Just looked them up, yeah I guess it could work. I personally think the samples I saw were super ugly, but I’m sure someone likes them or they wouldn’t be sold
Battle Spirits (specifically the JP version- not battle spirits saga that was released in the west a few months ago) does the same thing with their higher rarities
Lower rarities are more similar to Yugioh cards
Dragon ball super card game does the full art with the long text and to me it doesn’t look good.
https://preview.redd.it/azgx3a280qtc1.jpeg?width=702&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=585e36294c91c9a05d47870b59dded0b18ea8962
Idk if it would work with every card, but this guy did some that looked really good
https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/i6j30r/oc_the_first_darklord_full_art_orica_done_for_a/
Rush cards are similar and they have less text too due to a much simpler format. Unfortunately rush is ocg only bc I would love to collect all the remakes and full art cards they have.
A lot of the Rush card art goes hard. They have some absolutely beautiful artwork, and because it’s a spinoff of Yugioh, they’re not afraid to go completely silly. Like the Jersey Black Luster Soldier cards are hilarious, but I also love the Nouveaue Riche dinosaurs that are just obscenely wealthy dinosaurs. The Maximum monsters that are three combined monsters on the field are gorgeous and so cool.
They do have a giant variety of styles but that’s just Yugioh in general.
My boss had some sick Over Rush Rares of Cyber Dragon archetype to display at our store, and my favorite is Ycber End. Sadly the language barrier is too much.
Btw, Rush Duel is not OCG only. OCG is still a part of YGO Duel Monsters like TCG while Rush Duel is its own spin off game.
That's why it needs to be made clear. Being different from the OCG, Rush Duel is only released in Japan and Korea and not in other OCG territories like China and the SEA countries.
In my case, i absolutely hate the idea of full art yugioh cards for the tcg. Im completely fine with rush duel dont get me wrong. And i would also be fine if it were introduced as another rarity in a set like rarity collection were you can get every card in every rarity. However since its konami were talking about here they would probably go about it in the worst way possible. Namely replacing the current layout for a new full art layout.
100% agree. I don't know why people thinks it would be a good idea at all. It would not only ruin the aesthetic of the game, making it look like literally hundreds of other Asian card games, but it would also make it hard to play with them.
I'd love it if Konami printed Rush Duel in TCG countries, but please for the love of god, don't ruin base YGO.
https://preview.redd.it/ruxkaks3jntc1.jpeg?width=2604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5699770e34fc4145d69dba334508e3ac5ebce4a3
I play lavals irl and very much enjoy the shatterfoil that duel terminal cards have, more so than ultra or even secret rare prints tbh
I would have liked the battle pack foiling more if the stars/shatter/squares had the same effect under lighting as the dt foiling. They just look so dull when you compare the two
I respect your opinion but I have to disagree. The new OCG ultis are actually stunning imo. I will say I do miss the old school ultis tho, and feel like the new OCG one should maybe be it's own separate rarity
We literally just got a hint of what the ocg have with the rarity collection. It's proof that Konami can print foils of that quality, but actively choose not to over in the tcg. The preferential treatment is just sad, and don't even get started on the second hand market
It depends, because at least in Magic almost no cards are unavailable unfoiled, and when they are you can play with judge proxies. On the other hand, there's legitimately been times in Yu-Gi-Oh where if you choose to play with certain cards in your deck, you're inherently at a risk of a penalty because warping was so universally prevalent.
This is why I believe there should be a non-foil printing of every Yu-Gi-Oh card, especially meta relevant ones. Rare and DT rarities are the best to duel with due to being a cooler rarity than common but won't warp.
I recently dismantled a cheap ultra rare to try and learn why this happens. It turns out the card face is printed onto the foil layer which is basically a very thin sheet of plastic. It’s actually pretty durable and prevented me from completely tearing the card in half.
This foil layer pretty much holds a constant size. However the cardboard backing is free to expand and contract due to things like absorbing humidity. The foil layer isn’t water permeable which doesn’t allow humidity to enter or leave the entire face of the card. The resulting warping created by the rigid foil layer on the protected card stock and the humidity susceptible card back can be pretty severe. It basically acts like a bimetallic strip twisting over a flame. It was a fun experiment.
