Booster 1
Booster 1 was a vending-machine set released on March 1, 1999, as one of the very first sets in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game—preceded only by Vol.1 (released the month prior). Like all Series 1 sets, Booster 1 cards used the Series 1 card layout, distinguished from later layouts by the lack of a Card Number beneath the card's artwork and the Eye of Anubis Hologram in its lower-right corner. Like the other Booster sets, Booster 1 was distributed via Carddass vending machines.
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Medium | OCG | ||||||||||
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Part of series | Booster | ||||||||||
Number of cards | 40 | ||||||||||
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Japanese | March 1, 1999 | ||||||||||
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Like the other Booster sets, Booster 1 has a tagline associated with it: "The prideful Duel of truth begins now." (「誇り高き真実の決闘デュエルが、今、始まる。」)
Contents
FeaturesEdit
- Includes cards used by Seto Kaiba, Katsuya Jonouchi, Mokuba Kaiba and Maximillion J. Pegasus.
BreakdownEdit
Booster 1 was distributed via Carddass vending machines. Each purchase outputs 3 OCG cards and 1 rule explanation sheet.
Booster 1 contains 40 cards. Rarities are distributed as follows:
The following card types are present:
The set also contains six non-playable FAQ Cards.
Five of the cards in this set were reprinted from Vol.1; the other 35 cards were introduced to the OCG in this set, two of which it introduced to the entire franchise. All but 17 of the cards have been reprinted in Japanese, and only 14 of them have been printed in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game.
Previously featured cardsEdit
Booster 1 introduced two cards, "Blue Medicine" and "Raimei", to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise; the other 38 cards were previously featured in the manga, anime, video games, or other real-life games or products:
- "Battle Warrior" was introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 91 (Duelist Duel 32): "Death to the Undead!", published in the 1998 issue 35 of Weekly Shōnen Jump, with a street date of July 27, 1997. It was also featured as card #79 in the Bandai set 2nd Generation, released in November 1998.
- "Man-Eating Plant" was introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 73 (Duelist Duel 14): "The Thief", published in the 1998 issue 16 of Weekly Shōnen Jump, with a street date of March 16, 1998.
- "Ryu-Kishin" was introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 9: "The Cards with Teeth (Part 1)", published in the 1996 issue 50 of Weekly Shōnen Jump, with a cover date of November 25. It was also featured in Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei) episode Clash! The Strongest Monster", which originally aired on April 18, 1998. 3: "
- "Wattkid" was introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 61 (Duelist Duel 2): "Don't Draw That Card!!", published in the 1998 issue 2–3 of Weekly Shōnen Jump, with a street date of December 8, 1997. It was also featured in the Bandai set 2nd Generation.
- All of the cards in Booster 1, except for "Blue Medicine" and "Raimei", were previously featured in the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, released on December 16, 1998. "Ryu-Kishin" was also printed as a collector's card, bundled with the game.
ReprintsEdit
Booster 1 reprinted the five Equip Spell Cards from Vol.1; the other 35 cards were introduced in this set. 17 of those cards have been reprinted in Japanese: one card in EX Starter Box and EX-R Starter Box, 16 cards in Booster R1 and three cards in Booster Chronicle, and two cards in other sets later. 14 cards have been printed in the TCG.
- Reprinted from Vol.1
- "Beast Fangs", "Book of Secret Arts", "Legendary Sword", "Power of Kaishin", "Violet Crystal"
- EX Starter Box and EX-R Starter Box
- "Ryu-Kishin"
- Booster R1
- "Battle Warrior", "Blue Medicine", "Doron", "Fire Eye", "Hurricail", "Nightmare Scorpion", "Raimei", "Ryu-Kishin", "Synchar", "The Shadow Who Controls the Dark", "Twin Long Rods #1", "Vishwar Randi", "Water Element", "Wattkid", "Wicked Dragon with the Ersatz Head", "Yamatano Dragon Scroll"
- Booster Chronicle
- "Blue Medicine", "Raimei", "Wattkid"
- Other
- "Happy Lover", "Wings of Wicked Flame"
- Never reprinted in Japanese
- "Ancient Jar", "Dark Plant", "Dig Beak", "Djinn the Watcher of the Wind", "Droll Bird", "Embryonic Beast", "Gate Deeg", "Graveyard and the Hand of Invitation", "Lucky Trinket", "Man-Eating Plant", "Mech Mole Zombie", "Midnight Fiend", "Mystical Capture Chain", "Phantom Dewan", "Phantom Ghost", "The Melting Red Shadow", "Weather Control"
- Printed in the TCG
- seven monsters ("Battle Warrior", "Dig Beak", "Droll Bird", "Happy Lover", "Ryu-Kishin", "Wattkid", "Wings of Wicked Flame"), both Normal Spell Cards ("Blue Medicine" and "Raimei"), all five Equip Spell Cards ("Beast Fangs", "Book of Secret Arts", "Legendary Sword", "Power of Kaishin", "Violet Crystal")