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Yu-Gi-Oh! sets: new cards, reprints and the Forbidden & Limited List
Yu-Gi-Oh!, often written yugioh, has been releasing cards since 1999 and has more releases behind it than any other card game if you count all the special editions and reprints. Listing them all is pointless. What you need to know is what kinds of releases there are, because each kind has its own role: some introduce new cards, others make expensive cards available again.
Quick facts
| Publisher | Konami |
|---|---|
| Launched | 1999 |
| Core boosters | Four per year |
| Set code | Below the artwork on the right, like MP24-EN123 |
| First edition | The text 1st Edition next to the passcode |
| Card size | Japanese size, smaller than Magic and Pokémon |
How to read the card
The set code is below the artwork on the right, like LOB-005 or MP24-EN123. In the middle of the code is the region marker:
| EN | English, North American edition |
|---|---|
| EU or E | European English edition |
| DE | German |
| FR | French |
| IT | Italian |
| SP | Spanish |
| JP | Japanese, own numbering |
The same card in two regions is two different printings, and the collector value can differ considerably even when playability is identical.
Rarity shows in the colour of the card name and the foil on the artwork. At the bottom left is the passcode, an eight-digit number that is unique to each card and the quickest way to look up exactly the right card. If the text 1st Edition appears next to the passcode, it is the first edition.
The release types
Core boosters are the main sets, four a year, and they contain new cards and new archetypes. Structure decks are ready-made theme decks and cheap, and many duelists buy two or three copies to get more of the same key cards, since a deck may contain at most three cards with the same name. Starter decks teach the basics. The yearly tin is a tin with packs and promo cards and one of the year's biggest products.
The reprint series, such as Legendary Collection and Battles of Legend, make expensive cards available again, and the premium releases are small sets made up only of specially treated cards in high rarity. Battles of Legend mixes reprints with new cards. Alongside the main game there is Speed Duel, with its own smaller format and its own card pool, and Rush Duel, a simplified variant mainly in Japan.
Why reprints matter so much
Konami actively reprints strong cards in new sets and reprint series, unlike some other games where the supply is fixed. A reprinted version is always a different printing from the original release, even when it is exactly the same card in gameplay terms, and that difference is why two listings for "the same card" can still be for completely different things.
The Forbidden & Limited List governs everything
Several times a year Konami publishes a list that limits how many copies of a card may be used in tournament play. A card can be forbidden, limited to one or limited to two. The list can change the whole landscape of the game overnight. Always check the current list before you build a tournament deck.
The rarities
| Common | No foil. |
|---|---|
| Rare | Silver card name. |
| Super rare | Foil artwork. |
| Ultra rare | Foil artwork and gold name. |
| Secret rare | Rainbow foil over the name. |
| Ultimate rare | Embossed, raised artwork. |
| Ghost rare | Three-dimensional effect, very rare. |
| Starlight rare | One of the rarest treatments. |
The releases that shaped the game
Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon from 2002 was the first English set, and its first edition includes some of the most sought-after cards in the hobby. Metal Raiders came early and carries several of the game's best-known cards. The early tournament prizes were handed out in extremely small print runs, some in fewer than ten copies. The modern reprint series have made previously unattainable cards playable for most people. What is available to buy is in the Yu-Gi-Oh! category.
The sets
The sets are listed in release order, with what sets each one apart from other Yu-Gi-Oh! releases.
Light of Destruction
Light of Destruction was released in May 2008 as the eighth and final main set in the series published during the second half of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. The set introduced the Lightsworn archetype and gave the first support cards to Frog and Arcana Force, and the cover card is Honest. In August 2024 the set was reprinted in Europe, and the reprinted edition carries the copyright line from 2020.
The chase cards are Honest, the cover card, in Ghost Rare, the set's highest rarity.
Structure Deck: Yugi Muto
Structure Deck: Yugi Muto came out in October 2016, the same day as Structure Deck: Seto Kaiba, and is built on Yugi Muto's deck with Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl and Valkyrion the Magna Warrior among others. The deck gave the first support cards to Magnet Warrior and Kuriboh, and the foil cards include Berserkion the Electromagna Warrior as Ultra Rare and Alpha, Beta and Gamma The Electromagnet Warrior as Super Rare. It has 45 cards and a playmat.
The chase cards are Berserkion the Electromagna Warrior, the deck's only Ultra Rare.