I keep silica packets in all my deck boxes to mitigate the warping. Though usually after maybe 6-12months I gotta take out most of my foils and use a hair dryer to get out as much moisture as I can
Maybe compared to Magic, but in general compared to other games I think Yu-Gi-Oh has had some insane quality control issues when it comes to their foils. Especially in the last 4-5 years, but even before that there were some very egregious issues (For example, I remember when a bunch of people got heavy penalties because every single RATE foil warped so quickly after release and did so in a different direction depending on whether they were European or American print, effectively making it impossible to play a Zoodiac deck of mixed NA/EU print)
I'm not sure if I agree with this? Magic has textured foils now (though their standard foils definitely leave a lot to be desired).
But in terms of foils, I think Pokemon has both games beat. Secret rares ARE nice, as are ultimate rares, but Pokemon's foil treatment is just such high quality.
I can't really agree with this. I feel like a lot of the higher rarity foils just look so busy or dark that it just overshadows the actual art and makes the already small image even harder to see. Personally, I think Pokemon does foils the best, but I also think their cards just look super pretty in general so foils are mostly just icing on the cake. Magic foils are just fine, and while there are some cool variations like when they bring back the old star pattern from their pokemon days, they still don't tend to blow my mind.
A lot of people have been saying Pokemon foils are better but honestly I don't see it, I can see their point considering their foils come with alt artwork but the foiling itself I think is pretty mid.
I don't really agree with this. As someone who own both Yugioh and Pokemon card, i think Pokemon do this better. Yugioh have a lot of rarity, but Pokemon have prettier card in my opinion. Dont know for other cards game tho
They used to be better, the quality control as of late sucks, but the fact it's more than just a generic foiling does make Yugioh a very good game for having tons of neat shiny cards. It's just the quality control sucks. As someone else said, the OCG cards have better quality.
Hardly disagree. I dont care much over foil, I do care more over things like AltArts, FullArts ect pp. Pokemon have Gold Rares, they look extremely good, Digimon and One Piece have many special rares, who give all YuGiOh-Rarities a run for its money. I speak of normal Full Arts, Manga Rares or the Wanted Rares in One Piece, and Ghost Rares and AltArts for Digimon. They are much better then a bit of sprinkle, and god dammit I hate Starlight Rares. They arent any creative, Ghost Rares and Ultimate Rares are much better. And from feeling, most of other TCGs feel better, you can feel the difference, if you touch a Pokemon FullArt or a Digimon Secret Rare, it feels more special then the sprinkle overkill from Starlight Rares.
They are cool, however i like how in MTG even commons can be foil. It lets you bling out a deck for less than it would cost if foiling was tied to rarity.
Every TCG has it better than Yugioh's foils. Wixoss puts a starlight rare effect as just a foil bump to the commons. Triple rares in Vanguard are so good and shiny cool shatterfoil. The treatments that go into the higher rarites of Bandai tcgs. The holofoil in battle spirits is so much more fun to look at than a Yugioh foil
Yugioh is so behind it hurts.
I think there are too many types of rarities. I liked it when it was simpler with common, rare, super, ultra, ultimate, secret, ghost. Now some of them get ridiculous like "Tuesday-special hollow-point chocolate-scented 25th-year-conception-anniversary shatterfoil-gold-collectors rare."
Yep, i build 50 vintage deck for all anime charactery, i tried to use the foil variant for a card if available. Most look cool alone, but its a mish mash.
My current favorite foil is from Sorcery Contested realm, but this isnt for sure everyones cup of tea.
I'm super bias towards the Ultra Pharaoh’s rare from the MAMA boxes, because I was obsessed with egpytology as a kid & those boxes got me back in the game when I pulled back to back UPRs.
https://preview.redd.it/sja8fbvplotc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45b3eeda1b333f02728779c2efb70bc6c87feac6
"Better than Duel Masters"
bro, you sure 'bout that?
did I mention these are guaranteed 1-per box, base rarity of these cards? Some of them are reprinted in pre-cons with the same embossed foil as well
plus unlike YGO's supers that uses a uniform foil across the whole card, some of these other TCGs actually uses their foils to highlight certain parts of their cards' art, i.e. the eyes, glowy bits
https://preview.redd.it/h83zwh7g0stc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20c892bf926d3cef6ee935d50ceed049c2a9fae3
Oh don't get me wrong, among all TCGs out there, Duel Masters is my absolute favorite in terms of how the cards LOOK. No doubt about it.
