This focus only came to be once fans fixated on Duel Monsters, and those who look back to the start of the manga to see how it all began may be shocked to see just how long it is before a card even shows up. This problem isn't impacting any other region, though, meaning everyone else should be able to get their hands on the Tin without issue.Although it spawned one of the most popular card games on the planet, the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga didn't originally focus on its iconic Duel Monsters game. Konami has said that stock will be available form launch day, but stores will be receiving their shipments in waves, making it incredibly limited. While the Tin is ostensibly launching today for $19.99/£19.99, players in North America may struggle to get their hands on it due to supply chain issues that have plagued the region all year. Even with incoming limitations meant to slightly nerf the Drytron and Zoodiac Tri-Brigade decks, the changes being made are so small that the cards you pull in a tina re still likely to be competitive for a good while yet. Notably it includes key cards from the Drytron, Zoodiac Tri-Brigade and Virtual World decks that are still near the top of the current metagame.

Expect to see a lot more of Dark Magician going forward, as one of 2022's first booster sets, Chaos of Battle, will be giving him lots of new support cards.Īs the aim of the set is to include cards that have dominated the meta over the last year, the Tin of Ancient Battles has a lot of powerhouse cards. For long-term collectors of Yu-Gi-Oh!, the tin itself also stacks with the 20 tins to depict the ongoing battle between the series' two most famous monsters, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician.

Every pack is also guaranteed to have at least one rare, two super rares, two ultra rares and one prismatic secret rare (which has a different foil pattern to normal cards, and are exceptionally rare in TCG releases). RELATED: Yu-Gi-Oh! Reveals Battle Of Chaos, Its First TCG Core Booster Of 2022Įach tin comes with three packs, each containing 18 cards (double the size of a usual booster pack). There are also some exclusive debuts, like Crossout Designator, Magician's Salvation, Piercing the Darkness and True Light, which are being printed into the TCG from the Japanese OCG for the first time. One of Yu-Gi-Oh!'s biggest releases of the year is out today, with the 2021 Tin of Ancient Battles reprinting some of last year's most competitive cards.Įach year's tins are compilation sets of the previous year's releases, meaning the 2021 Tin of Ancient Battles combines cards from 2020's Ignition Assault, Eternity Code, Rise of the Duelist and Phantom Rage booster sets.

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