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Gundam Card Game: Beginner Guides

Rerolls, progression roadmap, system explainers, mistakes to avoid.

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October 2026

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Bandai's App Store screenshot of a Gundam Card Game Teaching App match at Turn 8, Main Phase: two Units on each side of a blue-and-white battle field, both players at Shield 6 and Lv. 5 with 35 cards left in deck, a hand of four cards along the bottom including White Base, Amuro Ray and Suletta Mercury, a Hand 4/10 counter, and a glowing pink Attack button on the right.
🌱Beginner GuidesOct 14, 2026·10 min read

Can You Play the Gundam Card Game Online?

Bandai's free Gundam Card Game Teaching App has been on the App Store since June 2025, and nothing in its description or its eight updates describes playing another person. Here is what its two modes do, what it has and has not been updated with, and the webcam rules Bandai wrote into its Tournament Rules Manual for playing a real opponent online.

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The official Gundam Card Game card ST13-006 Gundam Aerial, a red Lv. 6 cost 5 Legend Rare Unit with 5 AP and 4 HP: the white and blue Gundam Aerial stands in a starfield among floating grey bit pods and thin red beams, and its text box opens with a pink During Pair tab and a teal Attack tab, then a light-blue Activate Action tab and a red Once per Turn tab, above the link requirement Suletta Mercury, under a SAMPLE watermark.
🌱Beginner GuidesOct 11, 2026·16 min read

Gundam Card Game Timing Keywords: All 13 and When They Fire

Section 13-2 of the Gundam Card Game Comprehensive Rules defines 13 timing keywords, and 715 of the 956 main-deck cards open an effect with at least one. Here is what each one is, when it fires, how many cards print it, the colour it wears on the printed card, and the rulings that separate When Paired, During Pair, When Linked and During Link.

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August 2026

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Two players mid-game on the official Gundam Card Game playmat, with rows of face-down shields down each outer edge and Unit cards deployed in the battle areas.
🌱Beginner GuidesAug 1, 2026·14 min read

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.

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