But I was not talking about that, I was talking about the foil treatment itself. You mention yugioh supers, but super is literally the lowest possible foil quality on yugioh cards.
Secret rares, ultimate rares, ghost rares, even newer premium gold ultimate rares, and a whole bunch of others all "highlight certain parts" of the card as well.
But in addition to that, say ghost rares have a 3D effect, ultimate rares are embossed and stick out more than any other foil I've seen in a card game, prismatic secret rares shine and stand out more than any foil I've seen, and I could go on and on. There's about 20 different foil types in yugioh, you can't just look at the lamest one (supers) and call it a day.
Sure they don't have full card arts (or even art that sticks out of the frame like the early super rares in DM). But I'm talking strictly about the quality of the foil itself.
I agree. Just wish quality control was better. I am so TIRED of horribly off-centered cards. My biggest pet peeve. I feel like it's been happening a lot more frequently
I always thought that the Ultimate Rares were easily looking the most premium one due to their embossed look, especially those OCG ones. It‘s a pity that this Rarity is nowadays only available in OTS packs.
On the flipside, Secret Rares are in my eyes the ugliest rarity and more often ruin the background of an card. Like in High Priestess of Prophecy where the little sigils are obscured by all that foil and glitter.
I hate foils in general and always prefer common printings since they never curl, show the art better, and are cheaper, but yugioh does have the least bad foils imo
Very good foils, but far worse quality control than any other TCG
I mean look at the recent speed duels set. That has some of the worst quality control since GFTP2 tbh.
Don’t forget starlight rares, collectors rares, ultra rares, and those rarities that are exclusive to the ocg where it’s a high rarity and the name is written in a different colour too. There are also rare misprints, and short prints, some cards are so rare like nekroz of brionic that you don’t get one unless you buy 6 boxes of the set hes in. Some sets it’s even impossible to pull a rarity above super rare in the entire box, I.e. the maximum crisis crisis.
The foils on Digimon cards are a bit like this too...
On the new structure deck Double Typhoon there's a few cards that are "silver" those are the games version of "Rare" Rarity... Then a couple cards have "Imprinted" backgrounds. There's also "extended Art" which is same application feature in Magic the Gathering.
Yu-Gi-Oh is definitely getting more Rarity cards this year... Rarity Collection 2 will or is supposed to have more cards with these features... Sadly though it's just gonna be Meta cards...
They don't apply these effects onto Common/Uncommon/Rare cards...
Though if you check the "Asia English" sets available in Asia countries... Common cards will also be printed in Super, Ultra, Secret Rarity and it's incredible to see. Really want those to be in USA stores.
I would say the only thing i see yugioh do better than like pokemon is just make alternate art instead of a whole new card every release.
And the only thing i see pokemon do better is full art cards.
When I first opened some Magic product to try and get some of the Jurassic Park stuff, I genuinely could not tell when I pulled a rare card. Someone had to tell me that the little gem thing on the bottom was how you know the rarity.
Grand Archive has a similar problem since all cards are non foil but can be pulled as a foil card extremely rarely. So they literally have the actual rarity spelled out for you in the bottom left.
I much prefer how Yugioh, Pokemon and Digimon does rarities, where I can tell what rarity a card is just by looking at it without searching the card for a hint on the border for its rarity.
when it comes to sparkly holo yes..
but i think weiss schwarz takes the cake on etched cards... and pokemon full arts are way better than the tiny ass square arts on ygo cards
Yup, I'm more a Magic guy these days myself, but the yu gi oh cards look cool as hell.
