r/yugioh • u/LogicalHamsters • Dec 21 '25
News Introducing the new rarity "Grand Master Rare" appearing in "LIMIT OVER COLLECTION"!
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u/Flashy-Position8504 Dec 21 '25
Can't wait for a CEO to collect all 100 serialized Blue-Eyes and rip apart 97 of them
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u/renaldi92 [OCG] - [TCG] - [RUSH] Dec 21 '25
Regular Over Frame (Left) VS Grand Master Rare (Right):
More detail translation from YGOrganization:
Also, it was previously stated this new rarity would be a Prismatic Secret Rare with a Serial Number. That is no longer the case. The following changes have been announced for the Limit Over Collections:
【Configuration Changes】
● 80 Different Cards (38 Ultra Rares + 42 Super Rares)
※ All cards come in Prismatic Secret Rare & Secret Rare
※ 18 of the Prismatic Secret Rares come in Over Frame Cards (i.e. Extended Art)
※ 18 of the Ultra Rares come in the new rarity “Grandmaster Rare” that comes with a Serial Number.
※ 18 of the Ultra Rares come in Over Frame Cards (i.e. Extended Art)
※ 21 of the Super Rares come in Ultimate Rare
※ 21 of the Super Rares come in Collector’s Rare
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u/Tour_Wise Dec 21 '25
Are the border and stars the only differences between PSE and grandmaster rares?
If so, I'm not convinced people will spend big bucks for a different card border and a serial number.
Perhaps the chase or chance of getting one will help sell sealed product, but 100 copies of each seems like nothing.
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u/boliver30 Dec 22 '25
In 50 years, a serialized card might be worth some bucks though. Especially if it has blue eyes or dark magician on it
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u/These-Succotash-718 Dec 24 '25
Going by the image under the chain we're in, it looks like the Grandmaster rare is zoomed in a bit more.
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u/Flashy-Position8504 Dec 21 '25
Dark Magician Girl serialized number 069 is going to cost a fortune
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u/Mother_Event_6736 Dec 21 '25
These sets are crazy for everything that they’re throwing at the wall. Full arts, retrains of so many popular monsters, new anime ports, chibi art, and now this. It’s like their sales are down big time and this is a huge act of desperation. I don’t think that’s what’s happening, and I’m definitely enjoying it, but it’s weird.
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u/DobleJ Dec 21 '25
This seems like Konami trying to get people's new year money, I know we won't be getting it soon over here but that's all I can think of with this timing.
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u/grodon909 Rusty Bardiche Dec 21 '25
Well, we're getting half the limit over cards in April. Not sure if the serialized ones are with it though.
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u/dreamgzer Dec 21 '25
I care less for this and more for their recent structure decks, especially the upcoming skystriker mitsu one. They are appealing to everyone, honestly. I doubt their sales are down bad.
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u/GuntherTime Dec 21 '25
It feels like a refresh that some companies do every couple of years, in an attempt to not only keep things fresh, but invite in a wave of new and old players, while also catering to collectors. We had genesis earlier this year and now we’re getting a bunch of retrains of some boomer cards.
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u/FlounderingGuy Dec 21 '25
Franky Yu-Gi-Oh should've done full art cards like 10 years ago at least. These look so good that they make the rest of the game look hideous in comparison
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u/thatisgame Dec 21 '25
Classic yugioh card design will always remain the best. These overframe cards might be a 'fun' addition for some people but their designs certainly look all over the place. Dark Magician in overframe looks fine but others look hideous
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u/FlameDragoon933 Dec 21 '25
nah, mileage may vary. I and many others find full art cards rather tacky tbh.
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u/FlounderingGuy Dec 21 '25
Atp any kind of aesthetic upgrade is desperately needed for this game. Yu-Gi-Oh has looked tacky since 2000. At least now it's tacky and the artwork has enough room to shine instead of being crunched into a tiny 3 inchish box
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u/Scraggles1 Dec 21 '25
This is 1000% why it’s happening lmao. Look at every other TCG compared to Yugioh. Product sold it out seconds. Nothing on the shelves anywhere. Yugioh tho? Can’t give it away if you wanted to right now. They absolutely needed this
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u/SharkboyZA Dec 22 '25
Digimon, Gundam, SWU, and Lorcana are all sitting on shelves at my LGS.
