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Cookie Run: Braverse Festival Arena (BS12) Card List

Booster 12 [Festival Arena] entered the official CookieRun: Braverse English card database on August 31, 2026 - 148 rows of it - and went on sale in North America on October 2. Here is what the publisher's data says: the 112-card skeleton, the parallel structure that turns 112 into 148, the six EXTRA cards, the second Genesis Extra Rare ever to exist, and why the box holds more than 112 regular cards.

Published September 2, 2026Updated October 26, 2026·11 min read·By Mythras
Poison Mushroom Cookie BS12-111@3, the Genesis Extra Rare printing from Booster 12 [Festival Arena] - a Level 3 Black EXTRA Cookie with 5 HP and the MUSHY P. skill.

On August 31, 2026, 148 new rows appeared in the official CookieRun: Braverse English card database. All of them carry the product name BOOSTER PACK [Festival Arena] and the card-number prefix BS12. That is the twelfth booster set. It released in Korea on September 11, 2026 and in North America on October 2, 2026.

This post reads the set off what Devsisters filed: 112 numbered cards with name, level, HP, colour, rarity, rules text and artwork. It is a card list and a structure guide, not a verdict on which cards are winning.

What is confirmed, and what is not

Confirmed, from Devsisters' Community Letter of July 23, 2026 and its English product listing: Booster 12 [Festival Arena] had a pre-release on September 26 and an official North American release on October 2, 2026. The Korean edition came out first: Devsisters' Korean product listing dates Booster 12 [페스티벌 아레나] to September 11, 2026.

Confirmed, from the card database itself: the 148 entries listed below, exactly as the publisher filed them.

Not covered here: how the set plays. Festival Arena is tournament-legal in Korea, where Brave League Season 4 events began on October 3 with cards up to the latest official Korean release allowed, and BS12 cards appear in the champion decklists Devsisters publishes from those events. Our Festival Arena meta in Korea post reads those lists; this one sticks to the card data.

Not the whole box, either. Devsisters' English product listing gives Festival Arena 160 regular cards plus 49 Hidden Cards (12 Ultra Rare, 18 Super Rare, 17 Rare, 51 Uncommon, 62 Common). The database's 112 new BS12 numbers are not a partial upload of that list. The 48-card gap is the room left for the older cards reprinted into the set, which Devsisters acknowledged and apologized for in its October 7 notice on reprinted cards in BS12. Devsisters has not published the count or the list, and those reprints are not filed under Festival Arena in the database, so 48 is subtraction from its two sources rather than an official figure. Our Festival Arena reprints post covers that block.

Most of the Hidden Cards are in the database too, just not under that label. No row carries the database's hidden flag, but the @-suffix printings filed under Festival Arena are the Hidden versions. The July letter said Festival Arena's Hidden Cards would feature the Cookies' signatures, and the Secret parallels we checked carry them: Strawberry Crepe Cookie BS12-014@1 (SEC), DJ Miya BS12-073@1 (SSR, signed "Miya") and Shining Glitter Cookie BS12-018@1 (SUR) are each signed. The database holds 36 of these printings under Festival Arena, against the listing's 49 Hidden Cards. (Six more BS12 numbers with an @ suffix, added on September 4, are Promotion-rarity cards filed under the Time for Deceit Promotion Pack, not Hidden Cards.)

One more honesty note: the browsable card pages on the official site are a client-side app, and a plain request to a card URL returns a 404 for every set, BS7 and BS11 included. So the fact that a direct link to a BS12 card does not resolve tells you nothing about the set. The data feed is the source that works.

Langue de Chat Cookie BS12-001, the first card in Booster 12 Festival Arena - a Level 3 Red Cookie with 4 HP and the Defense on Vacation attack.

