| Common |
A Common card is identified by having a black or white card name and the image is not holofoiled. Some common cards are short printed or super short printed by UDE. A listing of all super short or short prints can be found in Beckett's Official Magazine. |
| Normal Rare |
Normal Rares are identical to Commons, except they are slightly harder to find. Comparable to the now-discontinued TCG Short Print and Super Short Print rarities, Normal Rares only exists in the OCG. |
| Short Print |
Short Print's are identical to Commons, except they are slightly harder to find. This only existed in the TCG, and were discontinued after Ancient Sanctuary, but have since been re-introduced in the OCG and the TCG in Phantom Darkness. |
| Super Short Print |
Super Short Print's are identical to Commons and Short Prints, except they are much harder to find. They only existed in the TCG, and were discontinued after Ancient Sanctuary. |
| Holofoil Rares |
Holofoil Rares are used for early Gameboy Promos. They are akin to Super Rares, but have a coating very similar to Parallel Common cards. However, this coating has none of the consistent layout and texture of the usual Parallel coating. |
| Rare |
A Rare card is identified by having a silver card name and the image is not holofoiled |
| Super Rare |
A Super Rare card is identified by having a black or white card name and the image is a holofoil. More recent video game promo cards have been Super Rares. |
| Ultra Rare |
An Ultra Rare card is identified by having a gold card name and a holofoil image. |
| Ultimate Rare |
An Ultimate Rare card has an embossed foil on the image, attribute or icon, and level stars. The card name is gold like an Ultra Rare. When scanned, the embossed image may be muted and the image indistinct from the background. This card rarity was primarily introduced to combat Scalers, since the card is much thinner than a normal Super Rare one, with a weight comparable to a Common. Ultimate Rare cards usually also come in a less rare variety that can be found in the same booster and has the same card number.
OCG Ultimate Rares tend to scan much better than their TCG counterparts, due to a slightly reflective coating present on all OCG cards (but lacking on TCG cards). This has the advantage of brightening the image, and making the foil image more distinct than on a TCG equivalent.
On the internet market, Ultimate Rare Cards are much more valuable than others, even if their effectiveness in the game is only upper average. |
| Ghost Rare |
Ghost Rare is a new rarity introduced in the TCG version of Tactical Evolution. It appears to have a very shiny silver lettering, much like a Secret Rare, with some colors removed from the card image, and the entire card appears to be holographic. The overall effect of these changes is a pale, "Ghost-like" appearance to the card art, especially when scanned. There are only three Ghost Rare TCG Cards: Rainbow Dragon, Elemental Hero Chaos Neos and Rainbow Neos. |
| Holographic Rare |
Holographic Rare is a new rarity introduced in the OCG version of Tactical Evolution. It appears to have silver lettering like a Secret Rare Card, and many colors removed from the card image, and the entire card appears to be holographic. At the moment there are only three cards which are holographic rare: Rainbow Dragon, Rainbow Neos and Elemental Hero Chaos Neos.
The angle of the card changes the reflected color just like a hologram. |
| Secret Rare |
A Secret Rare card is identified by having a silver card name and the image has a unique holofoil known as a parallel holofoil (named due to the parallel dot effect on the image). In sets that are older than Tactical Evolution, secret Rares are all either the first (#000) or last cards in a set.
Secret Rares were at first discontinued due to excessive use of electronic scales, however, they have been re-introduced in Strike of Neos. |
| Prismatic Secret Rare |
This refers to European Secret Rare promos, whose glittery holographics follow a very different 'prism' pattern to their North American counterpart(s). |
| Ultra Secret Rare |
An Ultra Secret Rare has the Ultra Rare foil over the image, but has the sparkly silver card name like a Secret Rare. There are very few of these cards; only one currently exists in English (the GSE version of "Elemental Hero Wildheart"), with the remaining ten in Japanese. |
| Secret Ultra Rare |
A Secret Ultra Rare has the Secret Rare foil over the image, but has the Gold card name like a Ultra Rare.
The only image known for this type of rarity, is an apparently misprinted version of "Gaia the Dragon Champion" in the original Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon booster pack. |
| Parallel Rarities |
Parallel Rare as a generic term, used to refer to cards where the entire card surface is holographic (shows up as an even "haze" on most scans). There are four types of Parallel Rare:
- Normal Parallel Rare: Normal black or white title, normal picture. Also known as "Parallel Common."
- Super Parallel Rare: Normal black or white title, holographic picture.
- Terminal Parallel Rare: Only found on Duel Terminal Series cards, these are based on Normal Parallel Rares, but with a different Parallel Coating design.
- Ultra Parallel Rare: Gold title, holographic picture.
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