The Godzilla Card Game’s Minus Zero set: the dated releases

By CardSpicy Founder · October 7, 2026

Quick answer

CardSpicy works from the publisher’s own product pages, and for the Godzilla Card Game those pages settle a detail that resellers get wrong. The game’s fifth booster pack is dated December 2026, at 440 yen per pack. The three Battle Begins! starter decks that launch alongside it are dated 6 November 2026, at 1,500 yen each. Both releases draw on Godzilla Minus Zero, the new film that opens in Japan on 3 November 2026, and the booster carries hot-stamped autograph cards signed by the film’s director, Takashi Yamazaki.

The starter decks and the booster are two different dates, and the gap between them is the reason this page separates them.

What the Godzilla Card Game is, in product terms

The Godzilla Card Game is a two-player card game built on Toho’s monster catalogue. Players build around different colours and monsters and use Monster, Battle, Strategy and Rage Cards to push a kaiju into the opposing side. It is supported by Bushiroad, the publisher behind Cardfight!! Vanguard and Weiss Schwarz, and it has run organized play, a restriction list and a Japanese national championship since it launched.

The game is young. Its first booster, Godzilla versus Godzilla, arrived on 5 July 2025, and it has added a set roughly every few months since, so the December booster will be the fifth. For a collector weighing whether to follow a new game, that cadence is the thing to look at, and our glossary unpicks the difference between a booster, a starter deck and a reprint set if any of those labels need it.

The dated Godzilla Card Game line

The 6 November date is the one to note, because the same three decks are listed by some resellers as a December release. That is not what the publisher says. Bushiroad dates the three starter decks to 6 November and the booster pack to December, and the two are separate products. Anyone planning a purchase around the movie should know that the ready-to-play decks land before the set that feeds them.

The December booster: Godzilla Minus Zero

The fifth booster is built on the new film. The publisher’s own product page states that the set includes cards from Godzilla Minus Zero as well as Godzilla Minus One, and that hot-stamped autograph cards signed by director Takashi Yamazaki appear at an extremely low rate. Yamazaki directed both films, and his signature card is the chase item of the set.

Two things on that table are worth reading carefully. The pack configuration is smaller than most trading card games use — seven cards to a pack rather than ten or twelve — so a box holds fewer cards than it looks. And the card count is, at the time of writing, not published. The publisher states that the number of card types and the contents will be announced later. That is a limit rather than a gap in this page: nothing here should be read as a card list, and no count is inferred from anywhere other than the publisher.

If you are buying the booster to open, our card market report is the place for the wider picture, and the open-it-or-keep-it-sealed page goes through the decision that follows a movie tie-in of this kind.

The Battle Begins! starter decks

The three starter decks are the on-ramp for the set. Each is built to play straight out of the box, mixing new cards with reprints from earlier sets, and the publisher states that every deck contains at least one Special-rarity card. The red deck is the one tied to the new film.

Each deck is configured the same way. The publisher lists a main deck of 50 cards and a monster deck of 4 cards, plus Rage Cards, Zone Cards and rule cards. The parallels run to 8 Special-rarity types and 1 type of a further parallel, and the publisher notes that some cards may appear as parallel versions instead of their standard printing.

The decks are dated 6 November 2026 at 1,500 yen each, sold six to a box and eight boxes to a carton. Bushiroad has also announced a starter-deck-only constructed tournament format, in which only the cards from these three decks may be used, and a set of beginner events to run alongside the release. For a new player that combination is the reason to start here rather than with the booster: the decks are playable on their own, and the events exist to use them.

If you are new and want to know how to keep what you open in good condition, our guide to protecting cards with sleeves and the card sleeve sizes page are the two to read first.

Accessories dated to the same day

Bushiroad has dated a run of accessories to 6 November 2026 as well, which is the same day as the starter decks. The line includes a rubber playmat carrying the 2026 Godzilla, at 3,300 yen including tax, and three deck holders — Godzilla (2026), the complete Destoroyah, and King Ghidorah (1991) — at 924 yen each including tax.

The deliberate part is the pairing. A player who buys a starter deck on 6 November can buy the mat and the matching deck holder on the same trip, and the accessories carry the same film references as the decks. For anyone weighing a mat against a box or a binder, our binders, boxes and frames page compares the three, and the card protection guide covers what to store a deck in once it is built.

A note on cards and language

The publisher attaches two practical notes to its product pages. The first is the card size, 63 by 88 millimetres, which is the standard trading card size and the reason a widely sold sleeve or binder page will fit. The second is a rules note: in sanctioned and official tournaments held in Japan, cards in other languages cannot be used, with the exception of certain cards such as the Rage Cards. Anyone buying across regions should read that before assuming a card will be legal at their local event.

Both notes matter for a product tied to a Japanese film release, because the film opens in Japan first and the game’s competitive scene is largest there. A buyer outside Japan should treat the Japanese dates on this page as the publisher’s dates and check their own region’s listing for when the product actually arrives. Our is it worth grading page covers when a card is worth sending away, which for a signed chase card is a real question.