The set in one table

Festival Arena (BS12)
Product name in the databaseBOOSTER PACK [Festival Arena]
Card-number prefixBS12
Entries in the database148
Distinct numbered cards filed112 (BS12-001 to BS12-112, no gaps)
Additional printings36
Colours represented6 (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Black)
Cards carrying the Arena keyword148 of 148
Added to the card databaseAugust 31, 2026
Korean releaseSeptember 11, 2026
North American pre-releaseSeptember 26, 2026
North American releaseOctober 2, 2026
Regular cards in the retail box (product listing)160, plus 49 Hidden Cards
Cards banned or restricted0 (as of October 26, 2026)

The last row is worth reading literally: no BS12 entry is flagged banned or limited in the database. That is the state of a newly released set, not a statement about power level. The banned and restricted list is maintained separately and Devsisters has said it publishes changes when review warrants them rather than on a schedule.

How 112 cards become 148 entries

Braverse files alternate printings under the same base number with an @ suffix, so for any product with parallels the entry count runs ahead of the card count. Festival Arena is unusually tidy about it: every Rare, Super Rare and Ultra Rare gets exactly one Secret parallel, and no Common or Uncommon gets one.

Base rarityBase cardsSecret parallelParallels
Common (C)42—0
Uncommon (U)36—0
Rare (R)12Secret Rare (SEC)12
Super Rare (SR)13Secret Super Rare (SSR)13
Ultra Rare (UR)9Secret Ultra Rare (SUR)9
Total11234

That is 34 parallels. The remaining two entries are both Poison Mushroom Cookie, covered further down: an Extra Rare at BS12-111@2 and a Genesis Extra Rare at BS12-111@3. 112 + 34 + 2 = 148.

If you are collecting, the practical consequence is the same one that holds across the game: the highest treatment of a card is the same card number with the highest @ suffix, not a separate card. Our rarities and collecting guide covers the full ladder.

DJ Miya BS12-073@1, the Secret Super Rare parallel from Booster 12 Festival Arena - a Level 2 Blue Cookie with 2 HP.

The six colour blocks

Card numbers run in strict colour order with no interleaving, which makes the set list easy to navigate once you know the boundaries.

ColourCard numbersBase cards
RedBS12-001 to BS12-01818
YellowBS12-019 to BS12-03719
GreenBS12-038 to BS12-05619
BlueBS12-057 to BS12-07418
PurpleBS12-075 to BS12-09319
BlackBS12-094 to BS12-11219
Total112

Notice what is absent: there is no Pure block. Booster 11, The Dark Enchantress War, included two Pure cards; Festival Arena includes none. Black does not swell to fill the space either — at 19 it ties Yellow, Green and Purple, where in BS11 it ran to 25 base cards.

Every colour gets the same skeleton, except Black

Break the 112 down by card type per colour and the design template is obvious. Each colour receives two FLIP cards, two Traps, two Items, one Stage and one EXTRA card. The only variable is the Cookie count — and Black.

ColourCookiesFLIPTrapItemStageEXTRA
Red1022211
Yellow1122211
Green1122211
Blue1022211
Purple1122211
Black942211
Total6214121266

Black trades two Cookies for two extra FLIP cards — four in one colour, where every other colour gets two. All four are Cake Hounds: Blueberry Cake Hound (BS12-095), Crimson Danger Cake Hound (BS12-096), Caramel Pudding Cake Hound (BS12-098) and Strategist Cake Hound (BS12-100).

The other thing Black does is lean on Booster 11. Ten of the 19 Black base cards reference Special Play in their rules text — the mechanic Devsisters introduced with the Black colour in The Dark Enchantress War. Red Velvet Cookie (BS12-112) carries the keyword itself; Poison Mushroom Cookie requires a Special Play Cookie already in your battle area to be playable at all. Whatever Black becomes, the database says it is being built on top of BS11 rather than beside it. Our Black cards guide covers the colour as it stands today.

Across the Cookies and EXTRA cards, the level spread is 33 at LV.1, 22 at LV.2 and 13 at LV.3 — 68 in total.

