It’s the era of trading card games (TCG), and the CookieRun TCG is expanding. Following suit with other card games’ ready-to-play decks, CookieRun: Braverse Trading Card Game is offering five new Starter Decks each pair Legendary Cookies with distinct playstyles, strategies, and debut Legendary Pets as Cookie Cards.
From Devsisters, the newest Starter Deck lineup pushes the CookieRun TCG forward and lowers the barrier to entry for new players who may not know the mobile game. The CookieRun: Braverse Trading Card Game, introducing five ready-to-play 60-card decks built around some of the CookieRun franchise’s most iconic Legendary Cookies.
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This release arrives as the CookieRun franchise continues expanding beyond mobile games into new ways for fans to interact with the franchise. CookieRun has has also had collaborations with propterties like KPop Demon Hunters and a New York City pop-up, showcasing how much the game has evolved.
What is CookieRun: Braverse Trading Card Game?
First launched in South Korea in 2023, CookieRun: Braverse is a trading card game created by Devsisters that brings the CookieRun universe into the competitive tabletop space. The card types include: Items, Traps, and Stage cards. The game first launched in South Korea in September 2023 and has since expanded internationally, introducing the CookieRun franchise to a new generation of trading card game players.
What do the colors in the CookieRun TCG mean?
Similar to Magic: The Gathering‘s Color Pie, CookieRun: Braverse easily identifies the strategies for cards around colors.
- Red for aggressive effect damage
- Yellow for recovery and control
- Green for resource management
- Blue for hand cycling
- Purple for trash-based recursion
What is new with the Starter Deck launch?
This new addition to the CookieRun TCG includes the debut of Legendary Pets as Cookie Cards, with the aim to bringing the fan-favorite companions from previous CookieRun mobile games into the TCG for the first time. Players can match each Pet pairs with its corresponding Legendary Cookie to extend the deck’s core strategy, from amplifying damage to improving survivability, enabling combos, or maintaining resource flow.
What are the new Starter Decks?
The new lineup gives players five distinct ways to jump into Braverse. All five of the 60-card Starter Decks are built around a featured Legendary Cookie, similar to Magic’s Commander format, and Riftbound’s Champion system.
- Flames of Immortality Deck: Led by the Fire Spirit Cookie, which creates fast offensive pressure through HP-sacrifice effects and powerful damage that cannot be blocked by Trap Cards.
- Tree of Life Deck; Led by Millennial Tree Cookie, with a strategy that focuses on HP recovery, defensive control, and long-term stability to outlast opponents.
- Guardian Winds Deck: Led by Wind Archer Cookie, the strategy of this Starter Deck rewards careful resource management, smart Item Card use, and timing-based plays.
- Seas of Fate Deck: Led by the Sea Fairy Cookie, this deck keeps momentum through hand cycling, card draw, and continuous resource flow. Always a blue player.
- Glorious Moonlight Deck: Led by Moonlight Cookie, this one uses trash-based mechanics to generate value, recover key Cookies, and control the pace of the match, similar to mill decks in Magic.