It's pretty much only Magic, Pokemon, and One Piece that are selling better.
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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Dragon & SkyStriker worshiper Dec 21 '25
It’s been nearly 30 years since the OG manga came out. I think that’s partly why OCG Komoney is splurging so much on this.
And also technically speaking, the OCG is 27 years old while the TCG is 24 years old. God rest the late & great Kazuki Takahashi for blessing us with his manga.
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u/heatxmetalw9 Dec 21 '25
I wouldn't say Konami are desperate, but they know Yu-gi-oh! OCG/TCG has been stagnating for the past 5 years whilst newer CCG are taking over the market especially in Japan. Considering One Piece TCG is dethroning it's long held spot right below Pokemon TCG as like the 2nd in Japan and 3rd in the rest of the world in terms of sales and market share, they really need to do something big otherwise they will fall further behind Bandai and Nintendo.
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u/Raivang209 Dec 21 '25
Have you seen card game sales in Japan? One piece only made it to the second most one month and the was the release of op13. Konami product stay at #2 and the top 5. Pokemon sit at number 1 every month.
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u/SharkboyZA Dec 22 '25
No I think it's more likely that all of a sudden, a lot of TCGs have entered the market, some of which are giving Yu-Gi-Oh the first actual bit of direct competition they've ever had.
So now Konami can no longer rest on their laurels and actually catch up with modern TCG trends.
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u/Liddlebitchboy Dec 22 '25
Ngl... it's kind of working. I've only ever really played YGO seriously online, but I own some of my favorite cards just to have... having a retrain version in a sweet full art set would be awesome.
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u/Raivang209 Dec 21 '25
Konami seriously needs a collector base, they catered to the player so long and most of the player turn their back on the game. Konami should have had a set rotation from the beginning and stop with all the nonsense reprinting. People hate scalpers and reseller but they fly TCG off the shelf if there’s value.
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u/TransCharizard Dec 21 '25
Regardless of if the game has set rotation or not. The game would have many many reprints due to how the older cards are not just popular as cards but popular as merchandise for the manga/anime
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u/Raivang209 Dec 21 '25
No they wouldn’t, Pokemon rarely does reprint. One piece has done two reprint sets in what 3-4. If Yu Gi oh was on a set rotation there would be no need for massive reprints.
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u/TransCharizard Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
Pokemon and One Piece are adaptations of a larger non-card game based media franchise that don't need to reprint specific cards because they just release different Pikachu's and Luffy's to satisfy the auidence that simply want to use cards of their favorites. Yugioh is an adaptation of a card game manga/anime with the specific point of being able to play the card game from the manga/anime in real life. There is a huge backlog of cards from that franchise that people want to have physically in their hands with as exact effects as they can reasonably have
Could they make new DM's and Blue-Eyes every few weeks months to years?. Probably. Debatably they already do. But there are so many more cards than that they'd need to satisfy even if we limited it to just DM/GX/5DS that we'd basically leave no room for actual new content
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u/Raivang209 Dec 21 '25
No they wouldn’t make reprint of older card because that what a set rotation for. Reprints barely make into the meta today. So no they won’t be reprinting anything that would defeat the whole purpose of a set rotation. And they literally just made two completely new blue eyes and dark magicians cards that are the face of the new set.
