The ever-popular Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game, initially based on the late Kazuki Takahashi's manga series and Konami's anime adaptation of the same name, has had over 10,000 different cards and counting in its over two-decade lifespan, with most of the cards seeing a release outside of Japan.

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However, like a number of other internationally popular card games that got their start in Japan, not all Yu-Gi-Oh! cards have been lucky enough to see an international release. While many of these Japan-exclusive releases are unique promotional cards, there are quite a few that aren't due to the card game's interesting history.

10 Potato & Chips

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Potato & Chips is one of three cards that came with a bag of Calbee brand Yu-Gi-Oh! potato chips and is the only monster card in the set. Potato & Chips is a relatively weak Normal Monster, although it could be useful in a deck with many Normal Monster support cards, as the two other cards that feature the monster on the artwork are.

Since Calbee is a Japanese brand and the promotion was only in Japan, it's not likely that Potato & Chips or the other promotional cards will ever see an official release in other languages. The cards also have yet to appear in any Yu-Gi-Oh! video games.

9 Soul Unseal

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Soul Unseal, the promotional Spell card that came with Calbee's Yu-Gi-Oh! Potato Chips features Potato & Chips on the artwork and is a support card for Normal Monsters. If the player controls a Normal Monster and their opponent controls a monster, Soul Unseal allows the player to choose five Normal Monsters from their deck, add only one to their hand, and banish the other four.

This effect is useful for a Normal Monster deck that utilizes banished cards. The artwork featured on this card also happens to parody the much older Spell card Soul Release, which has a similar card-banishing effect.

8 Farm Delivery

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Farm Delivery is a promotional trap card that features Potato & Chips on the artwork and is another Normal Monster support card. If the player controls a Normal Monster, Farm Delivery allows them to shuffle up to three of their banished Normal Monsters back into their deck.

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Farm Delivery pairs well with Soul Unseal but can also be activated to respond to several other similar cards that banish Normal Monsters or cards that banish the player's cards in general. Unlike Soul Unseal, Farm Delivery's artwork is seemingly not a reference to any older trap card with a similar card-returning effect.

7 Zorc

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The first card to feature the entity who would end up being the final villain of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga series, this version of Zorc is based on the eponymous character from the Monster World arc of the manga, sometime before it revolved around the Duel Monsters card game.

This Zorc card was included alongside nine other promotional cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule Breed & Battle, a Japan-exclusive PlayStation game as well as the first Yu-Gi-Oh! video game to be released. As the game was made before the official card game, they are unplayable and have a slightly different layout.

6 True Exodia

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True Exodia is a unique card featuring artwork by Kazuki Takahashi himself and was included in the 20th Anniversary Monster Art Box. True Exodia's effect can only activate when itself and four Forbidden One Normal Monsters with different names are the only monsters on the field.

When this condition is met, the opponent of the player who summoned True Exodia wins the duel. True Exodia is also the second card to allow the opponent to win, while the Trap card Relay Soul is the first, which allows the opponent to win once it leaves the field, among its other unrelated effects.

5 Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection

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Before Konami created the card game we know today, Bandai had its own version. Before the introduction of Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection was made based on the Toei anime series that adapted the original manga series prior to the Duel Monsters anime.

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While this card has the same amount of attack points as Blue-Eyes White Dragon, it only has 3000 attack points but also has an effect. Blue-Eyes White Dragon's 3-Body Connection's effect is that it can attack eight times if it and Wicked Chain are played simultaneously. It's also the only card with a four-part segmented version.

4 Ancient Jar

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In the earliest days of the Konami-produced card game, there were many Normal Monsters that were never released outside of Japan. One notable Normal Monster is Ancient Jar, a monster that predates the similar Morphing Jar Effect Monster cards and the only Normal Monster member of the Jar archetype as well as the first member.

Like many other early Normal Monster cards from the first few booster packs of the Official Card Game, Ancient Jar has appeared in a handful of internationally released Yu-Gi-Oh! video games, despite a physical version of the card never seeing a release outside of Japan.

3 Seiyaryu

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Although Seiyaryu does have an internationally released version, the first version is unplayable as it's formatted more similar to monster cards in the Bandai card game and is known as a collector's card. This version of Seiyaryu was first available by attending the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters meeting experience, an event that promoted the first Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Game Boy game.

The second way to obtain the card was through a raffle for the magazine Akamaru Jump, for which only five copies were made. It's currently unknown exactly how many copies were made for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters meeting experience events.

2 Holactie The Creator of Light

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A character that appears briefly in the original manga to defeat Zorc, Holactie the Creator of Light, is the combined form of the three Egyptian Gods but is not a Fusion Monster. Holactie cannot be Normal Summoned or Set and requires Slifer The Sky Dragon, Obelisk The Tormentor, and The Winged Dragon of Ra as tributes to be Special Summoned, which cannot be negated.

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Once Holactie has been Special Summoned, the player wins the duel. Holactie was given to winners of Konami and V-Jump's Holactie The Creator of Light campaign celebrating the release of the Duel Art ~ Kazuki Takahashi Yu-Gi-Oh! Illustrations art book. Only 10,000 copies were made.

1 Blue-Eyes White Dragon 20th Anniversary Gold Edition

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The Blue-Eyes White Dragon has had many different versions over the years, including but not limited to Shonen Jump promos and new Kazuki Takahashi artwork, but one of the most notable versions is the 20th Anniversary Gold Edition. With only 500 copies made, the solid gold Blue-Eyes White Dragon was only available through the Konamistyle website via a lottery in 2018.

There was also a similar 20th Anniversary Silver Edition, which required participants to cut out and send 20 bar codes of select booster packs. 800 copies of the silver version were given away in Japan, while 30 were given away in other parts of Asia.

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