Gundam Freedom Ascension at fourteen weeks: the special arts lost 40 %, and October did not stop it

Freedom Ascension came out on July 24, 2026, and it is still the Gundam Card Game set people search for most on TCGIndex. Fourteen weeks later, with Stardust Trails out today, it is a good moment to look at what the set's special-art singles did once the release rush was over. Short version: almost all of them got cheaper, and October did not stop the slide.

All prices below are the ones shown on TCGIndex's card pages on October 30, 2026 (TCGplayer market price, US dollars, Near Mint). The starting point is each card's own daily record on August 1, one week after release, once the first-week listings had settled (August 2 for EX Resource EXR-010, its first point that week). A card whose page price and latest recorded point disagree by more than 3 % is left out, and so is any card with too few points to compare.

The Freedom Ascension cards we can rank

Together these 13 cards went from $2,266.95 on August 1 to $1,354.52 today, down 40 %. From September 30 alone they lost 12 % ($1,540.33 to $1,354.52).

October kept going down, with two exceptions

Most of the fall happened in August and September, which is what a new set usually does. What stands out is that October did not bring a floor. Heero Yuy's SP lost 27 % this month, and its record reads lower almost every week, from $141.13 on October 1 to $103.88 on October 29. The EX Resource EXR-010 did the same, from $365.71 to $283.53 over the month, lower at nearly every point. The Amuro Ray R+ lost a quarter of its price in October.

Two cards went the other way. Gundam Exia Repair (LR+) sat at $24-25 at the start of the month, climbed between October 5 and 18 to $35.40, and has eased only slightly since ($33.74). Full Frontal's SP rose more slowly, from $55.73 on October 2 to $63.37 on October 25. Both are still under their August price, but they are the only two of the thirteen that are up for October.

What we left out, and why

The five LR++ cards are the set's real chase, and none of them makes the table. They sell rarely, so their daily record has only 8 to 24 points in fourteen weeks, and today their page prices and their latest recorded points do not line up. Wing Gundam Zero (EW) LR++ shows $4,300 on its page against a last recorded $3,910.18 on October 2. Strike Freedom Gundam LR++ shows $2,343 against $2,605.71 on October 16. Nu Gundam and Master Gundam LR++ have the same gap, and Sazabi LR++ has no recorded point since September 2. We would rather show nothing than a direction we cannot back up. Each page has its own history, and a single sale moves these cards a lot.

The same 3 % check removes the EX Resource EXR-009, EXR-007, EXR-004, EXR-005 and EXR-011, Suletta Mercury, Marida Cruz and Kira Yamato SPs, and a few LR+ and R+ prints.

If you are buying

If you play the game, the SP versions of the starter-deck pilots are 27 to 52 % cheaper than in early August, and most of them are still drifting. Waiting has paid so far, and nothing in their records says it has stopped.

If you collect the LR++ prints, look at each card's own history and recent sales before paying a page price: with this few sales, one listing can move the number by hundreds of dollars.

Every card, the chase list and the price history are on the Freedom Ascension set page. The new set has its own page: Stardust Trails.