Yu Yu Hakusho Card Information

General Information:

1st Edition/Limited Edition cards will have a gold eye stamp typically found in the bottom right corner of the card (only exception will be on King pieces).

2nd Edition/Unlimited Edition/Standard Edition cards will not have the gold eye stamp anywhere on the card.

Promo cards can sometimes be pulled out of packs and other various places. I have seen League Cards pulled from packs and even an Epic Tales pulled from a starter deck before. I have even read about The Dark One bring pulled from a Spirit Pack #2. There have been all foil packs/boxes (named Hot Packs) found before as well.

1st Edition cards are available for every card except the following, which are only available as Standard Edition:

• Ghost Files Promos and Ghost Files Spirit Pack cards

• Dark Tournament Insert cards

• Join A League Insert card from Gateway

Additionally, these are only available as 1st Edition*:

• Any Promo/Spirit Pack card from any set except Ghost Files and X0 Kuwabara, Noble Champion

• C156/176 Storm of Torment (Corrected Version)

*Note that X0 Kuwabara, Noble Champion (Single Rainbow only for now) and some Spirit Pack 2 cards have been found as Standard Edition. These are believed to be misprints and not official releases.

Release Dates:

Ghost Files: September 15, 2003
Dark Tournament: December 12, 2003
Gateway: April 9, 2004
Exile: June 30, 2004
Betrayal: September 22, 2004
Alliance: January 15, 2005

On March 18th, 2005, the game was officially announced to be discontinued.

Card Legend:

G - Ghost Rare
U - Uber Rare
S - Spirit Rare
R - Rare
C - Common
F - Misprint on the card "Storm of Torment", it was supposed to be a C (See additional note below)
ST - Starter Deck
L - League card
TG - Tournament Ghost Rare
TU - Tournament Uber Rare
TS - Tournament Spirit Rare
TR - Tournament Rare
TC - Tournament Common
P - Promo
TP - Tournament Promo
R - Redemption
V - Video
X - Team Challenge/Box Topper
SK - Skannerz
TX - Texas Team Challenge
- No Letter and Number combination is found on the card Kurama, Entrapped Demon, from the Gateway expansion (See additional note below)

Additional Note about Storm of Torment:
The short history on this card is that it was accidentally printed with an F instead of a C. Score Entertainment attempted to correct this and printed a new batch of 1st Edition cards with the C on it, however, the text of the card had a typo (stated +1000 ATK instead of +500 ATK) and thus was pulled from the production line and replaced with the F version again since the F version had the correct text of +500 ATK. Only a small batch of 1st Edition Storm of Torment cards with the C printed on it exist. All other 1st Edition and all Standard Edition Storm of Torment contain the F in its card number and is considered the "normal" version of the card.

Additional Note about Kurama, Entrapped Demon:
All copies of this card lack the card number on it. There is no corrected version.

Booster Box Information (in your average box):
4 Spirit Rares
2 Uber Rares
0-1 Ghost Rares
8 Common Foils (from Dark Tournament onwards)
2 Rare Foils (from Dark Tournament onwards)

Note: Blister Boxes have no set ratios. Also, see the bottom of Gateway below for notes about DR pull ratios.

Spirit Pack Information (in your average Spirit Pack):
4 Commons
1 Rare/Spirit Rare/Uber Rare/Ghost Rare
For SP3, all 5 cards will be the same Foil type in a pack.

Pre-Ghost Files:

Origins Card - Handed out at Origins in 2003. Origins was originally going to be the name of the 1st set but was later changed to Ghost Files.

GenCon Pack (these are also available in 1st Edition Starter Decks, as well as the Action Figures):

• Yusuke's Deck/Rando's Deck Insert

• ST9/176 Yusuke (Non-Foil unlike its Ghost Files counterpart)

• C20/176 Kazamaru

• R36/176 Rando (does not contain the attack Ability Theft like its Ghost Files counterpart)

• C52/176 Abnormal Endurance (does not contain the - like its Ghost Files counterpart)

• C59/176 Fervor of Fury

• R93/176 Ultimate Test

• C114/176 Combat Knives

• C116/176 Pocket Communicator (there is a card called Communication Mirror in the Ghost Files set with the same effect as this card as Score Entertainment decided to change the name in the final release of the card. Both can be used in a deck)

• C144/176 Desperate Temper

• C154/176 Spirit Gun Double

• G1/0 Epic Tales (randomly inserted, not guaranteed to be pulled)

Ghost Files:

• P1/3 Genkai - Available in Oct/Nov issue of Undefeated Magazine #2. Released September 24, 2003.