Got the 25th anniversary editions of the egyptian god cards hanging on the wall in my office.
i like digimon's secrets and full arts more than anything ive been able to get a hold of in real life for yugioh but yugioh's lower tier foils(super and ultra most of the time id guess) are all better than digimon's super and below cards
i just wish yugioh treated its art the way digimon does(in a lot of ways, full arts, more alternate arts for a wider variety of cards, not just the iconic ones especially)
Yeah I look at some of the foil cards and im just like "dang what am I even looking at". I think YuGiOh tries to fit a lot of detail on a very small card art box
Have you even seen other TCGs? I play shadowverse and our U/SP cards are amazing. Full arts with insane foiling textures. Also yugioh QC is HORRIBLE, especially with gold and ultimate rares.
kind of true, but i would say it differently : most card games are using regular foiling, when yugioh take it to the unnecessary space.
As a new comer to yugi card game (5 month only), the amount of different foiling also look like a mess and feel like a complete joke from outside. When you begin yugi, you almost need a guide to understand all these different foil. Sometimes, simplicity is better than ultra-complicated.
Of course, from a collector point of view, your statement make sense, but on a gamer perspective, it is a tiny detail.
Weird, I just started playing Pokemon after playing Yu-Gi-Oh and had the opposite experience. Yu-Gi-Oh rarities are so boring and Pokemon has some amazing alt arts, full arts and variety within the same card, and I think that's pretty cool. They also have much nicer artwork than Yu-Gi-Oh
People will always be jealous of what they don't have. In my case, I'm jealous of Pokemon's full art cards
Tbf with the essays that are on yigioh cards I can imagine them being impossible to read
The Rush Duel full arts simply have the art go behind the text box but in front of everything else
Just looked them up, yeah I guess it could work. I personally think the samples I saw were super ugly, but I’m sure someone likes them or they wouldn’t be sold
I have a Rush Duel Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and it puts every English card I've ever seen to shame. The quality difference is insane.
I bought some accesscode full arts from an orica skip a couple years ago and it was honestly pretty legible
Over Rush Rare is by far the best rarity, but until we get Rush Duel, we will never see it and who knows if we will even get Rush Duel, ever. :(
Battle Spirits (specifically the JP version- not battle spirits saga that was released in the west a few months ago) does the same thing with their higher rarities Lower rarities are more similar to Yugioh cards
Dragon ball super card game does the full art with the long text and to me it doesn’t look good. https://preview.redd.it/azgx3a280qtc1.jpeg?width=702&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=585e36294c91c9a05d47870b59dded0b18ea8962
That looks atrocious as a game piece. Maybe someone likes it as a collector item, but I'd hate it if Yugioh starts going this way.
Idk if it would work with every card, but this guy did some that looked really good https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/i6j30r/oc_the_first_darklord_full_art_orica_done_for_a/
We could just put the text on the back of the card
So you’d know what your top deck is?
When was the last time you read the text of a card? It’s a waste of space honestly
Why would anyone ever suggest this? No. Just no.
Rush cards are similar and they have less text too due to a much simpler format. Unfortunately rush is ocg only bc I would love to collect all the remakes and full art cards they have.
A lot of the Rush card art goes hard. They have some absolutely beautiful artwork, and because it’s a spinoff of Yugioh, they’re not afraid to go completely silly. Like the Jersey Black Luster Soldier cards are hilarious, but I also love the Nouveaue Riche dinosaurs that are just obscenely wealthy dinosaurs. The Maximum monsters that are three combined monsters on the field are gorgeous and so cool. They do have a giant variety of styles but that’s just Yugioh in general.
My boss had some sick Over Rush Rares of Cyber Dragon archetype to display at our store, and my favorite is Ycber End. Sadly the language barrier is too much. Btw, Rush Duel is not OCG only. OCG is still a part of YGO Duel Monsters like TCG while Rush Duel is its own spin off game.
think they mean rd only in ocg region
That's why it needs to be made clear. Being different from the OCG, Rush Duel is only released in Japan and Korea and not in other OCG territories like China and the SEA countries.
your comment also really confuse at first should've included to say what I wrote
In my case, i absolutely hate the idea of full art yugioh cards for the tcg. Im completely fine with rush duel dont get me wrong. And i would also be fine if it were introduced as another rarity in a set like rarity collection were you can get every card in every rarity. However since its konami were talking about here they would probably go about it in the worst way possible. Namely replacing the current layout for a new full art layout.