Structure Deck: Seto Kaiba
Structure Deck: Seto Kaiba came out in October 2016 and is built on Kaiba's deck with Union monsters, LIGHT Machine monsters and Blue-Eyes. New cards in the deck include A-Assault Core, B-Buster Drake, C-Crush Wyvern, ABC-Dragon Buster and A-to-Z-Dragon Buster Cannon, as well as Union Hangar and Majesty with Eyes of Blue. The deck has 45 cards with two Ultra Rare and three Super Rare, plus a playmat.
The chase cards are ABC-Dragon Buster and A-to-Z-Dragon Buster Cannon, the strongest forms of the Union monsters and the deck's two Ultra Rare cards.
Egyptian God Deck: Slifer the Sky Dragon
Egyptian God Deck: Slifer the Sky Dragon was released in June 2021 together with the Obelisk deck and contains Slifer the Sky Dragon itself. Since Slifer gets stronger the more cards you hold in your hand, the deck uses effects that create Tokens, so the three Tributes required can be gathered using fewer cards from the hand. New cards are Thunderforce Attack, which can destroy all of the opponent's face-up monsters, and the Quick-Play Spell Soul Crossing, which lets the god be summoned by Tributing the opponent's monsters. The deck has 40 cards: four Ultra Rare, four Super Rare and 32 Common.
The chase cards are Slifer the Sky Dragon in Ultra Rare, one of the deck's four Ultra Rare cards.
Egyptian God Deck: Obelisk the Tormentor
Egyptian God Deck: Obelisk the Tormentor came out at the same time as the Slifer deck in June 2021 and is built around Obelisk the Tormentor, which can Tribute two of your own monsters to clear away the opponent's monsters. The new Spell Fist of Fate negates a monster's effect and destroys it without Tribute, and if it is used during your own Main Phase the opponent's Spell and Trap cards are destroyed too. Both god decks share the new card Soul Crossing, and the deck has 40 cards with four Ultra Rare and four Super Rare.
The chase cards are Obelisk the Tormentor in Ultra Rare, one of the deck's four Ultra Rare cards.
Legendary Duelists: Synchro Storm
Legendary Duelists: Synchro Storm from October 2021 brings together three strategies with WIND monsters. Yugo's Speedroid from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V is built on fast consecutive Synchro Summons, Sherry LeBlanc's strategy, which first came out as promo cards for video games, gets new cards, and Lulu's Lyrilusc from the same series gets more members. The packs have five cards, and one of the cards is also available as Ghost Rare.
The chase cards are Crystal Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, Yugo's ace from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, in Ghost Rare.
Legendary Duelists: Duels From the Deep
Three WATER strategies get new cards in Legendary Duelists: Duels From the Deep from June 2022: fisherman Mako Tsunami's deck from the first anime series, Nash from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL and Skye Zaizen as Blue Maiden from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. It includes a new version of Fortress Whale, two WATER Xyz monsters that lead via Rank-Up to the Number C monsters 101 to 107, and new Marincess cards. A well-known WATER monster is also available as Ghost Rare.
The chase cards are Mega Fortress Whale, the new version of the classic WATER monster, in Ultra Rare.
Structure Deck: Legend of the Crystal Beasts
Structure Deck: Legend of the Crystal Beasts from September 2022 gives Jesse Anderson's Crystal Beast monsters, which first appeared in Force of the Breaker, many new cards. The deck has a new form of Rainbow Dragon as a Fusion monster, which can reach 11000 ATK and clear the field. It contains 46 cards with five Ultra Rare and three Super Rare, three Token cards and a playmat.
The chase cards are Crystal Beast Rainbow Dragon, the new Fusion form, in Ultra Rare.
Legendary Duelists: Soulburning Volcano
Legendary Duelists: Soulburning Volcano came out in August 2023 with three FIRE strategies. Salamangreat gets new cards inspired by Soulburner from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, Axel Brodie's Volcanic gets cards that damage the opponent's Life Points without battle, and Alito's Battlin' Boxer from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL gets an Xyz monster that can fetch any FIRE Warrior from the deck. The set has 62 cards, one of them a Ghost Rare.
The chase cards are Salamangreat Sunlight Wolf in Ghost Rare.
Structure Deck: The Crimson King
Structure Deck: The Crimson King came out in September 2023 and is built on Jack Atlas and the various forms of Red Dragon Archfiend. You first Synchro Summon a Level 8 Red Dragon Archfiend monster and then bring out Resonator monsters to reach higher Synchro monsters such as Red Nova Dragon. The deck has a large Extra Deck and a new Level 8 Synchro monster that is treated as Red Dragon Archfiend on the field and in the Graveyard. The main set Blazing Dominion from May 2026 builds on it with more Jack Atlas cards.
