Palworld TCG Tokyo Autumn Results: How the New Cards Did

Kyoto's podium had no Green cards and no new cards. Eleven days later, Tokyo's had both.

Bushiroad ran Japan's second Palworld OFFICIAL CARD GAME Masters League 26-27 qualifier at Tokyo Big Sight on 3 October 2026, the day after Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 went on sale in Japan. On 5 October its Japanese site posted the decks that finished first, second and third in each of the event's six blocks: 18 lists. None of the 36 earlier entries in Bushiroad's Japanese deck-recipe database contains a card from the sleeve set. Ten of these 18 do.

That makes Tokyo Autumn's podium the only set of tournament decklists Bushiroad has published for the card pool English players get on 16 October, when the sleeve set releases in English. I pulled all 18 lists from the deck-recipe database behind Bushiroad's Japanese page, converted every card to its English printing and counted, the same way our Kyoto decklist breakdown did for Japan's first stop.

The short version: Blue-Purple took nine of the 18 podium places and three of the six blocks, Chillet – Final Frostneedle made eight lists and Quivern seven, all 18 lists run exactly eight Lucky Pals, and a Blue-Green deck with 46 Pals won Block B.

How Tokyo Autumn was run

Same format as Kyoto, with two more blocks. Bushiroad's Japanese event page covers both stops in one listing: best-of-one, 30-minute Swiss with triple elimination for up to six rounds, the top 8 of each block into untimed best-of-one single elimination with a third-place match, and one deck, pre-registered on Bushi Navi, for the whole day. The Kyoto breakdown covers the format in more detail.

• Six blocks to Kyoto's four. The page allocates roughly one block per 64 players and balances blocks on the day. Bushiroad has not published attendance for either event.
• The same stakes. Each block champion earned places at both the Masters Japan Finals and the Masters World Finals, and second and third place earned Japan Finals places. A note Bushiroad added to the page on 30 September says a place won by someone who already holds one does not pass down to the next finisher.
• The sleeve set was on sale at the venue. The event's sales-corner graphic, at the top of this page, lists Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 at 4,400 yen beside Dawn of Palpagos boosters and both launch trial decks.

All 18 podium decks at a glance

Handles are as Bushiroad published them. "Interrupt" counts copies of Pals that print Interrupt; "Dragon" counts copies of Pals carrying the Dragon element; the last column counts Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 cards.

"Chillet" in that table is Chillet – Dragon Whisperer, the Lucky Pal; "Final Frostneedle" is the sleeve set's Chillet; "Jormuntide" is Jormuntide – Surging Sea Serpent; "Grizzbolt" is Grizzbolt – Cascading Voltage.

By colour pair: Blue-Purple 9, Blue-Red 5, Red-Purple 2, Blue-Green 2. Blue-Purple won Blocks C, D and E, Red-Purple won Block A, Blue-Green won Block B, and Blue-Red won Block F.

One counting note if you check these yourself. Three lists registered Japanese promo printings, of Cryolinx – Arctic Ordeal, Blazehowl – Hellflame Defender and Pengullet – Yearning for the Sky, and I counted each as its base card. Japanese and English promo numbers do not line up: Japanese PR-004 is Cryolinx, while English EPR-004 is Fuack – Manic Wave Ripper. Look promos up by name, not number.

Three of the five sleeve-set cards made the podium

Our Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 guide covers all five cards' text and rulings. Here is what the podium did with the three that showed up.

Chillet – Final Frostneedle went into the Dragon decks. All eight lists that run it also run four Chillet – Dragon Whisperer. On paper it is a 6-cost Blue Normal Pal with 1000 Power and Strike 2 that draws a card when the Pal it is fighting goes to the graveyard, and Bushiroad's Japanese Q&A #105 says the draw still happens on a trade. Two other facts explain the fit. At 1000 Power it is the biggest Blue Normal Pal at cost 6, where Cryolinx and Elphidran Aqua print 900. And it is an Ice and Dragon Pal costing 8 or less, so it is a legal hit when Chillet – Dragon Whisperer reveals the top card of your deck, and a Dragon to show for Elphidran – Gentle Radiance's +500.

