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Cardfight!! Vanguard— what's in the box

Snapshot as of 2026-07-23 · every rate carries its basis — estimates are estimates

Does the publisher tell you the odds?

Partially and inconsistently. Current official EN product pages (Divinez era) publish a guarantee — '2 cards in every pack will definitely be R or above cards!!' — but no parallel-rarity odds. However, Bushiroad HAS published explicit percentages for some past sets: the official EN V-BT09 page lists 'Parallels (SP + RLR): ~1.28%, VR: ~9.38%, RRR: ~20.94%, RR: ~33.75%'. So the publisher sometimes prints odds, but not for current DZ sets — DZ-era parallel rates below are community/aggregator estimates only.

Cardfight!! Vanguard

Pack anatomy

Cards per pack
7
Packs per box
16 (official: '1 display contains 16 packs')
Boxes per case
Carton size is NOT stable across sources: current JP retail listings show 12 boxes/carton for some DZ sets and 20 boxes/carton for others (same aggregator, different sets); older EN-era community threads cite 16 boxes/carton. Treat any per-carton rate as approximate. (Low confidence)

Guaranteed slots: 2 of the 7 cards per pack guaranteed R or above (official, printed on EN product pages)

Divinez era (DZ-BT01 'Fated Clash', Feb 2024 → DZ-BT14, Apr 2026). JP and EN releases share set codes and the same 7-card/16-pack structure; the EN editions additionally include exclusive EX/EXS BanG Dream! collaboration parallel cards not in the JP base seeding. A typical DZ main set is ~106-146 base cards (roughly 18-19 RRR / 22-24 RR / 22-24 R / 44-72 C) plus ~110-120 parallel cards (1 DSR, 5-6 SEC or SECV, ~17-18 FFR, ~44-48 FR, ~39-42 SR).

Rarity ladder

  1. ·C (Common)
  2. ·R (Rare)
  3. ·RR (Double Rare)
  4. ·RRR (Triple Rare) + themed variants (ORR/TRR)
  5. ·SR (Silver Rare — frameless, silver hot stamp)
  6. ·FR (Frame Rare)
  7. ·FFR (Full Frame Rare)
  8. ·SEC / SECV (Secret — hot-stamp treatment)
  9. ·DSR (Dress Secret Rare — top chase, usually 1 card type per set, e.g. CLAMP-illustrated)
  10. ·EX/EXS (EN-exclusive collab parallels)

Approximate rates

Confidence is part of the data: a low-confidence range is an honest answer, a precise-looking number without a basis is not.

R or abovehigh confidence

Exactly 2 per 7-card pack (32 per box)

Basis: Official publisher print on EN product pages ('2 cards in every pack will definitely be R or above cards!!') source →

Stated on both current DZ and older V-era official EN pages; JP structure matches

RRR / RR (per 16-pack box)low confidence

~2 RRR and ~5 RR per box; SR ~6/box; FFR ~1/box (DZ-era sets, 2025-2026)

Basis: JP aggregator's compiled research (anianitarou.com for DZ-BT11 and DZ-BT14) — explicitly labeled by the author as personal reference-only research, not shop-verified opening data source →

JP figures; EN assumed similar but unverified

SEC (Secret)low confidence

Roughly 2 per 20 boxes, i.e. ~1 per 8-12 boxes — most boxes contain none

Basis: JP aggregator compiled research for 2025-2026 DZ sets (same reference-only caveat); consistent with older JP community descriptions of SEC as 'a few per carton' source →

JP data

DSR (Dress Secret Rare)low confidence

SOURCES DISAGREE, spanning an order of magnitude: JP community carton-tracking for the D era reports 0-1 per carton (some cartons contain none; possibly ~1 per 1-2 cartons), while one JP aggregator lists ~0.3-1 per box for 2026 DZ sets. We could not reconcile these; honest answer is 'somewhere between ~1 per 2 boxes and ~1 per 2 cartons, unknown', leaning rarer based on market prices and the D-era carton data

Basis: Conflict between JP community carton openings/blog consensus (vanguard-gia / vg-vanguard, D-BT01 era) and JP aggregator personal research (anianitarou, DZ-BT11/BT14). Neither is publisher-verified source →

JP data; EN DSR seeding unverified

Parallels overall (historical official datum)high confidence

V-era official example: SP+RLR parallels ~1.28% of cards (~1-1.5 per box), VR ~9.38%, RRR ~20.94%, RR ~33.75% (V-BT09, 2020)

Basis: Official publisher print on the EN product page — included as proof Bushiroad has published real odds, not as a current-set rate source →

V-era EN product; do not extrapolate to DZ sets

Rare occurrences — god packs, case hits, oddities

DSR (Dress Secret Rare)

The single top-chase parallel — typically exactly 1 card type per set, with special guest artwork (e.g. CLAMP illustrations in DZ-BT01 'Fated Clash')

Approximate frequency: Disputed: between ~1 per 2 boxes (one aggregator, 2026 sets) and 0-1 per carton (JP community carton data, some cartons none) — low confidence either way

Sets: OverDress era (2021) onward, incl. all Divinez DZ-BT main sets

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SEC / SECV (Secret)

Hot-stamped secret parallels; 5-6 card types per DZ set (SECV variants in later 2026 sets like DZ-BT12)

Approximate frequency: ~2 per 20 boxes / ~1 per 8-12 boxes (JP aggregator personal research, low confidence)

Sets: Divinez DZ-BT sets (2024-2026)

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EN-exclusive EX/EXS collab cards

BanG Dream! collaboration parallel cards seeded only in English editions ('special EX rarities' per the official EN page); 6-110 types depending on set

Approximate frequency: Regularly seeded — roughly several per box per aggregator figures, but per-box counts conflict between sources (low confidence)

Sets: English Divinez sets (DZ-BT01 onward; DZ-BT10 lists 55 EX + 55 EXS; DZ-BT12 ties to Divinez DELUXE Finals bands)

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Rates drift between sets, print waves, and regions; where our sources disagreed we kept the disagreement visible instead of averaging it away. Nothing on this page is investment or purchase advice — it exists so you know what a box is before you buy one.

Machine-readable twin: /api/v1/pulls · snapshot 2026-07-23