Introduction

Welcome to Part 2 of the list of odd OCG Exclusive cards that will likely never come to the TCG. Please make sure you've read Part 1 so you can understand certain things mentioned here. You can find that linked here: https://ygoprodeck.com/ocg-only-exclusive-cards-in-yugioh-part-1/

Duelist ID Card and Duelist Name Card

During official Konami OCG Tournaments from July 2000, players participating would receive the ‘Duelist ID Card.' These contain a picture of the “Millennium Puzzle”, with a Normal Monster card frame.  Then in January 2004, this became the ‘Duelist Name Card.' This time, the “Millennium Puzzle" had an Effect Monster card frame.  The purpose of these cards was to be IDs for the player during the tournament; for them to write their Duelist ID and their Names on respectively.  However, there are ones out without any writing, as many didn’t use them as ID.  Still, it was a pretty neat idea from Konami to have ID cards that look like actual cards.  They are quite old, so they make quite the historic collectible.

Command Duel Use Cards

This is the ‘Command Duel Use Card’, adorned with the logo of Yugioh ZeXal.  At first, there were actually a number of these given out to Japanese stores for “Yugioh Day” celebrations in 2013, that had various rules printed on them such as “Detach all Xyz Materials on the field” or wackier things like “Players wearing glasses gain 800 Life Points”.  There was also one that let you use of cards that say “This card cannot be used in a duel”, allowing usually Illegal cards like ‘Creator of Hope’ and ‘Legendary Magician of Dark’ to be used during those events.  Obtaining those ‘Command Duel Use Cards’ wouldn’t be easy as they are available to stores, with the owner implementing the rules on them at the beginning of the Duel. 

However, there were empty ones without rules on them for players to write their own Spell Card rules on, given away, in yet again more Advanced Tournament Packs.  These blank ‘Command Duel Use Cards’ were in both the 2014 and 2015 packs; though not everyone wrote on them.  Since these cards had a specific purpose, they won’t get a TCG release.

Creator of Hope, Winning Formula and Creator of Miracles

In more Advanced Tournaments Packs, these three cards, ‘Creator of Hope’, ‘Winning Formula’, and ‘Creator of Miracles’ came out one at a time; in 2013 Volume 2, 2013 Volume 3 and 2014 Volume 1 respectively.  The art featured a blinding light with white silhouettes of Yuma’s “ZeXal Transformation” for the titular series, where Yuma is able to perform a “Shining Draw” and get whatever card he wants.  These cards are illegal in regular duels and are not legal in a deck. But they are legal during special “Yugioh Day” events in the OCG.  ‘Creator of Miracles’ and ‘Winning Formula’ are not too difficult to track for collectors, but as it’s the oldest of the three, ‘Creator of Hope’ is a little tougher to obtain. 

What makes these cards fairly unique is that the activation requires the player to actually say a specific quote from the series.  The first one, ‘Creator of Hope’ wants you to yell Yuma’s catchphrase “Kattobingu da ore!” which became “I’m feeling the flow” in the dubbed version.  That allows you to add any card from your deck to the top of your deck, referencing the “Shining Draw”.  The second card, this time a Spell card, ‘Winning Formula’ where Yuma is now in his “ZeXal II” transformation, wants you to yell out that “the Winning Formula is complete!” and then lets you summon any ‘Number’ Card (barring ‘Chaos Numbers’) from your Extra Deck and then attaches to it, so this card counts as a ‘Number’ support card technically.

Lastly, there is ‘Creator of Miracles’, with Yuma now in his “ZeXal III” form.  You once again have to yell out a phrase, this time “ZeXal Field!” and it allows your ‘Number C39’ Monster to attack directly.  However, there is then the bonus effect if you have all three of these cards activated.  If you’ve done so, that direct attack will allow you to automatically win the duel, putting this card amongst the hallowed halls of ‘Exodia the Forbidden One’, ‘Final Countdown’, and ‘Venomminaga’.  Although, unlike those, this one is illegal in regular play.

