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Union Arena Mayuri Deck: Bandai's Vol.3 List, Odds and Cost
Two cards are 77% of the price of Bandai's Blue Mayuri list, and one of them barely changes how often it works.
Our callBuild Bandai's Blue Mayuri list without the three $24.51 Special Mayuri: $53.86, not $127.02, and the Raid turn is in 36.1% of opening hands against 37.7%.
Your Union Arena Mayuri deck starts with a Nemu Kurotsuchi SR from a Vol.3 pre-release pack. The question is whether it's a deck or a page in the binder.
Your store is running the Special Release Event (November 6 to 12) in the Constructed format. Any BLEACH deck is allowed.
It is a deck, and most of it is cheap. The 33 Vol.2 cards in Bandai's 50 cost $7.59 together. The money is in the Vol.3 and New Card Selection top end. We'd build Bandai's list without the three Special Mayuri.
Bandai's list is deck code 31H6GuEhj01rvj69 on Bandai TCG+: 50 cards, Blue, published September 11, 2026.
What it costs: $127.02 for Bandai's list, $53.86 without the Special Mayuri
TCGplayer prices from the TCGCSV build of November 7 (read November 8), market price of the base printing. The Nemu SR is the one exception, noted below.
| Part of the list | Cards | Bandai's list | Cheaper list |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vol.2 (BLC-2) | 33 (36 in the cheaper list) | $7.59 | $7.96 |
| New Card Selection Mayuri (BLC-3-003, Special) | 3 | $73.53 | none |
| Vol.3 Nemu SR (BLC-4-041) | 4 | $24.00 | $24.00 |
| Other Vol.3 (BLC-4-040, 042, 043) | 10 | $21.90 | $21.90 |
| Total | 50 | $127.02 | $53.86 |
The Nemu SR is still a presale card and its price moves daily. On November 8 its TCGplayer page showed 9 listings "as low as $9.00" and no market price. On November 9 it had a market price of $6.00, with 11 listings from $5.00, so the table uses $6.00 a copy. The TCGCSV build of November 7 had $13.40 for the same card.
The Nemu SR and the Special Mayuri add up to $97.53 of the $127.02, 76.8%. The Special Mayuri sells for $24.51 a copy. That is about what the whole New Card Selection costs: Bandai's North American page lists it at $25, with 11 new cards and one AP card inside.
Image credit: Bandai via the UNION ARENA official card list.
ProDMJoey defends this card. It is "kind of sleeper in the deck", he says, and "I think this card is great". His reason: when you don't mind a character dying, +3000 BP gets it over a blocker's BP. We believe him for that line.
For $73.53 you also get a Mayuri to raid onto and an Active trigger. In the odds table below, 038 plus another Mayuri to raid onto drops by 1.6 points in the opening seven without it. If you own the three, play them. Don't buy them first.
Bandai's Blue Mayuri list, 17 cards that are not Vol.2
Bandai's Japanese Recommended Decks by Title page carries four Blue BLEACH lists, all dated September 11, 2026, the day Vol.3 came out in Japan. The Mayuri and Nemu list is image 054, deck code 31H6GuEhj01rvj69. It is 50 cards: 33 from Vol.2 (UEX01BT), 14 from Vol.3 (UEX08BT) and 3 from the New Card Selection (UE01NC), which is where the Special-rarity Mayuri comes from.
