Maximum Crisis Card List and Set Guide

Overview

Maximum Crisis released May 4, 2017, with 100 cards under the MACR set code: 45 Commons, 4 Short Prints, 20 Rares, 14 Super Rares, 10 Ultra Rares and 8 Secret Rares. Fire Cracker (MACR-EN035) is listed as both a Common and a Short Print.

98 of the 100 cards were new to the TCG. The other two have an earlier 2017 printing in the catalog.

True Draco gets thirteen cards, Wyrm monsters that can be Tribute Summoned by Tributing Continuous Spells and Traps. Phantasm Spiral gets seven and Performapal six, and Supreme King Z-ARC and its Supreme King Gates arrive here.

Cards and rarities

Maximum Crisis has 100 set codes, each starting MACR-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.

Fire Cracker is listed at both Common and Short Print under one code, which is why the rows add up to 101 printings for 100 set codes. 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 →

Archetypes

True Draco is the main theme of Maximum Crisis. Supreme King and Lyrilusc get smaller packages, each with a strong Extra Deck monster.

Ignis Heat, the True Dracowarrior

MACR-EN021

A Level 5 True Draco you can Tribute Summon by Tributing a Continuous Spell or Trap. When your opponent activates a card or effect, it fetches a True Draco or True King Continuous Spell from your Deck.

Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King

MACR-EN024

A Level 8 True Draco Tribute Summoned with monsters or Continuous Spells and Traps, unaffected by cards of the types it Tributed. It banishes a Continuous Spell or Trap from your GY to destroy a card.

Dragonic Diagram

MACR-EN053

A Field Spell that gives True Draco and True King monsters 300 ATK and DEF, and destroys another card you hold or control to search a True Draco or True King card.

Supreme King Z-ARC

MACR-EN039

A Level 12 Fusion of a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Pendulum Dragon. When Special Summoned it destroys every card your opponent controls, and your opponent cannot target or destroy it with effects.

Lyrilusc - Independent Nightingale

MACR-EN041

A Lyrilusc Fusion that is unaffected by other cards, gains ATK from its Level, and deals damage equal to its Level times 500 once per turn.

Zoodiac Chakanine

MACR-EN048

A Rank 4 Zoodiac that can be Xyz Summoned on one Zoodiac and detaches to revive a Zoodiac from your GY.

Cards worth knowing

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is the card most players know from this set. Three more general cards are below it.

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

MACR-EN036

Discard it to negate an effect that would add a card from the Deck to the hand, Special Summon from the Deck, or send a card from the Deck to the GY.

Ultra Polymerization

MACR-EN052

Pay 2000 LP to Fusion Summon using 2 monsters you control, and nothing can respond to it. From the GY it revives the materials with 0 ATK.

Duelist Alliance

MACR-EN063

With a card in the Pendulum Zone, it adds a Pendulum Pendulum Monster or Pendulum Spell or Trap from your Deck to your hand.

Prologue of the Destruction Swordsman

MACR-EN075

Sends a Destruction Sword card and a Buster Blader monster from your Deck to the GY to Special Summon Buster Dragon until the next End Phase.

The chase card: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

MACR-EN036

Rarity Secret Rare

Set code MACR-EN036

1st Edition market price, October 22, 2026 $20.80

The Secret Rare Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (MACR-EN036) is Maximum Crisis's chase card, at $20.80 on October 22, 2026. The next card, the Secret Rare Supreme King Z-ARC, was $3.80, less than a fifth of it.

It is a Level 3 FIRE Zombie Tuner with 0 ATK and 1800 DEF. Once per turn you can discard it from your hand to negate a card or effect that would add a card from the Deck to the hand, Special Summon from the Deck, or send a card from the Deck to the GY.

It was first released in this set and has been reprinted many times since, so this printing is valued as the original Secret Rare.

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

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is far above the rest of the set. Every other card was under $4 on October 22, 2026, and 89 of the 100 priced printings were under $1.

These are TCGplayer's 1st Edition market prices on October 22, 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 →

Maximum Crisis card list

Every set code in Maximum Crisis, in set code order, with each rarity it is printed at: 100 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

Two cards in Maximum Crisis are on the Forbidden & Limited List as of October 23, 2026. True King of All Calamities is Forbidden, and Set Rotation is Limited.

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is a hand trap: you hold it and use it on your opponent's turn, and most decks run it because so many effects search, mill or Summon from the Deck.

True Draco decks play Continuous Spells and Traps to Tribute for their monsters, and the monsters fetch more of them, which is why the theme comes with its own Continuous Spells and Traps.

Deck building rules and the Forbidden & Limited List →

Frequently Asked Questions