It feels like Yu-Gi-Oh Battles of Legends: Glorious Gallery has only just launched, and yet we're already welcoming another new booster set of cards to the game. Chaos Origins is an homage to the anime and manga so many fans know and has an overall unique chess theme, so no main deck monsters are included in the set.
Well, Chaos Origins released today (July 2nd) and brings with it 100 new cards, including five new extended arts available in Ultra Rare and Starlight Rare treatments. This booster set also reimagines some classic cards to make them viable in modern play, something that many long-running TCGs often fail to do with older, popular cards.
This set will also see the debut of Starlight 2.0 cards, which include visual tweaks to the Starlight Rare treatment to make them easier to read while giving the cards themselves richer colors. The old gray borders are also gone, replaced by new rainbow foil borders.
Extended Arts are all the rage in Yu-Gi-Oh, so five more have just been launched
Expanded art cards are fairly new to Yu-Gi-Oh, but Konami isn't making duelists wait too long for more of these popular new variants. In the Chaos Origins booster set, five new extended art cards have been launched; they are:
- The Chaotic Phantasmic Holy Beasts
- Magician of Dark Chaos – Black Chaos
- Black Luster Soldier – Soldier of Light and Darkness
- Phara the primordial goddess
- Witness of the ancient
Each of these cards comes in Ultra Rare and Starlight Rare varieties, and early indicators suggest that while none of these cards will match the most expensive Glorious Gallery card, they will still be worth hundreds of dollars.
Magician of Chaos and Black Luster Soldier are two of the cards that will receive a modernization within Chaos Origins. The Wizard now blocks your opponent from destroying or banishing your spells and traps, can take a spell from your graveyard when summoned, and can banish one of your opponent's cards each turn.
As for Black Luster Soldier, it cannot be destroyed in battle, banishes one of your opponent's cards when summoned, gains 1500 attack points when it destroys an opponent's monster in battle, and can then attack again.
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Between cute new Chibi cards and awesome extended arts, this new YGO set has some extremely valuable Starlight Rare cards.
Classic Yami Yugi Monsters Get updated cards
Fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, manga, and TCG will be familiar with cards like Summoned Skull, Celtic Guardian, and Kuriboh. Now all three of these cards are being revamped with new mechanics and designs for each.
Summoned Skull can now send a Ritual Spell to the Graveyard from your hand or deck before adding the corresponding Ritual Monster to your hand.
Celtic Guardian can now let you draw three cards before discarding two, and Kuriboh can still protect your life points, but this now includes effect damage.
Those are just the headlines from the new Chaos Origins booster set, but there are plenty of updates and exciting new cards to check out among the 100 additions. This release is definitely one for fans of the OG anime and manga series, but there's definitely something for everyone, including the massive Starlight Rare hunts.
- First movie
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The movie
- First TV show
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Yu-Gi-Oh
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April 18, 2000
- Last episode
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2004-04-29
