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TCG · Hasbro · Worldwide, 2010–2014

The card in every Hasbro Beyblade box

From Metal Fusion to BeyRaiderz, every Hasbro Beyblade came with a small card: the Bey on the front, and on the back a single-use code for BeybladeBattles.com. The codes are dead now and the cards were mostly thrown away. Nobody had ever listed them all, so this is that list.

What these cards are

How the site worked

The card was the key to Hasbro's online game. Each one carried a fourteen-digit code, good once, that opened a Battle Active slot at BeybladeBattles.com, so you could take a Bey you had built into live battles against other players. Without a code you could still build tops and fight the computer. Hasbro's 2011 annual report counted ten million registered users, who battled more than 26 million times that year.

There was one card per Bey: a starter pack held one, a two-pack two, a gift set four. The front shows the Bey with the product number printed on its box, its combo and its type. The early Metal Fusion cards show the Bey's owner from the anime instead, and fold open to show the parts. From Metal Fury on the cards are flat, about 47 × 64 mm, smaller than a trading card.

No card was a chase card. Hasbro printed exactly one for each Bey it sold. What makes them scarce now is survival: once the code was used, most went in the bin with the packaging.

How this list was built

Seen, or expected

No checklist of these cards has ever been published, and Hasbro's own list lived inside the Flash game and was never archived. So every card here carries one of two labels.

Seen means the card turns up in a photograph of a real card, in a collector's listing or post; the card's page names the photographs. Expected means a Hasbro product held that Bey, and every Bey in a Hasbro box came with a card, but no photograph of this one has been found yet. Where the product number of a card inside a gift set or battle set is not recorded, that card is listed on its own rather than assumed to be the single's card again. A photograph can merge two entries later, but a card merged away by guesswork is lost.

One well-known Reddit set of "all the Metal Fusion cards" is fan art, redrawn in Hasbro's layout by its maker, and nothing here rests on it.

Where a photograph shows the back, the card's own part number is recorded with it — 24 so far. Hasbro gave each card its own, so it is the one thing that tells two cards of the same Beyblade apart: SS-20 and SS-20A Bandit Golem carry different numbers, while two copies of SS-20A in the same lot carry the same one. If you are holding a loose card, the number on the back is how to find it here.

12 designs, 2010 to 2014

Every design

  • Metal Fusion · 2010–2011 · folded

    Metal Fusion Character Cards

    A dark-blue frame around a head-and-shoulders portrait of the Bey's owner from the anime, the Bey's name in katakana down the left edge, the bit-beast's emblem in white line art, a photograph of the Bey in the lower corner and its English name on a coloured tab. Beys that had no owner in the show got a group picture of the cast instead.

    Inside: Opens out to the Bey taken apart, face bolt to tip, with a line about the track and the tip.

    Back: Red, with the Metal Fusion logo and "BATTLE ONLINE" in white italic capitals; the code sits in a white box at the foot.

    49 cards →

  • Metal Fusion · 2010–2011 · folded

    Legend Beyblades Gold Frame

    A white card inside a gold border, a coloured strip reading "LEGEND" and the Bey's name, the Bey photographed large in the middle, and the track and tip in the corner. Hasbro's own remakes of Beys Japan never sold in the West.

    9 cards →

  • Metal Masters · 2010–2011 · folded

    "Let It Rip!" Grey Cards

    Grey scratched concrete, a black brush-ink emblem, "LET IT RIP!" lettered by hand, the Bey bursting out of the right edge, and the product number, name, combo and type in the corner.

    Inside: Every part rated in stars — red for attack, yellow for defence, green for stamina — the first cards to grade the parts.

    Back: Grey, with the Metal Masters logo and "BATTLE ONLINE" in outline letters. The code hides under a fold-over flap.

    85 cards →

  • Extreme Top System · 2011 · folded

    Extreme Top System Grey

    The grey concrete of the Metal Masters cards with the sub-line's name across the top — Tornado Battlers, Electro Battlers, IR Spin Control — and a coloured brush stroke along the foot.

    24 cards →

  • Metal Fury · 2011–2012 · flat

    Metal Fury Chain-Link Cards

    The first flat cards: a pale chain-link fence over a grey city block, the Bey photographed large, the product number and name in heavy black capitals, and a bar with the combo and a coloured type tab.

    Back: White, with a red "BATTLE ONLINE" header, the code in an outlined box and the Metal Fury logo.

    54 cards →

  • Metal Fury · 2012 · flat

    Spark FX Night City

    The Metal Fury layout over a photograph of city buildings at night, lit windows and water towers. The product numbers carry a letter (B-147B).

    Back: The Metal Fury red-header back.

    17 cards →

  • Metal Fury · 2012–2013 · flat

    Hyperblades Gold Border

    Black inside a gold border, the Bey's parts drawn apart down one side and the finished Bey in the corner, a red type tag, and a product number ending in -FX.

    Back: The Metal Fury red-header back.

    14 cards →

  • Extreme Top System · 2012 · flat

    Extreme Top System Lime

    A lime-green city skyline behind the Bey and a black bar naming the sub-line: Stealth Battlers or Tornado Battlers.

    24 cards →

  • BeyWheelz · 2012 · flat

    BeyWheelz Sand Cards

    Sand and gravel under the wheel, shot at an angle; the number and name in black capitals and a type pill — balance, speed or power.

    38 cards →

  • Shogun Steel · 2012–2013 · flat

    Shogun Steel Red Cards

    Dark red with a black diagonal hatch and a glow behind the Bey; the name in white brush-script capitals and the type on a painted swash.

    Back: White, with a yellow "BATTLE ONLINE" header and the Shogun Steel logo. From July 2013 the same code also opened areas of the BeyWarriors game.

    28 cards →

  • BeyWarriors · 2013 · flat

    BeyWarriors Gold Tread-Plate

    Gold-yellow diamond plate behind the warrior photographed full length, and a two-letter class code with its name: endurance, range or speed attack.

    22 cards →

  • BeyRaiderz · 2013–2014 · flat

    BeyRaiderz Orange Cards

    Orange-to-red brushed metal behind the vehicle, the chassis code, and the class in three languages — SPEED • VITESSE • VELOCIDAD — the only fronts seen in French and Spanish.

    Back: White, with a yellow "BATTLE ONLINE" header and the BeyWarriors BeyRaiderz logo.

    10 cards →

374 cards · in Hasbro's order, line by line

Every card

Each card is drawn from its facts until the site photographs it. The codes on the backs are never recorded here: they are dead, but they were someone's.

What is still unknown

  • The full run of Metal Fusion character cards: which Beys got a portrait, which the group picture, and whether every re-release changed it.
  • The product numbers of the cards packed in gift sets and battle sets, which is what would show whether each is its own card or the single's card again.
  • The backs of the Legend, Extreme Top System, BeyWheelz and BeyWarriors cards, which no photograph found so far shows.
  • Whether the gold borders of the Legend and Hyperblades cards are real foil or metallic ink.
  • Whether any card before BeyRaiderz was printed in French or Spanish for Canada or Latin America.