What this page does not claim

Four limits, stated plainly.

• Every date, price and product detail here comes from Bushiroad’s own pages. The booster’s December date and 440 yen price, the starter decks’ 6 November date and 1,500 yen price, the 50-card and 4-card deck configuration, the 8 Special-rarity and 1 further parallel types, and the accessory line are all taken from the publisher’s own product pages.
• The December booster’s card count is not published. The publisher states that the number of card types and the product contents will be announced later. Nothing on this page is a card list, and no count is given where the publisher gives none.
• The dates are the publisher’s Japanese schedule. The Godzilla Card Game’s official product pages are Japanese, and the release dates stated here are the Japanese ones. Other regions follow their own listings.
• No valuation. CardSpicy quotes the publisher’s own suggested retail prices and makes no valuation or investment recommendation about any card or sealed product, including the autograph cards.

If you are buying from this line to open, our card market report for October 2026 is the place for the wider picture, and the card accessories page covers what you need on the table. For storage, the card storage boxes and penny sleeve versus toploader pages cover the two decisions that come first.

Frequently asked questions

When is the Godzilla Minus Zero booster released?

Bushiroad dates the fifth booster pack, Godzilla Minus Zero, to December 2026 at 440 yen per pack. The number of card types and the product contents are listed as to be announced later.

When do the Battle Begins! starter decks release?

The three Battle Begins! starter decks are dated 6 November 2026 at 1,500 yen each. That is earlier than the December booster they support, and some resellers list the decks as a December release, which the publisher’s own pages do not say.

What is the chase card in the Godzilla Minus Zero booster?

The publisher states that hot-stamped autograph cards signed by Takashi Yamazaki, the director of Godzilla Minus Zero and Godzilla Minus One, appear in the booster at an extremely low rate. A signed card of that kind is the set’s headline collectible.

What is in a Godzilla Card Game starter deck?

Each Battle Begins! deck contains a main deck of 50 cards and a monster deck of 4 cards, plus Rage Cards, Zone Cards and rule cards. Every deck includes at least one Special-rarity card, and the parallels run to 8 Special-rarity types plus 1 further parallel type.

How many cards are in a Godzilla Card Game booster pack?

A booster pack holds 7 cards. A box holds 12 packs, priced by the publisher at 5,280 yen including tax, and a carton holds 18 boxes.

Sources

Sources and scope

1. Bushiroad’s official Godzilla Card Game product page for Booster Pack 05, used for the December 2026 release, the 440 yen per-pack price, the 7 cards per pack, the 12 packs per box at 5,280 yen and 18 boxes per carton at 95,040 yen, the inclusion of cards from Godzilla Minus Zero and Godzilla Minus One, the hot-stamped Takashi Yamazaki autograph cards, and the note that the number of card types and the product contents will be announced later.
2. Bushiroad’s official Godzilla Card Game product page for the Battle Begins! Starter Deck Godzilla (red), used for the 6 November 2026 release, the 1,500 yen price, the main deck of 50 cards and monster deck of 4 cards, the Rage Cards, Zone Cards and rule cards, the 8 Special-rarity types and 1 further parallel type, the featured films Godzilla (1954), Godzilla Minus One (2023) and Godzilla Minus Zero (2026), the six decks per box and eight boxes per carton, the starter-deck-only tournament format and the beginner events, and the card size of 63 by 88 millimetres.
3. Bushiroad’s official Godzilla Card Game products page, used for the full dated line: Booster Pack 01 on 5 July 2025, Booster Pack 02 on 4 October 2025, the Starter Deck Set on 27 December 2025, Booster Pack 03 on 10 January 2026, Booster Pack 04 on 25 April 2026, the three Battle Begins! starter decks on 6 November 2026, and the rubber playmat and three deck holders on 6 November 2026 with their prices.
4. Our own pages on card accessories, grading, card protection, card sleeve sizes, storage boxes, binders and frames, penny sleeves and toploaders, protecting cards with sleeves, opening a box or keeping it sealed, the card market report for October 2026 and the collecting glossary, used for the internal links.
5. Scope note: only details published by Bushiroad are stated as confirmed. The December booster’s card count is not published and is not inferred. The dates are the publisher’s Japanese schedule. CardSpicy makes no valuation or investment recommendation.

Release dates, product contents and prices are set by the publisher and can change. Check Bushiroad’s own product pages before ordering, and check the listing for your own region.

Related reading

• Is it worth grading a card
• Open a booster box or keep it sealed
• The card protection guide
• Card sleeve sizes, explained
• Card storage boxes, explained
• Binders, boxes and frames compared
• Penny sleeve versus toploader
• How to protect your trading cards with sleeves
• Card accessories
• The card market report, October 2026
• The card collecting glossary
• The Collector’s Library

Where to go next

• The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
• The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).