Gundam Card Game Rarity List

Every Gundam Card Game card prints at one of four booster rarities — the letter printed next to the card number in the top-right corner — plus Promo for event printings. On top of that base ladder, Bandai prints chase versions of the same cards: alt-art foils marked with a +, ultra scarce ++ versions, and SP special reprints. This guide walks the whole system, with live counts from our database.

The base rarity ladder

• C Common — the bulk of every set (382 cards). Fifty per booster set; the everyday pool decks are built from. Full Common list.
• U Uncommon — a small step up (144 cards). Thirty-six per booster set. Full Uncommon list.
• R Rare — where many playable staples live (130 cards). Around thirty-four per booster set. Full Rare list.
• LR Legend Rare — the top of the ladder (68 cards). Twelve per booster set: the marquee mobile suits. Full LR list.
• P Promo — event and organized-play printings outside the booster ladder (70 cards), from store tournaments, conventions, and product tie-ins. Full Promo list.

The + and ++ alt-art versions

Most cards above Common also exist as an alternate-art foil of the same card number, marked by a + after the rarity: C+, U+, R+, and LR+. These have different (usually full-art) illustrations and foiling, and pull far less often than the base versions. A couple of cards per set go one step further as ++versions — LR++ and even C++ exist — which are the scarcest booster pulls in the game and typically a set's most valuable cards.

SP special reprints

Starting with Steel Requiem (GD03), each booster set also seeds a handful of SP printings: special alt-art reprints of cards from earliersets, keeping their original card numbers. Pulling one from a GD03 pack gets you, say, a special version of a GD01 Command. We list every SP printing on its original card's page; the SP page ranks them by price.

How rarity affects price

Base-rarity cards — even Legend Rares — are usually cheap, because every booster box yields plenty of them. The value concentrates in the + / ++ / SP versions and the event promos. That is why every price on this site names the exact printing it belongs to: a card's headline price is almost never its base version. See the most expensive Gundam cards for the live ranking.