The six EXTRA cards

Festival Arena is the first Braverse set to give all six colours an EXTRA card. Here is every EXTRA card in the database by set, which is the enumeration that claim rests on:

SetEXTRA cardsColours
BS8 Land of Fire & Ruin, Realm of Apathy5Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
BS9 A Game of Truth and Deceit5Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
BS10 Paradise of Passion & Sloth5Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
BS11 The Dark Enchantress War2Pure, Black
BS12 Festival Arena6Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Black
Total23

That table is the database as it stood when Festival Arena was filed. On October 26, 2026, Starter Deck 11 [Timeline of Fate] added a 24th EXTRA card, Shadow Milk Cookie (ST11-015).

All six BS12 EXTRA cards are Ultra Rares, and each has a Secret Ultra Rare parallel:

CardNumberColourLevelHP
Shining Glitter CookieBS12-018Red25
Clotted Cream CookieBS12-036Yellow24
Apple Faerie CookieBS12-056Green23
Popping Candy CookieBS12-074Blue35
Black Lemonade CookieBS12-092Purple35
Poison Mushroom CookieBS12-111Black35

Each one gates itself behind an Arena-flavoured condition. Clotted Cream Cookie needs four or more Yellow Arena Cookies in your break area. Popping Candy Cookie needs an Arena Cookie to have been placed from your battle area onto the bottom of your deck that turn. Apple Faerie Cookie wants a Candy Apple Cookie with Arena on board, or seven or more Green cards in your support area. If you have been treating the break area as a resource, this set keeps doing that.

Shining Glitter Cookie BS12-018, the Red EXTRA card from Booster 12 Festival Arena - a Level 2 Cookie with 5 HP.

Heads up if you own our extra deck guide bookmark: it was written when the pool was 17 EXTRA cards. Festival Arena added six, taking the total to 23, and Timeline of Fate's Shadow Milk Cookie makes 24.

The second Genesis Extra Rare

Genesis Extra Rare is the top of the Braverse rarity ladder, and until August 31 it existed on exactly one card. Now there are two. Across all 2,311 entries in the English card database as of October 26, 2026, these are the only rows carrying the GXR code:

CardNumberSetColour
Dark Enchantress CookieBS11-115@3The Dark Enchantress WarBlack
Poison Mushroom CookieBS12-111@3Festival ArenaBlack

Both are Black, and both follow the same four-step escalation off a single base number — UR, then SUR at @1, then EXR at @2, then GXR at @3. They differ on card type: Poison Mushroom Cookie is an EXTRA card, while Dark Enchantress Cookie at BS11-115 is filed as a plain Cookie. The EXTRA-type Dark Enchantress Cookie is a different card, BS11-116, and it has no GXR printing. Poison Mushroom Cookie is a Level 3 Black EXTRA Cookie with 5 HP, the skill MUSHY P., and an attack that reads: two Black energy, "Eat This Please", 2 damage, and then +1 HP if you started the game going second.

Its play condition has two clauses: four or more cards in your opponent's support area, and a Cookie with Special Play already in your battle area.

Two data notes for anyone counting rarities off the raw feed rather than a wiki. First, the SECRET RARE grade string appears in two forms in the BS12 rows — six entries carry a stray carriage return in front of it — so a naive group-by reports 6 and 6 rather than 12. Second, 12 rows in the database carry the EXR rarity code, but one of them (Timekeeper Cookie, BS6-031@2) has its grade filled in as ULTRA RARE. The feed is the best source available, and it still needs reading rather than trusting.

Why Arena is back

Every single one of the 148 entries in Festival Arena is tagged with the Arena keyword. That is not an inference from the data — Devsisters said it outright in the July 23 Community Letter, answering a reader question: yes, every card in Booster 12 will include the [Arena] keyword.

The keyword's history is short. Before BS12 it appeared on 161 entries in the whole database: all 136 filed under Booster 7 [Arena of Glory], 19 promotional cards, and six promo reprints of Arena of Glory cards filed under other products. Festival Arena's 148 entries roughly doubled that, to 309 when they were filed.

There is a seventh BS7 promo reprint that belongs in that count and is not in it. Cream Puff Cookie is filed under card number BS7_093@2 — one of five entries in the database whose number uses an underscore instead of a hyphen — and its keyword field reads Arema. It is the single misspelled keyword in the database, and it is the reason a careful count returns 161 rather than 162.