The chase card is Scarred Dragon Archfiend, the cover card and the new Level 8 Synchro monster, in Super Rare.
25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Heroes
25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Heroes came out in September 2023 with three Mega-Pack packs of 18 cards, and each pack has two Prismatic Secret Rare. The pool of almost 300 cards comes mainly from Battle of Chaos, Dimension Force, Power of the Elements, Darkwing Blast, Tactical Masters and The Grand Creators, and three cards were new: Time Thief Power Reserve, SPYRAL Double Agent and Camelot, Realm of Noble Knights and Noble Arms. Each tin also contains a Quarter Century Secret Rare of one of the 16 monsters shown on the sides of the tin, monsters used by the series' main characters.
The chase cards are the 16 Quarter Century Secret Rare monsters on the sides of the tin, among them Dark Magician, Exodia the Forbidden One, Number 39: Utopia and Stardust Dragon.
Valiant Smashers
Valiant Smashers from November 2023 is a 60-card booster set that brought Memento, Centur-Ion and Vaalmonica to the English edition. The Memento monsters come from the underworld Mementolan and build up to the Level 11 boss monster Tecuhtlica with 5000 ATK, Centur-Ion plays its monsters straight from the deck as Continuous Traps, and Vaalmonica is a Pendulum and Link strategy around a mysterious glass instrument. Each pack has seven cards, one foil and six Rare, and three cards are also available as Quarter Century Secret Rare.
The chase cards are Centur-Ion Legatia and Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation, two of the three cards in Quarter Century Secret Rare.
Phantom Nightmare
Phantom Nightmare from February 2024 has Yubel - The Loving Defender Forever as its cover card and gives the Yubel archetype its first support cards, including a Continuous Trap that Fusion Summons a new Yubel monster using the opponent's monsters as material. Majespecter gets its first Extra Deck monsters, an Xyz/Pendulum monster and a Link monster, and the Goblin Biker and Voiceless Voice archetypes are introduced. The English edition was the first with six World Premiere cards that belong to no archetype but fit two older World Premiere archetypes, here Kozmo and Subterror. Twenty-four cards are also available as Quarter Century Secret Rare, and one card exists only in that rarity.
The chase cards are Yubel - The Loving Defender Forever, the cover card, as one of the 24 cards in Quarter Century Secret Rare.
25th Anniversary Rarity Collection II
Each pack of 25th Anniversary Rarity Collection II, from May 2024, has nine cards: two Secret Rare, four Ultra Rare and three Super Rare. It was the first booster set where every card comes in seven foil rarities, among them Quarter Century Secret Rare, Platinum Secret Rare and prismatic versions of Collector's Rare and Ultimate Rare. The cards include Accesscode Talker, Magicians' Souls, Droll & Lock Bird and Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit.
The chase cards are D.D. Crow and Accesscode Talker, both in Platinum Secret Rare.
Supreme Darkness
Supreme Darkness (January 2025) revolves around Supreme King Jaden's Evil HERO monsters, with Evil HERO Neos Lord as the cover card and evil versions of Elemental HERO Bubbleman and Prisma. Speedroid gets two new monsters that are both Pendulum and Tuner, plus Synchro monsters in Yugo's style, and Crystron gets new monsters, among them a Synchro monster. The set introduces the Argostars archetype and the World Premiere theme Mitsurugi, which came out first in the English edition. Twenty-five of the cards are available as Quarter Century Secret Rare.
The chase cards are Evil HERO Neos Lord, the cover card, as one of the 25 cards in Quarter Century Secret Rare.
Structure Deck: Blue-Eyes White Destiny
Structure Deck: Blue-Eyes White Destiny from February 2025 expands the Blue-Eyes deck with a new Level 12 Synchro monster, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, which once per turn can negate an effect the opponent activates. Alongside it come the Tuner Neo Kaiser Sea Horse and Roar of the Blue-Eyed Dragons, which brings out Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the deck, Graveyard or among banished cards. The deck has 51 cards, and the 51st is a Secret Rare copy of one of three Ultra Rare cards with a small chance of being Quarter Century Secret Rare.
The chase cards are Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, Neo Kaiser Sea Horse and Roar of the Blue-Eyed Dragons, the deck's three Ultra Rare cards, plus the 51st bonus card in Secret Rare with a chance of being Quarter Century Secret Rare.