Quivern took Lucky slots, mostly two at a time. Six of its seven lists run one or two copies; only the Block F third-place list runs four. Rule 6.1.1.3 caps a deck at eight Lucky Pals, and in the five Blue-Purple lists that run Quivern, it fills part of the four slots left after four Chillet. At Kyoto those slots went to Jormuntide – Surging Sea Serpent and Astegon. Quivern is Colorless, so it is the one Lucky Pal any colour pair can run, and the Block E third-place Red-Purple list did exactly that with a single copy.

Grizzbolt – Cascading Voltage stayed in Red. It deals 300 damage to each of your opponent's Pals when it lands. One copy is in the Block E third-place Red-Purple list, and four are in the Block F third-place Blue-Red list, the most sleeve-set-heavy deck on the podium: four Grizzbolt and four Quivern, and no Chillet – Dragon Whisperer at all. Against Blue-Purple, the 300 sweep has little to hit by itself: eight of the nine Blue-Purple podium lists run no Pal printed below 500 Power.

Depresso – Midnight Overdrive and Cattiva – Brimming Bravado appear in none of the 18.

Blue-Purple: same core, new parts

Nine Blue-Purple lists against Kyoto's eight. Five cards are in all nine: Chillet – Dragon Whisperer, Reindrix – Icy Gaze, Relaxaurus – Hungry Gunner, Zoe's Strategy and Strike from the Darkness. Kyoto's eight shared seven; Pengullet – Yearning for the Sky now misses one list (the Block C champion's) and Elphidran Aqua – Gentle Ripples misses another (the Block F runner-up's). Our Kyoto breakdown explains what the shared core does, card by card. These are the counts that moved:

Across nine lists instead of eight, Jormuntide fell from 17 copies to 9 and Elphidran Aqua from 31 to 25, while the two new Dragons arrived with 28 copies between them. That is a pattern in 17 decklists, not a statement of anyone's reasoning, but it fits the card text: Jormuntide competes with Quivern for Lucky slots, and Elphidran Aqua is the other cost-6 Blue Dragon Normal Pal besides Final Frostneedle.

Two lists stand at the edges. The Block D champion's list runs seven Interrupt Pals, the fewest in any Blue-Purple podium list at either event (Kyoto's eight ran 10 to 13), and 24 Dragon Pals, with four each of Astegon, Relaxaurus, Final Frostneedle, Elphidran Aqua, Chillet and Elphidran – Gentle Radiance. It is also the one Blue-Purple podium list at either event with a Pal under 500 Power, two Leezpunk – Treasure Bandit at 200, and the one with a structure, a single Medieval Medicine Workbench. At the other edge, the Block C champion runs 15 events, the most of any Tokyo list.

Blue-Green won Block B

Kyoto's 12 lists contained no Green card. At Tokyo, two Blue-Green lists made the podium, and one won its block. Here is the Block B champion's list:

Forty-six Pals, four events, no gear and no structures. It runs 13 Interrupt Pals, level with Kyoto's Block A champion for the most in any list at either event, and 24 Dragon Pals, four more than any Kyoto list. Part of both counts is Dinossom – Radiant Fragrance, a Green Grass and Dragon Pal with Interrupt.

The Green half is built around Lyleen – Blessing of the Goddess. On Deploy it gets 3 Ingredient; its once-per-turn ACT ability consumes 3 Ingredient to look at the top five cards of your deck and deploy a Pal costing 6 or less from among them. In this list 37 of the 46 Pals cost 6 or less. Nothing else in the list produces Ingredient, so each Lyleen that lands pays for one activation. And official Q&A #32 confirms an On Deploy ability fires when a card is deployed from the deck, so a Chillet – Dragon Whisperer that Lyleen finds still reveals and can deploy a Dragon of its own. Our Lucky Pals guide listed Lyleen among its eight build-around Lucky Pals in August.