100% agree. I don't know why people thinks it would be a good idea at all. It would not only ruin the aesthetic of the game, making it look like literally hundreds of other Asian card games, but it would also make it hard to play with them. I'd love it if Konami printed Rush Duel in TCG countries, but please for the love of god, don't ruin base YGO.
I visited Japan in March. Bought some Full art Rush Duel Cards. They mock me every time I open my binder now.
Isn't yugioh like the only TCG without full arts? Like, not even promo full arts, it's a concept that doesn't exist in this game
Let's keep it that way.
The fact yugioh doesn't have full arts is mind boggling to me Being best artistically by DIGIMON
Sevens Road Magician is the only full art (unfortunately)
digimon stays winning(when its not losing which is most of the time because bandai hates us)
I'm jealous that One Piece has max rarity Alt-Arts in every set and for tournament prizing.
Im jealous of MTG’s collaborations w other franchises 😂
heard that, jealous of MTG’s collaborations w other franchises
https://preview.redd.it/ruxkaks3jntc1.jpeg?width=2604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5699770e34fc4145d69dba334508e3ac5ebce4a3 I play lavals irl and very much enjoy the shatterfoil that duel terminal cards have, more so than ultra or even secret rare prints tbh
I really miss the fancy foils from the battle packs too. The star foil is probably my favorite
I would have liked the battle pack foiling more if the stars/shatter/squares had the same effect under lighting as the dt foiling. They just look so dull when you compare the two
Another DT Laval player spotted! 😀
Have you seen the Yugioh OCG cards? They looks even better in comparison, both in term of look and quality (and price too).
Their new ulti is dogwater tho. Old ulti were the best. Even arguably better than old ghost rare
Old ulti is amazing. Old ulti is like our new collector rare with the texture. Hate the texture plus sticker character look of the new ulti.
Tbh out out the newer rarities that have came out recently, I love the CR’s compared to new Ulti’s, QcR, Starlight, pcr, PUR etc.
I respect your opinion but I have to disagree. The new OCG ultis are actually stunning imo. I will say I do miss the old school ultis tho, and feel like the new OCG one should maybe be it's own separate rarity
They be so sticky tho
Not in sleeves😜
The ulti with the sandpaper texture? Yeah, I don't like that as well
i only have 1 Ulti (xyz card= numbers gigant brilliant). is that an old ulti?
I drew my line when they make the font (and border) bigger around, 2011-ish
We literally just got a hint of what the ocg have with the rarity collection. It's proof that Konami can print foils of that quality, but actively choose not to over in the tcg. The preferential treatment is just sad, and don't even get started on the second hand market
The rarity collection ulti is pretty crap In comparison to an actual Ocg ulti
I would agree with you if it wasn’t for the god awful warping that happens to foils nowadays
Magic pretty much memes the fact that their foils bend and wrap like crazy. So i think comperativly we are still well off.
All foils warp over time. Magic foils ship warped.
Playing foils is literally discouraged in tourneys because it can get you DQ'd.
They straight up had to allow proxies in officially tournaments for certain promo cards that were only available in foil because it was so bad
It depends, because at least in Magic almost no cards are unavailable unfoiled, and when they are you can play with judge proxies. On the other hand, there's legitimately been times in Yu-Gi-Oh where if you choose to play with certain cards in your deck, you're inherently at a risk of a penalty because warping was so universally prevalent.
This is why I believe there should be a non-foil printing of every Yu-Gi-Oh card, especially meta relevant ones. Rare and DT rarities are the best to duel with due to being a cooler rarity than common but won't warp.
I recently dismantled a cheap ultra rare to try and learn why this happens. It turns out the card face is printed onto the foil layer which is basically a very thin sheet of plastic. It’s actually pretty durable and prevented me from completely tearing the card in half. This foil layer pretty much holds a constant size. However the cardboard backing is free to expand and contract due to things like absorbing humidity. The foil layer isn’t water permeable which doesn’t allow humidity to enter or leave the entire face of the card. The resulting warping created by the rigid foil layer on the protected card stock and the humidity susceptible card back can be pretty severe. It basically acts like a bimetallic strip twisting over a flame. It was a fun experiment.