Another bit of interesting trivia about ‘Creator of Miracles’ is related to the set passcode.  Most Illegal cards, such as the original ‘Egyptian God’ cards or the ‘Match Winners’, or even sometimes legal ones like the previously mentioned ‘Magi Magi ☆ Magician Gal’ do not have passcodes on the cards.  Like those, the three ZeXal cards here do not have those passcodes usually, but there is an exception.  On the Korean version of ‘Creator of Miracles’ in the OCG, it has a passcode printed on it, that being 60087721.  This may have been accidental.  This leads me to theorize that perhaps cards without passcodes may actually have some internal passcodes in Konami’s own database system, but I can’t confirm if that’s really the case or not.  So this version of this card is unique amongst Illegal cards to use in regular play despite sometimes having a passcode.

As Illegal cards from 2013 and 2014 that were related to OCG ZeXal theme events, these cards will likely not show up with a TCG release, barring any sort of resurgence of the ZeXal brand requiring it.

Second National Tournament Prize Cards

Now it’s time to start talking about a few Prize Cards now, these ones also being illegal to use in regular play.  These were the prizes of this major tournament in March of 2000.  First, we have ‘Masahiro the Dark Clown’, an alternate version of ‘Saggi the Dark Clown”.  Then there’s ‘Yasushi the Skull Knight’ based on ‘Skull Knight’ of course.  Then lastly, ‘Tomohiro the Mountain Warrior’ which is like the regular ‘Mountain Warrior’.  The top three participants of this tournament received these cards.  Supposedly, there are copies out there of the cards in some Japanese game shops, but I can’t confirm that myself.

These cards have the names and faces of those Top 3 players, giving them a personalized touch.  They’ve also got quotes on them.  "The key to victory is to never quit believing in your Deck!",
"The path to victory is fighting with a level head!" and for third place there’s the frustrated quote of "Missing out on a win is frustrating! Next time, aim at being the champ!"  These cards are quite amusing to see out there and the chances of them ever getting an international release is impossible, due to the personal nature of them, but they would make quite a cool prize for a collector.

According to Kevin Tewart, the US Head of Development in the TCG, these prize cards are considered “fake”, but they have been listed on an OCG ban list for the 2010 World Championships, so they have been recognized as existing.  As illegal cards, they wouldn’t be useable anyway.  This situation does add a bit of an air of mystery about them, though.

Normal Monster Prize Cards

Continuing with the Prize Cards, let’s go back in time further to all the way back in February 1999, making these the oldest on this list.  These are from the Duel Monsters National Tournament, where they used the Duel Monsters Game Boy game. These are ‘Black Luster Soldier’, ‘Zera the Mant’, ‘Super War-Lion’, and ‘Fiend’s Mirror’, given to the Top four participants in that order, all in Ultra Rare.  But wait, you already recognize these monsters as classic Ritual Monsters and these ones are Normal Monsters.  In fact, these were the first versions of these Monsters.  They also happen to be not be printed on regular cardstock, but in fact are printed on a steel plate, something that has happened a couple times since for certain special releases.

These cards are incredibly difficult to find, making them a huge treat for any high-end collector who could get one.  The images most people have of them aren’t even directly taken from the cards themselves, but rather from a magazine that showed them off.  Seeing one in person would be incredible, as they are an iconic part of Yugioh’s history.

Asia Championship 2000 Prize Cards

These cards won’t be finding their way into your collection any time soon, due to being one of a kind as well.  Given as Prize Cards in August of 2000, these OCG Cards feature alternate artworks of the classic monsters ‘Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon’, ‘Summoned Skull’, ‘Kuriboh’, ‘Gemini Elf’ and ‘Red-Eyes B. Dragon’.  The tournament winners got to choose which card they wanted; these are the results of that.  These cards are worth a ton of money, with the ‘Gemini Elf’ selling for one-hundred-and-seventy-five-thousand dollars and the ‘Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon’ going for four-hundred thousand dollars.  These are about as high end as you can get in the Yugioh collection world.