The Block A third-place list is the same idea built differently: four Lyleen, four Chillet, 44 Pals, six gear (four Pengullet Rocket Launcher and two Single-Shot Sphere Launcher), two Petallia – Sweet Blessings, four Rushoar – Reckless Destruction and no events at all. For what the colour does across the whole card pool, see our colours guide.

Red-Purple won a block again, with two swaps

The Material deck that took Block B at Kyoto took Block A here. The Tokyo champion's 50 cards match the Kyoto Block B champion's in 44 places. The six that differ are two swaps:

Here is what each swap changes on card text. Blazamut, a Red 8-cost Lucky Pal, deals 1000 damage to up to one Pal when it is deployed. Ribbuny gets you 1 Material when it is put into the graveyard, in a deck whose four Mounted Machine Guns spend Material. The cost is Suzaku's +200 to non-battle damage from red cards, which official Q&A #53 extends to structures and gear: without it, each Mounted Machine Gun shot is 500 rather than 700, and Pump-Action Shotgun's sweep is 1200 rather than 1400. The structures guide covers how the Material engine works.

The Block E third-place list is the Kyoto list too, with one Blazehowl Noct swapped for one Grizzbolt – Cascading Voltage and one Suzaku for one Quivern. That puts this deck on the podium at both Japanese stops so far, with a block win at each.

Blue-Red: five lists, five builds

Kyoto had two Blue-Red lists; Tokyo has five, and no two are built the same way.

• Block F champion: Chillet – Dragon Whisperer and four Jormuntide – Surging Sea Serpent as the Lucky Pals, with Relaxaurus, eight Foxparks, four Foxparks' Harness and three Pump-Action Shotgun.
• Block C runner-up: the same Chillet and Jormuntide Ignis – Savage Lava Dragon pairing as Kyoto's Block D champion, with four of each, eight Foxparks, Foxparks' Harness, Axel's Strategy and Pump-Action Shotgun, plus four Blazehowl – Hellflame Defender.
• Block E runner-up: two Jormuntide Ignis and two Jormuntide beside Chillet, four Reptyro – Ore Gorger, 14 gear and no events.
• Block B runner-up: Chillet and four Azurobe – Water Dragon Waltz, 46 Pals including Sparkit, Fuack, Lamball and Cattiva, and four Pump-Action Shotgun.
• Block F third place: the Grizzbolt and Quivern list described above.

Foxparks – A Toasty Hug and Pump-Action Shotgun are in all seven lists that play Red, across both Red pairings.

The newcomer to the podium is Kitsun – Wyrmbane Fangs, a 5-cost Red Pal from Dawn of Palpagos that was on no Kyoto list and is in four of Tokyo's five Blue-Red lists. On Deploy, it deals 1200 damage to up to one Pal costing 7 or more. Set that against the printed Power of the 7-cost-and-up Pals in Tokyo's nine Blue-Purple lists: Relaxaurus (1200), Pyrin Noct (1100) and Astegon (1200) are removed by the 1200 on its own under rule 11.4.1, while Lyleen Noct (1700) and Jormuntide (1600) are not. That is card text against decklists, not a match result.

Kyoto against Tokyo Autumn

Every one of the 38 cards on Kyoto's podium is on Tokyo's too. The field widened rather than turned over.

One card has now missed both. Bushi – Ephemeral Blade is the only Pal in the English card database that is both a Lucky Pal and an Interrupt Pal, and the Lucky Pals guide picked it in August as the standout Lucky Pal. It is in none of the 30 Masters League podium lists Bushiroad has published, and it is the only one of the nine launch-pool Interrupt Pals missing from Tokyo's.

The Dragon count went up too. Our elements guide put the launch-pool ceiling for a Blue deck at 20 Dragon cards, and the sleeve set guide worked out that Final Frostneedle and Quivern raise it to 24. Two Tokyo lists run exactly 24. The Block D champion is Blue-Purple, and Purple adds no Normal Dragon, so it sits right on that ceiling. The Block B champion gets there a different way, with Green's Dinossom in the Normal slots and only four Lucky Dragons.

