Cookie Run: Braverse Sets in Order & Release Timeline

If you've tried to figure out the Cookie Run: Braverse release order, you've probably hit the same wall we did: set codes and card counts get reported inconsistently across retailers, wikis, and regional listings. Part of that is because the booster product names don't map cleanly onto the underlying set-code numbering, so it's easy to wind up with the sets in the wrong order.

There's a second reason, and it's the one that costs people money. The dates you'll find quoted for these sets - the ones this page used to quote too - come out of Devsisters' official card database, and they are not the dates the sets reached English shelves. The launch set misses by more than eight months.

So here's what this guide does: it lays out every booster set in order, on both calendars - the card-database wave date and, where there was one, the English street date - describes what each one added to the game, and is explicit about which details don't behave the way you'd expect. We'll keep this page updated as new sets land.

Every Braverse set in release order

Here's the full booster order, oldest to newest, current through October 2026. The third column is the date each card-number wave appeared in Devsisters' official English card database. The fourth is the date the set actually went on sale in English, and only six of the nine names have one - the other three were sold inside another name's English box.

The order is the same on both calendars, so if all you want is "which set came first," the table reads top to bottom either way. It's the gaps that catch people out.

One more quirk to know up front: the set codes you'll see online (BS1, BS3, BS5...) don't run as a tidy 1, 2, 3 sequence, because the card-number prefixes and the booster product names don't line up one-to-one. See the set-code map further down for why the codes look the way they do.

Why the English street dates are different

The short version is that the card database and the English shelf are tracking two different things, and this page previously quoted one while calling it the other.

Braverse launched in Korea in September 2023, per ICv2's June 2025 write-up of the game. The English version came much later: Devsisters put Brave Beginning into U.S. retail on July 11, 2025, exclusively through ACD Distribution, at 28 packs a display and 9 cards a pack. So the October 30, 2024 date in the database is not the Korean release or the English one - it's the day that wave of card numbers was created in the English card database, which is a records timestamp and nothing more.

The English line has also run at a slower cadence than the wave numbering suggests. ICv2's December 2025 lineup piece laid out four English boosters for the whole of 2026 - Arena of Glory on January 16, A Game of Truth and Deceit on March 27, plus one in Q3 and one in Q4 - and described that as double the previous year's rate. Two in 2025, four in 2026: the two later slots went to The Dark Enchantress War on July 24 and Festival Arena on October 2. Through October 2026 that's six English boosters against twelve card-number waves, which is why three of the nine names in the table above have never been a box of their own in English. Every English booster before Festival Arena packed two or three of those waves into one box.

If you're shopping rather than reading, that gap matters more than any of the dates: our TCGplayer set-name map shows where the cards from those three names actually sit in the marketplace.

Brave Beginning (the launch set)

Brave Beginning is where the game starts. Its card numbers were created in the English database on October 30, 2024, and it hit U.S. retail on July 11, 2025 - booster displays at 28 packs, 9 cards a pack, $97.72 on the box, alongside the original five color Starter Decks (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple) and a $64.95 starter display. It's the set that establishes the fundamentals: the five colors, the core Cookies, and the building blocks every later set expands on.

If you're starting out, this is the most "evergreen" set to understand because so much of the game's vocabulary lives here.

Age of Heroes and Kingdoms

Age of Heroes and Kingdoms is the March 13, 2025 database wave, and it reached U.S. shelves in the autumn of 2025 - ICv2 covered the U.S. release on October 13, 2025, noting displays that carry multiple box toppers including a Stormbringer promo pack with serialized cards. It expands the card pool with a heroes-and-kingdoms theme: a meaningful chunk of new cards for deck-builders across all five colors, and it's the set that introduced the Ancient keyword - the first big wave of Ancient Cookies, including Golden Cheese Cookie (BS3-025, Yellow) and White Lily Cookie (BS3-055, Green). It's also the largest single name in the card database, at 306 entries, which makes sense: it's actually two card-number waves (BS3 and BS4) sold under one product name, which is where a lot of the set-code confusion starts.

Operation Timeguard

Operation Timeguard is the June 8, 2025 database wave, and it's one of the three names that never became an English booster of its own. All 274 of its cards are in the official English card database; there was simply no box with that name on it. In English its cards went on sale inside the Arena of Glory box, below. It's the set that introduced the Dragon keyword - a full color wheel of Dragon Cookies, one per color: Pitaya Dragon (BS5-013, Red), Ananas Dragon (BS5-040, Yellow), Longan Dragon (BS5-056, Green), Lotus Dragon (BS5-071, Blue), and Lychee Dragon Cookie (BS5-093, Purple). Each of those five is a Level 3 with 5 HP at Ultra Rare, and several have matching support cards such as Pitaya Dragon Cookie's Nest and Lychee Dragon Cookie's Cave. Like Age of Heroes, Timeguard is a two-wave name in the database - its cards carry both BS5 and BS6 numbers.

