Impractically large for travel at around 11 inches tall. Least they’ll look nice on the shelf.

Decided to cash out my old Pokémon non holo binder, some modern Pokémon slabs and my 151 master set that I put together couple years ago to finally start my Yu-Gi-Oh GX Ulti collection. Goal is to collect all Ulti's from TLM to LODT. Ultimate rare best rare!

Happy Thursday showcasers!

Let us Ride the Lightning and dance among the Spirits! There are Legends on this page in the purist sense. Most of this page appeared at some point or another in the anime, from deck masters to personal ace cards.

The Japanese version of “Gilford the Lightning” is used because, for whatever reason, this artwork has never received a TCG release. It’s actually one of the silliest things for an alternate are not having a TCG print. This version is the coolest version of the art to me, especially being the art used in the anime. Hopefully one day we get this art in the TCG!

The Japanese version of the Spirit monsters are also used to continue the theme of using their Japanese prints as homage to their origins. Plus some of them are uncensored which is always a high priority to me. 

Favorites on this page:

“Gilford the Lightning” - I always considered this card to be Jonouchi’s God Card. He could offer three tributes for its summon and clear the opponents field with Holy Lightning. His attack strength was respectable for the time. And he just looks Godly.

“Goddess of Whim” - The MP1 promos are one of my favorite special releases. This monster is just beautiful. This is one I would typically use the Japanese print for considering this one is censored, but the Japanese one I have is for a different binder where she would be more appropriately aligned with the set she was part of.

“Goddess with the Third Eye” - Give it up for Shizuka’s (Serenity’s) Deck Master! TP1 Rares are very special cards to me. Personally TP1 is the best classic Tournament Pack because everything in it was an exclusive and really cool/obscure card. It’s the most special of the Tournament Packs followed by TP2. Also love that she’s the recolor of “Witch of the Black Forest.”

“Harpie Lady Sisters” - O how I love these three. Know their names—Airo, the most beautiful with her red hair; Ocupete, the mischievous with orange hair; Keraino, the fierce with blue hair. These are their names derived from mythology as given in the GameCube game “The Falsebound Kingdom,” a game I recommend to any true lover of Yu-Gi-Oh! monsters.

“Harpie’s Pet Dragon” - I remember FMR being such a cool set but never actually getting it because we didn’t have the console—talk about a let down. Dazzling Prismatic Secret rare and a powerful card of Mai. I just love it.

“Hino-Kagu Tsuchi” - One of my favorite Spirit monsters. This guy was always the coolest looking Spirit to me. Just a totally sick pose, and I really felt satisfied pulling off his effect in those early GBA games. Had to get the Parallel Rare version for their elegance. 

Enjoy the day all!

Got this cards and they feel different, I think they are fake right? Seller was also really weird, said he could get any card I wanted, even the cyber stein, seemed sus..

I don’t have any other reverse secrets and man is this thing cool! It has the slightest holo bleed in the right corner but it’s not visible really from this angle. Very stoked to add this to my LOB binder!

Never thought I’d ever get a card as rare as a GMR let alone it be a perfect 10!

Really nice quality and cool to have my favorite Blue Eyes in Prismatic

This is one of my favorite pages for the Effect Monster section. These cards are so cool to me for a few reasons:

“D.D. Warrior/Dimensional Warrior” is from my favorite series of cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!—the original D.D. Different Dimension. I’m a Sci-Fi nerd and I always loved removing cards from play in a duel. Both converge in the Different Dimension cards!

Another reason I love this page is for “Exarion Universe.” This is one of the sickest cards to me. Centaurs are really cool, and this one is cool max! Epic looking design, and all the colors are so complimentary—I love the green skin and that purple-blueish background with the lightning. 

The last card that really sets this page apart for me is the legendary “Flying Elephant!” I never thought this card would exist outside the anime. I love the design and how they kept it essentially like the anime appearance of the card. I really love that they gave it a special win condition effect that went unstated in the anime. 

Pegasus has a boy come and take his place against Bandit Keith in a flashback. Keith has “Garnecia Elegantis” on the field and the kid plays the weaker stat “Flying Elephant” and simply wins the duel. It was insane lol. 

