UNION ARENA: Evangelion Card List
Evangelion is coming to UNION ARENA! Releasing on January 30, 2026, Evangelion is a seriously strong set featuring characters from the Evangelion Rebuild Theatrical release. Below, we’ll be taking a look at each and every Evangelion card released in English so far, as well as looking at the products coming out with this highly anticipated set.
Evangelion Red Cards
Red Evangelion cards should be quite popular thanks to how easily they upgrade from the starter deck into a top tier UNION ARENA deck.
Evangelion Yellow Cards
Evangelion Purple cards
If I had to pick one energy color that was strong above all the rest in this set, it would be Purple Evangelion. First of all, Evangelion 13 just feels crazy. Damage 2 and Impact 4 just seems nuts, and it also has an insane and reusable draw engine built into it.
Meanwhile Asuka’s Evangelion is capable of a triple attack strategy that enables her to swing through your opponent’s defenses for maximum impact. Purple Evangelion is going to be strong and will likely have the highest play share of any UNION ARENA deck at high level competition.
Evangelion alt arts/parallel rares
While there’s something to be said about all of the alternate art cards in Evangelion, the most startling to me at first glance in the Rei AP. Rei is really a tragic character in the anime – perhaps the most tragic of them all. Yet this card depicts her at her best, complete with a stellar foil design that will likely make this AP one of the top chases among all AP cards to date.
Evangelion Action Point card arts
While you can see the a few of the foil AP cards available in the gallery above, there will also be a wide range of unique artwork AP cards coming out with the set. Bandai leaked what their artwork is going to look like via the UNION ARENA website
Evangelion SR***
The Evangelion SR*** will have both a regular SR*** and a serialized version – a card that will undoubtedly fetch a ton of money on the secondary card market.
Evangelion Starter Deck
Evangelion is the first UNION ARENA set in the English version to get a starter deck since Rurouni Kenshin released back in November of 2025. The starter deck is built around the formidable red energy color featuring Shinji and Rei. Given early results from Japan, it’s likely that the red Evangelion starter deck will be up there with Red Kenshin as one of the best UNION ARENA starter decks of all time.
Evangelion Starter Deck cards
Red will likely be a very popular strategy coming out of Evangelion. Easily upgraded via the starter deck, Evangelion Test Type-01 is a powerful attacker, swinging at your opponent with a potential 7000 BP attack (beating most characters even when buffed by an Active trigger), complete with Damage 2 and Impact 1.
Evangelion Booster Box
Like all UNION ARENA booster boxes, the Evangelion booster box will come with 16 booster packs. It will also include one box topper pack which will have one of six foil common cards. See them below.
Evangelion promo cards
Get the Asuka Winner card by competing at store tournaments, and the Rei release event card by attending and/or winning an Evangelion release event. Release events for Evangelion begin one week prior to release on January 23, 2026. Go on the Bandai TCG+ app to find one near you!
Stay tuned for more Evangelion reveals as they are made for the English version, and make sure to bookmark this page and come back often as I’ll be updating it real time as we get closer to the release date!
