UNION ARENA: Complete BLEACH Vol. 3 Card List

Ready for UNION ARENA’s first Volume 3?

This set is a big deal not only because it brings additional support to one of UNION ARENA’s most beloved sets, but it’s also going to be heavily scrutinized for the precedent it sets for Vol. 3s as a whole.

That being said, if all of UNION ARENA’s Vol. 3s are as solid as this one, then UNION ARENA will have a long and prosperous life indeed.

In this set, we have new decks and strategies, as well as support for many BLEACH decks that badly needed it.

Below, you can see the entire UNION ARENA BLEACH: Thousand Year Blood War Vol. 3 card list with English translations. After that, we’ll go over some of the highlights from this set as well as the products you’ll want to know about ahead of the set’s English release on November 13, 2026.

UNION ARENA: BLEACH Vol. 3 Card List

Below is the complete card list revealed ahead of the BLEACH Vol. 3 release date in Japan. If you notice anything off with the translations, please leave a comment on this blog and we can make sure to update accordingly.

Bazz (バズ)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 1 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• Passive: This card is also treated as <Bazz-B>.
• [On Play]: Look at the top 3 cards of your deck. Reveal up to 1 <Bazz-B> or <Jugram Haschwalth> from among them and add it to your hand. Place the rest at the bottom of your deck in any order. If you added a card to your hand, place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Jugo (ユーゴー)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• Passive: This card is also treated as <Jugram Haschwalth>.
• [On Play]: Look at the top card of your deck, and place it on top of your deck or into your sideline.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Askin Nakk Le Vaar (アスキン・ナックルヴァール)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• Passive: If you have no cards on your field, reduce the required Energy of this card in your hand by 2.
• [Step]: (During your Move Phase, you may move this from the Front L to the Energy L).
• [On Retire]: If it is during your turn, choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 1500 BP or more. During this turn, it gets BP-1000.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Uryu Ishida (石田 雨竜)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• Impact Nullification: (Characters battling this character lose Impact during this battle).
• [Activate: Main]: [Pay 1 AP] You can only activate this effect if this card is in your hand. Place 4 or more <Ichigo Kurosaki> cards from your Remove Area into your sideline. If you do, play this card onto your Front L as Active. This effect of <Uryu Ishida> can only be activated once per turn.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Gerard Valkyrie (ジェラルド・ヴァルキリー)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [On Retire]: Choose up to 1 of the following:
  • Add 1 card from your life to your hand. If you do, play this card onto your field in Rest.
  • Place 2 cards from your hand into your sideline. If you do, add this card to your hand.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Bazz-B (バズビー)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 3000+

Energy: 2 Yellow

Effects:

• Impact Nullification: (Characters battling this character lose Impact during this battle).
• [During Your Turn]: If you do not have <Yhwach> in your sideline, and you have <Jugram Haschwalth> on your field, this character gets BP+1000.

Trigger:

• None.

Bazz-B (バズビー)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: If you do not have <Yhwach> in your sideline, and this character's required energy is 5 or more, you can activate this. Make this character Active. This effect of <Bazz-B> can only be activated once per turn.

Trigger:

• None.

Bazz-B (バズビー)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [On Play]: If you do not have <Yhwach> in your sideline, you may retire 1 other <Bazz-B> on your field. If you do, choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L with BP equal to or less than the required energy of the retired character x1000, retire it, and make this character Active. If you retired a character of yours with a required energy of 5 or more with this effect, this character gains Impact 1 during this turn.

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

Bambietta Basterbine (バンビエッタ・バスターバイン)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [On Play]: Look at the top 2 cards of your deck, place up to 1 of them into your sideline, and place the rest on top of your deck in any order.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Pernida Parnkgjas (ペルニダ・パルンカジャス)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: [If on Front L] [Place 1 card from your hand into your sideline] [Turn 1] You can only activate this effect if you have <Yhwach> on your field. Choose up to 1 character on your opponent's field with 1500 BP or more. During this turn, it gets BP-1000.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Jugram Haschwalth (ユーグラム・ハッシュヴァルト)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500

Energy: 2 Yellow

Effects:

• [On Play]: Draw 1 card, and place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.
• [Activate: Main]: [Turn 1] You can only activate this effect during the turn this character is played. Choose 1 other character on your field, and during this turn, increase its required energy by 2.