SetEntriesBase cardsBase cards naming Arena in rules text
BS7 Arena of Glory13610876
BS12 Festival Arena14811279

Counting the base cards whose rules text (skill, attack or FLIP effect) names Arena, Arena of Glory has 76 of its 108 and Festival Arena has 79 of its 112, so the new set leans on the keyword slightly more in absolute terms and about the same in proportion.

Devsisters gave the reasoning for the return in the same letter. Arena of Glory was built so that a player could open one booster box and build a working deck from it without owning much else, and the team considered that a good on-ramp for new players. Festival Arena is meant to do the same job, with two stated caveats: it is designed to combine naturally with Arena of Glory cards, and the team says it deliberately made the cards usable in decks that are not built around Arena at all, so they are not stranded outside the archetype.

How that is landing in Korea's sanctioned events is the subject of our Festival Arena meta in Korea post. If you want the current state of the older Arena set, our best Arena of Glory cards piece covers it.

Summer Soda Festival BS12-084, an Uncommon Purple Stage card from Booster 12 Festival Arena.

Each colour's Stage card is named for a venue, which is about as on-theme as a set called Festival Arena could get: Crown Stage (Red), Well-Lit Workshop (Yellow), Orchestra Hall (Green), Comeback Stage (Blue), Summer Soda Festival (Purple) and Manager Scarlet's Coffee Truck (Black). Five of the six reference Arena Cookies directly in their text.

No new keywords

Here is a finding that cuts against the usual new-set narrative. Festival Arena uses nine bracketed keywords in its rules text:

Arena, Activate, Once Per Turn, Equip, EXTRA, Your Turn, On Play, Blocker, Special Play.

Every one of them already appears on a card printed before BS12. Checked against all 2,095 non-BS12 entries in the database when the set was filed, the set introduces zero new bracketed keywords.

That is consistent with what Devsisters described rather than a contradiction of it: the letter framed the coming sets as modifying and expanding existing mechanics as well as adding new ones, and framed BS12 specifically around bringing Arena back rather than around a new keyword. It also means you do not need to learn new vocabulary to read these cards. Our keywords explainer already covers all nine.

What ships after Festival Arena

Devsisters published the rest of the schedule in the same July letter. Dates after October are the publisher's stated targets, not confirmed release dates.

ProductTypeStatus as published
Booster 12 [Festival Arena]Booster setReleased October 2, 2026, after a September 26 pre-release
Starter Deck 11 [Timeline of Fate]Blue starter deckScheduled for November 2026
Booster 13 [Legend of the Spirit Weapons]Booster setScheduled for January 2027

Timeline of Fate is described as a Blue deck built around Shadow Milk Cookie and the Time Balance Department. Legend of the Spirit Weapons is described as a martial-arts theme. Timeline of Fate has started to appear in the English card database: 16 rows, ST11-001 to ST11-016, were added on October 26, 2026. Legend of the Spirit Weapons has no rows there yet.

For where these sets sit in the release order, see our set release timeline; for what a pre-release actually involves, the organized play guide has the event ladder.

Quick Action Checklist

  • The set is out. Festival Arena released in North America on October 2, 2026, after a September 26 pre-release, and in Korea on September 11. Devsisters' Asia site announced a Festival Arena Pre-Release Draft Event for September 25 to October 1 in a September 10 notice.
  • The database's 148 rows are 112 numbers. The extra 36 are Hidden printings of numbers you already counted. The retail box is bigger again: its listing gives 160 regular cards plus 49 Hidden Cards, because older reprints ride along with the 112 new cards.
  • Commons and Uncommons have no Secret parallel. If you are chasing alt-arts, only the 34 Rare-and-up cards have one.
  • Poison Mushroom Cookie (BS12-111) is the chase. It exists at four treatments off one number, ending in only the second GXR in the game.
  • If you play Black, this set assumes you own Booster 11. Ten of its 19 Black cards reference Special Play.
  • If you already play Arena of Glory, the pool roughly doubles. Devsisters says the two sets are designed to combine.
  • For results, read Korea. BS12 has been legal in Korean Brave League Season 4 events since October 3, and our Festival Arena meta in Korea post reads the champion decklists Devsisters publishes.

