Cookie Run: Braverse Summer Champion Cup 2026: What Won

Devsisters first posted its 2026 Summer Champion Cup report for Asia on September 18 and added Vietnam in a September 30 update, and the headline is one color. Six countries have a published champion. Three of them won with Purple - not a splash, not a two-color pair, but three decks with 60 Purple main-deck cards each, built around the same self-milling core.

The second headline is the color that's missing. Green won four of the seven 25-26 Winter Champion Cups. It won none of these six.

Almost everything below comes from Devsisters' own material (the NA event date and venue come from its TopDeck.gg listing): the report's per-country color charts, the six champion decklists in the official Asia winner-deck archive, and the English card database. Where a number is our arithmetic rather than Devsisters', the post says so. Our meta tier list ranks archetypes on card theory; this is what the tournaments actually produced.

The six champions

The Summer Champion Cup is a championship series run country by country across Asia, not a store event. Devsisters' event notice ran it as Best-of-1 Swiss into single elimination, switching to Best-of-3 from the semifinals, and its prize list gives each champion a World Championship 26-27 invitation - with the notice's own caveat that prize items may differ by region. Our Worlds 26-27 post covers that event.

The "key card" is the report's own pick for each champion; we matched each to a card number by the skill text printed on the card it shows. The deck colors come from the decklists, and every one is built on a single color: the only off-color card in any of the six main decks is one Yellow FLIP card, an Earl Grey Cookie promo (BS1-040@2), in the Malaysian Blue list. Alvianto is a familiar name in that archive - he was also half of Team BlueYellow, Indonesia's 2-ON-2 Event champions in June (our 2-on-2 guide covers those lists).

The event notice scheduled a seventh leg, Thailand, on September 26. It isn't in the report yet.

What the fields played

The report's most useful content isn't the winners. For each country it publishes a pie chart of the whole field by deck color, and a second one for the Top 16 (a Top 4, for Vietnam). Here is the full field:

A dash means that chart has no slice for the color. The report doesn't define "Mix," and it gives percentages only - no player counts.

The most-played color changed from country to country: Red in the Philippines and Indonesia, Blue in Taiwan, Purple in Malaysia and Singapore, Yellow in Vietnam. Black, the color Booster 11 [The Dark Enchantress War] introduced, was 18.2% of Taiwan's field - more than Red, Yellow or Green there - and under 13% everywhere else it appeared. Our Black cards guide covers that pool.

The Top 16, country by country

Every Top 16 slice is, within the chart's rounding, a multiple of 6.25% - one deck in sixteen - so the percentages convert into whole deck counts. The conversion is ours; the percentages are Devsisters'.

Vietnam reported a Top 4 instead: two Yellow, one Red, one Green.

• Purple took 22 of the 80 Top 16 slots - 27.5% - and had the largest or joint-largest Top 16 share in four of the five countries. The exception was the Philippines, where Red put five decks in and Purple three, and Purple won anyway.
• Blue fell off a cliff in Indonesia: 23.7% of the field, zero Top 16 decks. In the Philippines, Taiwan and Singapore it took four of sixteen.
• Red and Black reached the Top 16 and won nothing. Red was the most-played color in two countries and made the cut in all five; Black made four of the five Top 16s.

Purple: the deck that mills itself

Put the three Purple champion lists side by side and they share eight card numbers:

Two ideas hold that core together, and both are printed on the cards.

The first is sacrifice. Starfruit Cookie puts one of your own LV.2-or-lower Purple Cookies in the trash to trash an opposing LV.2-or-lower Cookie. Forbidden Grimoire, a Trap, costs one of your own Purple LV.1 Cookies from the battle area to give an opposing Cookie -3 attack damage for the turn. And the bodies you throw away pay you on the way out: Yogurt Cream Cookie looks at the top three cards of your deck for a Purple card when it goes from the battle area to the trash (and trashes the rest), Blueberry Pie Cookie (ST10-006, in the Philippines and Singapore lists) deals 1 damage when it does so on your turn, and Salt Cellar Cookie draws a card and deals 1 damage when it faints.