Trigger:

• [Color]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L and Rest it. It does not become Active during the next Active Phase.

Jugram Haschwalth (ユーグラム・ハッシュヴァルト)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [Raid]: <Jugram Haschwalth> (You may make this active and move to the Front L).
• Passive: If this is on the Front L, when another character on your field retires, draw 1 card. This effect of <Jugram Haschwalth> can only be activated once per turn.
• [During Your Turn]: If this is on the Front L, increase the required energy of all other characters on your field by 2.
• [On Play]: If the cards on your field have no traits other than Sternritter, play up to 1 Yellow character card with a required energy of 2 or less and a required AP of 1 from your hand onto your field in Rest.

Trigger:

• [Raid]: Add this card to your hand, or if you meet the energy requirements, Raid it.

Yhwach (ユーハバッハ)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 1 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [On Play]: Look at the top 2 cards of your deck, place any number of them on top of your deck in any order, and place the rest into your sideline.

Trigger:

• None.

Yhwach (ユーハバッハ)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• Passive: If this character is Active, this character's Generated Energy gets +1 Yellow.

Trigger:

• None.

Yhwach (ユーハバッハ)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 5 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000+

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• Passive: When this card is placed into the sideline, place this card from the sideline to the bottom of your deck.
• [Activate: Main]: [If on Front L] [Turn 1] Retire 1 other character on your field. If you do, make this character Active, look at the top 3 cards of your deck, and add 1 of them to your hand. Place the rest at the bottom of your deck in any order. If you retired a character of yours with a required energy of 4 or more with this effect, until the start of your next turn, this character gets BP+1000.

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

Lille Barro (リジェ・バロ)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500

Energy: 2 Yellow

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: [Turn 1] You can only activate this effect during the turn this character is played. Retire 1 other character on your field. If you do, until the start of your next turn, this character's Generated Energy gets +1 Yellow, and choose 1 of the following:
  • Draw 1 card.
  • Choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 1500 BP or more. During this turn, it gets BP-1000.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Giselle Gewelle (ジゼル・ジュエル)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter / Bambies

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500

Energy: 2 Yellow

Effects:

• [On Play]: Draw 1 card, and place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.
• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] [Retire this card]. Choose up to 1 [Trait: Zombie] on your field, and during this turn, give it Double Attack (When this character attacks for the first time this turn, make it Active). This effect of <Giselle Gewelle> can only be activated once per turn.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Liltotto Lamperd (リルトット・ランパード)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Sternritter / Bambies

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Yellow

Effects:

• [On Retire]: If it is during your turn, choose 1 of the following:
  • Choose up to 1 other [Trait: Bambies] or <Bambietta Basterbine> on your field and make it Active.
  • Choose up to 1 other [Trait: Bambies] or <Bambietta Basterbine> on your field, and until the start of your next turn, give it "This character cannot be chosen by your opponent's effects." All characters on your opponent's Front L with 1000 BP or more get BP-500 during this turn.

Trigger:

• None.

Quincy Vollständig (滅却師完聖体)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose up to 2 of your AP cards and make them Active.

Trigger:

• [FINAL]: If you have no life, place the top card of your deck into your life area.

Let's Become the Strongest Quincy (最強の滅却師になろうぜ)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose up to 2 of your AP cards and make them Active.

Trigger:

• [FINAL]: If you have no life, place the top card of your deck into your life area.

Burning Full Fingers (バーニング・フル・フィンガーズ)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Condition: You can only use this card if you have <Bazz-B> on your field.
• Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 5000 BP or less, and retire it. If you have a <Bazz-B> on your field with a required energy of 5 or more, choose up to 1 of your <Bazz-B> on your field, and during this turn, it gets BP+1000.

Trigger:

• [SPECIAL]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L and retire it.