• P2/3 Sacrifice of Life - Available in Nov. 2003 issue of Scrye Magazine (Issue 65). Released October 1, 2003.

• P3/3 Verruca - Entry promo from the Dark Tournament At-Release Events

• V1/4 Singing Potential - Inserted randomly in VHS/DVD 16 "Yoko Kurama" (will have a yellow sticker on the plastic seal indicating the card is inside). Released September 2, 2003.

• V2/4 Perfect Balance - Inserted randomly in VHS/DVD 17 "Sword and Dragon" (will have a yellow sticker on the plastic seal indicating the card is inside). Released on October 7, 2003.

• V3/4 Under Pressure - Inserted randomly in VHS/DVD 18 "Deadly Toguro" (will have a yellow sticker on the plastic seal indicating the card is inside). Released on November 4, 2003.

• V4/4 Life Threads - Inserted randomly in VHS/DVD 19 "Tournament's End" (CONFIRMED to have the card inside WITHOUT the yellow sticker, unlike previous volumes). Released on December 9, 2003.

• G1/0 Epic Tales - Inserted randomly in GenCon packs at, according to Pojo, a 1 per 200 pack ratio. The ZStore had 15000 demo packs that were handed out with each order during a certain time period while GenCon handed out a whopping 50000 demo packs. In theory, approximately 300 Epic Tales cards should exist, however, more than that should definitely exist.

• C154/176 Spirit Gun Double (Score Stamped) - Anime Expo in 2003 (presumably). Justin Cook apparently signed quite a few of these as he was hosting for Funimation. This card is only available as a Standard Edition.

Additional Notes: There are no common foils or rare foils of any cards in Ghost Files. 10 cards, however, were reprinted as Lined, Cloudy and Jagged foils in Gateway. There were plans for a Double Rainbow printing as well but they never made it to distribution (they did, however, make it to printing and exist on an uncut sheet).

Other Card Information:

• Team Ichigaki's and Team Rokyukai's Starter Deck cards were printed 4 to every 5 of the other Starter Deck packs, making them slightly Short Printed when compared to Team Toguro and Team Urameshi.

• We currently do have some information about the base set of Ghost Files. We can assume there are 4 sheets total for Ghost Files. They are Common/Rare (may have the promos on this sheet too), Starter Deck non-foils, Single Rainbow foils, and then the S/U/G booster & Spirit Pack foils (this one is confirmed).

• Younger Toguro, Latent Warrior was 2 to every 3 Ghost Rares on the sheet, so it's slightly shorter print than the other Ghost Rares.

• Genkai, the Young, Shishi Wakamaru, Soul Stealer, The Genkai Bunch, Busted and Armor of Clay were 6 to every 7 of the Spirit Rares on the sheet, so they are slightly shorter print than the other Spirit Rares.

• C156/176 Storm of Torment had its corrected card number released very temporarily in Ghost Files. This was later undone due to the card stating that it adds +1000 Atk instead of +500 Atk. Score Entertainment felt it was better to have a typo in the card number instead of a typo in the card text and halted the corrected versions continuing to be released into packs. As such, there were indeed a few copies that could be pulled from packs.

Dark Tournament:

• P1 Mist Shinobi - Winner's Promo from the Dark Tournament At-Release Events

• P2 Kurama's Last Stand - Available in Feb. 2004 issue of Scrye Magazine (Issue 68). Released December 31, 2003.

• P3 Power Strike - Score Convention Exclusive

• R1 Burst of Power - Available at participating GameStop locations, or via the Pro-Style Redemption II offer. Released December 26, 2003.

• TP1 Gotcha! - Originally available as a prize from the Dark Tournament At-Release Events, this has been popping up in Tournament Kits as a Consolation Promo/Door Prize.

• G0 The Dark One - Given to Score Employees in sets of 3. Moderators never received one. Only signed ones were legal for tournament use. A lot were destroyed or damaged (usually hole punched) when the game ended. The foil version of this card is only available as a 1st Edition so do not be fooled if you see one as a Standard Edition (I saw someone on eBay try to pass one off like this as legit many years ago).
  