Alliance Insight
Alliance Insight came out in May 2025 as the eighth and final main set in its series, with Allied Code Talker @Ignister as the cover card and new @Ignister cards from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. Dragon Ruler gets its first new monsters in several years, two small Dragon Ruler cards and three Rank 7 Xyz monsters, and the Regenesis archetype is introduced with monsters with 2500 ATK and DEF that can return to the hand. Together with Quarter Century Stampede, the set was the last time Quarter Century Secret Rare appeared in packs, with 24 cards in that rarity and one card that exists only there.
The chase cards are Allied Code Talker @Ignister, the cover card, as one of the 24 cards in Quarter Century Secret Rare, the last rarity of its kind in core boosters.
Duelist's Advance
Duelist's Advance from July 2025 opens the series of main sets released alongside the web series Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES. The set is built on Yuma's deck from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL with a new Rank 4 Gagagaga Girl monster and the cover card Number F0: Utopic Future Zexal, and Sky Striker, Monarch and the Psychic monsters from Extreme Victory also get new cards. The Artmage and Power Patron archetypes are introduced here. With this set Starlight Rare returned to the main sets, about as common in packs as Quarter Century Secret Rare had been.
The chase cards are Gagagaga Girl, which exists only in Starlight Rare, together with the 24 other cards that share the rarity with the cover card Number F0: Utopic Future Zexal.
2025 Mega-Pack Tin
2025 Mega-Pack Tin came out in September 2025 with three Mega-Pack packs of 13 cards, and each pack has one Starlight Rare, one Prismatic Secret Rare, three Ultra Rare and eight Common. The tin also has three dividers with the same artwork as the tin, and the same three packs were sold without the tin as the 2025 Mega-Pack Bundle. The Mega-Pack set covers 450 cards, among them the three new cards Queen of the Blazing Domain, Dragon Gate and Bot Herder.
The chase cards are Starlight Rare printings of cards such as Infinite Impermanence, Raigeki and S:P Little Knight, from a reprint pool of 450 cards.
Phantom Revenge
Phantom Revenge is a 60-card booster set from December 2025 that brought Hecahands, Enneacraft and Kewl Tune to the English edition. Hecahands is based on the hundred-handed giants of mythology and takes the opponent's cards by Fusion Summoning Illusion monsters, Enneacraft sets cards face-down and flips them face-up at the right moment, and Kewl Tune is a Synchro strategy. The packs have seven cards with one foil.
The chase cards are Kewl Tune Clip in Starlight Rare.
THE CHRONICLES DECK: Spirit Charmers (All-Foil Edition)
THE CHRONICLES DECK: Spirit Charmers (All-Foil Edition) from January 2026 is built on the Spirit Charmers story arc in Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES on YouTube, with its characters, places and events. Every card is foil: the Main Deck and Extra Deck consist of 50 Ultra Rare, and the 51st card is a Secret Rare copy of one of them with a chance of being Starlight Rare. The deck has two brand-new cards and four new alternate artworks and should not be confused with Structure Deck: Spirit Charmers from 2020.
The chase cards are the 51st bonus card: a Secret Rare copy of one of the deck's 50 Ultra Rare cards, with a chance of being Starlight Rare.
Burst Protocol
Burst Protocol has Borrelshroud Dragon as its cover card and gives new Rokket monsters inspired by Varis's deck in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, plus a new Link-5 Borrel monster. Darklord returns with cards such as Darklord Eveningstar and Darklord Dance, and Magistus gets Spenta, the Magistus Sealer and Invoked Magistus Omega. The Elfnote and Magnet Warrior Sigma archetypes are introduced.
The chase cards are Borrelshroud Dragon, the cover card, in Starlight Rare.
Maze of Muertos
Maze of Muertos came out in February 2026 and brings Bonz's Zombie deck from Duelist Kingdom into the modern era with a new Pumpking and new versions of Ectoplasmic Fortification and Deadly Zombie Breath. Other new cards include Darkuriboh, Dark Magician of Destruction and Timaeus the United Magical Dragon, and the set also brings over cards from Japanese products such as Duel Academia Selection and Limited Pack GX: Slifer Red. The Call of the Haunted card series is introduced, and the packs have seven cards with one foil.