While you won’t be using these specific artworks of the Monsters in question, that were drawn during a design competition. This won’t affect game-play much, as you can still get the regular artworks of these Monsters.

Valuable Book 3 Character Cards

The Valuable Book 3, part of the OCG’s continuing Valuable Book series, came out in December of 2000.  The series has continued to have over twenty of them by now, all containing promo cards.  This third one was interesting in that in addition to the regular promos of ‘Rocket Warrior’ and ‘Nightmare’s Steel Cage’, we got four unique Character Cards.  With unique colorful borders, we see the classic characters of Yugi, Jonounchi (Joey), Pegasus, and Kaiba.

These Character Cards all have unique effects.  Based on these effects, these cards are activated at the beginning of the duel that someone could play while using them, kind of like an ancestor to the more recent “Skills” and “Skill Cards” found in Duel Links and Speed Dueling. 

Presumably, these cards would be illegal in a proper duel. They were probably intended for more casual duels with friends. Yugi’s card let the field become ‘Yami’ as well as letting you summon his ‘Dark Magician’ with one less tribute. But there was a cost of losing Life Points every turn.  Jonouchi’s card gave your Monsters 800 Attack Points during battle, but they couldn’t attack the turn summoned.  Pegasus would let you search any card for 1000 Life Points, but you started with less Life Points.  Lastly, Kaiba forced you into a hand size limit of 4 cards, but all Monsters could become the same Type.

There was an interesting set of effects here with both a benefit and a heavy cost to using them. Using these could change the way the game was played drastically back then. Similarly to the Tokens from the 2013 Vjump issue mentioned in Part 1, the Character Cards were also Cut Outs from a page. They were actually double sided, with Yugi and Kaiba on the same card on different sides, as well as Joey and Pegasus on the same card too. This would make the choice of which ones to use in a duel kind of awkward unless you had two sets. The Valuable Book 3 also came with an instruction page on how to use them.

These cards are super old and hard to find, but they would make a very nice collectible. The chances of these ever showing up in the TCG as a thing is impossible. Especially now that Speed Duel “Skill Cards” have a similar purpose, such as Yugi Skill also having a ‘Yami’ like effect.

Boss Duel Cards

Here’s something that not only won’t come to the TCG, but not even to the collections of most players.  These cards from 2014 weren’t given out in packs to players. But rather used by employees of a card shop to perform special duels.  These are the Boss Duel Cards, a set of cards featuring major antagonists from the various Yugioh anime series.  Pegasus from Yugioh Duel Monsters, Darkness/Nightshroud from Yugioh GX, Z-ONE from Yugioh 5Ds, and Don Thousand from Yugioh ZeXal.  Except for Pegasus, these were the final antagonists of their respective shows.  Presumably, Zorc from Duel Monsters didn’t have enough cards to make into these sets.

The Boss Duels were hosted by the shop’s members of staff during the Yugioh Day celebrations. Up to three players would go up against them while using a special rule-set.  The staff member would have a special deck of eight Boss Duel Cards. Each deck represented very powerful Monsters, Spells, and Traps from their respective characters.  Players would have to work together to take down these anime-style final bosses.  Quite the interesting format, that sadly never made it into the TCG.

The cards lacked information such as Attributes, Types, Levels, and such, but they often did have big Attack values.  Each of the cards’ names contained a letter to differentiate them. But the card it represented from the anime would be mentioned in the card’s text after the effect.  Pegasus had Monsters A-D as well as Spell A-C and Trap A.  Don Thousand had Monsters A-C, Spells A-C and Traps A-B.  Darkness/Nightshroud had Monsters A-B, Spell A and Traps A-E.  Z-ONE had Monsters A-E and Traps to A-C with no Spells.  The difference here shows each Boss Duel differed in style with the ratios of different Card Types.  Overall, there are thirty-two different Boss Duel Cards.