  Link: Blog about the reprint of The Dark One (please note that the original article is deleted and this is to Wayback Machine's copy of the article)
  
  On November 29, 2011, Funimation decided to celebrate the end of the YYH anime Blu Ray releases by having Panini print a very special card. This very special card is a reprint of none other than The Dark One. This entire idea was brought forth by Justin Cook himself, according to him. Justin owns a playset of every card in the TCG except The Dark One, as Score Entertainment could not/would not gift him more than 1. He wanted a playset of it and decided to reach out and see if something could be done about that. As you can see, it come to fruition! This deal will not go on forever though as this is a limited print run. Get your hands on it while you can!! You get the card by purchasing Season 4 on Blu Ray of YYH. It's inserted with the Blu Rays on the inside and will be indicated that it's included on the back of the blu ray case itself as well as the slip cover. This promotion is now long discontinued.
  
  About the card:
  Errata's effect was changed, and is super broken now. For anyone that gets the card, assume the card has its original effect!!
  Score Entertainment stuff is no longer on the bottom. Panini has put all of their stuff down there instead.
  No 1st Edition symbol is on the card.
  The card is NOT foil.
  Other than those listed above, the card is exactly the same as its original.
  
  Update: The card is no longer available in the BluRay. Again, the back of the BluRay will tell you if the card is inside.

Other Card Information:

• Botan's Toolbox was 1 to every 2 of the other Uber Rares, making it Short Printed

• Hiei's Essence, Confrontation, Broom Stick, Souls, and Koto, the Experienced were printed 2 to every 1 to every Tournament Common, thus making them more common from Spirit Packs

• The number of sheets is likely just 3. One sheet contains all the higher up foils, 1 sheet with C/R non-foils, and 1 sheet with C/R foils.

Gateway:

• X0 Kuwabara, Noble Champion - Gateway Booster Box box-topper card (one is inserted into 1st Edition Gateway boxes on top of the first pack, loose)

• X1 Ura-Otoko - Team Challenge Promo, Judge Rewards (30 points)

• SK1 Yusuke, Raizen's Successor - Released in Spirit Skannerz toy, Team Challenge Promo, Judge Rewards (30 points)

• P1 Hiei, Determined Warrior - Realm Championships Participation Card, Storyline Event Winner's Card, or Gateway Pre-Release Winner's Card

• P2 Crazy World - Score Convention Exclusive

• P3 Head-On Assault - Gateway Pre-Release Participation Card

• R2 Counter Strike - Hobby Exclusive Promo

• TP2 Meditation - Tournament Consolation Promo inserted into tournament kits with Spirit Pack 3 (similar to Gotcha! from DT)

Other things to note about Gateway:

Promos that exist as Double Rainbow Foils (not all Promos have a Double Rainbow foil pattern, as confirmed by Scott Sagar, and other various higher up Score employees*):

• The entire League Set (L1-L10)

• X0 Kuwabara, Noble Champion

• P1 Hiei, Determined Warrior

• P2 Crazy World

• P3 Head-On Assault

*Note that this may very well change as they have been proven wrong already with the existence of P1 Hiei, Determined Warrior, a card Scott and others claimed to not exist. This card was found in a collection by someone who was gifted a full set of Gateway. He only had L1-L10, P1, P2, and P3 as DRs. We have also been told by a former moderator that all promos were released in Double Rainbow and given to the mods at the time. The moderator did own a P3 Head-On Assault (DR) to add to what I was told, but did not own any others anymore besides Crazy World. He claimed to have 100% owned a Ura-Otoko, but until we come across it...

Gateway set Spirit/Uber/Ghost Rares, Reprints from Ghost Files, C35 Hiei Insert & Join A League Insert, and Hidden Rare Team Leaders were in 3 varying foils: Lined, Cloudy, and Jagged (an uncut sheet exists that has these cards in the Double Rainbow Foil pattern but the cards were never officially released). The Commons, Rares and Team Bonus Inserts were made in 2 varying foils: Single Rainbow and Double Rainbow. The Tournament set had 4 varying foils for all of the cards: Plain/Double Rainbow, Lined, Cloudy and Jagged. The Tournament cards do not have a Single Rainbow foil variation (that we know of anyway, an uncut sheet may exist, however).