Orihime Inoue (井上 織姫)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 2 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• Passive: Play this character as Active.
• [On Play]: You may place 1 card from your hand into your sideline. If you do, choose up to 1 Blue character card with a required energy of 1 or less from your sideline, and either add it to your hand or play it onto your field in Rest.
• [Activate: Main]: [Turn 1] You can only activate this effect during the turn this character is played. Choose 1 character on your field, and until the start of your next turn, give it "This character cannot be chosen by your opponent's effects."

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

Kisuke Urahara (浦原 喜助)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 500

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 other character on your field. During this turn, it gets BP+1000.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Kisuke Urahara (浦原 喜助)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 3000

Energy: 2 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 other character on your field that has no traits, and move it to a different Line.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Ichigo Kurosaki (黒崎 一護)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: [If on Front L] [Place 1 card from your hand into your sideline] [Turn 1] Draw 1 card.

Trigger:

• None.

Ichigo Kurosaki (黒崎 一護)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 1 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: Draw 1 card, and place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.

Trigger:

• None.

Ichigo Kurosaki (黒崎 一護)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500+

Energy: 2 Blue

Effects:

• Impact Nullification: (Characters battling this character lose Impact during this battle).
• [Activate: Main]: [Turn 1] Place 1 card from your hand that contains "Zangetsu" or "Getsuga" in its card name into your sideline. If you do, draw 1 card. During this turn, this character gets BP+1500 and gains the following two effects:
  • "If this is on the Energy L, at the start of your Attack Phase, if there is an empty space on your Front L, move this character to the Front L."
  • "This character cannot be chosen by Trigger effects."

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Yasutora Sado (茶渡 泰虎)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000+

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] [Turn 1] Until the start of your next turn, this character gets BP+1000.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Ganju Shiba (志波 岩鷲)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 1 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• Passive: This character cannot be blocked by characters with 2000 BP or less.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Yoruichi Shihoin (四楓院 夜一)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: You may place 1 card from your hand into your sideline. If you do, look at the top card of your deck, place it on the top or bottom of your deck, and draw 1 card.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Yoruichi Shihoin (四楓院 夜一)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 1 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: If this character was played by your own effect, draw 1 card.

Trigger:

• None.

Yoruichi Shihoin (四楓院 夜一)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 3000+

Energy: 2 Blue

Effects:

• [During Your Turn]: If you have <Ichigo Kurosaki> or <Kisuke Urahara> on your field, this character gets BP+1000.
• [If on Energy L]: [Turn 1] At the end of your character's attack, you may choose 1 character on your Front L that has not attacked this turn, and switch its position with this character.

Trigger:

• [Color]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 3500 BP or less and return it to their hand.

Yoruichi Shihoin (四楓院 夜一)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [Raid]: <Yoruichi Shihoin> (You may make this active and move to Front L).
• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 other character on your field that has no traits, and make it Active.
• [On Retire]: If you have <Kisuke Urahara> on your field, play up to 1 of this character's Raid base cards onto your field in Rest.

Trigger:

• [Raid]: Add this card to your hand, or if you meet the energy requirements, Raid it.

Riruka Dokugamine (毒ヶ峰 リルカ)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• Passive: When you place a card from your hand into your sideline due to the effect of your <Ichigo Kurosaki>, if there are no face-down cards under this character, you may Rest this Active character. If you do, place up to 1 card placed into the sideline by that <Ichigo Kurosaki>'s effect face-down under this character.
• [On Play]: [If on Energy L] Make this character Active.
• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] [Retire this character] Add up to 1 face-down card under this character to your hand.

Trigger:

• [Color]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 3500 BP or less and return it to their hand.

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez (グリムジョー・ジャガージャック)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Arrancar

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• Impact Nullification: (Characters battling this character lose Impact during this battle).

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez (グリムジョー・ジャガージャック)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Arrancar

Cost / Action: 6 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• Passive: When this card is placed into your sideline from your hand due to the effect of your <Ichigo Kurosaki> or <Kisuke Urahara>, if you have 4 or more Blue energy, and the cards on your field have no traits other than [Trait: Arrancar], you may pay 1 AP. If you do, play this card onto your field as Active. This effect of <Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez> can only be activated once per turn.