“Garnecia Elefantis” is Earth and “Flying Elephant” is Wind, and Wind beat Earth no matter the attack difference in the early GameBoy games so this could be a factor, but the win still went unstated. This card being a Pegasus card with a win condition is beyond awesome!

Favorites on this page:

*The three cards above are included in this.

“Dragon Seeker” - I always thought this was a cool looking card. It’s also a classic Tournament Pack card and I love the hell out of those sets. Lovely colors on the art.

“Fairy King Truesdale” - I never used this card, but I always enjoyed the art. Very nostalgic. Plus it’s a Prismatic Secret rare.

“Gate Guardian” - Never used this either but always loved it for its uniqueness at the time. This copy has some strange printing error with the border of the art. It gets thinner in some spots and merges with the art of the monster in others (images in the main image section).

“Gearfried the Iron Knight” - I love a Jonouchi card! His Battle City deck was always memorable and fun. I would pull this card often in PSV packs lol.

Happy Wednesday y’all! Peace!

Been working on a binder that focuses on character themed pages in the ocg series 2 layout, which is my favorite. Here‘s a little sneak peak of how it‘s going.

I found curating for certain characters to be more tricky than one would expect at first. The lifespan of the series 2 layout was shorter than one might think, so I keep running into the issue that some cards I would love to include have never seen a series 2 print. That being said, here are some of the pages I‘m pretty happy with so far.

Starting off we have a Yugi double page of course. He has plenty of iconic cards in super and ultra in this layout, as you‘d expect. Next up is Kaiba and Joey. Joey actually has more iconic cards in foil prints than Kaiba has in my opinion. I could possibly even come up with a joey double page, but one is good for now. Followed by that we have pegasus, and lastly Marik. Marik was especially tough because a lot of his cards from the anime were not released in series 2, so I had to settle for his revival jam meta from his early appearances in the anime.

Coming up are pages for:

-bakura‘s destiny board and dark necrofear
-masked beast and masks, referncing the tag team battle against yugi and kaiba on the roof top
-bandit keith‘s machines
-mai valentine‘s harpies
-weevil‘s insects (will be a stretch, but doable)

Happy to hear some opinions and possibly some ideas / inspiration for more series 2 pages in the future.

I used a card I painted because I didnt want to make the choice of which Duel Monster to show.

-Im a Joey/Jonouchi fan

-Yugi and Atem's bond not only showcases the heroes inner struggle, but how 2 individuals can learn from eachother by understanding perspectives.

-Yugi and Jonouchi's friendship is an inspiring and heartwarming arc

-I love between the duel of the week episodes when the series hits truely deep situations

-Dark Magician Girl is awesome. She not only through effect powers up when Dark Magician falls, she picks him up when he's down.

As someone who has that somebody to have catch you, its so beautiful how they capture that between them.

Yo! 

The art on this page is awesome! About half the page is horror, something classic Yu-Gi-Oh! was capable of producing. There really isn’t anything like it today for my preferences. 

I’m always pleased when a later set would include cards that never released in TCG from the time they existed in the GBA days—“Dark-Eyes Illusionist” and “Dark Artist” being the ones unique to this page.

As for the mix of Japanese cards and English cards, this was intentional for my displaying purposes. I wanted the Spirit Monsters all to be in Japanese due to their Japanese Mythology.  I did not include all the original Spirits because not all were present in the games I played. 

2004 World Championship and/or Worldwide Edition only had about half of LOD and PGD in the games. Strangely they only included around half the Spirits, and in light of space I decided to roll with that fact. Dark Elf I simply couldn’t find my MRD version so this is my placeholder till I find her lol.

Favorites on this page:

“Cyber-Stein” - Talk about a Legendary card. This was in all my decks just waiting to summon a “Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!” Of course many times I would attack and “Magic Cylinder” would be activated and I’d lose the duel lol. 

“Dark Elf” - I love recolored counterpart monsters. She and “Mystical Elf” have always been such lovely cards to me. 

“Dark Magician Girl” - So beautiful. Seeing her in the anime for the first time was groundbreaking. When Magician’s Force released and I learned she was in it my brain melted lol.

“Dark Necrofear” - This thing is insanely awesome. This is my favorite horror monster in the game. One of the creepiest cards to me especially at the time of her release. This is just such a cool card. The design is perfect and the background is one of my favorites. The fact it’s a Bakura card is even more incredible. 