Legendary Modern Decks 2026
Legendary Modern Decks 2026 is the sixth box in the Legendary Decks series and is available only in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, not in the Asian edition. The box has three ready-made decks with Main Deck and Extra Deck: Sky Striker, which first appeared in Dark Saviors in 2018, X-Saber from Hidden Arsenal in 2009 and Mitsurugi from Supreme Darkness. New cards include Sky Striker Ace – Camellia and Prototype Sky Striker Ace – Amatsu.
The chase cards are the bonus card in each deck: an extra copy of one of six selected cards in Secret Rare, with a chance of being Starlight Rare.
Rarity Collection V
Rarity Collection V from April 2026 was the first time cards with extended art came out in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, with the artwork extended across the whole card from edge to edge. Ten such cards are mixed with 58 other alternate artworks in the fifth slot of each pack, and most of the alternate artworks have short phrases like in a chat app, in English or Japanese. The other four cards in the pack come from a pool of around 80 tournament cards and older favourites, in rarities from Super Rare up to Starlight Rare, Platinum Secret Rare and prismatic Ultimate Rare and Collector's Rare.
The chase cards are Tri-Horned Dragon and Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon, two classic cards that in this set exist only in Starlight Rare.
Blazing Dominion
Blazing Dominion came out in May 2026 as the fourth and final main set in its series. The cover card The Crimson King is a Level 8 Synchro monster that fetches cards mentioning Red Dragon Archfiend from the deck, and Jack Atlas's deck gets more cards such as a new Crimson Blader and Power Vice Dragon. Fairy Tail gets its first support cards, among them two Fusion monsters and an Equip Spell that Fusion Summons, and the Clown Crew archetype is introduced.
The chase cards are The Crimson King, the cover card, in Starlight Rare.
Battles of Legend: Glorious Gallery
Battles of Legend: Glorious Gallery came out in June 2026, and as in all Battles of Legend sets every card is foil: five cards per pack, one Secret Rare and four Ultra Rare. The set has 40 new cards for Shaddoll, Stellarknight, HERO and Endymion among others, ten cards with extended art such as Dragon Master Magia, Red Supernova Dragon and Dominus Impulse, and ten chibi alternate artworks taken from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Arena. Many cards appear here as foil for the first time.
The chase cards are Dragon Master Magia, one of the ten cards with extended art, in Starlight Rare.
Chaos Origins
Chaos Origins from July 2026 is the first main set since Rise of Destiny in 2004 with Yami Yugi on the cover, and it opens a new series of main sets. The set gives new versions of the Ritual monsters Magician of Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier, with Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos as the cover card, and the three Sacred Beasts from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX get their first support cards. The Blitzclique archetype, a new theme with Thunder monsters, is introduced, and five cards come with extended art where the artwork breaks the frame.
The chase cards are Magician of Dark Chaos - Black Chaos, the cover card, with extended art and in Starlight Rare.
You can find the set's products under Chaos Origins.
Legendary ARC-V Decks
Legendary ARC-V Decks from August 2026 is the seventh box in the Legendary Decks series and contains three ready-to-play decks from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Yuya's Odd-Eyes, Celina's Lunalight and Yugo's Speedroid. Each deck has 40 cards in the Main Deck and 15 in the Extra Deck with one Secret Rare and six Ultra Rare, and each deck comes with a bonus card in Secret Rare with a chance of being Starlight Rare.
The chase cards are the bonus card in each deck: an extra copy of one of six selected cards in Secret Rare, with a chance of being Starlight Rare, tied to Odd-Eyes, Lunalight or Speedroid.
Limited Pack World Championship 2026
Limited Pack World Championship 2026 was sold from 29 August 2026 at the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2026 and in participating Official Tournament Stores. The 21 cards come from themes that made their mark during the 2025–2026 tournament season, and all of them are also available with the World Championship 2026 logo in the middle of the text box. To honour the host country Japan, several alternate artworks come in a style inspired by ukiyo-e, and the 21st card exists only with alternate artwork, as Secret Rare and Starlight Rare. Each pack has four cards.
The chase cards are Monster Reborn in a new alternate artwork inspired by ukiyo-e, the only one of the 21 cards available in Starlight Rare.
Magnificent Monsters
Magnificent Monsters is a collector's box in which 18 well-known cards from the heroes of the first six Yu-Gi-Oh! series – Yugi, Jaden, Yusei, Yuma, Yuya and Playmaker – have been reimagined with new effects. All 18 are available as Ultra Rare and with extended art in both Ultra Rare and Starlight Rare. The box also has six new boss monsters, one for each type of Special Summon, new cards that have appeared in the anime, such as Orichalcos Sword of Sealing and Rainbow Bridge Bifrost, and 40 cards that previously existed only as Common or Rare and are printed here in foil for the first time. Each box has three packs of five cards and three Secret Rare with a chance of Starlight Rare.
