Gundam Card Game Errata and Comprehensive Rules Updates

Bandai has corrected the text of three Gundam Card Game cards since launch, and on 30 September 2026 its own card database still shows the uncorrected version of all three. Look up T-013, GD04-067 or ST12-001 and both the text field and the card image carry the wording Bandai has told you not to play by.

That is reason enough to know the list. The other half of the paperwork has moved further. The Comprehensive Rules have been revised ten times since Ver. 1.0 of November 2024, most recently on 11 September 2026, and the PDF now ends with a changelog of every revision. Here are all three errata, what each one changes at the table, and what every rules version since 1.0 actually changed - including three rules the changelog never mentions.

How I checked

Errata. I went through every post in the news section of Bandai's English site, back to its first entry in October 2024. Three carry the heading "Apology for the errata and revision in card description" - one each for Steel Requiem [GD03], Phantom Aria [GD04] and Raging Onslaught [ST12]. A fourth correction notice fixes an illustrator credit and changes no rules text. I then read each corrected card's database entry - text field, card image and alternate-art entries - on 30 September 2026.

Tokens. To test the Hy-Gogg correction against the rest of the game, I pulled all 29 numbered Unit token cards (T-001 to T-029) and all 956 deck-legal cards in the English database, and compared every token card with the card text that creates it.

Rules. The current PDF is Ver. 1.9.0, dated 11 September 2026. Every earlier English version from 1.0 to 1.8.0 is preserved on the Internet Archive, so I compared each version from 1.1.1 onward with the one before it, rule by rule, and Ver. 1.0 with 1.1.0 section by section, instead of trusting the changelog alone.

Rulings are a separate layer: the FAQ answers questions about cards but does not rewrite them. The rulings guide covers that side.

Three cards Bandai has corrected

All three notices close the same way: no corrected cards are available. The copy in your binder is wrong and will stay wrong, and the notice is what you play by. Two of the three went up before the product reached shelves - ∀ Gundam two weeks early, Epyon three weeks early - so the misprint was already on the cards when the correction arrived.

The database has not caught up with any of them. On 30 September 2026 the T-013 entry still lists (Zeon), GD04-067 still says "from your trash", and ST12-001 still has no 【Once per Turn】. The card images agree with the text, and so do the alternate-art entries for ∀ Gundam and Epyon.

Compare Bandai's fourth notice, from 25 July 2025, which says GD01-071 Gundam Pharact credited its illustrator as Chihiro Yukishiro instead of Chifuyu Yukishiro. The current database image of that card reads Chifuyu Yukishiro. The art credit in the database is right; the rules text on three cards is not.

The Hy-Gogg token is (Cyclops Team), not (Zeon)

Two cards make a Hy-Gogg token. GD03-024 Hy-Gogg's 【When Linked】 deploys a rested one if you have another (Cyclops Team) Unit in play, and the Command GD03-108 How Many Miles to the Battlefield? deploys one on its 【Main】. Both print the token's stats in their own text, and both give it (Cyclops Team), AP 2 and HP 1. The token card, T-013, prints (Zeon). Bandai's 30 January correction brings the token card into line with the two cards that create it.

T-013 is also the only token card that disagrees with its source. Of the 29 numbered token cards, 28 match the text that creates them on trait, AP and HP - two print a dash where that text says AP 0 - and T-013 is the one that does not.

What that changes, in a green deck built around these cards:

• It counts as (Cyclops Team). One token from How Many Miles to the Battlefield? satisfies GD03-024 Hy-Gogg's "another (Cyclops Team) Unit" check. It is a legal choice for GD03-090 Mikhail Kaminsky's 【Attack】, which gives one of your (Cyclops Team) Units <Breach 1>. And it is one of the (Cyclops Team) Units that GD03-017 Kämpfer's paired effect lets attack an active enemy Unit with 5 or less AP.
• It does not count as (Zeon). GD04-123 A Baoa Qu, a green Base, stops battle damage from enemy Units that are Lv. 4 or lower while you have a rested (Zeon) Unit in play. GD03-024 deploys its token rested, so by the printed (Zeon) trait it would switch A Baoa Qu on. Under the errata it does not.

