Union Arena Bleach Vol 3 Card List: 81 Cards and Prices

Our earlier Vol.3 and Advanced Deck overview was written when the list was not public. This is the version with the card list in hand.

What Bandai says is in the box

The North America booster page gives the specifications: release November 13, 2026 (pre-release November 6), MSRP $4.99, 12 cards per pack, 16 packs per display, 16 displays per case. The rarity line reads C 28 types, U 29, R 12, SR 12 and AP 6. Parallels are on top of that: the official card list for UEX08BT has 116 entries once you count the alt-art printings and the AP variants.

Sixteen packs at $4.99 come to $79.84, which is our arithmetic, not a Bandai figure. TCGplayer's market price for the display on the day we pulled its data (the TCGCSV file fetched November 10) was $116.98, with the lowest listing at $114.03. TCGplayer still flags the product as a presale, and the display page says details may change until release.

One difference matters if you watch Japanese box openings. The Japanese release (EX15BT, September 11) is an 8-card pack at ¥385; the North American pack has 12 cards.

The 81 types, color by color

We counted the base printings in the official list and split them by color. Blue is the deepest at 24 types, with five of the 12 SRs. Green has 22, yellow 21, and purple is the thinnest at 14.

Chart: Shonen TCG. Source: Bandai official card list (North America), own count, November 10, 2026. Image credit: Shonen TCG chart, data via Bandai.

By card type the 81 are 67 Characters, 12 Events and 2 Sites. The SRs split blue five (Orihime Inoue, Ichigo Kurosaki, Yoruichi Shihoin, Grimmjow, Nemu Kurotsuchi), yellow three (Uryu Ishida, Bazz-B, Jugram Haschwalth), green two (Sosuke Aizen, Shunsui Kyoraku) and purple two (Renji Abarai, Byakuya Kuchiki). If you play purple, you are choosing from 14 card types. For the rarity tiers themselves, see our rarity explainer.

Three cards worth reading closely

As we read the Bandai text, these are the SRs with the most unusual wording.

Orihime Inoue (BLC-4-022) is a 4-energy, 2-AP blue character. When played, you may put a card from your hand into your sideline, and if you do, you add a blue character with 1 or less required energy from your sideline to your hand, or play it resting. On the turn she comes in, she can also make one of your characters unchoosable by your opponent's abilities until your next turn starts.

Sosuke Aizen (BLC-4-060) is green, 3 energy and 4000 BP, and the card says it cannot be played onto your front line. You move him up with an ability, and When Attacking he draws a card.

Grimmjow (BLC-4-036) costs 6 blue energy and is the strictest. Its text lets him enter when an Ichigo Kurosaki or Kisuke Urahara ability puts him into your sideline from your hand, but only if you have 4 or more blue energy and the only affinity among your cards on the field is Arrancars. That is a narrow condition for a 4000 BP body.

Image credit: Bandai via the official Union Arena card list (unionarena-tcg.com).

The Ichibe Hyosube misprint

Bandai posted an errata notice on October 30 for one card, UEX08BT/BLC-4-056 Ichibe Hyosube (R, purple). Its When Sidelined ability prints "the character you may play" where it should say "the card you may play". Bandai's notice ends: "Unfortunately, a corrected version of the card will not be made available." The card's Q&A entry Q1015 gives the corrected wording, so you can check the corrected wording against your printed copy.

The full notice is on Bandai's news page, and the card is one of three purple rares in the set.

Prices on November 10, before the booster is out

Every price in this section is the TCGplayer market price on November 10, 2026, from the TCGCSV file fetched that day. The set isn't out yet, so these are presale numbers on thin supply and they will have moved. For the four SRs below that have both a regular and a parallel printing priced, the parallel costs 1.7 to 6.9 times as much.

Chart: Shonen TCG. Prices: TCGplayer market data via TCGCSV, file fetched November 10, 2026. Image credit: Shonen TCG chart, data via TCGplayer.

Renji Abarai (050) is $18.03 in regular art and Grimmjow (036) is $15.00. Six regular SRs on that list are under $19 each.

What we would do

Buy singles. For the one color you play, the regular-art SRs cost less than a fifth of the display price (November 10 market prices), and you skip the dice. At $17.17, one regular Orihime was about 15% of the display price, and a display is a draw, not a guarantee of any given card.

That is not a reason to avoid opening packs. The box topper (each box has one of nine designs, six foil and three gold foil) and the signed cards are the part you cannot buy at a fair price in singles, and if those are what you want, a display is the way to get a shot at them. Just do not call it a way to save money on playable cards. Our Bleach deck guide covers which colors are worth building first.

What two box openers saw

Both of these people opened Japanese boxes, so treat them as a sketch of the chase, not of the English product.

Nyatsume opened six boxes on camera and posted the video on September 23. About the signed cards he said "in the case of like 16 boxes you can get one signed card", which is his estimate and not a Bandai figure. His six boxes did not give him an Orihime SR: "Orihime, where are you? Is she really so elusive? I mean, out of six boxes and a whole stack of SR, we couldn't even get one Orihime." He did pull a three-star Ichigo SR from box one. His video is the one to watch for how the parallel foils look.

Bob's Japan opened a 16-pack box on launch day, September 11, and his experience was the other way around: a super rare Ichigo in the first pack, then no AP card in the whole box. "Now, we didn't get any action point card, which is kind of surprising," he said in his opening. Two openers isn't a pull-rate study. Still, the SR that never showed up in Nyatsume's six boxes is the card in our table that sells for $17.17 regular and $65.00 as a parallel.

What it does to the Advanced Deck

The Advanced Deck came out on November 6 at $24.99, and Bandai's page opens with "Features great synergy with Booster Pack Vol.3, released at the same time!" The deck is built around purple Ichigo and has Rukia Kuchiki cards in it. Vol.3's purple Renji Abarai (BLC-4-049) has an ability that can only be activated if Rukia Kuchiki is on your field, and its purple Rukia (BLC-4-054) checks for Renji when played. So the booster's purple cards lean on Rukia, which the deck already supplies.

The deck's SRs Ichigo (BLC-4-082) and Rukia (BLC-4-083) carry Vol.3 numbering but are not in the booster: the booster list runs 001 to 081. TCGplayer files the deck under the code UE10DC; Bandai's NA page calls it UE01DC. We treat that as a labeling difference, not a different product.

What we don't know

Bandai NA gives no pull rates, only "an extremely low pull rate" for the signed AP cards. We have no English-box opening to compare with the Japanese ones. The prices above are presale prices that will move once the booster is out, and we did not check the Japanese or Asian-region prices. We also can't say how the Ichibe errata plays out at tournaments beyond what the Q&A states.