Fans and First-Timers Ring in the New Year with the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
Hawthorne, Calif. (January 10, 2024) – As we reflect on an amazing year of Dueling in 2023, fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME (TCG) are getting ready for a brand-new year full of exciting and robust product launches. And good news! Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KONAMI) is excited to ring in the New Year with two releases: for long-time fans, a new special booster set reaching all the way back to the beginning of the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise; and for Duelists just starting their journey, an innovated Starter Set that breaks the mold to make learning a snap! This January, Maze of Millennia finally delivers long-awaited cards from the first six generations of Yu-Gi-Oh!, a surefire hit with veteran viewers. But for new Duelists? There's the brand-new Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG 2-Player Starter Set, an awesome way to introduce would-be Duelists to the game.
Ancient cards long thought lost to Dueling history? Check! Top cards for today's tournaments? Check! You'll find both in the Maze of Millennia special booster set! Discover dozens of cards from the first six Yu-Gi-Oh! TV series, drawing from the first Yu-Gi-Oh! series all the way up to Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. These cards never made the leap from television to real-life Dueling…until now. Celebrate a new year of Dueling by honoring Yu-Gi-Oh!'s past and present, with a set that matches some of the anime's most-wanted with competitive fan-favorites!
Harness the power of Pegasus' Eye of Illusion to shield your Illusion and Spellcaster monsters, steal control of their monster, or turn that monster against them in battle, all at Quick-Play speed! Search your Deck for key Spell Cards with Rex Raptor's Kaitoptera and Horned Saurus. Fusion Summon the mysterious Clorless, Chaos King of Dark World to destroy everything your opponent has on the field and demolish your opponent by boosting its ATK by 1000 points for every one of its Fusion Materials. Power up your Arcana Force Deck with Sartorius' Arcana Force XV – The Fiend and use its abilities to bring ruin to your opponent's monsters!
Search a Level 4 or lower Pyro monster from your Deck with the Spell Card Bonfire, a must-have for Volcanics, and the perfect power-up to pair with December's Structure Deck: Fire Kings. Earthbound Immortals rise again, yours to command with the arrival of Sergey Volkov's “Earthbound Prison” and “Earthbound Servant” monsters! And Tenzen Yanagi's Ancient Treasure Deck is finally made real, thanks to Ashoka Pillar, Cabrera Stone, and Triangle O. Pilfer your opponent's Graveyard, Extra Deck, and field with Mr. Heartland's 3000 ATK Rank 8 Xyz Monster, Number 1: Infection Buzzking! And if just one massive monster isn't enough, activate Harmonic Synchro Fusion and use the same two monsters to Special Summon a Fusion Monster and a Synchro Monster at the same time!
What else will you find in the maze? A new World Premiere theme based on Joey Wheeler's Flame Swordsman makes its debut! Tournament Duelists can crack handy reprints that reinforce themes from Duelist Nexus, Age of Overlord, and February's Phantom Nightmare. And on top of that, lucky treasure hunters could find Collector's Rare variant cards, or even a Quarter Century Secret Rare!
Discover all the secrets of Maze of Millennia on January 19! The complete set includes a total of 85 different cards: 16 cards also come as Collector's Rare variants, and 1 card is only available as a Quarter Century Secret Rare. Each booster pack contains 6 Rare cards and 1 Foil card. MSRP: $4.49 per 7-card pack.
Looking for the perfect way to teach your friends, family, or that special someone how to Duel? Or looking for a refresher yourself? The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG 2-Player Starter Set is what you've been waiting for! This product teaches newcomers everything they'll need to know by going head-to-head with 2 different Decks. Sound tricky? It's not, because you'll have an entire comic book to walk you through a scripted starter Duel! Follow the story, and let it guide the lesson card by card, and play by play. Learn the basics of drawing cards, unleashing monsters, and navigating the Battle Phase, and even Xyz and Synchro Summon from the Extra Deck.
When the first teaching Duel is over, you can reset the Decks and play through it again. Or shuffle up and Duel for real to practice and test your newfound skills! The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG 2-Player Starter Set is filled with cards that'll give new players a taste of true Dueling excitement, from classics like Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, and Magic Cylinder; to powerhouses from the past like Cyber Dragon, Card Trooper, and Beast King Barbaros; all the way to marvels of modern Dueling like Visas Starfrost, Eldlich the Golden Lord, and Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder! Forget the Duel Academy entrance exams: this is a high-speed Duel Runner screeching straight to the center of everything that makes Dueling awesome!
Begin the Dueling journey with the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG 2-Player Starter Set on January 26! Each 2-Player Starter Set includes 2 different 44-card Decks for a total of 80 Commons and 8 Ultra Rares, plus a 64-page teaching comic book. MSRP: $19.99 per set.
For additional Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG teaching tools for novice Duelists, visit our Yu-Gi-Oh! For Beginners page full of helpful teaching videos that are easy for new Duelists to follow along and learn alongside some legendary Yu-Gi-Oh! characters! Each bite-sized video is short and focuses on one specific aspect of Dueling to break down concepts and make the game easy to understand and very digestible for kids and adults alike! https://www.yugioh-card.com/en/forbeginners/
Or for more information on KONAMI's extensive Organized Play programs, including opportunities for aspiring Duelists to learn how to play in person, go to www.yugioh-card.com/en/events.
