Gold Series Card List and Set Guide

Overview

Gold Series is a 45-card reprint set released April 2, 2008, with codes GLD1-EN001 to GLD1-EN045. Every card in it had been printed before, most first in the 2003 and 2004 sets.

It introduced Gold Rare, a rarity with gold foil on the card's name, artwork border and frame. Eighteen cards are Gold Rares, among them Jinzo, Dark Magician of Chaos, Cyber Dragon, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Mirror Force, and the other 27 are Commons.

TCGplayer prices the set only as Limited Edition, and the catalog has no 1st Edition or Unlimited price for it, so the prices here are Limited Edition.

Cards and rarities

Gold Series has 45 set codes, each starting GLD1-EN and printed under the artwork on the right. Where a card comes at more than one rarity, every version shares its code, so the table counts set codes at each rarity and a code printed at two rarities is counted twice.

Each code is printed at a single rarity, so the rows add up to the set's 45 cards. Set completion in TurnZero HQ counts the distinct set codes you own against the set's total, so a card printed at two rarities counts once, with an every-rarity count beside it for collectors chasing each version. How set completion works →

The Gold Rares

The Gold Rares are what collectors open the set for: reprints of some of the best-known cards from the game's first six years.

Dark Magician of Chaos

GLD1-EN016

In the End Phase of a turn it was Summoned, return a Spell from your GY to your hand. First printed in Invasion of Chaos.

Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon

GLD1-EN028

A Fusion of three Blue-Eyes White Dragons with 4500 ATK.

Jinzo

GLD1-EN003

While face-up, no one can activate Trap Cards. First printed in Pharaoh's Servant.

Cyber Dragon

GLD1-EN022

Special Summon it from your hand if only your opponent controls a monster. First printed in Cybernetic Revolution.

Cards worth knowing

Gold Series also reprints several Spells and Traps. Heavy Storm and Rivalry of Warlords are Forbidden and Reinforcement of the Army and Skill Drain are Limited.

Crush Card Virus

GLD1-EN038

Tribute a DARK monster with 1000 or less ATK to destroy monsters with 1500 or more ATK in your opponent's hand and field, and in what they draw for three turns.

Mirror Force

GLD1-EN039

When an opponent's monster declares an attack, destroy all of your opponent's Attack Position monsters.

Brain Control

GLD1-EN033

Pay 800 LP to take control of a face-up monster that can be Normal Summoned, until the End Phase.

Breaker the Magical Warrior

GLD1-EN014

Gets a Spell Counter when Normal Summoned and removes it to destroy a Spell or Trap.

The chase card: Crush Card Virus

Crush Card Virus

GLD1-EN038

Rarity Gold Rare

Set code GLD1-EN038

Limited market price, October 23, 2026 $105.98

The Gold Rare Crush Card Virus (GLD1-EN038) was the set's most valuable card on October 23, 2026, at $105.98 as Limited Edition. The Gold Rare Mirror Force was next at $41.53.

It is a Normal Trap. You Tribute a DARK monster with 1000 or less ATK; your opponent takes no damage until the end of the next turn, and you look at their hand and monsters and destroy those with 1500 or more ATK, then keep checking the cards they draw for three turns.

Rarity is in the foil rather than the set code, so check it before you price the copy in your hand. Reading the set code and rarity →

Chase cards and prices

Crush Card Virus was worth more than twice any other Gold Series card on October 23, 2026. Every printing in the chase list is a Gold Rare.

These are TCGplayer's Limited market prices on October 23, 2026. They move daily, so treat them as a snapshot. Each card's page shows today's price for every printing. How Yu-Gi-Oh! card prices work →

Gold Series card list

Every set code in Gold Series, in set code order, with each rarity it is printed at: 45 set codes in all, as listed in TurnZero HQ's catalog on October 23, 2026. Each name goes to that card's page, with today's price for every printing.

Playing it

4 cards from Gold Series are on the Forbidden & Limited List as of October 23, 2026: Heavy Storm and Rivalry of Warlords are Forbidden; Reinforcement of the Army and Skill Drain are Limited. A Forbidden card cannot be played at all and a Limited card at one copy per deck; the rest of the set can be run at three.

Every card in the set is a reprint, so a Gold Series copy plays the same as the original printing.

Deck building rules and the Forbidden & Limited List →

Frequently Asked Questions