The second is Refresh. Under Comprehensive Rules Ver. 1.8 (rule 1-3-9-1), when your deck runs out you place a LV.1-or-higher Cookie from your trash into your Break Area, then shuffle the rest of the trash into a new deck. That's a real cost - the Cookie counts toward your LV.10 loss - and this deck pays it on purpose. Silent Salt Cookie mills five of your own cards on play. Salt Cellar's faint trigger costs five more off the top. Charcoal Cookie (BS10-121, four copies in the Philippines and Singapore lists) can mill five on its attack for an extra point of damage. The payoffs all read "if you refreshed during this game": Silent Salt's 4-damage attack then strips the top HP card off every opposing Cookie, Charcoal's once-per-turn skill pings for 1 at the cost of a discard, and Spectral Warmaster (BS10-123) - the EXTRA that the Philippines and Singapore champions carried two and three of - can only be played after you've refreshed.

Our Beast card rankings cover Silent Salt as a card. The tournament point is density. The Singapore registration carries 27 cards with a BS10 number (Paradise of Passion & Sloth / Catacombs of Silence) out of 66, counting the Extra deck.

The Philippines list is the budget story. 18 of its 60 main-deck cards carry Glorious Moonlight (ST10) starter-deck numbers - Moonlight Cookie, Stardust Cookie, Blueberry Pie Cookie, Sugar Glass Cookie, Essence of Moonlight and Sleeping Moon - and the report picked ST10's Moonlight Cookie as its key card. Our named starter decks ranking called Glorious Moonlight the strongest of the five boxes back in July. A championship list running 18 cards off its numbers backs that call.

Taiwan's champion is the outlier of the three: seven BS10 cards, 29 different card numbers, and no Extra deck at all as published. Its key card, Latte Cookie (BS9-098), is a LV.1 that trashes itself to mill three from the opponent's deck once you have three or more Purple cards in your support area.

One more shared piece crosses colors. The Philippines and Singapore champions and Indonesia's Yellow champion each put one Avatar of Destiny (BS11-091) in the Extra deck - a LV.3 EXTRA the card database files as Pure rather than any of the six colors, playable only when both players' Break Areas are LV.6 or higher and both hands hold three cards or fewer.

Yellow: Millennial Tree, on two continents

Indonesia's and Vietnam's Yellow champions share 15 card numbers (13 main-deck, two Extra), and the spine is nearly identical: four Millennial Tree Cookie (BS4-038), three or four more of its BS11-035 printing, four Elder Faerie Cookie (ST7-008), four Leek Cookie, four Berry Paradise (a BS11 Stage) and four Fragmented Soul (a Trap). Both registered exactly 16 FLIP cards, the most rule 5-1-1-3 allows. Both carried the Yellow Shadow Milk Cookie (BS9-030) in the Extra deck, which you play by discarding three Yellow FLIP Cookies from your hand - and Fragmented Soul hands a FLIP Cookie back from the trash.

The engine is a Break Area loop. Millennial Tree BS4-038's On Play replays a Yellow LV.2-or-lower Cookie from your Break Area. Elder Faerie's On Play - live only while a LV.3 Millennial Tree is in your battle area or Break Area - moves a Yellow LV.1 Cookie from your Break Area to the trash. Both shrink the Break Area total you lose on at LV.10.

That loop has history. When Devsisters published Asia's banned and restricted update on February 13, 2026, it banned Golden Cheese Guardian Golem citing the card's combination with ST7-008 Elder Faerie Cookie. Elder Faerie itself, along with Sherbet Cookie (BS8-084), was named among cards that "were also thoroughly considered" - and left alone because Booster 10, then due in April, might change the environment. By the summer, Elder Faerie was a four-of in both Yellow champion lists.

It isn't only an Asian deck, either. The North American champion (below) ran the same two four-ofs: four Millennial Tree Cookie and four Elder Faerie Cookie.

Blue: one title for Pure Vanilla

Malaysia's champion is the only one of the six whose deck is neither Purple nor Yellow (its lone Yellow card is the Earl Grey promo noted above). The list runs four Pure Vanilla Cookie (BS3-088), whose On Play draws three and puts one back on top of the deck for one Blue, plus three copies of the EXTRA Pure Vanilla (BS9-088) and a BS10 package of cheap Blue draw: four Grapefruit Cookie, four Lime Cookie and three Orange Cookie, all LV.1. Blue was 15.9% of Malaysia's field and two of its Top 16.