| Card | Number | Copies | Energy | Trigger | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayuri Kurotsuchi | BLC-2-036 | 2 | - | Get | Plain 1500 BP body; the Get trigger puts it back in hand |
| Mayuri Kurotsuchi | BLC-2-037 | 2 | 4 | None | Sideline a Corpse Unit character: sideline an enemy front-liner of equal or lower BP and draw |
| Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Raid) | BLC-2-038 | 4 | 4 | Raid | Raids onto a Mayuri; gives a Nemu or Corpse Unit character +1000 BP and Impact 1; on the front line, once a turn after a sideline, replays a Nemu or Corpse Unit character from the sideline |
| Mayuri Kurotsuchi | BLC-4-042 | 4 | 3 | Draw | Generates 2 energy; When Played picks one of three modes |
| Mayuri Kurotsuchi | BLC-3-003 | 3 | 1 | Active | When Played: +1000 BP, or +3000 BP and sideline it after its attack |
| Nemu Kurotsuchi | BLC-2-035 | 3 | 3 | None | Generates 2 energy; once a turn, sideline a Corpse Unit character and search the top four |
| Nemu Kurotsuchi | BLC-4-040 | 2 | 2 | Draw | Draw, then sideline a card from hand |
| Nemu Kurotsuchi (SR) | BLC-4-041 | 4 | 4 | Color | One-shot 5000 BP attacker with Impact 1 (below) |
| Nemuri No. 7 | BLC-4-043 | 4 | - | Draw | Counts as a Nemu; looks at the top two and sidelines a blue Mayuri, Nemu or Corpse Unit card |
| Charlotte Chuhlhourne | BLC-2-039 | 4 | 2 | Active | When Sidelined on your turn, rests an enemy front-liner, once a turn |
| Cirucci Sanderwicci | BLC-2-040 | 4 | - | None | When Sidelined, draw a card |
| Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio | BLC-2-041 | 3 | 1 | Active | +1000 BP on turns another character of yours was sidelined |
| Kurotsuchi Corpse Unit (Site) | BLC-2-044 | 3 | 3 | Get | Sideline fuel, plus +1000 BP to every Nemu and Corpse Unit character |
| Who Gave You Permission to Yap Away? | BLC-2-045 | 4 | 4 | Special | Sideline a Corpse Unit character, draw, then play up to two 1-AP blue Nemu or Corpse Unit characters active from the sideline |
| Bankai | BLC-2-049 | 4 | 3 | Final | Switch two AP cards to active |
Counted from the table: 15 Mayuri, 13 Nemu cards (Nemuri No. 7 counts as one), 11 Corpse Unit characters, 3 Corpse Unit Site cards and 8 events.
Triggers come to 10 Draw, 10 Active, 5 Get, 4 Raid and 9 with none, plus 12 limited ones (4 each of Special, Color and Final), the most Bandai's FAQ allows.
How the deck runs: sideline your own characters
Almost every card asks you to sideline something of yours. The fuel is 11 cards: Charlotte, Cirucci and Dordoni, the three characters with the Corpse Unit affinity.
Sideline Cirucci and you draw. Sideline Charlotte on your turn and an enemy front-liner rests. Any sideline gives Dordoni +1000 BP that turn. The Corpse Unit Site card then adds 1000 BP to every Nemu and Corpse Unit character.
The payoff turn is Raid Mayuri (BLC-2-038). It raids onto another Mayuri and hands a Nemu or Corpse Unit character +1000 BP and Impact 1. On the front line it can also replay a blue Nemu or Corpse Unit character from the sideline, resting.
PNC Dragoon published a Mayuri deck profile on June 15, 2025. He called the Raid card "kind of underwhelming at first glance". His reason: you often have to hold it rather than raid at the start of the turn. We'd read that as the deck's skill test. Sideline first, Raid second, and don't Raid early just because you can.
The card that turns the loop into damage is Yap (BLC-2-045). ProDMJoey played it in proxy games with the Vol.3 spoilers on August 29, 2026. He called it "absolutely absurd" and said "this deck is going to be incredibly terrifying to play against".
We agree on the card. Sideline one Corpse Unit character and two more come back active. That is two attackers for one card.
What Vol.3 adds: a Color trigger, a 2-energy Mayuri and a mill outlet
PNC Dragoon's June 2025 build predates Vol.3. In his video he plays three Luppi, four Ichigo, four Dordoni, four Charlotte and four Nemu. He's blunt about Luppi: "her being a 1500 base does not warrant her effect."
Bandai's September 2026 list plays no Luppi and no Ichigo, three Dordoni and three Nemu (BLC-2-035). Four copies each of three Vol.3 cards take the freed slots.
Image credit: Bandai via the UNION ARENA official card list.
Mayuri (BLC-4-042) is the card that changes how the deck starts. It costs 3, generates 2 blue energy, has a Draw trigger and offers three When Played modes. ProDMJoey's verdict: "Yeah, no, it's good. It's very good."
Nemuri No. 7 (BLC-4-043) does what PNC Dragoon said Luppi should have done. It looks at the top two and sends a Kurotsuchi card to the sideline, not both blind. It costs 0 energy and counts as a Nemu.
The third one is Nemu (BLC-4-041), the SR, and it is the only Color trigger in Bandai's list. PNC Dragoon's build ran Kensei & Rojuro there and said he was "not a fan" of the card.
Image credit: Bandai via the UNION ARENA official card list.
With a Mayuri on your front line she can sideline another character, switch to active with Impact 1 and force a block if able. At your next turn start she is sidelined for good, so each copy is one swing. Bandai's Q&A of October 30 says the character you sideline can be Mayuri herself.