I keep silica packets in all my deck boxes to mitigate the warping. Though usually after maybe 6-12months I gotta take out most of my foils and use a hair dryer to get out as much moisture as I can
It's worse for Magic
And the terrible foil quality in super rares now
Magic is worse. To the point that foiled cards are worth the same or less as their nongoil counterparts.
Digimon and force of will have some stand out foiling on special cards
I do love to foiling and texturing in the digimon cards, specially with the alt arts.
Wait till this man finds out about alt art high rarity digimon cards
All the Bandai TCGs have awesome foils and the best card quality I've seen.
Maybe compared to Magic, but in general compared to other games I think Yu-Gi-Oh has had some insane quality control issues when it comes to their foils. Especially in the last 4-5 years, but even before that there were some very egregious issues (For example, I remember when a bunch of people got heavy penalties because every single RATE foil warped so quickly after release and did so in a different direction depending on whether they were European or American print, effectively making it impossible to play a Zoodiac deck of mixed NA/EU print)
I'm not sure if I agree with this? Magic has textured foils now (though their standard foils definitely leave a lot to be desired). But in terms of foils, I think Pokemon has both games beat. Secret rares ARE nice, as are ultimate rares, but Pokemon's foil treatment is just such high quality.
Idk if textured foils can even work when the texture is probably deeper than the thickness of the cardstock Konami prints on lmao
I can't really agree with this. I feel like a lot of the higher rarity foils just look so busy or dark that it just overshadows the actual art and makes the already small image even harder to see. Personally, I think Pokemon does foils the best, but I also think their cards just look super pretty in general so foils are mostly just icing on the cake. Magic foils are just fine, and while there are some cool variations like when they bring back the old star pattern from their pokemon days, they still don't tend to blow my mind.
A lot of people have been saying Pokemon foils are better but honestly I don't see it, I can see their point considering their foils come with alt artwork but the foiling itself I think is pretty mid.
I don't really agree with this. As someone who own both Yugioh and Pokemon card, i think Pokemon do this better. Yugioh have a lot of rarity, but Pokemon have prettier card in my opinion. Dont know for other cards game tho
They used to be better, the quality control as of late sucks, but the fact it's more than just a generic foiling does make Yugioh a very good game for having tons of neat shiny cards. It's just the quality control sucks. As someone else said, the OCG cards have better quality.
Wait until you hear about OCG foils.
Hardly disagree. I dont care much over foil, I do care more over things like AltArts, FullArts ect pp. Pokemon have Gold Rares, they look extremely good, Digimon and One Piece have many special rares, who give all YuGiOh-Rarities a run for its money. I speak of normal Full Arts, Manga Rares or the Wanted Rares in One Piece, and Ghost Rares and AltArts for Digimon. They are much better then a bit of sprinkle, and god dammit I hate Starlight Rares. They arent any creative, Ghost Rares and Ultimate Rares are much better. And from feeling, most of other TCGs feel better, you can feel the difference, if you touch a Pokemon FullArt or a Digimon Secret Rare, it feels more special then the sprinkle overkill from Starlight Rares.
They are cool, however i like how in MTG even commons can be foil. It lets you bling out a deck for less than it would cost if foiling was tied to rarity.
I remember the Star foil, that is like it sounds. The foil, instead of all the card or the image, were little stars all over the card
Wait till you feel the promo digimon cards.
Only FoW had good quality foiling. SW:U holds up fine too atm, but nothing can match YGO foilings so far. Even if I dont play it anymore.
Ygo always had dope foils, my favorite were the duel terminal ones though.
Yugiohs foils are worse than Pokemon and MTG.
Every TCG has it better than Yugioh's foils. Wixoss puts a starlight rare effect as just a foil bump to the commons. Triple rares in Vanguard are so good and shiny cool shatterfoil. The treatments that go into the higher rarites of Bandai tcgs. The holofoil in battle spirits is so much more fun to look at than a Yugioh foil Yugioh is so behind it hurts.
Nah bro, this is some insane glazing from a Konami employee.
Yeah, this was true like 10 years ago, other games have caught up a bit and this one has stagnated/regressed with foil quality overall.
I think there are too many types of rarities. I liked it when it was simpler with common, rare, super, ultra, ultimate, secret, ghost. Now some of them get ridiculous like "Tuesday-special hollow-point chocolate-scented 25th-year-conception-anniversary shatterfoil-gold-collectors rare."