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck (ネリエル・トゥ・オーデルシュヴァンク)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Arrancar

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 2 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 1500 BP or more. During this turn, it gets BP-1000.
• [Activate: Main]: [Pay 1 AP] [Turn 1] Activate this character's [On Play] effect.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Rukia Kuchiki (朽木 ルキア)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500+

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [During Your Turn]: If there is a character on your Front L with an original required AP of 2 or more, this character gets BP+1500.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Rukia Kuchiki (朽木 ルキア)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: [If on Energy L] If there is a character on your Front L with an original required AP of 2 or more, make this character Active.
• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] Choose up to 1 other character on your field. During this turn, it gets BP+1000. If the chosen character has an original required AP of 2 or more, you may place 1 card from your hand into your sideline. If you do, make that character Active.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Nemu Kurotsuchi (涅 ネム)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 3000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: Draw 1 card, and place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Nemu Kurotsuchi (涅 ネム)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 5000

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• Passive: At the start of your turn, retire this character.
• [On Play]: If you have <Mayuri Kurotsuchi> on your Front L, you may retire 1 other character on your field. If you do, make this character Active, and during this turn, this character gains "Your opponent must block this character's attack if able" and Impact 1.
• [On Retire]: Place this card into your Remove Area.

Trigger:

• [Color]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 3500 BP or less and return it to their hand.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi (涅 マユリ)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 2 Blue

Effects:

• [On Play]: Choose 1 of the following:
  • Look at the top 2 cards of your deck, place any number of them on top of your deck in any order, and place the rest into your sideline.
  • You may place 2 cards from your hand into your sideline. If you do, add up to 1 <Mayuri Kurotsuchi> or <Nemu Kurotsuchi> from your sideline to your hand.
  • You may retire 1 other character on your field. If you do, play up to 1 Blue [Trait: Kurotsuchi Corpse Unit] from your hand onto your Energy L as Active.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Nemuri Nanago (眠 七號)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Blue

Effects:

• Passive: This card is also treated as <Nemu Kurotsuchi>.
• [On Play]: Look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Place up to 1 Blue <Mayuri Kurotsuchi> or <Nemu Kurotsuchi> or [Trait: Kurotsuchi Corpse Unit] into your sideline. Place the rest on top of your deck in any order.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Shunko: Raijin Senkei (瞬閧・雷神戦形)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose 1 <Yoruichi Shihoin> on your field. During this turn, it gets BP+2000 and gains the following effect: "When this character makes its first attack this turn, until the end of that attack, it gains Impact 1 and Snipe (You may specify an opponent's Front L character to attack, and if you do, it cannot be blocked)."

Trigger:

• [SPECIAL]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L and retire it.

Shunshin / Flash Goddess (瞬神)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose up to 2 of your AP cards and make them Active.

Trigger:

• [FINAL]: If you have no life, place the top card of your deck into your life area.

Orihime Inoue (井上 織姫)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1000

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 of your Purple <Ichigo Kurosaki> on your field. During this turn, it gets BP+1500.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Kon (コン)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 500

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] [Retire this card]. Choose up to 1 Purple <Ichigo Kurosaki> with a required energy of 0 from your sideline and play it onto your field in Rest.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Renji Abarai (阿散井 恋次)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• [On Play]: Look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Place up to 1 Purple <Renji Abarai> or <Rukia Kuchiki> into your sideline. Place the rest on top of your deck in any order.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Renji Abarai (阿散井 恋次)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000+

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• Passive: During this turn, if you are paying AP due to the effect of your Purple card, this character gets BP+2000.
• [Activate: Main]: [If on Front L] [Pay 1 AP] [Turn 1] You can only activate this effect if you have <Rukia Kuchiki> on your field. Choose 1 of the following:
  • Draw 1 card.
  • Make this character Active. Choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L, and during this turn, it gets BP-1000.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Renji Abarai (阿散井 恋次)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• [Raid]: <Renji Abarai> (You may make this active and move to Front L).
• Passive: During this turn, if you are paying AP due to the effect of your Purple card, when you Raid this card from your hand, reduce its required AP by 1. If you used another <Renji Abarai> from your hand without paying AP during this turn, this effect becomes invalid.
• [Activate: Main]: [If on Front L] [Turn 1] Choose 1 of the following:
  • During this turn, this character gains Impact 1.
  • Choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L. During this turn, it gets BP-1000.

