Gate Card (Generation 1)
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Gate Cards, formerly Gateway Cards, are the playing surface used for Bakugan game. The cards contain a magnetic plate in their middle which triggers the Bakugan rolled onto them to open ("Stand").
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Battle Brawlers
Gate Cards (Series 2 rules) come in three colors:
- Gold: Provide additional bonuses based on type of Bakugan. They replaced the original Character Cards.
- Silver: Basic Gate Cards. They replaced the original Normal Cards.
- Copper Gate Cards (sometimes called Bronze): Gate Cards with unusual abilities. They replaced the original Command Cards.
Gate Cards give bonus G-Power to based on their Attribute (Pyrus, Aquos, Subterra, Haos, Darkus or Ventus), with one attribute getting a "highlight bonus".
Cards may be Common or Rare, and there are special cards only available in the Arena product.
In Bakugan Dimensions, Gate Cards are special Moves that set special conditions over the field. They dispel any Gate Cards before it when played and usually last about as long as the typical defense. (Darkus Gates are an exception to this rule as they will only dispel non-Darkus Gate in play, rather than dispel all Gates period. This means you can have multiple Darkus Gates in play at once.)
Highlighted Gate Bonus
Gate Cards have one of their Gate bonuses circled with a bright yellow marking. This is called the "Highlighted Gate bonus". If a player is using a Pearl or BakuFrost Bakugan, they may choose to take the Highlighted Gate bonus instead of their Bakugan's normal Attribute bonus. Additionally, the Bakugan White Naga always takes the Highlighted Gate bonus, as it has no inherent Attribute. The Highlighted Gate bonus provides no other extra effects. [1]
Battle Planet
- For a list of Gate Cards in Armored Alliance, see GATE.
Gate Cards are omitted from the rebooted card game, which functions as a more traditional trading card game, in favor of BakuCores. However, in the second season, Bakugan: Armored Alliance, the majority of products include a Gate Trainer, which is not used in the game and is instead used for practicing trick shots. Each Gate Trainer has artwork of one of the Awesome Ones on the back. The primary reason for the inclusion of the Gate Trainers is to prevent the actual cards from being bent or otherwise damaged in the packaging.
Midway through the season, the Gate Trainers were replaced with actual Gate Cards, which replace BakuCores in the simpler toy battling game but are still not used in the TCG. Gate Cards no longer have names or effects, and simply feature the faction bonuses and artwork in the same layout as the legacy series.
Gate Card Sets
There are currently 4 gate card sets
Trivia
- Pictures from some Gate Cards have been used on various other Gate Cards.
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