012 with Russian card names. One buyer on 10 February 2012 was glad the game had reached Russia but called the translation terrible, and several reported that the concealed code strip on each card would not register on beybladecards.com.
  • Italian. The October 2011 announcement listed Italy, and the Series 2 blister names an Italian maker. A Russian commenter on 11 February 2012 recalled two series of lenticular Beyblade cards in Italy; whether that is this game in another finish or a different product is unresolved.

The How to Play pages we have read are in English, and no French-language rules text has turned up; the rules page uses that English vocabulary.

Condition

Two Russian buyers described the cards independently in February 2012: cardstock rather than the rigid plastic of some rival lines, with a semi-laminated finish one of them called very good quality. That is all we know about the material. How the lamination wears, whether the cards curl, and how the code strip looks once scratched are not yet sourced.

Grading

No source we have read mentions a graded copy of any card in this game, and as of 11 September 2026 we have found no grading-company population report that lists it. If one appears, the card pages will carry it as the Collision pages do.

Open questions

  • Packs per magazine issue, boxes per case, and whether the 52-issue Russian run completed.
  • Series 3: a Russian commenter noted the packaging reads “1 Série” and expected more; only two series are catalogued anywhere we have looked.
  • What the code strip unlocked on beybladecards.com.
  • The Series 2 rare count: the checklists number fifteen (216 to 230); the Series 2 blister back prints nine.
  • Prices anywhere but Russia and Germany, and any dated secondary-market sale.
  • The rules describe two special Power Booster icons, one that answers a pair of launcher colours and one that answers every colour; no source we have read says which numbers carry them.