With one notable exception, we’ve also stuck to sold cards, rather than ongoing or unsold listings. Both games differ slightly, with certain unique rules and exclusive cards, among other things. This is different to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game, which was first released in 1999. We’re only looking at the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, the version of the game released to Western audiences in 2002. Rarest and most expensive Yu-Gi-Oh! cards Recently, there has even been massive announcements for online versions of the card game, too! Undoubtedly some Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are worth more than others - this list gathers together some of the rarest and most expensive Yu-Gi-Oh! cards you can find today. The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is one of the most profitable card games around, generating almost $10 billion and counting since its inception. The latter’s success led to Konami launching real-life counterparts of the anime cards - and thus the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game was born. The first was a short-lived 27 episode Japan-only series, which mirrors the manga’s dark themes and multi-game focus, whereas the second was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (known simply as Yu-Gi-Oh! outside Japan), a 224-episode spectacle primarily involving Yugi and friends using illustrated cards comprising numerous fictional monsters, spells and traps to compete in card games. The manga’s popularity saw the swift production of two anime series.

Upon said puzzle’s completion, Yugi unlocks a dark spirit of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who uses Yugi’s body as a host whilst competing in several wicked and nefarious games.

In 1996 Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Jump published Yu-Gi-Oh!, a manga series created by Kazuki Takahashi, introducing protagonist Yugi Mutou and his mysterious millennium puzzle to the world.

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