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October 2026

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Bandai's sample of the Gundam Card Game World Championships 26-27 Season 2 playmat, the Top 4 prize at Season 2 Regionals: the legless purple and navy Zeong hovering among asteroids with its skirt thrusters blazing and the five fingertips of its raised hand glowing, smaller mobile suits and beam fire around it, the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 26-27 logo in the lower right and a SAMPLE watermark across the art.
📚Format GuidesOct 2, 2026·13 min read

How to Qualify for the Gundam Card Game World Championships

Eleven of the 22 Season 2 Regionals on Bandai's World Championships 26-27 calendar have been played, and the rest run from 3 October to 20 December 2026. Here is every route to an Area Finals seat - the Top 16 invite, the Store Championship lottery and its attendance cliffs, the Last Chance Qualifiers in Orlando and London, the open finals in Latin America and Oceania - plus the one Regional that falls inside Stardust Trails' first week, and a Season 2 prize ladder that turns out to be one Zeong board handed out in pieces.

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September 2026

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The official Gundam Card Game card GD04-067 ∀ Gundam, a white Lv. 5 cost 3 Legend Rare Unit with 4 AP and 4 HP, the Militia trait and the link requirement Loran Cehack, showing the white mobile suit amid flying rubble under a SAMPLE watermark. Its printed Activate Main effect still says to choose the Unit card from your trash, the wording Bandai corrected by errata on 10 April 2026.
📚Format GuidesSep 30, 2026·13 min read

Gundam Card Game Errata and Comprehensive Rules Updates

Bandai has corrected the text of three Gundam Card Game cards, and on 30 September 2026 its own card database still shows the uncorrected wording on all three. Here is each errata and what it changes at the table, plus a version-by-version account of the Comprehensive Rules from 1.0 to 1.9.0, built by comparing every archived English PDF against the next - including three rules the official changelog never lists.

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Bandai's official Team Battle play layout for the Gundam Card Game: two teams of two, each team sharing one central shield area in which four Shields from each player are stacked alternately above a single shared Base slot, while every player keeps their own deck area, trash and resource area.
📚Format GuidesSep 28, 2026·14 min read

Gundam Card Game Multiplayer Rules - 2v2 and Battle Royale

On 25 September 2026 a store release event opened with a Battle Royale option and Bandai posted four decklist pairs built for 2v2 Team Battle. Most of the 1v1 game carries over, but a handful of rules change who gets EX Resources, whose hand a Shield lands in and what "friendly" means once your partner sits next to you - and Bandai's own two rules documents disagree on one of them. Here is every change, the 11 multiplayer rulings I found in Bandai's FAQ, the 35 cards whose text reads the size of the table, and what Bandai's 14 team decklists do differently.

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August 2026

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Official Gundam Card Game World Championships 26-27 Regionals Season 2 key visual, the Level 1 qualifier stage running August to December 2026.
📚Format GuidesAug 9, 2026·12 min read

Gundam Card Game Tournament Rules - BO3, Bans, Time Limits

Bandai has two live documents that disagree about whether the Gundam Card Game has a sideboard. It does now, and it is exactly 10 cards. This is the whole competitive rules layer - deck legality, match clocks, extra turns, the Swiss round table, tiebreaker maths, deck-check penalties, and the current banned list with the banned-pair category Bandai introduced in July 2026 - read off Bandai's own PDFs and rules pages.

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