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"Yu-Gi-Oh!" is celebrating 25 years of Children's Card Games

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遊戯王カードゲーム25周年記念プロジェクト情報! 2024年2月に、「遊戯王カードゲーム」は25周年を迎えました。
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Konami Digitial Entertainment Co., Ltd., in the run up to the 25th anniversary of the "Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game: Duel Monsters", on February 4th, 2024, will start its 25th Anniversary Project during February 2023.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game was launched by Konami Digital Entertainment on February 1999, and has been beloved by our customers for a quarter century. With the overseas "Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game", the new product series "Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel", and various Digital Titles, the "Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game" continues to create history.

Therefore, this year's event, which marks a massive milestone, the 25th Anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game, will include various Yu-Gi-Oh! products and Digital Titles(*). We are planning various projects in Japan and overseas, such as the release of anniversary related products, as well as campaigns and sweepstakes for fans to look forward to.
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While the full details on the celebration merch and events haven´t been released, we know the following is happening

  • A 25th anniversary re-issue of the very first "Legendary Collection" set. This collection includes the original printing of the Egyptian God Cards and one of each of the classic Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon,Metal Raiders, Spell Ruler, Pharaoh's Servant,Dark Crisis and Invasion of Chaos sets with updated text wording and tournament legal status (Except for the god cards) for $1000 $32

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The individual classic packs are also going to be re-released for sale, at the standard Booster Pack MSRP, no change in raritys or ratios compared to the original release.

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  • Konami Japan is launching some a celebratory collections of figures of the the "Pot of" cards and of the fan favorite "Charmer" girls

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  • Both digital games, Master Duel and Duel Links will be having events through the year. With Master Duel having a Dark Magician focused event where you can get Dark Magician/Millenium Puzzle cosmetics plus Pharaoh Atem's throne room skin for your dueling field.

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Man I feel old, I've been following this game since I was 9 years old.

I created this thread to reminisce about the franchise while posting regular updates on the events and merch that will be releasing for the occasion

Here's to 25 more years of cards, memes, confusing rulings and ragequits online!!!

RIP Mr. Takahashi.
 
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Geode

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Yay, probably another anniversary collection that I won't be able to obtain and scalped for thousands of dollars online....
 
Valkerion

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I only watch random YouTube openings of this series now, but it seems like the god cards get reprinted like… every year if not more.

Oh well, I'm looking forward to the YT channels going all in on crates of this anniversary stuff
 
Aiqops

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Never played it the way it is supposed to be played. Got into the anime first when it started airing in germany, like all the kids around that time.

Just like with Pokemon and Digimon cards, we used to trade YuGiOh cards in the schoolyard on a daily basis.

I loved the ps1 game Forbidden Memories even though the rules were super simple.

RIP Kazuki Takahashi.
 
Slayven

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25 years is how long you can make a turn last in VRAINS
 
Volimar

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That's pretty neat stuff. I'd love to get something for my kid who loved Yugioh once upon a time, but I'm not shelling out.

Also, I thought it was older than that.
 
Slayven

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They peaked with Pendulum summoning, then they had to ruin it with LINK bullshit. I will go to my grave saying that
 
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Fj0823

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Valkerion said:
I only watch random YouTube openings of this series now, but it seems like the god cards get reprinted like… every year if not more.

Oh well, I'm looking forward to the YT channels going all in on crates of this anniversary stuff
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These are the illegal, anime accurate version of the god cards.
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The legal ones are the ones you're thinking of, these get reprinted all the time.
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KingM

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Got back into the game after master duel released and fell in love with it again. Might try to pick up a set of cards and a Pot toy.
 
Welkins

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holy shit its been 25 years?!? wow. i still got a box or two of my cards along with a few collections i bought over the last several years. dark magician was always my favorite archetype
 
Based0ne

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This has been on my radar since last December. Here's to hoping the early sets get booster boxes.
 
The Silver

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Make anime accurate God Cards, ship Winged Dragon of Ra with a magnifying glass so you can read all the effects
 
SuperSonic

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And it stopped being fun like 15 years ago. Amazing that it's still going. The GBA games were peak yugioh.
 
Pop-O-Matic

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The 25th shouldn't be until next year, unless they're counting the Bandai game too.

Edit: OK, the press release mentioned this is all for the run-up to the anniversary next year.
 
Mr. RPG

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It's really cool they're re-releasing old packs but I wish they'd do the same for Starter Deck Kaiba and Yugi.
 
Welfare

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I'm buying that Legendary Collection solely for the anime God cards. I used to have them as a kid but nearly all of my cards got thrown out.
 
DrAg0nBoY

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I haven't played the game for years, but I would honestly love to have those God cards. And I don't know why XD
 
Phoenom

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Going back to master Duel when this hits, I primarily used a Dark Magician focused deck so these celebration rewards are perfect. Are the decks that take forever to use per turn still popular online? Got really tired of that before.
 
Furisu

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Air Neos reprint would be nice but I know that it won't happen
 
CielYoshi

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Oh, didn't know the set reprints would have updated wording, maybe I'll get the legendary collection for funsies. Over/under on getting new arts for Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon sometime this year?
 
Charizard

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Oh my god those reprints of old packs at MSRP, those youtubers who had to buy boxes for like $1k for their rare hunter videos must be crying right now LOL
 
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Fj0823

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CielYoshi said:
Oh, didn't know the set reprints would have updated wording, maybe I'll get the legendary collection for funsies. Over/under on getting new arts for Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon sometime this year?
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Well, they all got new art very recently so I'd say it's unlikely. But they get new art every Wednesday so who knows?

And yeah, the new text is great. The original cards have weird wording for sure
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Such a weird way to say "This card inflicts piercing battle damage"
 
Tace

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Damn 25 years, time flies. I'll never forget getting my first Yugi starter pack and The Dark Magician. Back then I thought stars indicated strength lol
 
BassForever

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Psittacus said:
Yeah it's always been very telling that the downside of the most balanced Pot card is a small % chance to just brick your deck and lose.
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Heck, this card has been limited and is currently semi limited. +1 is so strong and games go so fast that even banishing 25% of your deck and possibly auto losing is considered by Konami to be too strong. Now many think the card should be unlimited, but as of the time of this posting it'll be semi-limited for another format.
 
Cruxist

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I have loved Yugioh since I first saw the show. I remember the card game hadn't even officially launched in the states yet at that point.

I'll never forget the first tournament I went to, and just getting completely smoked. Went with 2 buddies. Both of whom actually had a chance to win, but one didn't really grasp the rules and got intimidated when his opponent cheated, and one who knew the rules, but forgot to call a judge lol. I played against a guy with a beatdown deck, and obviously running Blue Eyes because I thought they were cool was not the answer lol.
 
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