Trigger:

• [Raid]: Add this card to your hand, or if you meet the energy requirements, Raid it.

Byakuya Kuchiki (朽木 白哉)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 2 Purple

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: [Turn 1] You can only activate this effect during the turn this character is played. Choose 1 of the following:
  • Draw 1 card, and place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.
  • If your opponent has a character on their Front L whose BP is lower than its original BP, draw 1 card.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Byakuya Kuchiki (朽木 白哉)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500+

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• Passive: If there is a character on your opponent's Front L whose BP is lower than its original BP, this character gets BP+1500.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Byakuya Kuchiki (朽木 白哉)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• [Raid]: <Byakuya Kuchiki> (You may make this active and move to Front L).
• Passive: When this character attacks and wins a battle, make this character Active. This effect of <Byakuya Kuchiki> can only be activated once per turn.
• [During Your Turn]: If your opponent has 3 or more characters on their Front L whose BP is lower than their original BP, this character gains Damage 2.
• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L. During this turn, it gets BP-1000.

Trigger:

• [Raid]: Add this card to your hand, or if you meet the energy requirements, Raid it.

Rukia Kuchiki (朽木 ルキア)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 2 Purple

Effects:

• [On Play]: If you have <Renji Abarai> on your field, you may pay 1 AP. If you do, draw 1 card, and choose up to 1 <Renji Abarai> or <Rukia Kuchiki> from your hand that meets the required energy and has a required AP of 1, and play it onto your field in Rest or Raid it.

Trigger:

• [Color]: Choose 1 Purple character card with a required energy of 2 or less and a required AP of 1 from your sideline and play it onto your Front L as Active.

Ichibe Hyosube (兵主部 一兵衛)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Squad Zero

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 3000

Energy: 2 Purple

Effects:

• [On Play]: You may place 1 other character on your field into your Remove Area. If you do, choose 1 of the following:
  • During this turn, the next [Trait: Squad Zero] or <Soul King Palace> you use from your hand has its required AP reduced by 1.
  • Choose up to 2 other [Trait: Squad Zero] on your field, and during this turn, they get BP+2000.

Trigger:

• None.

Ichibe Hyosube (兵主部 一兵衛)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Squad Zero

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 2 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• [On Play]: Draw 1 card. You may place 1 [Trait: Squad Zero] from your hand into your Remove Area. If you do, make this character Active.
• [On Retire]: Place this card into your Remove Area. You may play up to 1 Purple <Ichigo Kurosaki> or <Soul King Palace> or [Trait: Squad Zero] from your hand with a required energy of 0 or less and a required AP of 1 onto your field in Rest. For each 1 different card name among [Trait: Squad Zero] in your Remove Area, the required energy limit of the character you can play with this effect gets +1.

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

"Shinuchi" Shirafude Ichimonji (“真打”『しら筆一文字』)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L, and until the start of your next turn, give it: "This character loses all its original effects, and cannot attack or block." If you have <Ichibe Hyosube> on your field or in your Remove Area, draw 2 cards, and place 1 card from your hand into your Remove Area.

Trigger:

• [SPECIAL]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L and retire it.

Soo Zabimaru (双王蛇尾丸)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Condition: You can only use this card if you have <Renji Abarai> on your field.
• Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 5000 BP or less, and retire it. During this turn, if you are paying AP due to the effect of your Purple card, you may draw 1 card. If you do, place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.

Trigger:

• [SPECIAL]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L and retire it.

Bankai (卍解)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose up to 2 of your AP cards and make them Active.

Trigger:

• [FINAL]: If you have no life, place the top card of your deck into your life area.

Sousuke Aizen (藍染 惣右介)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 2 Green

Effects:

• Passive: This card cannot be played to the Front L, and cannot be moved to the Front L except by your own effects.
• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 character on your field other than <Sousuke Aizen> and move it to a different Line.
• [Activate: Main]: If this is on the Energy L, Rest 2 Active characters on your Front L. If you do, move this character to the Front L.
• [On Attack]: Draw 1 card.

