Wikia didn’t have info at the time so I did not include a number. Try searching the sjcs tournament in yugioh wikia to see if it’s updated
Would love to see some collection posts of e4 members
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In a few weeks I plan on post a bunch of content on my insta.
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The card I miss the most is my Bandai Gate Guardian, I will try to get one again in the future, it has everything I love about YuGiOh, ahh good times…
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Just wanted to point out that my OCG collection is small and not expensive but one of the cards i have in it is one of my favorite cards i own.
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Showed off my favorite OCG card today. I know I hyped up what I was gonna post but want to say that I was looking at complete bandai sets when I posted originally but couldn’t work out any deals. Was kinda hoping that it would’ve been that to show off.
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Great work!! My dream is to own the festa bewd and the jump novel phone card 1day!!
I’m wondering why so few of the 3,000 jump festa '99 blue eyes have been graded. I’m not aware of any public sales but it seems like they’d easily go for 5 figures in most grades ?
Japanese collectors just don’t grade.
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These two cards in this list have never existed:
-WCS-002 Victory Dragon (1-2) (Estimated number)
-WCS-003 Black Luster Soldier (1-2) (Estimated number)
From what I see by ocg collectors, WCPS Seiyaryu and WCPS Firewing Pegasus also have 1600 estimated print runs.
That’s possible, do you have some evidence?
There are strong reasons why their existence is doubtful. The event coverage do not mention these cards when listing the prizes, and there is a lack of eyewitness accounts of these cards by event participants.
The Upper Deck article only mentions the following as prizes:
The kidzworld article conveys the same info.
Reference: www.kidzworld.com/article/3749-yu-gi-oh-card-game-world-championship
Finally, a Japanese article mentions the following as prizes:
Reference: web.archive.org/web/20181105072504/http://www.geocities.jp/delyuerumasuta/newpage37.htm
Google translate gives:
Interestingly, there is mention of a prize card here. It was an English card and I guess the “OCG representative only” means either it was only for the OCG players and/or it was an Asian-English/OCG Card. Kanan the Swordmistress fits this bill. Although 200,000 yen, which is very roughly $2k, was quite a bit for cardboard back then. Perhaps Kanan had that price tag at that moment, or the author was mistaken. Regardless, there’s reason to believe WCS Kanan was this card.
WCS Kanan was the promo for the 2003 Japanese World Championship Qualifiers on 7/3/2003. Only 3000 registered out of the expected 5000, so there were likely extra copies of this card. It appears these extras were used as prize support for later events like the Duelist King Tournament: World Ranking Season 3 top 100 prize and the Toys-R-Us World Championships 2004 winner prizes (note this is the video game tournament for the game “World Championship 2004”. WCS-EN Sengenjin was the participation promo for this tournament. Toys-R-Us stores had stacks upon stacks of these.)References:yugipedia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_Japanese_World_Championship_Qualifier_2003_participation_cardyugipedia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_World_Championship_2004_tournament_promotional_cards
It doesn’t seem far-fetched that on 8/10/2003 one of the extra WCS Kanans was given out as the English “200,000 yen” card. Additionally, it’s doubtful the 200,000 yen card refers to Black Luster Soldier or Victory Dragon because there are no eyewitness accounts of seeing these cards by anyone at the tournament.
The article linked below mentions this:
Google translate says:
Reference: www.yugioh-card-collection.com/entry/20190403/1554285600
For some reason, Black Luster Soldier and Victory Dragon appear in the Konami card database. It’s possibly an error.
Until Konami gives actual confirmation these cards were printed and the method they were distributed since it wasn’t via the event prizes, it’s safe to assume they don’t exist.
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@xanimosityx, very insteresting, yes these cards have 0 evidence besides them being listed there, I saw real pics of the steel Black Luster or even from cards that don’t even have a picture online like Ulevo (btw my top 1 yugioh card of all time). With all these articles I will do a change in the guide stating that they could have never been hanged to the winners, even if Konami printed them at some point. Maybe they have some copies stored who knows, and they will count as spare not official cos they were not given out as a prize in that event.
Looks good. Also, what do you think about updating the SJCS print run numbers? Ghezzi wrote this article for PSA last summer:
www.psacard.com/articles/articleview/10464/psa-set-registry-collecting-yu-gi-oh-shonen-jump-championship-prize-cards-profiles-rarity
The estimates are as follows:
Cyber Stein: 150
Des Volstgalph: 85
Shrink: 91
Crush Card Virus: 63
Gold Sarcophagus: 93
Doomcaliber Knight: 72Dark End Dragon: Under 250
This article also shows the recent controversy over which is more common, Stein or Dark End. The Stein section concludes with this quote:
Then the Dark End section:
@xanimosityx, I will pay attention to this because I took those print runs fron the wiki and we all know it’s not 100% accurate.
“It wouldn’t be shocking to see a PSA MINT 9 copy sell for $20,000 and a PSA 10 sell for more than double,” Bonomo concluded. “Even though Steins are alleged to be the most common, they are still some of the rarest cards in the game.”
I really don’t like people speculating like this to manipulate prices, it’s really a cheap more we have seen over and over again in this and other hobbies. No idea why this quote is even relevant in any way. The Dark End dragon quote is indeed more usefull.
Thanks for this info, as I say again, I’m not a SJC expert in any way, so I will read the article and make a change if required.
Is there a special reason why the market prices Holactie more than some prize cards that have unique art and lower print run? Say Chimaera.
My guess as to why Holactie goes for more is because of popularity. It was in the original anime and manga and can also be used in some of the video games. Personally, I’ve never heard about Chimaera (or a majority of these high end cards) until I read this thread.
@papafrankgod, this is late but thank you for compiling this thread. It was a super interesting read. I was starting to look into collecting the Bandai cards and was wondering why Gate Guardian, Mirror Force and Swords of Revealing Light were going for so much. Didn’t realize they had such a limited release.
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Damn, the 1 of 1 summoned skull was destroyed in an earthquake?
100% popularity. Personally I prefer Chimaera all day!
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