What it means for English players in October

• The sleeve set is legal in English from 16 October. Bushiroad's floor rules, section 3.3, say that generally all cards are legal in a constructed event from the day they are released, and that an organiser who wants a narrower card pool must announce it publicly beforehand.
• Tokyo's card pool exists in English for 14 days. Booster Pack "Legends Awaken" releases on 30 October, so the Dawn of Palpagos plus Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 pool Tokyo was played on runs from 16 to 29 October in English. Each official store may hold its Grand Challengers Cup once between 1 and 31 October, best-of-one Swiss into a top cut; a Cup on or after 16 October falls inside that window. Our Challengers Cup breakdown has the prizes and cut sizes.
• No other dated Masters League stop on Bushiroad's Japanese or English schedules is played on this pool. Japan's next stop, Tokyo Winter, is on 6 December at Akiba Square in Akihabara, after Legends Awaken's 30 October Japanese release. The English qualifiers begin at Kissimmee on 7-8 November, and the English Masters League page makes every card legal from its release date. Our Masters League guide has the English schedule.
• Every card on the podium has an English printing. The booster and trial-deck cards keep their card numbers with an E prefix, and the three sleeve-set cards are already in the English card database as ESS01-001, ESS01-002 and ESS01-005. The Japanese promo printings reprint cards that have English printings; just do not match them by promo number.

What Bushiroad has not published

• Attendance, for Tokyo Autumn or for Kyoto, and the size of each block.
• Records and pairings. No Swiss standings, match results or bracket, so the lists show what finished well, not what beat what.
• English versions of the lists. They are on the Japanese deck-recipe pages only.
• Card-specific rulings on Quivern or Grizzbolt – Cascading Voltage, in either language. Japanese Q&A #104 to #106, added on 1 October, cover Depresso – Midnight Overdrive and Final Frostneedle. On 2 October the Japanese Q&A also tagged older general entries to the sleeve-set cards, among them #36 and #37 for Grizzbolt and #49 and #71 for Quivern, but those entries date from 30 July and name no card. The English Q&A still holds 97 entries and has none for the sleeve set.

Quick reference

• Event: Masters League 26-27 Tokyo Autumn, 3 October 2026, Tokyo Big Sight South Hall 1. Six blocks; podium decklists posted 5 October.
• Format: best-of-one Swiss with triple elimination, up to six rounds; top 8 per block into untimed best-of-one single elimination with a third-place match.
• Colour pairs on the podium: Blue-Purple 9, Blue-Red 5, Red-Purple 2, Blue-Green 2.
• Block winners: A Red-Purple, B Blue-Green, C Blue-Purple, D Blue-Purple, E Blue-Purple, F Blue-Red.
• Sleeve & Card Set Vol.1 cards: in 10 of 18 lists. Chillet – Final Frostneedle 8 lists (23 copies), Quivern 7 lists (14), Grizzbolt – Cascading Voltage 2 lists (5), Depresso and Cattiva 0.
• Lucky Pals: exactly eight in all 18 lists; Chillet – Dragon Whisperer is a four-of in 15 of the 16 Blue lists.
• Interrupt: 183 Interrupt Pals across 900 cards, 7 to 13 per list; 8 of the 9 launch-pool Interrupt Pals appear, all but Bushi.
• Dragon: two lists run 24 Dragon Pals, up from Kyoto's maximum of 20.
• English relevance: the sleeve set is legal in English from 16 October; the same pool lasts until Legends Awaken on 30 October.

Kyoto said Blue-Purple Dragons. Tokyo says the same, with a sleeve-set Chillet in the curve and a Colorless Lucky Pal in the slots Jormuntide used to hold, and it adds that Green can win a block when Chillet comes along. On Bushiroad's published schedules, that is the last Masters League word on this card pool before Legends Awaken arrives.