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

Hiyori Sarugaki (猿柿 ひよ里)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Visored

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• None.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Lisa Yadomaru (矢胴丸 リサ)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Visored

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 3000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [Step]: (During your Move Phase, you may move this from the Front L to the Energy L).

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Yumichika Ayasegawa (綾瀬川 弓親)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 2 Green

Effects:

• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 other character on your field, and during this turn, it gets BP+1000. If the chosen character is <Kenpachi Zaraki>, <Yachiru Kusajishi>, <Ikkaku Madarame>, or <Yumichika Ayasegawa>, it gets BP+2000 instead.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Nanao Ise (伊勢 七緒)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [On Play]: Look at the top 3 cards of your deck. Reveal up to 1 Green Event card or Green Site card from among them and add it to your hand. Place the rest at the bottom of your deck in any order. If you added a card to your hand, place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.

Trigger:

• None.

Nanao Ise (伊勢 七緒)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500+

Energy: 2 Green

Effects:

• [Step]: (During your Move Phase, you may move this from the Front L to the Energy L).
• [During Your Turn]: If you have <Shunsui Kyoraku> on your Energy L, this character gets BP+1500.
• [Activate: Main]: You can only activate this if you have used <Shinken Hakkyoken> during this turn. Make this character Active. This effect of <Nanao Ise> can only be activated once per turn.

Trigger:

• [Color]: Choose 1 Green character card with a required energy of 2 or less and a required AP of 1 from your hand and play it onto your field as Active.

Retsu Unohana (卯ノ花 烈)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [On Play]: You may place 1 card from your hand into your sideline. If you do, look at the top card of your deck, place it on the top or bottom of your deck, and draw 1 card.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Shunsui Kyoraku (京楽 春水)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 1 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1500

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [On Play]: Look at the top 3 cards of your deck, place up to 1 of them into your sideline, and place the rest on top of your deck in any order.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Shunsui Kyoraku (京楽 春水)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• Impact Nullification: (Characters battling this character lose Impact during this battle).
• [Activate: Main]: [If on Front L] [Pay 1 AP] You can only activate this if this character is in Rest. Make this character Active, choose up to 1 character on your opponent's Front L, and Rest it. This effect of <Shunsui Kyoraku> can only be activated once per turn.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Shunsui Kyoraku (京楽 春水)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 5 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [Raid]: <Shunsui Kyoraku> (You may make this active and move to Front L).
• Passive: At the end of this character's attack, if you have a total of 4 or more different card names among Green Event cards and Site cards in your sideline, choose up to 1 character on your Energy L, and switch its position with this character.
• [On Play]: During this turn, the next card with [Trait: Katen Kyokotsu] you use from your hand has its required AP reduced by 1.

Trigger:

• [Raid]: Add this card to your hand, or if you meet the energy requirements, Raid it.

Kenpachi Zaraki (更木 剣八)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 1 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• Impact Nullification: (Characters battling this character lose Impact during this battle).
• Passive: This character must block opponent's attacks if able.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Sui-Feng (砕蜂)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2000

Energy: 2 Green

Effects:

• [Step]: (During your Move Phase, you may move this from the Front L to the Energy L).
• [On Play]: Draw 1 card, and place 1 card from your hand into your sideline.
• [Activate: Main]: Make this character Active. This effect of <Sui-Feng> can only be activated once per turn.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Shinji Hirako (平子 真子)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 4000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [On Play]: You may place 1 card from your hand into your sideline. If you do, choose up to 1 [Trait: Visored] from your sideline that meets the required energy and has a required AP of 1, and play it onto your field in Rest.

Trigger:

• None.

Ikkaku Madarame (斑目 一角)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500+

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [During Your Turn]: If you have <Kenpachi Zaraki> on your field, this character gets BP+1500.

Trigger:

• None.

Shigekuni Yamamoto (山本 重國)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 1000

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• Passive: This card is also treated as <Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto>.
• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] [Turn 1] During this turn, this character gets Generated Energy +1 Green and "At the end of the Main Phase, retire this character."

Trigger:

• None.

