Pulling Fire: Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection 5 Card List And Rarity Breakdown

Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Rarity Collection 5 launched on April 9, 2026. Alongside a main set of cards from across seven different rare rarities, it also includes an extra fifth card that can be one of multiple alt-art styles worth collecting. It also features reprints of powerful and much-needed meta cards, to help keep your deck on top.

What Is Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection 5

Rartity Collection 5 is a new special release for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. It introduces new rarities and art treatments, in a set full of great reprints.

To celebrate Yu-Gi-Oh!’s 25 year anniversary, we were treated to a whole series of Quarter Century sets. They offered powerful, much-needed reprints for players, and a whole new ier of rarity for collectors: the Quarter Century Secret Rare.

With Yugi’s birthday now in the rear window, how could Konami hope to follow up on such a peak set? The answer is the Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection V, which, for the first time in the history of Yu-Gi-Oh!, is introducing of multiple brand new, alternate art frame treatment you’re not going to want to miss.

Whether you’re hunting for the adorable messaging app variants that scrawl chat phrases across the art, or the luxurious full-art frame break cards, Rarity Collection V is easily one of the boldest and most experimental sets we’ve had in a good long while. I can’t wait to get stuck into it when it launches on April 9, 2026.

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Each pack of Rarity Collection 5 features five cards. The first four will be Super, Ultra, Secret, Starlight, Platinum, Prismatic, and Collector Rares, while the fifth card will be a guaranteed special art card that features one of the two new art-styles in the set.

Each pack of Rarity Collection V includes five cards, and the layout of a booster pack might be very different to what you’re ordinarily used to.

Slots 1-4: These are the majority of your pack, and include four cards of one of seven different rarities: super, ultra, and secret from your regular YGO boosters, but also Starlight Rares and the crosshatched foil Platinum Secret Rares in one in four packs. There are also the Rarity Collection’s ever popular swirly fingerprint foiling of Prismatic Ultimate, and Collector Rares, which appear in 1-6 booster packs. That’s right; no commons and uncommons here!

This is how most of the set’s excellent reprints are being dished out, making a Rarity Collection V booster pack a great way to get some much-needed gas for your decks. Slot 5: This is where the real magic happens. Every single pack of Rarity Collection V has a guaranteed special art card, which could be in one of the two never-before-seen card styles for the game.

Decoding The 5-Card Pack Structure And Pull Rates

If you want to know exactly what you could find in a booster, check this handy table of everything Rarity Collection V has to offer:

Top Cards In The Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection 5 Card List

The two art styles are a messaging-app inspired one with words and phrases woven into the art, and the much more exciting extended art cards that burst out of the frame. Rarity Collection V also has lots of strong reprints, like Chaos Angel, Kashtira Fenrir, and Mementoal Tecuhtlica.

As mentioned, this set features two alt-art styles never before seen in YGO. The first are Messaging App cards, which incorporate common chat messages into the art - some in English, but many in Japanese. These are cards like Divine Arsenal AA-Zeus - Sky Thunder, which has the Japanese for “Let’s do it!” plastered across it in peak anime fashion.

The other new art style is easily the single biggest shakeup Yu-Gi-Oh! has ever made to its card templating: extended art. This art quite literally breaks out of the illustration box, spreading out over the card to Incredible effect. There are ten cards with this treatment in the set, including Super Polymerization - a staple that would be perfect to bling out just about any deck that uses Fusion Monsters.

For a game that has stuck firm to its card frame for over 25 years, to finally see Yu-Gi-Oh! Experimenting with how cards look is incredibly exciting. But on top of new glitz and glam for your deck, Rarity Collection 5 includes a ton of excellent top-of-meta cards too.

For example, we’ve got Chaos Angel, which was last seen in the Dueling Mirrors tin. This Synchro monster has seen play in a huge number of decks, both in- and off-meta. It loves Light and Dark monsters, making it slot in to just about any deck that uses one or both to great effect.

The set also has Kashtira Fenrir, one of the main engines in the ridiculously powerful Kashtira archetype. A few years ago, Kashtira was tearing up the meta thanks in no small part to Fenrir’s ability to search your deck for another monster, provided you play it with no other monsters in play. Anyone playing Yu-Gi-Oh! in the last few years has likely run into a Kashtira deck or two, so having Fenrir’s first reprint since 2023 should help make it more accessible.

The last card I want to shout out is Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation. This is the boss monster of the entire Memento archetype, which relies on you filling your graveyard with as many other Memento monsters as possible to get it out as far as you can. It can single-handedly wipe your opponent’s board of monsters with its ability to attack each creature once each turn, and can keep your gameplan going by throwing down even more Memento monsters in response to your opponent trying to activate card effects. To say Mementoal Tecuhtlica is an absolute nightmare to play against is an understatement, so of course you’re going to want to make a deck with it should you pull one in Rarity Collection 5.

Where To Buy Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection 5 In The UK

You can buy Rarity Collection 5 from Magic Madhouse. It has booster packs, booster boxes, and singles from the set available for preorder.

You’ve already found the best place to buy Rarity Collection 5: Magic Madhouse! With the set launching this April, you’ve still got plenty of time to get your preorders for the set in.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection V Booster Box comes with 25 packs of five cards each, giving you a hefty 125 cards at least Super Rare or better! If you’d rather just have a taster of the set, you can also preorder individual booster packs as well.

If you’re not somebody who savours the crack of a pack and would rather just get what you need straight away, you can also preorder Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection 5 cards individually through Magic Madhouse. Personally, I’m eyeing up that Kashtira Fenrir.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does Rarity Collection 5 release?

The official UK release date is 9 April 2026

What are "Extended Art" cards?

These are a new rarity type where the card art expands beyond the usual border to the edges of the card.

Does every pack have a variant?

Yes, every pack contains one guaranteed variant art or extended art card in the 5th slot.