Odds: exact draw chances for Bandai's list and a cheaper one
These are exact hypergeometric odds, no mulligan, not a simulation. "By 10 cards" is the opening seven plus three draws. The cheaper list swaps the three BLC-3-003 for two more BLC-2-037 and a fourth Dordoni (BLC-2-041).
| At least one of these | Bandai, opening 7 | Bandai, by 10 | Cheaper, opening 7 | Cheaper, by 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raid Mayuri (BLC-2-038) | 46.4% | 60.3% | 46.4% | 60.3% |
| 038 and another Mayuri to raid onto | 37.7% | 55.9% | 36.1% | 54.5% |
| 038, another Mayuri and a Corpse Unit character to sideline | 29.9% | 51.6% | 29.7% | 51.3% |
| Nemu (BLC-2-035) and a Corpse Unit character | 30.0% | 45.9% | 31.1% | 46.8% |
| Yap (BLC-2-045) and a Corpse Unit character | 37.7% | 55.9% | 39.2% | 57.0% |
| A card that generates 2 blue energy | 67.7% | 81.3% | 67.7% | 81.3% |
The headline is the third row. The full Raid turn needs something to raid onto and something to sideline. It is in your opening seven 29.9% of the time and by card ten 51.6% of the time. In nearly half of games the full turn isn't there by card ten.
The cheaper list costs you trigger count. Bandai's list has 10 Active triggers and the cheaper one 8. The chance that at least one Active sits in your seven life cards drops from 81.3% to 73.0%.
What nobody has shown yet
Bandai's list is a recommendation, not a result. Bandai's North American Top Placing Decks page, read November 8, holds 56 entries. Five are BLEACH (3 Green, 2 Purple), none Blue, and the newest were revealed on September 18, before the Vol.3 pre-release. The Japanese page has no BLEACH entry at all.
Joseph Anderson's October 31 video names Purple Bleach as "the one to watch" for the December regional and spends its Blue time on Yoruichi. We searched his transcript for Mayuri, Nemu and the usual caption misspellings and found none.
ProDMJoey's games used proxies. The Vol.3 prices above are from before the November 13 release, and the Nemu SR price in particular is a presale price that moved from $9.00 to $6.00 in a day. We have not played this list.
How we checked: on November 8, 2026 we read all 15 card numbers on Bandai's North American and Japanese card lists, calculated exact draw odds, priced the list from TCGplayer data (TCGCSV build of November 7, plus the TCGplayer page for the Nemu SR, re-read November 9) and read two deck-video transcripts.
Related Reading
- Union Arena Blue Yoruichi Deck: Bandai List vs JWA Build: the other Blue Vol.3 deck, Bandai's list against a creator's.
- Union Arena Raid mechanic explained: how a Raid card sits on its base.
- Union Arena Bleach Vol 3 booster and Advanced Deck: dates, prices and the all-foil Purple deck.
- Union Arena deck-building guide: 50 cards, 12 limited triggers and the other build rules.
References
- Bandai Union Arena JP: Recommended Decks by Title: the Blue Mayuri list, image 054, updated 2026.09.11
- Bandai TCG+ deck code 31H6GuEhj01rvj69: the 50 card numbers and copies
- Bandai Union Arena NA: card list, BLC-4-041: Nemu SR text
- Bandai Union Arena NA: card list, BLC-2-038: Raid Mayuri text
- Bandai Union Arena NA: BLEACH Vol.3 booster: November 13 release, November 6 pre-release
- Bandai Union Arena NA: BLEACH Special Release Event: November 6 to 12, Constructed with any BLEACH deck
- Bandai Union Arena NA: New Card Selection BLEACH: $25, 11 new cards and one AP card
- Bandai Union Arena NA: Top Placing Decks: 56 entries, no Blue BLEACH
- TCGCSV: Union Arena Vol.3 prices (group 24787): TCGplayer market data
- TCGplayer: Nemu Kurotsuchi (041) listing page: "as low as $9.00", November 8; market price $6.00, 11 listings from $5.00, November 9
- ProDMJoey: I Played Bleach Vol. 3 EARLY… Mayuri Is a PROBLEM (August 29, 2026): proxy games with the Vol.3 cards
- PNC Dragoon: Union Arena - Mayuri Blue Bleach Deck Profile (June 15, 2025): the pre-Vol.3 build
- Joseph Writer Anderson: UNION ARENA Big November Update (October 31, 2026): top picks for Vol.3
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