Booster 4
Booster 4 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Names | |||||
English |
| ||||
| |||||
Set information | |||||
Medium | OCG | ||||
Type | |||||
Part of series | Core Booster | ||||
Number of cards | 40 | ||||
Yugioh-Card database ID |
| ||||
Release dates | |||||
Japanese | August 26, 1999 | ||||
Booster 4 |
Booster 4 is a Japanese Core Booster in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game that was released on August 26, 1999. This set was sold only in Carddass vending machines.
Like other cards printed early on in the game, the cards have no printed set numbers, and lack the distinctive Eye of Anubis Hologram in the lower right-hand corner of each card.
Of the 40 cards in Booster 4, all but nine—"Barrel Rock", "Emperor of the Land and Sea", "Fairy of the Fountain", "Fiend Kraken", "Gorgon Egg", "Mech Bass", "Orion the Battle King", "Spirit of the Mountain", and "Winged Egg of New Life"—have since been printed in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game.
Features
- Includes cards used by Anzu Mazaki,Dark Yugi, Insector Haga, Katsuya Jonouchi, Seto Kaiba and Ryota Kajiki in the Yu-gi-oh manga.
- Included cards previously featured in the 1998 videogame Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters.
- Fusion monsters requiring 3 Fusion Materials are introduced and advertised.
Breakdown
Booster 4 contains 40 cards. Rarities are distributed as follows:
The set also contains six non-playable FAQ Cards.
Previously featured cards
Reprints
Booster 4 reprinted five spell cards from Vol.4; the other 35 cards were introduced in this set. 24 of those cards have been reprinted in Japanese: three cards in EX Starter Box and EX-R Starter Box, 19 cards in Booster R2, 14 cards in Booster Chronicle, and four cards in other sets later.
- Reprinted from Vol.4
- "Acid Rain", "Breath of Light", "Eradicating Aerosol", "Eternal Drought", "Warrior Elimination"
- EX Starter Box and EX-R Starter Box
- "Dark Titan of Terror", "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp", "The Wicked Worm Beast"
- Booster R2
- "Axe Raider", "Call of the Grave", "Cockroach Knight", "Emperor of the Land and Sea", "Fairy of the Fountain", "Faith Bird", "Gemini Elf", "Giant Red Seasnake", "Graceful Charity". "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp", "Maiden of the Moonlight", "Mech Bass", "Mechanicalchaser", "Orion the Battle King", "Queen of Autumn Leaves", "The Wicked Worm Beast", "Turtle Bird", "White Hole", "Winged Egg of New Life"
- Booster Chronicle
- "Axe Raider", "Call of the Grave", "Cockroach Knight", "Fairy of the Fountain", "Faith Bird", "Gemini Elf", "Giant Red Seasnake", "Graceful Charity", "Maiden of the Moonlight", "Mechanicalchaser", "Queen of Autumn Leaves", "The Wicked Worm Beast", "Turtle Bird", "White Hole"
- Other
- "Aqua Dragon", "Fairy Dragon", "Karakuri Spider", "Man-eating Black Shark"
- Never reprinted in Japanese
- "Amazon of the Seas", "Barrel Rock", "Big Insect", "Brave Scizzar", "Fiend Kraken", "Gorgon Egg", "Gruesome Goo", "Sea Kamen", "Spirit of the Mountain", "Swordsman from a Distant Land", "Zone Eater"