Obtaining them is not something very doable, as they belong to the card shops and weren’t for general sale.  Even having photos of them was lucky.  Since this was a thing back in 2014, they haven’t returned in the OCG. Maybe one day they’ll do it again and maybe even offer something similar for public sale too.

Shuttleroid

Released back in December of 2007 in the OCG Premium Pack 11, ‘Shuttleroid’ was a new addition to the list of “roid” Monsters.  However, since then, the card never saw the light of day again.  It’s been many years and still no TCG print card, leading people to wonder exactly why this is the case. 

Truth be told, we have no concrete answer to this question.  People have theorised as to why, with debunked rumours such as copyright issues by portraying a rocket ship.  People also think perhaps it looks like too much like a certain male body part, but even that’s conjecture.  One thing’s for sure; unless we get a real answer, we aren’t seeing much of this card any time soon.  Thus, it remains in the depths of obscurity.

The Creator of Light

Let’s finish up with a legendary Monster card.  Horakhty, Strangely known as ‘Holactie, the Creator of Light’ with an unfortunate L instead of R. This is despite the character being based on the myth of Ra-Horakhty.  This is the combination of the three classic ‘Egyptian God Cards’, brought forth by the Pharaoh’s true name to defeat Zorc. This unique card is a Divine Monster with the never before seen “Creator God” card type.  You summon it if you control all three of the god cards; not an easy task, to then automatically win the duel.  The card is legal for use, though it lacks a passcode, just like how the other gods do. 

Drawn by Kazuki Takahashi, only ten-thousand printings of this card exist. It was given in the Duel Art Campaign promotion in December of 2011.  It is unknown why this card doesn’t have a TCG version.  Perhaps this card’s rarity and specialness mean less chance of a reprint. It has already been almost a decade since that printing.  However, special stuff has had reprints before. Right now the card is obviously worth quite a lot of money.  So while people would love to be able to stick an icon like this in their ‘Egyptian God’ decks, even if the name translation is awkward, they’ll have to go without this card, I’m afraid.

Conclusion

The Yugioh Card Game has been around for over twenty years now.  Collecting them all would be a tall order, especially due to the prices and rarity of a number of them.  Many cards were only ever available in the OCG regions with little chance of ever coming to the TCG.  Whether it be because of complicated brand legalities such as the ‘Potato Chip’ cards and ‘Light Bringer Lucifer’, or super unique prize cards from very old tournaments, there have been plenty of reasons to not see cards show up beyond their initial TCG printings. 

Sometimes, like with the specific in-joke of the ‘Charisma Token’ or the cards for writing on like the ‘Command Duel Use Card’, they wouldn’t have any reason to do anything with them again to warrant a release.  Some things listed here don’t necessarily have a reason to stop them from being printed in the TCG. But it’s been a while and they likely have no intention of it.  The only one with some chance of appearing in the TCG is ‘Magi Magi ☆ Magician Gal.' Konami has gained a slightly more lax stance on censorship in recent years.

Many of these cards are available to locate with varying levels of difficulty. But some of them are only available to the highest level of collector, due to incredible prices.  Some might not even be for sale at all.  The TCG isn’t immune to this type of situation either. With very unique TCG region cards not in the OCG. Such as the Upper Deck special version of ‘The Seal of Orichalchos’, a card that is worth thousands. Or something ‘Get Your Game On!’ given out at the 2007 World Championships, or “Skill Cards” for the TCG Only Speed Duels.  However, there are more OCG cards like this, as Japan is where the game originates.  We do not know if “Rush Duel” cards will get an international release.

While you eagerly wait for cards from the OCG to printed in your own TCG region to add your deck, remember that not every card is going to get that treatment.  You may have to wait a while for some things, but for other things, you’d be waiting forever.