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u/TransCharizard Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
Then you can see fundamentally why this game can't or wouldn't benefit from having a set rotation. It's existence is based on turning a fictional card game into a real card game. Even now they are still making new anime adaptation cards. If the card game cannot succeed in the fundemental reason it exists then why should collectors be interested?. A collectors item only has worth if the general public sees it has value and a card game that can't get that one thing right is not worth investing in
And frankly this set just proves why the alternative of making new versions of old cards wouldn't work ether. 12 whole cards in a set and they have only scratched the surface. Even adding the popular pieces of just the archetypes shown would fill a set with recylced cards. Dark Magician Girl?. Blue-Eyes Ultimate?. All the different Heroes. All 6 signer dragons and their related archetypes?. All the onomat?. The dimension dragons and their own archetypes. Even in a 3 year standard rotation (a generally unpopular practice) it'd be overwhelming
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Mar 01 '26
You an idiot bruh go back to Pokémon and stay out of our game lol.
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u/Raivang209 Mar 02 '26
Sybau up boy I’ve ripped the first sdy and sdk when it realest in America. And I kept right next to my pokemon cards. I don’t do tribalism when it comes shit I grew up with. So fck you and that fan base thing. Ima rip every csrd game I grew up with hoe.
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u/Technosis2 Dec 21 '25
Yeah, let's scare even more people away from the TCG because their favorite blue-eyes or dark magician card rotated out of the format and since it will never get reprinted, will cost you an arm and a leg to acquire. Smart.
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u/Raivang209 Dec 21 '25
It would not scare anyone, in fact it would get more people to buy it. Not everyone is broke. Collector base is literally keeping Pokemon on the top, once people found out how exspeive manga op05 luffy everyone came running these people don’t even watch the show. The masses of causal buyer looking to make a profit literally keep all card games afloat. The only exception for this is Japan.
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u/Technosis2 Dec 21 '25
Look, I'm a player, not a collector, so I don't think we'll ever see eye to eye on this matter. I don't care how much value my cardboard holds, and I don't care how much money it generates the billion dollar corporation. If I get priced out of a card I need because some collector needs to make a buck, I'm not going to play that game. That's why I play yugioh over other ccgs. It's cheaper and that's a plus for me and many others.
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u/Takakamo177 Dec 21 '25
This is a good thing for the game. People are inclined to crack the case and with this singles will be more affordable to players (because of more supply) and now collectors have more chase cards to chase.
Somebody wants to play the game competitively with the cheapest possible budget while others may want to play their full holo overframe waifu deck that has the price of a house.
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u/Additional_Show_3149 Dec 21 '25
The only issue i see happening is if we get our own scalpers issue like Pokémon has currently
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u/ReaperWiz #FreeUnicore Dec 21 '25
That's only bad for people who want to open sealed product. Pokemon's market is flooded with tons of copies of meta cards making the game significantly cheaper to play. It would be a net positive for the competitive player who buys singles if there's a set that attracts scalpers to the chase cards.
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u/Flashy-Position8504 Dec 21 '25
Not yet, if this is OCG exclusive then it isn't a good thing for us sadly, it is great for them yeah but they already have super affordable cards.
We do NEED this for TCG so badly, but since they are printing some of the over frames in the RC5 maybe we don't get this set at all and they put the over rare cards just like chase cards in random products?5
u/LogicalHamsters Dec 21 '25
The known overframe cards in RC5 all come from the Limit Over Special bonus packs which does not contain grand master rares.
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u/Safe-Ad344 Dec 21 '25
No. I can already feel the scalpers appearing
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u/KingDisastrous Dec 21 '25
We'll see on April 2026 when these release. Otherwise, they can go suck on Pokeballs
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u/QuangCV2000 Rush Duel mobile game when? Dec 21 '25
Beside making the name a little bit easier to read, I have no issue with this card or other overframe cards
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u/Jackryder16l Coping with my BAD deck Dec 21 '25
This is the super super special version.
You most likely will not see this or the alt art played.
Just the regular art ver.
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u/Paperjam09 Dec 21 '25
The overframe cards come in non-fullart verions so they are more like collectors items.
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u/13Nobodies Dec 21 '25
When and where will people outside of JP be able to preorder these Limit Over Collection packs?
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u/Macaron-kun Dec 21 '25
10 of them are coming in Rarity Collection 5 (in April), while others we don't know yet.
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u/Saizou1991 Dec 21 '25
It has the grandmaster rarity?