Jushiro Ukitake (浮竹 十四郎)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads / Right Arm of the Soul King

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 500

Energy: 2 Green

Effects:

• Passive: This card cannot be played to the Front L, and cannot be moved to the Front L.
• [Raid Support]: <Jushiro Ukitake> (You may make this active and move to Front L).
• Passive: This character's Generated Energy gets +1 Green.
• [On Play]: Draw 1 card.
• [Activate: Main]: [Turn 1] You can only activate this effect during the turn this character is played. Choose 1 other [Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads] on your field and make it Active.

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

Katen (花天)

Card Type: Site

Trait: Katen Kyokotsu

Cost / Action: 0 Cost / 1 Action

Energy: 1 Green

Effects:

• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] [Retire this card]. Choose up to 1 Green <Shunsui Kyoraku> with a required energy of 2 or less from your sideline and play it onto your Energy L as Active.

Trigger:

• [Active]: Choose 1 character on your field and make it Active. During this turn, it gets BP+3000.

Kyokotsu (狂骨)

Card Type: Site

Trait: Katen Kyokotsu

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

Energy: 2 Green

Effects:

• [On Play]: Choose up to 1 <Shinken Hakkyoken> from your sideline and add it to your hand.
• [Activate: Main]: [Rest] [Retire this card]. Choose up to 1 card on your field and make it Active. Choose up to 1 character on your field, and during this turn, it gets BP+1000.

Trigger:

• [Draw]: Draw 1 card.

Kurohitsugi / Black Coffin (黒棺)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Passive: If you do not have <Sousuke Aizen> on your field, in all zones, this card's name becomes <Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy! Boil upward and deny! Grow numb and flicker! Disrupt sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing mud doll! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your own impotence! Hado 90: Kurohitsugi>.
• Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 4000 BP or less, and retire it.

Shinken Hakkyoken (神剣・八鏡剣)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose 1 of the following. After that, you may Rest 1 Active <Shunsui Kyoraku> or <Nanao Ise> on your field. If you do, make 1 of your AP cards Active.
  • Draw 1 card.
  • Choose up to 1 <Nanao Ise> on your field, and during this turn, give it BP+3000 and Impact 1.

Trigger:

• [SPECIAL]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L and retire it.

Bankai (卍解)

Card Type: Event

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Choose up to 2 of your AP cards and make them Active.

Trigger:

• [FINAL]: If you have no life, place the top card of your deck into your life area.

Katen Kyokotsu Karamatsu Shinju (花天狂骨枯松心中)

Card Type: Event

Trait: Katen Kyokotsu

Cost / Action: 4 Cost / 1 Action

Effects:

• Condition: You can only use this card if you have <Shunsui Kyoraku> on your field.
• Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L with 5000 BP or less, and retire it. Choose up to 1 <Katen> or <Kyokotsu> on your Energy L and make it Active.

Trigger:

• [SPECIAL]: Choose 1 character on your opponent's Front L and retire it.

Ichigo Kurosaki (黒崎 一護)

Card Type: Character

Cost / Action: 3 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500

Energy: 2 Purple

Effects:

• [On Play] (登場時): Look at the top 2 cards of your deck, place any number of them on top of your deck in any order, and place the rest into your sideline. If there is a card with a required energy of 3 or more among the cards placed into the sideline by this effect, draw 1 card.

Trigger:

• [Get]: Add this card to your hand.

Rukia Kuchiki (朽木 ルキア)

Card Type: Character

Trait: Thirteen Court Guard Squads

Cost / Action: 2 Cost / 1 Action

BP: 2500

Energy: 1 Purple

Effects:

• Passive: If you have no cards on your field, reduce the required Energy of this card in your hand by 2.
• Passive: When this character is Raided, choose 1 of the following. (Process this effect and the Raided character's [On Play] effect in any order).
  • Look at the top card of your deck, and place it on top of your deck or into your sideline.
  • Choose up to 1 <Rukia Kuchiki> on your field, and during this turn, give it "This character cannot be blocked by characters with 4000 BP or more."
• [On Play] (登場時): Look at the top card of your deck, and place it on top of your deck or into your sideline.

Trigger:

• None.

Action Point Card - Ichigo

Card Type: Action Point Card

Effects:

• Used to pay AP costs for playing cards.

