Card Trivia:Cyber-Stein

"Cyber-Stein":

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• This is one of the cover cards of Booster Chronicle.

• This monster appears in the artwork of "Tour Bus To Forbidden Realms".
  • This monster is shown to have a double-barreled shotgun on his back, making it one of the very few cards with 'controversial' artwork that has not been censored in the TCG.

• Both this card's English name ("Cyber-Stein") and Japanese name ("Devil Franken") are a reference Frankenstein's monster, which this card is based on.
  • "Magical Scientist" bears some similarities to this card. Both of these cards are Forbidden due to being able to Summon Fusion Monsters at the cost of Life Points, which led to the creation of an OTK/FTK Deck in the past. In addition, they are both low-Level DARK monsters, and have some sort of relationship with the "Mad Scientist" trope.
  • This card's OCG name may be inspired by a scene in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where Frankenstein's monster reads the book Paradise Lost and identifies with the protagonist, Satan.
    • This monster also shares a naming convention with another monster based on the Frankenstein's monster - "Number 22: Zombiestein". In the OCG, their names contain "Franken" (the Japanese name of "Cyber-Stein" is "Devil Franken" and "Zombiestein" is "Fran Ken"), while in the TCG their names contain "Stein" instead.

• This monster has a Rush Duel counterpart: "Cyber-Stein Frankenshrine".

• This card has the largest static LP cost of any card.

• Before Upperdeck Day, only 18 copies of the SJC-EN001 print of this card existed in the world. $20,000 USD was bid for a "Cyber-Stein" SJC-EN001 card on eBay, but the bidder didn't pay. The card was eventually resold for approximately $7,000 USD. Since then, a few copies have surfaced on card single websites for as low as $400 USD.

• In the OCG, this card was Forbidden for sixteen formats before being Limited in the February 2014 Lists. This is the second most of any card behind "Raigeki", which was Forbidden for 24 TCG formats before becoming Limited in the October 2014 Lists.

• This is one of only two Shonen Jump Championship Prize Cards to be banned, with the other being "Crush Card Virus".
  • Both were printed as a Rare card in Dark Beginning 2 and Turbo Pack: Booster One respectively; this was the lowest rarity a Shonen Jump Championship Prize Card was reprinted at before "Shrink" was reprinted as a Common.