This is not a corner case. Bandai's own GD03 Blue-Green Cyclops Team deck, posted on its DECKS page the same day as the errata, runs four copies each of GD03-024, GD03-108, Kämpfer and Mikhail Kaminsky, and Bandai describes it as a deck that fights with a steady supply of Cyclops Team Unit tokens. The Bases guide covers what A Baoa Qu does beyond that one condition.

∀ Gundam can read your opponent's trash

GD04-067 ∀ Gundam, the card at the top of this page, is a white Lv. 5 Legend Rare. Its 【Activate･Main】【Once per Turn】 costs ①: choose a Unit card with any of <Repair>, <Breach>, <First Strike>, <Support>, <High-Maneuver>, <Suppression> or <Blocker>, and for the rest of the turn ∀ Gundam gets AP+1 and every one of those keywords the chosen card has. The printed card, and the database, say to choose it from your trash. The 10 April 2026 errata changes that to any player's trash.

The FAQ sides with the errata, not the card. Ruling Q277, dated the same day, asks whether the effect can choose a Unit from the opponent's trash, and the answer is yes. Q275 confirms it takes several keywords at once - GD03-003 Messala hands over both <Blocker> and <Repair> - and Q276 rules out GD03-040 Gundam Virsago & Gundam Ashtaron, which only gains <High-Maneuver> while linked.

The practical change is that your opponent's discard pile is now ammunition. A Unit card in their trash that carries <Blocker> or <Suppression> outright - not one that only gains it while linked, which Q276 rules out - is a keyword ∀ Gundam can borrow for a turn, whatever colours they are playing.

Gundam Epyon fires once per turn

This one the site has covered already, in the ST11-ST14 card list piece. ST12-001 Gundam Epyon's pair effect - during your turn, when it destroys an enemy Unit with damage, deal 2 damage to all enemy Units with 5 or less AP - gains 【Once per Turn】. Without the limiter, nothing stops it firing again every time Epyon destroys another enemy Unit that turn.

What is new is how long the database has stayed wrong. The deck went on sale on 25 September, and five days later the database text and card image still lack the limiter. Bandai's own ST12 Close Combat list runs four copies of the card. Rulings Q436 and Q437 spell out what counts - the effect still fires if both Units are destroyed, or if the enemy Unit dies to effect damage - but they say nothing about how often it fires, so they sit on top of the errata rather than replacing it.

Bring the notices, not the database

The Tournament Rules Manual has a section for exactly this. Section 4.9 lets you keep a printed copy of "the official Bandai errata document" next to you during play, unmarked, and lets judges and opponents ask to see it; section 4.8 bans note-taking. As of 30 September 2026, Bandai's English rules page links no consolidated errata document - the corrections exist only as the three news posts in the table above. Print those. The tournament rules guide covers what else may and may not sit on the table.

Every Comprehensive Rules version, 1.0 to 1.9.0

Bandai has published eleven English versions. The table gives both dates Bandai prints for each one - they do not always agree, and the section after next explains why that matters - plus the first cards that use the new rule, where there is a clear match.

Read down the right-hand column and a pattern shows. Each of the last four revisions landed between two and six weeks before the product whose cards use it: 1.6.0 fifteen days before Phantom Aria, 1.7.0 five weeks before Eternal Nexus, 1.8.0 six weeks before Freedom Ascension by its changelog date, and 1.9.0 two weeks before the September starters. For all four, the rulebook changed before you could buy the cards that needed the change.

Stardust Trails [GD06] releases 30 October 2026. As of 30 September there is no revision for it, and no GD06 card in the English database.

What Ver. 1.9.0 changed

The ST11-ST14 card list piece noted that 1.9.0 kept the section structure intact, which it did. Four things inside it moved.

Battles started by an effect that picks two Units (5-22-4, new). Ver. 1.8.0 covered a battle started by a Unit's own effect, which is what GD05-017 Nu Gundam does: it begins a battle between itself and an enemy Unit. It had no rule for an effect that picks both Units. ST12-013 The Final Victor does exactly that - you choose an enemy player, then you and that player each choose one of your own Units, you first - and ST13-001 Qubeley's second effect chooses one of your Unit tokens and one enemy Unit. The new rule makes the first Unit chosen the attacking Unit and the second the attack target. Rule 5-22-4-1 adds that 【Attack】 and "when a Unit attacks" effects do not trigger, because there was no attack step.

