Why carry a smaller game like Grand Archive?

Because almost nobody else does, and the developers building for it have had to scrape or hand-maintain their own data. It reads through the same schema and the same key as Pokémon or Magic.

How do I build a champion's progression?

Filter by name and minLevel=0, then order by level on your side. There is no lineage id: the chain is the character's name, so a deck check compares the names and verifies the levels step up from 0.

Are Grand Archive prices available?

Yes, from TCGplayer in USD, with normal and foil priced separately; Cardmarket does not carry the game. It is a thinner market than the larger games, so a single sale moves the number more, and market is null where nothing has sold recently while low still shows the cheapest listing.

Weebs of the Shore · since 2022

Grand Archive API

Separate memory and reserve costs, champion level, power, life, durability, speed, elements and classes.

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2,478
Cards: 4,796
Printings: 63
Sets: 1
Languages: English

Overview

What the Grand Archive dataset covers

Grand Archive combines anime art direction with a genuinely novel resource system built on memory and reserve costs. TCGGraph exposes both cost tracks, champion level, power, life, durability, speed, elements and classes as filterable fields, so a champion's progression is a name search with minLevel=0 rather than a parse of the rules text.

Both resource tracks — memory and reserve — are modelled as distinct costs, and level is set only on champions, so champion progression can be listed with a filter rather than parsed.

Formats

Standard
Unlimited
Sealed

Price sources

TCGplayer

REST

curl -G "https://api.tcggraph.com/v1/cards" \
  -d game=grand-archive \
  -d limit=5 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TCGGRAPH_KEY"

GraphQL

{
  cards(
    filter: { game: GRAND_ARCHIVE, gameData: { elements: "Fire", level: 2 } }
  ) {
    nodes {
      name
      gameData
    }
  }
}

Schema

Grand Archive-specific fields

Every card carries the shared core fields. These live under gameData, in REST and GraphQL alike, and each is a filter: ?cost=2 in REST, gameData: { cost: 2 } in GraphQL.

Field	Type	Description
memoryCost	Int	Memory required to play.
reserveCost	Int	Reserve required to play.
level	Int	Champion level.
power	Int	Attack power.
life	Int	Health for champions and allies.
durability	Int	Weapon durability.
elements	[String]	NORM, FIRE, WATER, WIND, ARCANE, ASTRA, CRUX, EXALTED, EXIA, LUXEM, NEOS, TERA or UMBRA.
classes	[String]	CLERIC, MAGE, WARRIOR, TAMER, ASSASSIN, GUARDIAN, RANGER, SPIRIT or ANOMALY.
speed	Enum	FAST or SLOW.

Plus 26 core fields shared by every game — see the full reference.

Live data

Grand Archive cards in the public dataset

Real records returned by the API right now, sorted by market value, with both the American and the European quote.

Card	Set	Number	Rarity	TCGplayer	Cardmarket
Labyrinth, Jeweled Opus	Phantom Monarchs First Edition	119	Ultra Rare	$14.44	—
Windmill Engineer	Mercurial Heart	160	Uncommon	$2.68	—
Bedlam Borough	.asphodel/paradise	032	Uncommon	$0.56	—
Illuminating Charge	Mortal Ambition	217	Super Rare	$0.38	—
Diana, Keen Huntress	Alchemical Revolution	008	Common	$0.23	—
Arisanna, Lucent Arbiter	Alchemical Revolution	007	Common	$0.18	—
Arisanna, Herbalist Prodigy	Alchemical Revolution	004	Common	$0.17	—
Arisanna, Master Alchemist	Alchemical Revolution	005	Common	$0.16	—

Sets

Notable Grand Archive sets

ALC
Alchemical Revolution
253 cards · 2022-11-04
MRC
Mercurial Heart
226 cards · 2024-05-24
SUR
Silvie's Uprising
218 cards · 2026-02-13

Modelling

Working with Grand Archive data

The decisions that catch people out when they first integrate Grand Archive. Each of these is a bug we have watched somebody ship.

Champions level up mid-game
You start with a level 0 champion and play higher-level versions of the same character on top as the game progresses, so a level 2 Silvie can only be played over an earlier Silvie. level is set only on champions, which makes minLevel=0 the way to list them; there is no card type field.
Two resources, two costs
Reserve cost and memory cost are separate currencies paid from separate pools. Most cards cost reserve (3,687 of them); memory is the cost of every champion and of about 750 other cards. No card has both, so a curve has to read whichever one is set.
Speed decides when you may act
FAST cards can be played in response; SLOW ones cannot. speed is null on the cards that have neither. It changes how a card plays far more than its cost does, which makes it a much more useful filter than most people expect.
First Edition is its own set
A set's First Edition and its later print are separate sets with their own records and prices: gau_doa_1st_010 is Silvie, Wilds Whisperer in Dawn of Ashes First Edition (set DOA 1st). Group by name when you mean the card and keep editions apart when you mean a specific copy.

Recipes

Common Grand Archive queries

Three requests that cover most of what applications in this game actually ask for.

Every Silvie, oldest first

Deck builders need every version of one character.

name matches a part of the name, so this returns every card with Silvie in it. Add minLevel=0 for the champions alone.

GET /v1/cards
  ?game=grand-archive
  &name=silvie
  &sort=released

Cheap fast Water cards for a reactive deck

Speed plus cost is the filter pair that actually matters here.

Elements and classes are stored upper case; filters ignore case, so elements=water works too.

GET /v1/cards
  ?game=grand-archive
  &speed=FAST
  &maxReserveCost=2
  &elements=WATER

Assassin cards above a power threshold

Your champion's class constrains what the rest of the deck may contain.

classes is a list, so cards shared between two classes match either filter.

GET /v1/cards
  ?game=grand-archive
  &classes=ASSASSIN
  &minPower=3

Glossary

Grand Archive terms, and the fields that hold them

What players call a thing on the left, what you query on the right.

Term	Field	Notes
Reserve cost	gameData.reserveCost	Paid from reserve. The cost on most cards.
Memory cost	gameData.memoryCost	Paid from memory. A separate pool, not interchangeable with reserve.
Level	gameData.level	Champions only. You play higher levels over lower ones of the same character.
Speed	gameData.speed	FAST or SLOW, or null. Whether the card can be played in response.
Elements	gameData.elements[]	NORM, FIRE, WATER, WIND, and the advanced elements such as ARCANE, CRUX, TERA and UMBRA.
Classes	gameData.classes[]	CLERIC, MAGE, WARRIOR, TAMER, ASSASSIN, GUARDIAN, RANGER, SPIRIT or ANOMALY.
Life / Durability	gameData.life	Life on champions and allies; gameData.durability where the card has one, as weapons do.

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