Frequently Asked Questions

When did Cookie Run: Braverse Booster 12 [Festival Arena] release?
Booster 12 [Festival Arena], the twelfth CookieRun: Braverse booster set, released in North America on October 2, 2026, after a pre-release on September 26, 2026. Devsisters published both dates in its Community Letter of July 23, 2026, and its English product listing gives the October 2 release date. The Korean edition released earlier, on September 11, 2026, per Devsisters' Korean product listing. The set entered the official English card database on August 31, 2026.
How many cards are in Cookie Run: Braverse Festival Arena?
The official English card database lists 112 distinct numbered cards for Festival Arena (BS12), running BS12-001 to BS12-112 with no gaps, across 148 entries. The other 36 rows are additional printings rather than new cards: one Secret parallel for each of the 12 Rares, 13 Super Rares and 9 Ultra Rares, plus an Extra Rare and a Genesis Extra Rare printing of Poison Mushroom Cookie. The retail box holds more: Devsisters' English product listing gives Festival Arena 160 regular cards plus 49 Hidden Cards. The 48 regular cards beyond the 112 new BS12 numbers are the room left for older cards reprinted into the set, which Devsisters acknowledged in an October 7, 2026 notice without publishing a count or list.
Does every card in Cookie Run: Braverse Festival Arena have the Arena keyword?
Yes. All 148 Festival Arena entries in the official CookieRun: Braverse card database carry the Arena keyword, and Devsisters confirmed this directly in its Community Letter of July 23, 2026. Before Festival Arena the keyword appeared on 161 entries: all 136 in Booster 7 [Arena of Glory], 19 promotional cards, and six promo reprints of Arena of Glory cards. Devsisters says Festival Arena is designed to combine with Arena of Glory cards while remaining usable in decks not built around the keyword.
What is the rarest card in Cookie Run: Braverse Festival Arena?
Poison Mushroom Cookie at BS12-111@3, which carries the Genesis Extra Rare (GXR) treatment. It is one of only two GXR cards in the 2,311-entry English card database (as of October 26, 2026), alongside Dark Enchantress Cookie (BS11-115@3) from The Dark Enchantress War. Both are Black, and both exist at four escalating treatments off a single base number: Ultra Rare, Secret Ultra Rare, Extra Rare, then Genesis Extra Rare. Poison Mushroom Cookie is an EXTRA card; Dark Enchantress Cookie at BS11-115 is filed as a plain Cookie.
Does Cookie Run: Braverse Festival Arena introduce any new keywords?
No. Festival Arena uses nine bracketed keywords in its rules text - Arena, Activate, Once Per Turn, Equip, EXTRA, Your Turn, On Play, Blocker and Special Play - and every one of them already appears on a CookieRun: Braverse card printed before BS12. Checked against all 2,095 non-BS12 entries in the official card database when the set was filed, the set introduces no new bracketed keyword.
Which Cookie Run: Braverse Festival Arena cards are the best?
This card-list guide does not rank Festival Arena. The set released in Korea on September 11, 2026 and in North America on October 2, 2026, and its cards have been legal in Korean Brave League Season 4 events since October 3, 2026. Devsisters publishes champion decklists from those events on the official CookieRun: Braverse site, and those results, not pre-release card reading, are the evidence to judge Festival Arena cards by. Our Festival Arena meta in Korea post reads them.
What comes after Booster 12 in Cookie Run: Braverse?
Devsisters published two further products in its July 23, 2026 Community Letter. Starter Deck 11 [Timeline of Fate], a Blue deck centred on Shadow Milk Cookie and the Time Balance Department, is scheduled for November 2026. Booster 13 [Legend of the Spirit Weapons], described as a martial-arts theme, is scheduled for January 2027. Both dates are publisher targets rather than confirmed release dates. As of October 26, 2026, the official English card database holds 16 Timeline of Fate rows (ST11-001 to ST11-016) and none for Legend of the Spirit Weapons.

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