Action Point Card - Grimmjow

Card Type: Action Point Card

Effects:

• Used to pay AP costs for playing cards.

Action Point Card - Yoruichi

Card Type: Action Point Card

Effects:

• Used to pay AP costs for playing cards.

Action Point Card - Riruka

Card Type: Action Point Card

Effects:

• Used to pay AP costs for playing cards.

Action Point Card - Katen

Card Type: Action Point Card

Effects:

• Used to pay AP costs for playing cards.

Action Point Card - Uryu

Card Type: Action Point Card

Effects:

• Used to pay AP costs for playing cards.

Key card highlights

While there’s something for everybody in the above card list, there are a few cards that stand out for me for their potential impact on the game.

Uryu – the first multicolor UNION ARENA deck

For starters, I have to highlight this incredible Uryu card. Just like how Uryu acts as a bit of a double agent in the anime, you can run him in Purple BLEACH and play him without running Yellow Energy at all. Simply recycle the Ichigo characters you used to activate your Purple Ichigo effects and you get a 4000 BP attacker set to active with Nullify Impact onto your front line.

This is a very powerful play for Purple BLEACH that gets a strong attacker and more sideline fuel.

Kenpachi/Toshiro gets powerful support

I had hypothesized that Kenpachi/Toshiro wouldn’t be getting anything in Vol. 3 as that deck is already so strong. Sometimes, I love to be wrong. This Nullify Impact Kenpachi character not only brings a relevant Nullify Impact effect into a deck sadly missing one, it gives you yet another low-cost Kenpachi to Raid over.

Purple BLEACH gets free-play

One of the biggest questions I had ahead of the set’s release in Japan was whether or not Purple BLEACH would get a free play effect. And in the end, it did. But not in the deck I expected.

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Renji/Rukia is looking very strong going into Vol. 3, and honestly given this combo and some of the other crazy stuff this deck can do, I might prefer it over the Rukia/Ichigo build. While Rukia/Ichigo still benefits from outright power, the Rukia/Renji combos enable more versatility.

New support for Yellow BLEACH

Yellow BLEACH gets much needed support across the board, but my favorite card from the energy color (other than Uryu) is this Jugram. This guy is going to enable a free-play for Yellow BLEACH, modernizing previously unplayed decks from the archetype.

Yamamoto is back

Yamamoto never got the love it deserved. Back when UNION ARENA came out, it was one of my favorite decks to play. Now, it has the addition of a zero-cost Yamamoto to help it out. It’s not enough to make the deck top tier, but it’s certainly enough to help it out.

Yoruichi might be BLEACH’s strongest new deck

When highlighting impactful cards from this set, I would be remiss to not include Yoruichi. This deck looks very strong, and while I won’t get into it too much (look for that in a future deck guide article), it’s got everything from aggro, to free-plays, to Snipe/Impact, and more.

As much as I hate to say it (because I almost want to keep it to myself), Blue Yoruichi may be the strongest deck coming out of BLEACH Vol. 3.

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Of course, there are many more powerful cards coming out in this set, but those are the ones that stand out the most to me for their potential impact on the game.

UNION ARENA: BLEACH Vol. 3 products

While typically UNION ARENA products are pretty straightforward, there’s a unique new product coming out with UNION ARENA Vol. 3 that you’ll want to know about. This is the Advanced Deck: a special deck that has all foil cards, exclusive alt arts, and two brand-new cards you can only get in the deck.

Here’s a preview of the cards included in the Advanced Deck shared via the official UNION ARENA Japan X account.

In addition to the card list seen in the video, the Advanced Deck will also include several exclusive alt art cards, and you’re guaranteed one Parallel Rare per deck.

BLEACH Vol. 3 Advanced Deck card list

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BLEACH Booster Box

And, of course, you’ll be getting the majority of the cards from this set from the Booster Box as usual.

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BLEACH is one of my favorite of all UNION ARENA sets, and seeing what the game developers put together for the first Vol. 3 is truly inspiring. While I can’t wait for the English Version release date in November, even more so I absolutely cannot wait to see what other Vol. 3 this game has in store for us!