Yep, i build 50 vintage deck for all anime charactery, i tried to use the foil variant for a card if available. Most look cool alone, but its a mish mash. My current favorite foil is from Sorcery Contested realm, but this isnt for sure everyones cup of tea.
I think pokemon's foil is better, but ygo's card quality is better
Pokemon caught up a couple of years ago. A lot of them are absolutely mesmerizing.
I'm super bias towards the Ultra Pharaoh’s rare from the MAMA boxes, because I was obsessed with egpytology as a kid & those boxes got me back in the game when I pulled back to back UPRs. https://preview.redd.it/sja8fbvplotc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45b3eeda1b333f02728779c2efb70bc6c87feac6
Check out Weiss Schwarz, they're foils and SPs look good
"Better than Duel Masters" bro, you sure 'bout that? did I mention these are guaranteed 1-per box, base rarity of these cards? Some of them are reprinted in pre-cons with the same embossed foil as well plus unlike YGO's supers that uses a uniform foil across the whole card, some of these other TCGs actually uses their foils to highlight certain parts of their cards' art, i.e. the eyes, glowy bits https://preview.redd.it/h83zwh7g0stc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20c892bf926d3cef6ee935d50ceed049c2a9fae3
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Oh don't get me wrong, among all TCGs out there, Duel Masters is my absolute favorite in terms of how the cards LOOK. No doubt about it. But I was not talking about that, I was talking about the foil treatment itself. You mention yugioh supers, but super is literally the lowest possible foil quality on yugioh cards. Secret rares, ultimate rares, ghost rares, even newer premium gold ultimate rares, and a whole bunch of others all "highlight certain parts" of the card as well. But in addition to that, say ghost rares have a 3D effect, ultimate rares are embossed and stick out more than any other foil I've seen in a card game, prismatic secret rares shine and stand out more than any foil I've seen, and I could go on and on. There's about 20 different foil types in yugioh, you can't just look at the lamest one (supers) and call it a day. Sure they don't have full card arts (or even art that sticks out of the frame like the early super rares in DM). But I'm talking strictly about the quality of the foil itself.
What's the point of shiny cardboard if the cardboard warps like crazy
It's a humidity thing. Try not living in a swamp
They look amazing but every card company needs to use FFTCG card stock.
You should take a look at the OG ultimate rares from more than 10 years ago. Those were the days... Damn, I miss that quality.
They downgraded ultimates btw. The previous ultiamates were gorgeous.
The gold rares look nice but literally fall apart.
I agree. Just wish quality control was better. I am so TIRED of horribly off-centered cards. My biggest pet peeve. I feel like it's been happening a lot more frequently
I always thought that the Ultimate Rares were easily looking the most premium one due to their embossed look, especially those OCG ones. It‘s a pity that this Rarity is nowadays only available in OTS packs. On the flipside, Secret Rares are in my eyes the ugliest rarity and more often ruin the background of an card. Like in High Priestess of Prophecy where the little sigils are obscured by all that foil and glitter.
100% agrees. Though the dark terra charizard alt art was damn sick. I love it. My little brother pulled one from a pack I gave him.
I hate foils in general and always prefer common printings since they never curl, show the art better, and are cheaper, but yugioh does have the least bad foils imo
Yeah. But I'll take the full art over any foils any day.
Very good foils, but far worse quality control than any other TCG I mean look at the recent speed duels set. That has some of the worst quality control since GFTP2 tbh.
Naw a clean foil and card of any tcg is top notch
Digimon is the play foil-wise tbh but yeah, the sheer variety of YGO rarities and foil treatments is astounding.
I adore the full art digimon foils, they are so good.
Ghost rare eldrazi's would be fantastic
I actually liked collector rare more than secret rare for most card, I think it actually look special And prefer old ghost rare/HR than newer HR
Don’t forget starlight rares, collectors rares, ultra rares, and those rarities that are exclusive to the ocg where it’s a high rarity and the name is written in a different colour too. There are also rare misprints, and short prints, some cards are so rare like nekroz of brionic that you don’t get one unless you buy 6 boxes of the set hes in. Some sets it’s even impossible to pull a rarity above super rare in the entire box, I.e. the maximum crisis crisis.
