Artwork
Alternate Art is used to describe the Artwork of any card that is different to its Original Print. Alternate artworks are typically available in the form of Promos, and are usually of cards popularized by characters in the Anime.
For Example, Dark Magician Girl has three Alternate Artworks in the OCG (two of which are present in the TCG) and one Original Artwork.
Note that alternate artwork is different from artwork changes from the OCG to the TCG. For example, Axe of Despair, Barrel Dragon, Blowback Dragon, Exodia the Forbidden One and its limbs, Soul Release, Harpie Girl, and Mystic Tomato are not considered to have alternate artwork.
All alternate art cards have the same password as their originals, except Polymerization (the newer being Polymerization (Fusion)) and one version of Dark Magician (the Arkana version).
Currently Dark Magician, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and Blue-Eyes White Dragon have the most artworks, with 5 artworks each.
A list of cards with alternate artworks
- Acid Trap Hole
- Amazoness Swords Woman
- Attack Guidance Armor
- Axe of Despair
- Amplifier
- Barrel Dragon
- Big Shield Gardna
- Blowback Dragon
- Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
- Blue-Eyes White Dragon
- Buster Blader
- Celtic Guardian
- Crush Card Virus
- Cyber Dragon
- Cyber End Dragon
- Dark Magician and Dark Magician (Arkana)
- Dark Magician Girl
- Dark Paladin
- Elemental Hero Avian
- Elemental Hero Burstinatrix
- Elemental Hero Flame Wingman
- Elemental Hero Flare Neos
- Elemental Hero Sparkman
- Elemental Hero Wildheart
- Flame Swordsman
- Exodia the Forbidden One
- Gaia the Fierce Knight
- Gemini Elf
- Gilford the Lightning
- Gyakutenno Megami
- Harpie Girl
- Harpie Lady
- Harpie's Feather Duster
- Injection Fairy Lily
- Jinzo
- Kunai with Chain
- Kuriboh
- La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp
- Launcher Spider
- Mad Lobster
- Malefic Truth Dragon
- Metalmorph
- Millennium Shield
- Number 34: Terror-Byte
- Obelisk the Tormentor (original)
- Panther Warrior
- Pendulum Machine
- Polymerization and Polymerization (Fusion)
- Red-Eyes Black Dragon
- Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon
- Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
- Ring of Destruction
- Soul Release
- Summoned Skull
- Stronghold the Moving Fortress
- The Winged Dragon of Ra (original)
- Thousand Dragon
- Tiger Axe
- Toon World
- Viser Des
- Vorse Raider
- Water Omotics
- Widespread Ruin
- Winged Kuriboh
- XYZ-Dragon Cannon