The reprinted foil cards originating from Ghost Files:

• R33/176 Jin

• C82/176 Time Out

• R86/176 Kitty Love

• R90/176 Rash Brawling

• C113/176 Backyard Dummy

• C117/176 Demon Compass

• R121/176 Trace-Eyes

• R126/176 Spirit Cuffs

• ST130/176 Fishing Pole

• TC9/22 Unconsious

Other Card Information:

• Bull's Eye was 1 to every 2 Ghost Rares and is considered a Short Print

• Bang, Surprised, and Gateway were printed 4 to every 3 Uber Rares, making them more common to pull from packs

• Doushi was the only Uber printed 1 to every 3 Uber Rares and is considered a Short Print

• Dark Ritual was printed 3 to every 4 Spirit Rares and is considered a Short Print

• Champion Driver, Clash of Champions, Heroic Sacrifice, Madness, Abduction, Cruel Punishment, Dark Encounter, Dark Gambit were all printed 2 to every 1 Common, making them more common to pull from packs

• Jin was printed 2 to every 1 Reprint, making it more common to pull from packs.

• The number of sheets for Gateway is likely 9. DR sheet, Lined sheet, Cloudy sheet, Jagged sheet, SR C/R foil sheet, DR C/R sheet, non-foil C/R sheet, SR promo sheet, DR promo sheet.

• DR's were printed 4 per booster box, typically. 2 Commons, 1 Rare, 1 Team Bonus.

Exile:

• P1 Malefic Grenade - September 2004 issue of Scrye (Issue 75). Released July 28, 2004.

• P2 Hatred - Winner's promo for Exile Pre-Release events

• P3 Banished - September issue of Inquest (Issue 113) **Note: There are 2 different covers. Both covers are confirmed to have Banished sealed in them. Released August 4, 2004.** **Note 2: There are 2 versions of the plastic around the sealed copy of the Cover 1 of 2 issue. The mail-order version plastic sealing the issue is clear from top to bottom, while the in-store version plastic sealing the issue has a black stripe with red text along the top. There does not appear to be a mail-order version of Cover 2 of 2.**

• P4 Peek! - Undefeated Magazine, Issue #9. Released October 27, 2004.

• P5 Coalition - Entry promo for Exile Pre-Release events and convention promo

• TP3 The End - Tournament Consolation Promo inserted into tournament kits with Spirit Pack 4 (similar to Gotcha! and Meditation)

The following are NOT available as foils:

• ST168 Fire Seal

• ST169 Fruit Of The Previous Life

• ST170 Ootake, Captain

• ST171 Kuwabara, Charming Lackey

• ST172 Yoko, Charming Fox

• ST173 Yusuke, Charming Devil

• ST174 Chu, 13th Fighter

• ST175 Genkai, Spirit Guide

• ST176 Kayko, Mature Beauty

• ST177 Hiei, The Vanquisher

• ST178 Sensui, Sacred Armor

• ST179 Shura, Loving Son

• ST180 Black Inferno

• ST181 Stone Toss

Other Card Information:

• We have no knowledge or information about Exile sheets. Your guess is as good as mine. Likely there are 4 sheets. It's probable that 1 sheet was C/R non-foil (as there are 121), 1 sheet was C/R foil, 1 sheet were the Starter Deck cards (which explains why no foils of them exist, the insert cards and promos were likely also on this sheet), and then the last sheet is probably the S/U/G/League/Spirit Pack cards.

Betrayal:

• P1 Serenity - Yu Yu Hakusho TCG World Realms Championships Entry Prize (copies found at South Realms)

• P2 Point Blank - Winner's promo from Betrayal Pre-release and Score Ent. Convention Booth.

• P3 Mukuro's Spirit of Words - Inserted in Shonen Jump Dec 2004 Issue #24 (Vol 2, Issue 12). Released November 3, 2004. **Note: There are 2 versions of the plastic around the sealed copy of this issue. The mail-order version plastic sealing the issue is clear from top to bottom, while the in-store version plastic sealing the issue has a black stripe with red text along the top.**

• P4 Sanctuary - Entry Promo for Betrayal Pre-release.

• TP4 Hajime - Tournament Consolation Promo inserted into tournament kits with Spirit Pack 5 (similar to Gotcha!, Meditation, and The End)

• TX1 Grim Determination - Team Challenge Promo

Other Card Information:

• Puu was 2 to every other card's 1 on the sheet, making it a common Uber rare.

• Final Sacrifice, The Past Resolved, Exterminate, Spirit Blast were 2 to every 3 Commons for Spirit Pack 5

• Koto, the MC and Youda, Veteran Advisor were 2 to every 1 Rare in Spirit Pack 5, making them the more common Rare pulls

Alliance:

• The Team Bonus cards are not available as foils.