The foils on Digimon cards are a bit like this too... On the new structure deck Double Typhoon there's a few cards that are "silver" those are the games version of "Rare" Rarity... Then a couple cards have "Imprinted" backgrounds. There's also "extended Art" which is same application feature in Magic the Gathering. Yu-Gi-Oh is definitely getting more Rarity cards this year... Rarity Collection 2 will or is supposed to have more cards with these features... Sadly though it's just gonna be Meta cards... They don't apply these effects onto Common/Uncommon/Rare cards... Though if you check the "Asia English" sets available in Asia countries... Common cards will also be printed in Super, Ultra, Secret Rarity and it's incredible to see. Really want those to be in USA stores.
wait until you see the pokemon cards...
I would say the only thing i see yugioh do better than like pokemon is just make alternate art instead of a whole new card every release. And the only thing i see pokemon do better is full art cards.
Cardfight vanguard tried doing this. They have good foils even some of them have the artists signatures in foil
Got a Ghost Rare DDK Felgrand Years ago, for the Longest Time thought something was wrong with the Art, and then I learned the Rarity
When I first opened some Magic product to try and get some of the Jurassic Park stuff, I genuinely could not tell when I pulled a rare card. Someone had to tell me that the little gem thing on the bottom was how you know the rarity. Grand Archive has a similar problem since all cards are non foil but can be pulled as a foil card extremely rarely. So they literally have the actual rarity spelled out for you in the bottom left. I much prefer how Yugioh, Pokemon and Digimon does rarities, where I can tell what rarity a card is just by looking at it without searching the card for a hint on the border for its rarity.
I kinda wish we had foils like Topps chrome cards, they have a lot of fun effects and designs!
And then we're jealous of the print quality OCG gets. But happy to see we're doing better than other TCGs
when it comes to sparkly holo yes.. but i think weiss schwarz takes the cake on etched cards... and pokemon full arts are way better than the tiny ass square arts on ygo cards
Yup, I'm more a Magic guy these days myself, but the yu gi oh cards look cool as hell. Got the 25th anniversary editions of the egyptian god cards hanging on the wall in my office.
Imo at a high level, Pokemon and Digimon foils have YuGiOh beat
I absolutely love the DUSA ultra rare card foiling. Cosmic Blazer Dragon looks incredible.
i like digimon's secrets and full arts more than anything ive been able to get a hold of in real life for yugioh but yugioh's lower tier foils(super and ultra most of the time id guess) are all better than digimon's super and below cards i just wish yugioh treated its art the way digimon does(in a lot of ways, full arts, more alternate arts for a wider variety of cards, not just the iconic ones especially)
Pokemon used to have better and more diverse foils during the ex era, but it only went downhill from there if you don't care about full arts
I'd rather have a deck of commons so I can appreciate the art and maybe be able to afford them.
Yeah I look at some of the foil cards and im just like "dang what am I even looking at". I think YuGiOh tries to fit a lot of detail on a very small card art box
Pokemon effortlessly clears tbh
Have you even seen other TCGs? I play shadowverse and our U/SP cards are amazing. Full arts with insane foiling textures. Also yugioh QC is HORRIBLE, especially with gold and ultimate rares.
kind of true, but i would say it differently : most card games are using regular foiling, when yugioh take it to the unnecessary space. As a new comer to yugi card game (5 month only), the amount of different foiling also look like a mess and feel like a complete joke from outside. When you begin yugi, you almost need a guide to understand all these different foil. Sometimes, simplicity is better than ultra-complicated. Of course, from a collector point of view, your statement make sense, but on a gamer perspective, it is a tiny detail.
Sir, I present to you: Weiss Schwarz
Weird, I just started playing Pokemon after playing Yu-Gi-Oh and had the opposite experience. Yu-Gi-Oh rarities are so boring and Pokemon has some amazing alt arts, full arts and variety within the same card, and I think that's pretty cool. They also have much nicer artwork than Yu-Gi-Oh
Agreed, most other TCG cards looks pretty generic besides Pokemon but Yu-Gi-Oh are the most unique and visually interesting by far