One of the biggest new hits in TCG recently has to be the arrival from the colonies of space, the Gundam Card Game. Despite only launching earlier this year, the game's gravity has brought so many souls towards it, to enjoy tabletop action with everyone's favourite big metal guys.
Mechanics
Gundam's gameplay can be compared to a number of other TCGs. For example, the primary win condition is to deal damage when the opponent no longer has Shield Cards. These are 6 random cards from your deck, similar to Pokemon's prize card system. Card stats are more comparable to Magic, being single digit numbers in attack and defence, with single digit multipliers from support cards.
There are four card types that make up a deck, Unit, Pilot, Command, Base.
Units are what you use to battle, usually Mobile Suits and Mobile Armours. Up to 6 can be deployed, but they can't attack on the same turn unless accompanied by a Pilot Card.
Pilots can pair with any Unit, boosting its AP and HP and granting their ability to the Unit.
Command cards are single-use support, with a variety of appearances and abilities. You can use these to cook up strategies that set your deck apart!
Base cards are deployed to your shield area and defend your shields, and allow you to add one of the random Shield cards to your hand!
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Set 2, Dual Impact releases next week on October 24th, introducing Mobile Suits, Pilots, and everything from more shows such as Zeta Gundam, Gundam AGE, and the newest Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Zeta is my personal favourite show from the series so I'm certainly excited for that! Some of my personal favourite Mobile Suits are the Qubeley and Psycho Gundam, both are confirmed to be featuring!
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