Arena of Glory

Arena of Glory is the September 4, 2025 database wave; in English it hit stores on January 16, 2026, the date on both ICv2's 2026 lineup piece and Devsisters' product listing. Under the Arena of Glory name, the card database files only the BS7 wave - 136 entries, every one carrying the Arena keyword. It's where you'll find the Arena versions of Cookies like Chili Pepper (BS7-013), Capsaicin (BS7-014), Kouign-Amann (BS7-035), and Dark Choco Cookie (BS7-067).

The English box is a lot bigger than that name, though, and it is not a single-wave set. Devsisters' product listing describes it as three stories in one expansion - Arena of Glory, Awakening: Dragon's Fury and Operation Timeguard - and gives it 325 regular cards plus 84 hidden cards. That count matches, to within one card, the 326 distinct card numbers across the BS5, BS6 and BS7 waves together in the card database, so the box you buy carries all three prefixes: the Operation Timeguard cards went on sale in English here, not in a box of their own.

Land of Fire & Ruin, Realm of Apathy

Land of Fire & Ruin, Realm of Apathy is the October 28, 2025 database wave, and the second of the three names with no English booster of its own - its BS8 cards went on sale inside the A Game of Truth and Deceit box, whose product listing headlines these same Burning Spice, Mystic Flour, Golden Cheese, Dark Cacao and Frost Queen Cookies. It's still a landmark set for two reasons. First, it introduced the Beast keyword and the game's first EXTRA card type - a new category of Cookie that layers on top of your board. Second, it's home to a stacked lineup of marquee Cookies: Burning Spice (BS8-009, Red), Mystic Flour (BS8-059, Green, a 6-HP Level 3), Golden Cheese (BS8-027, Yellow), and Dark Cacao Cookie (BS8-104, Purple) all appear here as Ultra Rares with alt-art chase versions. This is the set where the "power creep" conversation really starts, and where the flashiest Secret-rarity chase cards live - see our rarities and collecting guide.

A Game of Truth and Deceit

A Game of Truth and Deceit is the January 29, 2026 database wave (BS9), and it hit English stores on March 27, 2026, with the BS8 Land of Fire & Ruin cards inside the same box. It's headlined by Shadow Milk Cookie, who is unusual: rather than existing in a single color, Shadow Milk shows up as an EXTRA Cookie across four colors here - BS9-010 (Red), BS9-030 (Yellow), BS9-055 (Green), and BS9-102 (Purple) - with Pure Vanilla Cookie (BS9-088) rounding out the Blue slot. Mechanically this is the FLIP-heavy set: it carries far more FLIP cards than the boosters around it, so it plays like a different machine than the Beast-and-Break-Area sets. For a deeper card-by-card read, see our best Truth and Deceit cards rundown.

Paradise of Passion & Sloth / Catacombs of Silence

Paradise of Passion & Sloth / Catacombs of Silence is the March 20, 2026 database wave - a twin-themed expansion (the slash in the name reflects its dual concept) that added cards across all five colors. It's the third and last of the names with no English booster of its own, so if you have been searching shops for a Paradise of Passion box, that's why nothing comes back: its BS10 cards went on sale inside The Dark Enchantress War box, whose product listing describes BS10 and BS11 side by side.

The Dark Enchantress War

The Dark Enchantress War is the BS11 wave (created in the database on May 27, 2026), and it went on sale in English on July 24, 2026 at 9 cards a pack, 28 packs a display, $111.72 on the box - built around the Dark Enchantress storyline, with the BS10 Paradise of Passion & Sloth cards in the same box. It's the most mechanically distinct set on the shelf: it introduced the BLACK color, an entirely new villain faction whose Cookies (led by Dark Enchantress Cookie, BS11-115) don't slot into the existing five-color wheel. It also debuted the game's top rarity, Genesis Extra Rare (GXR), which Devsisters' product listing places above EXR, on Dark Enchantress Cookie - more on that in the rarities guide. It was the newest set until Festival Arena arrived on October 2, 2026.