The chase cards are the 18 reimagined cards in Grand Master Rare, numbered 001 to 100. For the markets that get their products from Europe there are 100 copies of each card, marked with an E at the end of the serial number.
Beyond the Brave
Beyond the Brave, with English release in October 2026, is the first main set with an anime character other than Yami Yugi on the cover: Joey Wheeler. The set introduces the Ars Magna and Ashtra archetypes and the Dark Time Wizard and Atlantis, City of the Sea Dragon card series, and the Destiny HERO monsters used by Aster Phoenix get new cards. The cover card is Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, and five cards are also available with extended art.
The chase cards are Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, the cover card, with extended art and in Starlight Rare.
Magnificent Maestros
Magnificent Maestros is a collector's box with English release in November 2026 and a follow-up to Magnificent Monsters. The contents include 18 reimagined cards tied to Seto Kaiba, Zane Truesdale, Jack Atlas, Kite Tenjo, Yuto, Yugo, Yuri and Varis, 21 new cards for Toon, Witchcrafter and Unchained, ten chibi alternate artworks and 40 cards that become foil for the first time. Each box has three packs of five cards and three Secret Rare with a chance of Starlight Rare, and each Grand Master Rare card is printed in 100 serial-numbered copies.
The chase cards are the eighteen reimagined cards in Grand Master Rare, among them three new Blue-Eyes cards tied to Seto Kaiba, each numbered in a print run of 100 copies.
Glorious Victors
Glorious Victors, a 60-card booster set with English release in December 2026, brings the Zenet, Raise Moon and Trirealm Rift themes to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. Zenet is based on the culture and customs of ancient Egypt and lets the player's Normal monsters fight alongside future kings, Raise Moon is a theme around nightlife, and Trirealm Rift is about monsters emerging from the rift. The packs have seven cards, one foil and six Rare, and ten cards are also available as Starlight Rare.
Immortal Phoenix
Immortal Phoenix, with Japanese release in October 2026 and English release in January 2027, revolves around Marik's monsters with ten new Sun God cards, among them the Fusion monsters The Winged Dragon of Ra, Sun God of Darkness and Lava Golem, Steelcage of the Sun God and the Quick-Play Spell The Immortal Sun God. Salamangreat gets new Main Deck monsters such as Salamangreat Markhor and Salamangreat Bastella, the Sinful Spoils story continues in Winter Raven's forest realm, and the World Premiere theme Celestigard – the gods who protect the planets – is introduced with Xyz monsters. The set has 100 cards: 10 Secret Rare, 14 Ultra Rare, 26 Super Rare and 50 Common. Five cards come with extended art in Ultra Rare and Starlight Rare, and another 20 cards are available as Starlight Rare.
The chase cards are the 25 cards in Starlight Rare, including the five that also come with extended art.
Finding your way as a beginner
- Start with a structure deck, ideally two of the same for more copies of the key cards.
- Pick an archetype you find fun and stick to it instead of spreading out your purchases.
- Buy single cards to fill out, not packs. The rarity makes the pack route expensive.
- Check the Forbidden & Limited List before deciding how many copies of a card to run.
- Buy the right sleeves: Japanese size. Standard size does not fit.
If you want to learn to play, a structure deck is the right choice. If you are building a strong deck, it is core set boosters plus single cards. If you are after old classics no longer printed in their original release, a reprint release is the way in. If you collect beautiful cards, the premium releases with gold printing or special finishes are right. And if you just want to open for fun, a tin gives several packs and promo cards.
The mistakes
Buying standard-size sleeves is the most common mistake and is noticed immediately. Comparing an original card with a reprint and thinking they are the same printing is another. On top of that: building a deck without first reading the Forbidden & Limited List, mixing cards from different regions in the same deck at a tournament, and assuming an old card is automatically rare when reprints have made most of them common again.
Frequently asked questions
- How many sets are there? A great many, and new ones are added several times a year.
- Does the release matter for playability? No, a card is the same card regardless of which set it comes from.
- Does the first edition differ from later printings? Yes, it has its own marking on the card and is more sought after among collectors.
- Why do some cards exist in several different printings? Konami often reprints strong cards, in new sets and reprint series.
- What is the difference between a core booster and a special edition? Core boosters contain new cards, special editions mostly reprints.
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