Gundam Card Game
Bandai's Gundam trading card game. The resource-deck and shield system, Mobile Suits, Pilots, Bases and Commands, starter decks, booster sets, and deckbuilding.
August 2026
3 posts
How to Play the Gundam Card Game - Resources, Shields, Pilots, and the Six-Card Life Total
Your entire life total in the Gundam Card Game is six face-down cards with 1 HP each, plus a token base with 3 HP. This is the complete rules walkthrough - the separate resource deck, the Level and Cost split, setup, the five card types, pairing Pilots into Link Units, the five phases, and combat - checked line by line against Bandai's Comprehensive Rules Ver. 1.8.0.
![Official key visual for the Gundam Card Game starter deck Aquatic Assault [ST11], showing Char's Z'gok with its claw arms extended against smoke and blue water.](/images/blog/gundam-tcg/gundam-card-game-starter-decks-guide/gundam-st11-aquatic-assault-key-visual-hero.webp)
Gundam Card Game Starter Decks and Products - Every ST Deck, What Is Actually in the Box, and What Ships Next
A Gundam Card Game starter deck is 50 cards but only 16 distinct card types - Bandai says so on the box. This is the full confirmed product slate as of August 2026: what is physically inside an ST deck versus a booster pack, which of the fourteen starters plays which colour pair, what the Ultimate Deck and Deck Build Box actually are, and which entry point is right for you. Every product name, date and MSRP checked against gundam-gcg.com, with the gaps in Bandai's own published info called out rather than filled in.
Gundam Card Game Deckbuilding - The 50/10 Split, Colour Rules, and Why Level Is Your Real Curve
Every single one of the 182 Pilot cards in the Gundam Card Game costs exactly 1. That one fact tells you almost everything about how this game's curve works - and it is not the number most new players are building around. I pulled seven official Bandai decklists and the entire card database to work out what a legal, functional 50-card deck actually looks like: type ratios, colour splits, how many Pilots you need per linkable Unit, and the beginner mistakes the rules quietly punish.