<First Strike> in those battles (13-1-5-4, widened). In 1.8.0 this rule quoted Nu Gundam's own wording. In 1.9.0 it covers any effect that begins a battle and only performs the damage step. Put the two changes together: pick a <First Strike> Unit first for The Final Victor and it is the attacking Unit, so it deals its damage first.

The rulings dated the same day - Q446 to Q448 on The Final Victor, Q454 to Q456 on Qubeley - fill in the rest. Effects that apply during a battle still apply, apart from 【Attack】 and "when attacks" effects, and a Unit destroyed in one of these battles counts as destroyed with battle damage.

Pairing is now written from your side (3-3-4 reworded, 12-3-15 new). Rule 3-3-4 used to say a Unit can have at most one Pilot paired with it. It now says you can pair at most one Pilot with each of your Units, and the new 12-3-15 adds that in Team Battle you can only pair a Pilot with one of your own Units. That closes the door on pairing your Pilot to your teammate's Unit. The multiplayer rules guide covers what else teammates can and cannot share.

What the changelog leaves out

The changelog at the back of the PDF is the quickest way to see what moved, and it is mostly right. Comparing each version with the one before it turns up three gaps.

Three rules arrived without a changelog line. Ver. 1.3.0 added 2-2-5, which says several cards with the same name can be on the field at once, and 3-2-6-4, the partial-name rule that lets Garrod Ran & Tiffa Adill satisfy a [Garrod Ran] link requirement. Ver. 1.5.0 added 3-3-9-2-1: when a Pilot effect names where it activates, such as the hand or the trash, the Pilot card itself activates it. None of the three appears in the changelog. 3-2-6-4 is the substring rule the Link Units map leans on. That count starts after Ver. 1.1.0, whose changelog names the new section 3 but never records section 12, Multiplayer Battle, as added, although Ver. 1.0 had no multiplayer section at all.

Five versions carry two dates. Versions 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0 and 1.8.0 have a cover date that differs from the date the current changelog gives them; the table above has both. The 1.8.0 pair is the one you will run into: this site's older Gundam posts cite it as 10 July 2026, the cover date, while the changelog says 12 June. They are the same document. Two of the changelog dates were themselves rewritten later. The 1.3.0 PDF's own changelog dates that revision 15 October 2025, matching its cover, and from 1.4.0 on it reads 3 October. The 1.5.0 cover reads 30 January 2025 while the changelog in that same PDF says 30 January 2026, so the cover year is simply wrong; from 1.6.0 on the changelog gives 9 January 2026 instead.

The broken cross-references are fossils. The Commands guide counted 11 parenthetical cross-references that point at the wrong section, and all 11 still do in 1.9.0. The archived versions show where they come from. Ver. 1.0 had 11 sections; by 1.1.0 a new section 3 (Card Types) and section 12 (Multiplayer Battle) had pushed the later sections down. Three pointers were never updated at all - the ones in 2-7-1, 8-4-1 and 8-6-2 still point exactly where they pointed in Ver. 1.0, when those numbers were right. The First Strike pointer in 8-5-2-4-2 read 11-1-5 in Ver. 1.0; it now reads 12-1-5, one step on, while the section it means moved two steps to 13-1-5. The Counters pointer in 5-5-1 was already one off in Ver. 1.0. Ver. 1.3.0 fixed four pointers, and none of the remaining 11 has been touched since. The rules themselves are fine: look sections up by title, not by the number a rule hands you.

What this does not settle

• When the database will be fixed. Bandai has not said. Until it is, treat any database entry for T-013, GD04-067 or ST12-001 as the misprint.
• Other languages. This covers Bandai's English site and English PDFs. The Japanese and Chinese sites were not checked.
• Banned and restricted changes. Those are not errata - the cards keep their text and lose their legality - and they live in the tournament rules guide.
• Why. None of the three notices gives a reason for its correction, and the changelog explains nothing either. The patterns above are dates lined up next to each other, not Bandai's stated intent.
• Anything after 30 September 2026. A new errata notice or a Stardust Trails revision will move this page.

If you are learning the game rather than tracking changes to it, start with the rules walkthrough.