If a Booster pack contains a Reverse Holofoil Rare card, this is in addition to the guaranteed Rare card. A small amount of rare cards within each expansion are available as both Regular Rare and Holofoil Rare. These cards have a Holofoil pattern on the card art and are marked with. There are many types of Holofoil , which occasionally changes after a series of expansions:. Ultra Rare sometimes known as Super Rare cards are typically marked as Rare Holofoil cards, but sometimes have unique symbols denoting their rarity.
As such, they will replace the rare card in the Booster pack. As their name suggests, ultra rare cards are far more difficult to acquire than typical rare cards. These cards are generally considered a subset of ultra rares.
Previously, there were sparse amounts of Secret Rare cards released through various means, in which many were included as boxtoppers. Note that Short Prints don't exist in every set. Super Rare Every core booster pack's guaranteed to contain at least a Super Rare, in addition to eight Commons. Modern Super Rares have holofoil artwork, Level, and Attribute icons. Older Super Rares will only have holofoil artwork. Ultra Rare Ultra Rares are identical to Super Rares, but they have gold foil lettering on the card name.
Starlight Rare Each Starlight Rare has a horizontal, lattice or grid-like holographic pattern applied over the majority of the card face, including the card border. Starlight Rares appear roughly one per case, and as such they're highly sought-after chase cards that command major value on the secondary market. These rarities were once staples of core booster packs, but were removed over time. They still make appearances in other modern releases, but you won't find them in quarterly boosters.
Rare Previously, Rares were the bottom rung guarantee in each core booster pack. These cards have a silver foil name stamp and no other embellishments. Ultimate Rare The design of Ultimate Rares has also changed over time. This has the advantage of brightening the image, and making the foil image more distinct than on a TCG equivalent. On the internet market, Ultimate Rare Cards are often much more valuable than others, even if their effectiveness in the game is only above average.
It appears to have a very shiny silver lettering, much like a Secret Rare, with some colors removed from the card image. The overall effect of these changes is a pale, "Ghost-like" appearance to the card art, especially when scanned. The odds of obtaining a ghost rare in a box of 24 booster packs stands at approximately 1 in It appears to have silver lettering like a Secret Rare Card, with many colors removed from the card image, while the entire card appears to be holographic.
A Secret Rare card is identified by having a silver card name and the image has a unique holofoil known as a parallel holofoil named due to the parallel dot effect on the image. In sets that are older than Tactical Evolution, secret Rares are all either the first or last cards in a set. Secret Rares were at first discontinued due to excessive use of electronic scales, however, they have been re-introduced in Strike of Neos. Currently, the odds of getting a Secret Rare in a Booster Pack is This refers to European Secret Rare promos, whose glittery holographics follow a very different 'prism' pattern to their North American counterpart s.
There are very few of these cards; only one currently exists in English the GSE version of "Elemental Hero Wildheart" , with the remaining ten in Japanese. The only image known for this type of rarity, is an apparently misprinted version of "Gaia the Dragon Champion" in the original Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon booster pack. Parallel Rare is a generic term, used to refer to cards where the entire card surface is holographic that shows up as an even "haze" on most scans.
There are four types of Parallel Rare:. Normal Parallel Rare: Normal black or white title, normal picture. Also known as "Parallel Common. A Rare Parallel Rare is a theoretical rarity that has all the characteristics of a Rare card ie.
The coating tends to stiffen the card and when scanned the coating creates a uniform haze on the card. Sorry about the image quality its hard to scan or take a photo were the card shows the effects online. An Ultra Parallel Rare has a gold card title like Ultra Rares, but also has a coating across the surface to make the whole card reflect. Gold Ultra Rare is a new type of rarity introduced in the Gold Series.
It has gold lettering and a holographic foil image like an Ultra Rare, but also has a holographic gold image border, lore text border, and card border. Now that you know how to tell which cards are rare and which cards are more Rare, you take a huge step into collecting them. TCG tournaments use Advanced Rules.
About Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Rarity. Here is a quick list:. Common C : Common cards have no special quirks to them. No holofoil, no fancy lettering, just your standard card. They also come in three flavors note that there is no visual way to determine if a Common is under any of the below rarities :. Rare R : Rare cards are similar to Common cards except they use silver or black holofoil for the card name letters. These are the most common rarity of card to find next to Common cards.
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