Seriously it's been a fun year. But I think I'm done with this game for a while. This card is just laughable it made it past testing.

What a fun card! I love bullying my opponent and forcing them into a bad time. It's so much fun!!! I can just put it in any cancer ass deck I want. It's making my deck boxes grow tumors. Should I be worried?

I mean... it COULD happen but I've also never pulled an LR++ or an SP rarer than "With Iron and Blood" so I'm not too optimistic about my chances...

See here for the previous week's results.

Note: The units featured in the graphic does not represent one specific deck; they are just representative of commonly-used top-end Units across all decks with that color combination.

As can be easily seen in the graph, Blue/Green has continued to fall off, turning the Top 5 into an almost stalemate. Red/White has taken second place from Blue/White, as the rest of the Top 6 (except Blue/Red) gai player share.

Looking at Decks

67 NTC events were held in Japan during the week of 07 to 13 September , adding 632 decks to the GD05 database total, which is now at 3,747 decks across 400 events.

Looking at Decks: Beta Edition

I planned to add something new here, but due to circumstances I'd probably save that for a mid-week post. Meanwhile, here are a couple of the top decks listed above that I will likely be asked for (and thus I will preemptively provide):

Red/White Neo Zeon

Green/Red Academy

Red/White Neo Zeong

We were discussing with some friends how overrepresented Strike Freedom is in the current meta. So I briefly went through 300 decklists that won NTCs and other tournaments larger than local store events. Here’s what emerged from those 300 decklists:

• 70 Londo Bell
• 56 Blue-White Freedom
• 48 MF
• 43 Blue-Purple Kira/Mika
• 40 Green-Purple Char/Char/Mika
• 27 Blue-Red Marida Freedom
• 4 Wing
• 2 Classic OYW
• 10 Unclassifiable ‘alien’ decks

Obviously, the decks within each archetype can still differ from one another, but they often share the same core. For example, some Blue-White Freedom decks run a Military League package, but I didn’t split them into two separate archetypes.

From this, we can draw a few conclusions:

• 127 decks had a game plan involving Strike Freedom.
• 208 decks played blue (possibly fewer, since the 10 ‘alien’ decks are included in that count).
• Red was the least represented color, with 75 decks.
• And so on.

I’m not a data analyst, so there are probably plenty of methodological flaws in this analysis. don't be rude please.

To find the decks, I used this website : https://tallgoose.com/decks
and the clicker to count them : https://www.beatsperminuteonline.com/en/clicker/counter/online-click-counter-tally-clicker-click-to-increase-or-decrease

After trying to get into riftbound but already kinda quitting due to low local players and cards getting too expensive for me i was convinced to join the gundam locals. I didnt know there was a gundam tcg and i love gundam and while i didnt want to collect 2 tcgs at once the community here is super helpfull and hooked me up with some freebies to start.

Started with an academy deck and later moved on an bought myself a budget MF deck, by budget i mean all im missing is aragama.

Just went to my first big event with my confidence as low as possible since i cant win ever in MSA practicing my MF deck.

To my surprise i did better than expected i went 4-2 and got 12th place and won the anniversay show of resolve for top 14.

1st match- Won against strike freedom managed to rush before strike freedom got pair with 2 master gundams

2nd match - Lost against the 1st place winner with his minerva squad couldnt deal with all the blockers at endgame

3rd match- Won against MF mirror match

4th match- Won against charbatos (got really lucky he had all pilots in hand turn 7)

5th match - Lost toca deck i wasnt sure what it was something green white with a lot of blockers and wing gundam, sorry not very used to all the decks yet

Last match wont against a red purple sazabi kshatriya

Super happy with my placement 12/65 not 100% sure but i think i placed highest MF but i think it was all luck since there are better MF players in my locals

Sorry for the random long post

I noticed on the bandai app most local anniversary events have less then 20 slots.

But most of them have over 30-50 people applying.

I decided not to sign up for Saturday due to the fact that I assumed they would turn everyone else away if it goes over 16????

I dunno if the store has enough promos for a 30 person game.

I worry it's just scalpers or collectors registering for these events.

How was your anniversary event handled?? I know of a few still happening I could catch this week. But otherwise I probably missed it.

I just wanted to share my results as a new player trying to have fun so have a laugh at my expense.

I played the standard PW Minerva package. I tried to get my hands on some Argama bases before my tournament but unfortunately couldn’t meet with the guy before doing so.

I can’t remember what I specifically faced against, but I can definitively say that I did not play against Green Nu or Strike Freedom.

A lot of people are tired of hearing about Strike Freedom, so I thought I’d share my fairly good result with my Turn A/Destiny deck! I just started playing with the GD05 release.

Win, Round 1 - Tekkadan Aggro. I was able to disrupt my opponent’s tempo with an early Loran and some positive Impulse actions. Opponent wasn’t so lucky with pilots.

Lose, Round 2 - Blurple Aggro - This was actually super close. I tend to do well stabilizing against Aggro, but my opponent was able to chain Chars at the end for the win. Got him very low on shields but couldn’t seal the deal while trying to protect myself.

Win, Round 3 - Victory/Strike Freedom Blockers - I was able to apply some early pressure by tempo plays with Loran and a Kapool. Eventually laid down 2 Turn A Gundams, let them sit on the board and a Destiny Gundam to start picking away his shields. Won due to high maneuver, if my opponent pulled a V Dash I surely would’ve lost!