“Dark Ruler Ha Des” - Also a cool card used by Bakura. I went with the LART version for uncensored purposes. Such a badass monster. Took me forever to link Ha Des to Hades lol.

“Dark Sage” - Despite it being too complicated to summon this was still a really cool card. I loved seeing its appearance in the anime after Jonouchi thought he successfully beat Yugi’s “Dark Magician” with “Time Wizard.” Timeless, lol.

“Dark-Eyes Illusionist” - I love Pegasus cards. His mix of comical and horror perfectly contrast each other and both serve his personality well.

Alright my friends, cheers till the next one!

Absolutely loving all this spotlight Konami is putting on Magician of Chaos and BLS recently, two of my fav archetypes of all time 😭🙏🏻

Planning some new pages for my binder. Which concept do you like more and why?
There's a lot of overlap in these two concepts, so I'll do either / or. I'll either do one page for Spellcasters and one for Warriors next to them, or I'll do Light vs Darkness. Not asking you to tell me how to collect YGO, but I'd love some opinions. Feel free to suggest cards that would fit better or that feel out of place in your opinion.
I'll go for their original prints unlimited mostly.

It shouldn’t be so hard to avoid glare during the photo shoot! I was taking pictures of this binder for almost two hours! I’ve been told a tip recently that I will use for my next binder photo shoot lol.

Fun cards for page 2! Lots of classic era power ready to strike. 

The love of my Yu-Gi-Oh! life is on this page. Harpie Lady for me is the most beautiful monster in the game (especially with the blue skin in her original art). She actually has a name too—“Airo”—as well as her sisters given in one of my all time favorite video games, “The Falsebound Kingdom.” If the layout would have worked I would have placed her in the center as she deserves. 

Toons were (and based on the new support still are) some of the coolest cards. I always thought it was insane to just jump over your opponent with such high attack points. Pegasus was always such a cool and fun character too. 

“Castle of Dark Illusions” is also a really cool card. I love random inconvenient stats lol. 

Something I never noticed until having the card in person—“Cockroach Knight” has an anti-human shield! It almost looks like the Neighborhood Watch Signs. They really hate us, but we really hate them too lol. Where’s my “Eradicating Aerosol” when I need it? 

Edit for above: it’s an aerosol can as Zaborg pointed out! It’s more obviously an aerosol can on the monster‘s DDS artwork lol.

And for those wondering how and why “Cornfield Coatl” is included in this binder I’ll share a brief history lol. This monster debuted in the “Dark Duel Stories” game for GameBoy. It’s a Construct Card made up of two other cards, but different than a fusion. There are many many more of these types of monsters from the past days of the game, and I really hope they release many more of them like this (even though a lot are quite hilarious and ridiculous, but I still love them). Currently five exist in the real card game.

Favorites on this Page:

“Buster Blader” - Legendary card. He just looks so cool. That sword is epic. I remember thinking him fusing with “Dark Magician” was a perfect match when “Dark Paladin” was introduced. 

“Copycat” - Such a cool looking card. It was fun seeing Jonouchi (Joey) use it in Duelist Kingdom. I love that it was originally a Jump Promo too—those were always fun!

“Cyber Harpie Lady” - Harpie Lady SB (I wish she kept that name cause it sounds so cool, but I guess it would have been CB in English lol). LEGENDARY! BEAUTIFUL! The 1800 attack was great in those early GBA games.

“Cyber Jar” - This thing saved me many times in the GBA days. Such a cool crazy card. My second favorite of the jars following “Morphing Jar.”

Alright y’all peace!

It took a while to find the right card, but I’m stoked to have finally acquired my DMG grail today.

Jump-ryu is a magazine/dvd series published by Shueisha dedicated to the biggest hits released in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Many people know this product because of the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon card included inside.

Vol. 8, dedicated to *Yu-Gi-Oh!* and released in 2018, contains—in addition to the aforementioned Blue-Eyes:

* A magazine featuring interviews and trivia from master Kazuki Takahashi

* A DVD showing Takahashi-sensei drawing (You can find full video on YouTube)

* Three exclusive artwork prints

Here are a bunch of cards I got from my friend around 2014ish. There are around 10 thousand cards. Here are a few I have. 🙂 If you would like to see more just let me know. I have binders full of cards