Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Rarity Explained

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One of the main appeals of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is the opportunity to best duelists across the world with a deck of cards of your creation. One that will earn you the title of the King of Games.

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With thousands of cards at your disposal, spanning the entirety of the franchise’s anime and physical game, it can feel overwhelming to scour through each pack and find your prime pickings. Luckily, the trading card game splits its large collection of cards amongst a rarity system. Not only does the system detail how common a card is, but it also associates each rank with the relative strength of the cards.

Normal cards will be the most common cards that you pull from Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG packs. These cards will be most of your duplicates and will range across most of your basic monsters, spells, and trap cards. Furthermore, these cards do not have a foil embellishment applied to them.

Rare cards are a step above normal cards, but still appear relatively frequent when compared to Super Rare, Ultra Rare, Secret Rare, Starlight Rare, and Product Specific Rare cards. Most Rare cards begin a trend of complexity in cards as they grow in rank. Monsters, spells, and traps begin to have long card effects that work well with numerous cards. This card is identifiable by its embossed silver foil card name.

Super Rare Cards climb to the next level of challenge in terms of card pulling begin to tread the territory of hard-to-counter cards. Although they are not the strongest nor rarest of the cards, Super Rare cards fit in a middle area that provides you and other duelists with power and accessibility. Cards that fit in this rank may be the ace of their respective decks, strong support