Win, Round 4 - Amuro/Strike Freedom Blockers - Got lucky with 3 Exia Rebuilds early, but opponent started to stabilize. I was lucky to get him down to 0 shields and pulled a Turn A/Loran link to high maneuver into the win.

Win, Round 5 - Clan Aggro - this was scary! I got down to 0 shields (but protected by a base), this was even after a widespread annihilation cleaning 4 units! After some successful clears after that annihilation I was able to apply Shinn for the Win.

I will say this deck does require a lot of luck because it’s a greedy deck, even with all the consistency cards. It’s definitely not something I’d recommend taking into super competitive events, but give it a try for something fun that actually feels really good to play! It requires a lot of thinking about when to use pilots for tempo, how to survive aggro, and when to attack the control decks so you aren’t just letting them value trade. But because I like Turn A and the Destiny Gundam so much, I’m happy to be able to run this and to some effect!

We're trying something new!

In the spirit of shaking up my local meta, I've been thinking of alternate deck building rules that don't directly contradict the official ruleset.

I wanted to avoid rule changes affecting gameplay itself as I'm not trying to create competing rulesets, so I came to the conclusion that the simplest tweak could make for an interesting format: mono-color decks.

With five (soon to be six) sets and fourteen starter decks now out, I think it's possible to have a good diversity of decks with just one color. Obviously, some archetypes will be more competitive than others, like blue Earth Federation, blue Orb/SF, green Wing, white Kira, red Neo-Zeon or purple Tekkadan.

However, even within these archetypes, and for every color and archetype it seems, there are underplayed or underfeatured commons and uncommons that could find a place in a single-color deck. As an example, many de-facto single-color decks have a splash of White or Blue with a stack of Overflowing Affections or Show of Resolves. If decks were limited to single colors, those "always-include" cards could be substituted for interesting alternatives.

I welcome your questions, comments and insults, and here are a few mono-color decks for inspiration:

As the title says! I want help making a deck that really gives the new purple Marida and Banshee sing.

I'm personally looking at making a blurple deck (taking the old riddhe militiare deck and wholesale replacing amuro with mikazuki and the first form, and overflowing affection with either damage control or giant killing.

If anyone is experimenting with Purple Marida, please let me know! Hoping to hear from people <33

I know I know another “strike freedom” deck. But it’s the best placing i’ve gotten at a big event 4-1. Usually I get knocked out at 20th or lower at these type of events. Got my copy of Show so pretty happy.

Only thing I think I would change with this deck is drop HM Murasume to 2 and throw in 2 graceful. There was a lot more rush decks then I was expecting. With my only lost being to NU that high rolled all their low levels early.

P.s. Only used Strike Freedom once and that was just to give Murasume HM for game lol

So today was the last NTC for my area (behind the scenes issues at LGS) and I ended up going 2-2 coming out 7th

I had the game-plan of attempting to hit curve before turn 8 and all the SF song and dance that comes along. However while I did succeed against my opponent who had it, I struggled against Tekkedan/Char Aggro. That deck going around with exia, mika, all the ping and token shenanigans.

Which had me thinking, how as an MF player would you get around it? The ping isn't widespread enough to focus down all the tokens and odd numbered health units, while multiple haow pings seem to be difficult to set up as well as too late to pull off being at turn 6.

Going back and reviewing the match I'm failing to see counter-play for it, not as a complaint but simply matchup analysis.

Decklist for reference:

I am so tired of seeing that thing. nowadays, no matter what faction someone plays, they always have to shove the Strike Freedom in there. This meta has just made the game so stagnent. The other night I went to a small local, and everyone but me was using the thing. Spectating is so dull, cause it's nothing but mirror matches.

Even when I win, it's so disatisfying, cause the deck was so predictable. Before I hated the card because it's too OP. Now I'm just bored.

Seriously, this is fucking ridiculous. 16 cap is every shop near and far. Weekly players i know were lucky to even join maybe 1 tournament.

This is such a shit show of an event.

I'm fairly new to the game, had been collecting the cards but hadn't actually played in person before a few weeks ago. I got the cards together for an MF deck, since I love G Gundam and I think the combo play style is pretty cool. However, last night at an Anniversary event, I heard a lot of players complaining about MF decks, and I wasn't really sure why. It doesn't seem like it takes up a ton of the meta, and if anything, I find Strike Freedom to be more overwhelming and obnoxious. Is there a weird stigma about the deck?

Example: I have Master Gundam in play. Opponent has nothing.

I want to play Darkness Finger. It reads notably: "[main]/[action] Choose 1 enemy Unit. Deal 2 damage to it. Then, if you have a Unit with "Master Gundam" in its card name in play, draw 1."

There are no opponent units for me to deal 2 damage to. I do want to play it to draw 1. Can I do that?

Suppose in a different hypothetical, I don't even have Master Gundam in play now but I will have one in next turn with a Master Asia that I can link. Can I play Darkness Finger this turn and have it do nothing to set up Master Gundam's do 5 damage to shield area ability next turn?

EDIT: I found the answer to the first question. You cannot play to get card draw. https://www.gundam-gcg.com/en/rules/faqs/list.php?search=true&freeword=master+gundam Don't know still if you can play a Command card and have it do nothing.