Festival Arena (the newest set)

Festival Arena is the newest booster set: the BS12 wave, whose 148 entries were created in the official card database on August 31, 2026, and which went on sale in North America on October 2, 2026 - the date on Devsisters' product listing and on the official site's "North America release on Oct 2" banner - at $3.99 a pack and $111.72 a display. Its theme is a return to the Arena keyword that Arena of Glory introduced: all 148 of its database entries carry it, across 112 new numbered cards (BS12-001 to BS12-112) in all six colors, Black included. Its top chase card is Poison Mushroom Cookie at BS12-111@3, the second GXR printing in the game after Dark Enchantress Cookie. The full checklist is in our Festival Arena set list.

It's also the first English booster whose new cards all sit under a single prefix, and it comes with a catch. The product listing gives 160 regular cards plus 49 Hidden Cards, more than the 112 new BS12 numbers, and on October 7, 2026 Devsisters posted a notice apologizing that reprinted older cards in the set had not been communicated clearly enough before release, adding that standard new booster sets will not use the same reprint configuration again. Our Festival Arena reprints breakdown works through what that means for a box.

Which keyword each set introduced

One of the cleanest ways to understand Braverse's history is by the mechanic each booster brought to the table. The keyword rollout is remarkably tidy:

If you're trying to figure out what a given set is "about," this is usually a faster answer than the box art.

Card counts and chase-card ratios

People constantly ask how many cards are in each set, and the honest answer is: it depends on whether you count alternate-art printings. Most high-rarity cards in Braverse have a plain base printing and a fancy alt-art Secret printing, and the official database lists those as separate entries. Counting those alt arts, here's roughly how the card-database set names stack up by total database entries and by how much of each set is alt-art printings (the entries with an @ suffix on the card number). These are database names, not English boxes - the English Arena of Glory box, for one, also carries the Operation Timeguard waves:

The takeaways: the three biggest names are the three that each bundle two card-number waves (Age of Heroes, Operation Timeguard and Brave Beginning), and in most sets roughly one in five to one in four entries is an alt-art printing (A Game of Truth and Deceit is the outlier at about one in three, thanks to its multi-color Shadow Milk printings). That last number is why "completing" a set with the alt-art versions is dramatically more expensive than assembling a playset of the base cards - the rarities and collecting guide breaks down how to do the latter without chasing the former.

The set-code map, decoded

Here's the thing about the set codes you'll see online (BS1, BS3, BS5, and so on): they do not run as a clean 1, 2, 3 sequence that matches booster names, because the first three names in the card database each contain two card-number waves, and the English boxes bundle waves differently again. Once you see the actual mapping, the whole thing clicks:

So the "missing" numbers aren't missing at all: BS2 lives inside Brave Beginning, BS4 inside Age of Heroes, BS6 inside Operation Timeguard. From BS7 onward, each name in the card database is a single prefix, so the database codes finally track release order - but the English boxes kept bundling. The English Arena of Glory box carries BS5, BS6 and BS7; A Game of Truth and Deceit carries BS8 and BS9; The Dark Enchantress War carries BS10 and BS11. Festival Arena is the first English booster whose new cards all sit under one prefix, BS12. Starter decks use their own ST numbering, and promo cards carry P or set-prefixed numbers with an @ suffix. If you ever need to check a specific card number or count, the official card database is the source of truth, and it's the same data we use to keep this page accurate.

Which set should you buy?

A practical buying order for different goals:

• Brand new and want to play? Start with a Starter Deck, not loose boosters. You get a full deck immediately. There are ten to choose from now: the original five color decks, plus five newer named decks (Flames of Immortality, Tree of Life, Guardian Winds, Seas of Fate, and Glorious Moonlight).
• Ready to upgrade your deck? Buy singles or packs from the most recent set your color is supported in - newer sets are easiest to find sealed and keep your collection current.
• Collecting the chase cards? The newest set (currently Festival Arena) is where the freshest Secret-rarity Cookies are, and sealed product is most available right after release. Devsisters has acknowledged that Festival Arena also packs reprinted older cards, so read our Festival Arena reprints breakdown before buying sealed.
• Shopping by set name? Check the name is one you can actually buy first. Three of the nine above - Operation Timeguard, Land of Fire & Ruin, and Paradise of Passion & Sloth - were never English boxes of their own; their cards were sold inside Arena of Glory, A Game of Truth and Deceit and The Dark Enchantress War, and our TCGplayer set-name map shows which set those cards are filed under on the marketplace.

Whatever you buy, pair it with our deck-building basics so your new cards actually make your deck better, and check how to play if you're still learning the ropes.