Banpresto SD Sengokuden

This is the original Japanese article — an SD Gundam Sengokuden vending-card series from the Carddass era, dispensed one card at a time from the 20-yen machines that swept Japan starting in 1988. Catalogued here under Banpresto, Part 5 lands in 1989, mid-run, in the usual format: thin stock, tiny print, no set symbol, just a card number and a copyright line, with a handful of foil "prism" pulls salted in. It is pure schoolyard ephemera. Our slice of it centers on the Second Generation Musha Gundam prism (#3), the kind of samurai-armored SD design that grew into the whole SD Sengokuden phenomenon. Survivors from these machines are usually played-hard; a sharp prism is a real find.

• 1
  Prism (kira) cards have a rainbow-foil background and no rarity stamp — the foil itself is the tell.
• 2
  Front carries a small printed card number plus a Bandai/Carddass-style copyright line; no set symbol.
• 3
  Dispensed from Carddass-era vending machines at 20 yen, so most survivors show handling wear straight from the slot.

Hand-pulled late-1980s vending cards: expect soft corners, surface scratches, and off-center cuts as baseline. Prism foil scuffs and fingerprints readily — inspect the holo under raking light. High-grade, well-centered prisms are genuinely scarce.

Every card in the set, across all 1 edition. Pick an edition to narrow the listed copies; listed cards are clickable.

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Second Generation Musha Gundam

Banpresto SD Sengokuden · 1989 · 3

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