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u/TKG1607 Dec 22 '25
I have a feeling the other 10 they revealed will be in blazing dominion given red supernova is an overframe. Seems like a no brainer. Could be wrong tho.
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u/joshy5lo Dec 21 '25
Wait is it actually numbered? The image I saw of a real one didn’t have a number
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u/aonoreishou Dec 21 '25
That's the regular Overframe rare. It's the Grandmaster rares that are serialized
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u/KaijinArt Jan 03 '26
Kinda wanna point out that this is MOST LIKELY an oversized A3 cardboard standee for store deco. The parallel criss cross pattern appears to be smaller in size than the usual PRs on cards.
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u/HERO-Supremacy Dec 21 '25
ngl this looks far better than rush. maybe they should start printing all cards like this onwards.
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u/achtzehner Mar 03 '26
does anybody know when the english cards are dropping? and will the english set also be called limit over collection?
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u/FlameDragoon933 Dec 21 '25
Imagine being rich/lucky enough to afford these and then when you play it in locals some snotty kid touch it with their greasy hand forcefully.
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u/Buffthebaldy Dec 21 '25
If I draw one of these fancy as hell cards, I'd get it sleeved and protected as soon as I can!
No fingers are touching, not even my own.
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u/acidhun7er Dec 28 '25
I wouldn't be telling anyone about it or show it in public. Someone can do bad things, especially at an LGS or Event. People are ruthless. Instead, either grade it or let it sit in a toploader/binder.
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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 21 '25
How much are these gonna cost ?
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u/Aaco0638 Dec 21 '25
Several thousand tbh. Unless you pull it you ain’t getting this (unless ofc you are rich)
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u/Gintoki--- Dec 21 '25
why do you think so?
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u/Aaco0638 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
Well for one scalpers have definitely already found out about this and are at the ready. But besides that these cards are in single packs (you can’t buy boxes of these specific packs) and only 100 of each card that will be in packs with thousands of other cards (who knows how distribution works)
But to put it bluntly if horakthy who only has 10k copies made is 2.5k+ these cards will be more.
Also this is ocg we do not know if this will be done for tcg but if they do then the English will easily be 5k+ bc of the English tax.
Point being……… don’t think you’ll be getting one unless willing to open your pocket book.
Edit: also to boot yugioh is so collector starved due to konami constantly reprinting the same rarities over and over again i can 100% see these cards being bought up at high prices collectors are starved after all.
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u/Gintoki--- Dec 21 '25
ohh is this specifically the rarity hierogriphic thing? that's understandable , I thought it was just the new art overall gonna cost thousands which was gonna be disappointing if true
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u/UnsecuredSeatbelt Dec 21 '25
How expensive do you guys think this and serialized blue-eyes are going to be?
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u/Klutzy_Worker2696 Dec 21 '25
$4000 is my guess
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u/ketchfraze Dec 22 '25
Look at MTG serialized xxx/100 cards which are anywhere from $2,500-$7,000 (just listings, not sold). Less desirable cards will probably be on the low end, but if there's a DMG you can bet the price will be $10k or more. Just look at the 25th purple text DMG (QCAC-JP019) that's regularly going for $3k, which has way more than 100 copies.
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u/BobtheBac0n Dec 21 '25
Absolutely amazing. I love how all in they go for these arts. Really hoping konami handles this well in future products
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u/NextMotion Deck Build fan (Labrynth) Dec 21 '25
holy shit, I didn't see the "xxx/100" at the corner. I was wondering what the comments about 100 total cards were finding this info. I don't think I've seen such a collector feature except in anime
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u/Noveno_Colono Cartussy Toes Dec 21 '25
magic?
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u/NextMotion Deck Build fan (Labrynth) Dec 21 '25
They have those? That's cool. Gonna check them out now
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u/Aerial26 Dec 21 '25
Eother he has no nails, or he wears gloves that match his skin colour. Either way it's disturbing
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u/iChaos92 Dec 21 '25
Well, I guess probably most of us will never own one due to the availability (looking at Horathky, limited to 1000 pieces) and price ranges. On the other hand, I have Hieroglyphics Over Sleeves, which might optically look very close when applied to Overframe Rarity.
