The Blue-Eyes White Dragon is one of the most popular monsters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. It’s the first-ever monster to be featured on the front of a booster pack and has nostalgia power, thanks to Seto Kaiba in the anime. In competitive history, Blue-Eyes has been able to come out on top multiple times due to its support.
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Whether you’re collecting Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards or trying to find the best two copies of the card to include in your deck, there are plenty of valuable printings to keep an eye out for. Some were featured as promo cards, while others required you to dig deep into a special set.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $83.28
A Majestic Blue-Eyes Arrives
- Quarter Century Stampede
- Quarter Century Secret Rare
The Blue-Eyes White Dragon is one of many cards to get an alternate art in Quarter Century Stampede. This additional art adds to the already numerous members of the Blue-Eyes collection with a quarter century printing.
This Blue-Eyes is shown descending from the skies and preparing to land. This alt art is not only printed at a high rarity but it is also locked behind it. So there are no cheaper versions of the card or alternate rarities unless you want a different art altogether.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $108.60
Free With A Purchase Of Shonen Jump
- Shonen Jump Magazine Promo
- Ultra Rare
Shonen Jump Magazine may not have a physical printing outside of Japan, but you could once pick up the magazine for some neat goodies. This includes the latest chapters of manga and a special copy of a Yu-Gi-Oh! card.
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In the second issue of 2014, readers could find this alternate art printing of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. It depicts the Blue-Eyes flying through space with Kazuki Takahashi’s signature in the bottom right corner of the card art. The holographic foiling looks extra special over the spacey backgrounds.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $41.00
Celebrating Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG’s 10th Anniversary
- Anniversary Pack
- Ultra Rare
While the 25th anniversary of Yu-Gi-Oh! may be a fantastic feat, it once celebrated a smaller milestone. After ten successful years of duels, competition, and anime, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon was reprinted in a special Anniversary Pack.
This pack contains cards with special art by Kazuki Takahashi and a signature in the bottom right corner. This card, like its fellow packmates, is unique because it is printed without a border separating the card body and the card art.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $133.01
A Finer Printing
- Shonen Jump Magazine Promo
- Ultra Rare
Sometimes, the quality of the foiling and the card tint makes the difference in a card’s value. Even if the rarities are the exact same, some cards have a brighter tint, and others have a sharper foiling effect. You also have to take into account the font and sizing of the card’s text.
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This promo Blue-Eyes White Dragon may feature the same space-faring dragon in the illustration, but the flavor text has a neater presentation. It’s small, italicized text makes the difference in making the text-box feel less cluttered.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $157.00
Giving The Classic Card Art A Quarter Century Toast
- Quarter Century Bonanza
- Quarter Century Secret Rare
Quarter century secret rare is a special rarity made to commemorate 25 years of Yu-Gi-Oh!. Some cards, both nostalgic and released for the first time during this celebration, are printed in this rarity. One such card is the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Aside from having the special holographic foiling that covers the entire card body, this card also features the original art from Legend of Blue-Eyes. This is the first pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! ever released. While not the anime art, this style is nostalgic for those who opened that first pack of Yu-Gi-Oh!, not knowing how big the card game would get.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $226.24
A Ghostly Apparition
- Ghosts From The Past: The 2nd Haunting
- Ghost Rare
Ghost rare cards are not only some of the best-looking cards but a unique rarity only available in select sets. This Blue-Eyes White Dragon can be found in the Ghosts From the Past: 2nd Haunting set, which gives it a silvery card box.
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The monster remains hidden until you tilt the card side to side. Then, the monster’s features will pop out when the light hits the card just right. This rare Blue-Eyes card uses the anime art, which makes it even more valuable to collectors.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $304.95
Whipping Out Kaiba’s Briefcase
- 25th Anniversary Ultimate Kaiba Set
- Secret Rare
Seto Kaiba is one of the most eccentric billionaires in anime. He has a Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet, creates holograms to defeat his enemies, and uses cards as throwing stars. Seto Kaiba is also responsible for making the Blue-Eyes White Dragon as popular as it is.
This secret rare printing of the Blue-Eyes is exclusive to the 25th Anniversary Ultimate Kaiba set, which comes in Kaiba’s very own briefcase of cards. Seeing as this is a limited-edition item only available as part of the bundle, it is only natural for the single to become difficult to acquire.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $310.12
Blue-Eyes Takes Over The World
- 25th Anniversary Ultimate Kaiba Set
- Quarter CenturySecret Rare
The 25th Anniversary Ultimate Kaiba set also contains three copies of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the briefcase. These are the quarter century rare printings of a Blue-Eyes that depict it in front of planet Earth. You can also see it charging up its attack.
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Since this card is locked behind the Kaiba collection, it can be pretty difficult to assemble a full playset of this particular printing. However, if you’re lucky enough to have snagged a briefcase, you’ll find it along with the rest of Kaiba’s signature deck.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $394.99
Straight From Ancient Egypt
- Magnificent Mavens
- Secret Pharaoh’s Rare
There are two versions of the pharaoh’s rare that can be found in sets like Magnificent Mavens. One is considered a secret rare, while the other is an ultra rare. This particular Blue-Eyes White Dragon card is a secret pharaoh’s rare.
Both versions of the card have the special hieroglyph foiling, but the detail that gives away the rarity is the text for the name. The secret pharaoh’s rare printing will give you the prism ink instead of the golden ink, showing that you have the more valuable copy.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon – $1,599
Get Your Game On
- Yu-Gi-Oh!: Dark Duel Stories Video Game Promotional Cards
- Prismatic Secret Rare
Dark Duel Stories is a classic Yu-Gi-Oh! title for the GameBoy Color. Like many of the Yu-Gi-Oh! video games, this one comes with some special promo cards. Of course, some cards are more sought out than others, and one of the best pulls is the prismatic secret rare Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
This card gets its rarity from the fact that to pull it from the set, you need to buy a sealed video game box. Then, you have to be lucky enough to actually hit it. Over time, sealed copies of the game become harder to find, and surviving copies of that card become scarce.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME (TCG) allows kids, teenagers, and adults of all ages to relive the exciting Duels that take place in the animated Yu-Gi-Oh! series. In the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, players use the cards they’ve collected to construct Decks consisting of 40 to 60 cards. Then, they use their Decks to face off against opponents in a game of strategy, luck, and skill.
- Original Release Date
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February 4, 1999
- Player Count
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Two-player (1 vs. 1)
- Age Recommendation
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8 and up
- Length per Game
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20 minutes
