Unlike the many commonplace versions of this card inspired by the monster in Frankenstein, the one worth some significant cash is — you guessed it — another tournament award edition. Awarded at the Shonen Jump Championship, and a few thereafter, there are a little over a hundred of these cards in existence.
There are only 21 PSA 10's of this card out there, so they don't come up for sale often! This card had a PSA population of just 1 at the time it was sold but there have been two more PSA 10s added to the population report since the sale. It will be interesting to see how that affects the price the next time one of these comes up for sale. This card comes from the first set of the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game released in English.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories. The total PSA 10 population on this card is only , making this rare gem very difficult to find. There is nothing remarkable about the artwork on this card, but it has become one of the most collectible in the game. When Morphing Jar is activated during a match, both players discard their cards and draw five new cards, in what can be a sneaky good play when your back is up against the wall.
With a PSA 10 population of only 24, it's no wonder that this tournament pack 2 promo card is so hot and in demand. There are only 92 of them that have ever been graded by PSA, so good luck finding one! Much like the previously mentioned Morphing Jar, the Mechanicalchaser out of the Tournament Pack 1 is extremely rare, with only 25 PSA 10's in existence and only 71 total that have been graded.
The Dark Paladin is one of the most useful cards in the game. When a Spell Card is activated, you can discard 1 card; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it. This card must be face-up on the field to activate and to resolve this effect.
There are only 44 of these cards that have been graded, and only 12 PSA 10's, making it one of the rarest cards on this list. Shrink was one of the signature spell cards of anime staple Seto Kaiba. Shrink is far from a fantastic card, but for the first two years of its existence, you could only obtain it through tournaments — most notably as a Prize Card from the third Shoen Jump Championships in Shrink has had multiple printings, including in multiple Structure Decks that you can pick up for dimes.
A card used by Yugi once in the anime, Des Volstgalph was the prize card for the second-ever Shoen Jump Championships in It's one of the hardest cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! While other Prize cards were reprinted for the general public fairly quickly, it took four years for Des Volstgalp to be easily obtainable without taking out a loan.
Des Volstgalph has had a steady increase in value as time passes, so that number will likely only increase. World Championship, with Tyr being the prize for the event. Its esteemed status has made it one of the most sought-after Prize Cards, and one of the rarest Yu-Gi-Oh! Crush Card Virus is an infamous card, and for a while was one of the hardest cards to obtain. Used by Kaiba in the original anime, only the winners of the Shoen Jump Championships could use it in real life.
It was later printed in future sets, eventually winding up on the banlist before getting an errata. Thanks to its iconic status in both the anime and the actual TCG, the Shonen Jump version will fetch you a quarter of a million dollars.
The mightiest monster in Seto Kaiba's deck, it took years for the card to be printed in English. Japan, on the other hand, got a version of the card as early as It's the rarest Blue-Eyes and Fusion Monster, as this version of the card is one of a kind. Only one has ever been made. Black Luster Soldier was used by Yugi in the original anime and is nothing more than a vanilla Ritual Monster.
While these versions aren't rare or valuable at all, a special version of Black Luster Soldier was given to the winner of the first-ever Yu-Gi-Oh! As reported by Kotaku in , the owner decided to put it up for sale for ten million dollars, the highest price for any card from any trading card game ever. There's only one in existence, and it's the only time cards were printed on stainless steel, making it one of the rarest, if not the rarest trading card of all time.
Despite the price of the Stainless Steel Black Luster Soldier, there's another card that's even rarer than that. In , a young boy named Tyler was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer and had to go through rigorous surgery to treat it.
Make-A-Wish caught wind of the story and got in touch with both Tyler as well as 4Kids to allow the boy to design his own card. The story has a happy ending as well, as Tyler beat cancer and is currently living a healthy life. He has reportedly received offers to buy the card, but he appears to have no intention of selling it.
Next: Yu-Gi-Oh! Hello y'all! I'm Patrick. Champion Packs Games These were the very first set of local tournament store participation packs. The first pack came out in November of , with the last one of the series Champion pack 8 coming out in January The packs contained two common cards and one "rare," "super rare," or "ultra-rare. Goat format , a lot of these Champion Pack cards have increased in value immensely.
Dark Duel Stories. Video games for Yu-Gi-Oh! This game was released for the Nintendo GameBoy in March of and came in two separate runs. There are currently none of these sealed games with the original three promos on eBay, but in a recent auction, a graded one WATA 9. Sealed Booster Boxes. Booster boxes excluding a few sets were released as 1st Edition and had reprint boxes that were called "Unlimited". This inevitably caused a scarcity in sealed 1st Edition boxes.
This scarcity became much more impactful when Konami announced that booster boxes would no longer contain "Ultimate" or "Ghost Rare" cards. The value of booster boxes depends on the particular cards you could get inside them, not just their age. The collectible value of booster boxes is only increasing over time as I find them to be the most aesthetically pleasing thing to collect. Retro pack 1 came in mini boxes containing 3 booster packs, while Retro Pack 2 came in the same kind of mini box but also had a blister pack 3 packs and 1 promo card.
The promo card varied between the North American run and the European run. These items are so hard to come across and contain some of the most expensive collectible cards in the game within them. From August - November , The Duelist Genesis, Crossroads of Chaos, Ancient Prophecy, and Stardust Overdrive were never released as 1st Edition booster boxes, and 1st Edition packs could only be received through sneak peak events pre-release events a week before the actual release or through the collector tins of that year.
Starting in with Rising Rampage, Konami announced that five cards in every main set would now have a new rarity called Prismatic Rare soon to be changed to Starlight Rare.
The ratio on these cards was about one Starlight Rare per every cases booster boxes and was not guaranteed. One rare, super-rare, ultra-rare, and secret-rare would be given the Starlight rare treatment. The fifth card would be a variant card that was not actually in the set itself. Toon Chaos introduced a new rarity called "Collectors Rare" in , that would be applied to new side sets that only featured rare and holo cards no commons. Collectors Rares were not as difficult to pull, with a pull rate of around per case.
Promo Cards.
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