Other Card Information:

• We have no knowledge or information about Alliance sheets. Your guess is as good as mine. There might be simply 2 sheets, a foil sheet with all the cards and a non-foil sheet with all the cards replacing the S/U/G with the Team Bonus inserts.

This is a running list of some of the rarest cards in the game, with possible number available:

• G1/0 Epic Tales (300-600 likely exist)

• C154/176 Spirit Gun Double (Score Stamped) (very unclear how many actually exist)

• C156/176 Storm of Torment (Corrected Version) (less than 100)

• Origins Card (many were handed out, many were also destroyed/thrown out, likely less than 500 still exist)

• G0 The Dark One (signed, unsigned, and reprint) (likely anywhere between 50-100 exist for original, unsure on reprint)

• X0 Kuwabara, Noble Champion (Standard Edition Single Rainbow) (only 4 known to exist, likely stamp missed the card and was not meant to be Standard Edition, considered a misprint)

• X1 Ura-Otoko (32-100 likely exist)

• SK1 Yusuke, Raizen's Successor (~100 exist most likely)

• P1 Hiei, Determined Warrior (Double Rainbow) (only 1 known to exist)

• P2 Crazy World (Double Rainbow) (likely ~50-100 exist)

• P3 Head-On Assault (Double Rainbow) (only 6 known to exist)

• P2 Hatred (unclear how many exist, but the promo is hard to find)

• P4 Peek! (unclear how many exist, but the promo is hard to find)

• P1 Serenity (many printed, with quite a few handed out but the number has lessened immensely over the years)

• TX1 Grim Determination (only 1 per printed sheet, so I can't imagine a ton of these actually exist)

Please keep in mind the numbers above are mostly estimates and should not be considered fact.

League Set Information:

• Dark Tournament, Gateway, and Exile all had League Set cards. Leagues were discontinued after Exile.

• The cards were bundled in kits. Kits contained 20 sets of League cards (so 200 cards total in a bundle). The kits also contained 1 League T-Shirt, 2 Season Posters, and 1 Score Sheet (which was supposed to be photocopied and distributed to players). Stores were allowed to charge no fee or up to a $6 fee to enter the Season. This was a one time payment for that season.

• It is unclear how Single Rainbow and Double Rainbow foils were distributed. If I had to guess, it was 10/10.

• Leagues ran for 8 weeks but 6 of those weeks would be counted. The remaining 2 weeks were back up weeks (in case of inclement weather, failure of enough players to show up, temporary store closure, players missing a week and wanting to make up the week they missed, etc etc).

• Leagues were broken up into 3 seasons. Puppet Season (DT) which began on February 20th, 2004 and concluded on April 2nd, 2004. Fighter Season (GW) which began on May 3rd, 2004 and concluded on June 21st, 2004. Spirit Season (EX) which began on [date pending...I forgot to take a picture of it] and concluded on [date pending].

• Players had tasks they had to complete to attain certain cards in the League Set.

• The breakdown of card distributions:

-L1 was always given out as a participation card in Week 1 of the League Season.

-L2 was always given out as a participation card in Week 2 of the League Season.

-L3 was given out when you completed 1 or more of 5 tasks during Week 2. Tasks will be listed below.

-L4 was always given out as a participation card in Week 3 of the League Season.

-L5 was always given out as a participation card in Week 4 of the League Season.

-L6 was given out when you completed 1 or more of 5 tasks during Week 4. Tasks will be listed below.

-L7 was always given out as a participation card in Week 5 of the League Season.

-L8 was always given out as a participation card in Week 6 of the League Season.

-L9 was always given out when a new player enrolled in the Yu Yu Hakusho TCG League Season, regardless of when they joined.

-L10 was always given out at the conclusion of a Season to all participants in the Season.

• The following tasks were applied throughout the 3 seasons:

-Bringing a new friend one night.

-Beating a parent at Yu Yu Hakusho TCG.

-Teaching someone new Yu Yu Hakusho TCG.

-Bringing more than 2 Yu Yu Hakusho TCG decks.

-Creating your own Yu Yu Hakusho TCG card.

-Wearing a Yu Yu Hakusho TCG shirt.

• At the conclusion of the Season, any leftover cards can be distributed at the discretion of the League Master to those who participated and completed the Season. If I had to guess, this is how many players attained L9 since you can be new only once at a store location.