Where Green went

The same archive holds the Top 4 lists from the 25-26 Winter Champion Cup, played in the same seven countries between November 2, 2025 and February 15, 2026, and the champions of each country's 2026 Brave League Season 1 Final (April 4 to May 16). Sort every champion by main color:

Green also filled 9 of the 28 Winter Top 4 slots, and three of its four winning lists ran on the Realm of Apathy support-area engine. The Indonesia and Vietnam winter champions each registered four Broken Central Clock, four Soul Jam: Light of Apathy and two or three Peak of Apathy; the Philippines champion ran four Light of Apathy and three Peak of Apathy.

Then came February 13. Devsisters' Asia update banned Broken Central Clock and restricted Peak of Apathy and Light of Apathy to one copy each. Its commentary said Green decks ran with virtually no meaningful weakness and that "Green mirror matches were observed across various official events." The winter Top 4 lists are what that looked like on paper.

Since the update, the archive shows 13 champions across the Brave League Season 1 Finals and the Summer Champion Cup, and none played Green. Green hasn't left the tables - it was 6.8% to 22% of the summer fields, took 11 of the 80 Top 16 slots and one of Vietnam's Top 4 - it has stopped winning one-on-one titles. Its only champion lists in the archive since February 13 are three 2-ON-2 Event team entries, from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. None of the six summer champions ran a single card from the Banned & Restricted list, not even a one-copy restricted card.

Red is the other quiet number in that table: none of the 20 champions across the three series played a Red deck. The archive's most recent Red champion in a one-on-one event is Malaysia's 1st Anniversary Cup winner, on March 8, 2026.

Devsisters' July 23 Community Letter says tournament results and participation rates are among the things it reviews before changing the Banned & Restricted list, and that it will publish changes when it judges action necessary rather than on a fixed schedule. Reports like this one publish two of those inputs, participation and results. They don't say what, if anything, happens next.

North America's Top 4 looked different

Devsisters also published the Top 4 decklists from the 2nd NA Champion Cup, held July 4 at Pro-Play Summit: Dallas per its TopDeck.gg listing. Colors come from each deck graphic's color badge:

No Purple, and two Red decks where Asia's summer produced no Red champion. One difference is the calendar. The NA Champion Cup ran on July 4, and the BS10 cards the Asian Purple champions leaned on - Silent Salt BS10-122, Salt Cellar, Charcoal, Blackberry and Spectral Warmaster - reached English-language play with Set 5, The Dark Enchantress War: pre-release events from July 17, release on July 24. Our organized play guide explains how that Top 4 earned North America's four Worlds seeds.

North American players have now had BS10 for more than two months, but there's no official data yet on whether Purple has caught on there: as of September 30, Devsisters hasn't posted results from the September 19 Regionals, and its English winner-deck archive has no entries.

What the report doesn't tell you

• No win rates or matchups. The charts show what people registered and what made the cut, not why.
• Champions' lists only. The winter archive has a Top 4 list for every country; the summer entries are champions only, so every other Top 16 deck is a slice of a pie chart.
• No attendance. Percentages can't tell you whether a field was 30 players or 300.
• Vietnam's second chart is a Top 4, so it isn't in the 80-slot count above.
• Thailand is missing. Its leg was scheduled for September 26, and the report as updated September 30 doesn't include it yet.
• Every list predates Booster 12 [Festival Arena]. Asia's Festival Arena pre-release draft events run September 25 to October 1, and North America's release is October 2 - our Festival Arena card list has the set. Devsisters has said it designed the set "to introduce a fresh meta," so read this report as a snapshot of the format before Festival Arena, not a forecast.

Quick checklist

• Purple won 3 of 6 Summer Champion Cups (Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore) and took 22 of the 80 Top 16 slots across the five countries that published a Top 16.
• The Purple core is a sacrifice-and-Refresh deck: four Salt Cellar, four Starfruit and four Forbidden Grimoire in all three lists, plus Silent Salt (BS10-122) and Glorious Moonlight starter cards.
• Yellow won 2 (Indonesia, Vietnam) on four Millennial Tree BS4-038 and four Elder Faerie ST7-008 - the same pair the NA Champion Cup winner ran.
• Blue won 1 (Malaysia) on four Pure Vanilla BS3-088 and a BS10 draw package.
• Green went from 4 of 7 winter titles to 0 of 13 Brave League Season 1 Final and Summer Champion Cup titles since the February 13, 2026 banned and restricted update.
• No Red champion in any of the three series' 20 titles, though Red made every summer Top 16 and took two of North America's Top 4.
• Thailand's September 26 results are still pending, and everything here predates Festival Arena.