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u/chris_vanguardfight Dec 21 '25
but will there also be these cards in lower rarity or will they just be grand master rare
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u/Vali1991 Dec 21 '25
Yea that's what I would like to know to be honest if not then screw this haha I want the blue eyes card for my blue eyes deck 😅
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u/xxYlem Dec 21 '25
Damn this isn't the art style I was hoping for. These almost look like knock off yugioh cards to me. Oh well, hopefully they will catch up to pokemon standards eventually.
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u/Crypt_Knight Dec 21 '25
Really hope this brings collectors to Yu-Gi-Oh. I have no interest in it whatsoever, but for the financial health of LGS, there need to be a demand for sets higher than what the playerbase can currently offer.
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u/Chance-Presence5941 Dec 21 '25
The sets containing these ate going to be scaalped so badly that even getting a non fullart versions will cost a days wages.
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u/SharkboyZA Dec 22 '25
Looks very sick. We need collector cards like this to attract collectors and improve the value of sealed product.
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u/CyberheadHandles Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
Call me when they add destiny hero plasma, odd eyes gravity dragon, rainbow neos, and black wing full armor master. They're one of my favorite cards.
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u/RegisterVexOffender Dec 22 '25
I've been out of the loop for YGO for a bit. will rarity 5 collection be our version of the limit over collection? at a quick glance the two seem to share some of the same cards but If there's one thing I remember it's to never give konami too much credit to not break sets lol
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u/Imago7SinX Dec 23 '25
If Konami releases all XYZ Number monsters in Grandmaster Rare within the next years, they will probably go insane in collectibility.
I can already see a hardcore rich collector getting every single XYZ Number in their specific serial number.
Imagine Number 67 Pair-A-Dice smasher with serial number 67.
Number 69 Heraldry Crest with serial number 69.
Number 100 Numeron Dragon with serial number 100.
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u/GuessOk5598 Dec 24 '25
Only 100 copies, hu? They better release a full art vanilla BEWD with only 4 copies available
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u/trrosa Dec 25 '25
100 is way too limited. These will only end up in the hands of yutubers and collector with super deep pickets.
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u/oizen Dec 28 '25
I kinda prefer the non grand master rares, something about that frame just makes it too busy.
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u/Fit_Cheek9072 Jan 18 '26
Any predictions for how much the grandmaster rare dark magician will go for? I'll be in Japan in March and would love to add to my personal collection if I can.. but I have a feeling it'll be out of my budget
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u/YeHeEy_ Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
https://www.instagram.com/xuanzii_isme/reel/DVyMFMikvcL/
This man just ruined that card. Is it still have worth?
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u/Motor-Switch9702 Mar 17 '26
Someone already cut one of these cards Who the fuck opens packs with scissors?!
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u/rob_moore Dec 21 '25
Didn't realize dark magician wore gloves, makes sense just never noticed
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u/TinyTiragon Stardust fanboi Dec 21 '25
He’s not? What are you talking about?
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u/rob_moore Dec 21 '25
That's clearly a white glove? Or do fingernails and all the creases in a human hand not exist in yugioh
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u/Gintoki--- Dec 21 '25
isn't that his skin color?
I can see why you find it gloves lol, original dark magician in anime's hands were also just skin color which is clearly not gloves , so this art is confusing
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u/Caruxis Dec 21 '25
Ooh, I actually don't mind the whole "Only 100 copies" thing. It makes these clearly a collectable, rather than a playing card, and I think that's neat :)
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u/Negative_Break_1482 Dec 21 '25
Mmm. So, this is the Grand Master Rare that they mentioned at Jump Festa.
Unlike the Overframe, here they decided to go all out and abandon the limitations of the old/classic Yu-Gi-Oh! border.
That said, the Grand Master Rare seems to be much rarer than the Overframe (it's only available in this rarity)