Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards and the Sacred Beasts

The short answer

"Sacred cards" points to two different things in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and the game is the more common one.

The Game Boy Advance game

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards is a role-playing card game for the Game Boy Advance, developed and published by Konami. It came out in Japan on July 4, 2002 as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 7: The Duelcity Legend, in North America on November 4, 2003, and in Europe in 2004.

The story loosely follows the Battle City arc of the anime and manga. You play a duelist entering Kaiba Corporation's tournament alongside Yugi and Joey, collecting Locator Cards while Marik and his gang of card thieves, the Ghouls, hunt for the three Egyptian God cards.

The duels don't use the real card game's rules. The game adds an elemental system where some types beat others, leaves out the standard turn phases and drops many card effects, so a deck that wins in the game tells you little about the paper game. Its sequel, Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction, followed on the same system.

If you want to play it today, you don't need a cartridge. Konami included both The Sacred Cards and Reshef of Destruction in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, released for Nintendo Switch and Steam on February 27, 2025.

The promo cards in the box

The North American release came with three real TCG cards, all Prismatic Secret Rare and numbered TSC-001 to TSC-003. All three were first printed in the TCG as these promos, and all three are still legal to play.

Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth

TSC-001

$12.07 for the TSC-001 promo, as of October 2, 2026.

Riryoku

TSC-002

$0.93 for the TSC-002 promo, as of October 2, 2026.

Negate Attack

TSC-003

$5.87 for the TSC-003 promo, as of October 2, 2026.

Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth is the last stage of the Petit Moth line. Its text reads: "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by Tributing 1 "Petit Moth" on your 6th turn or later after it was equipped with "Cocoon of Evolution"." It's a Level 8 Insect with 3500 ATK.

Riryoku is a Normal Spell: "Target 2 face-up monsters on the field; halve the ATK of 1 monster, and if you do, add that lost ATK to the other monster. These effects last until the end of this turn."

Negate Attack is a Counter Trap: "When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Target the attacking monster; negate the attack, then end the Battle Phase."

Prices above are TCGplayer market prices as of October 2, 2026, for the Prismatic Secret Rare promo of each card, which TCGplayer lists as Limited edition. Later reprints of each card are a separate printing with its own price.

European copies of the game came with a different set: Exchange, Graceful Dice and Skull Dice, numbered TSC-E001 to TSC-E003 in English and with their own codes in French, German and Italian. TCGplayer has few market prices for them, and Graceful Dice's had none on October 2, 2026, so check recent sales of the exact code and language before you buy or sell.

The Sacred Beasts

The Sacred Beasts are three Level 10 monsters from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, known in Japan as the Three Phantasms. In the first season, Kagemaru, the last of the Shadow Riders, frees them and uses them against Jaden. In the third season, Yubel builds a deck around them to summon their combined form, Armityle the Chaos Phantasm.

Uria, Lord of Searing Flames

SOI-EN001

Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder

SOI-EN002

Raviel, Lord of Phantasms

SOI-EN003

Armityle the Chaos Phantasm

ANPR-EN091

In the TCG, the three debuted in Shadow of Infinity as SOI-EN001 to SOI-EN003. Each needs a specific cost to Special Summon, which is why they're hard to play outside a deck built for them.

Uria, Lord of Searing Flames: "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by sending 3 face-up Traps you control to the GY. Gains 1000 ATK for each Continuous Trap in your GY. Once per turn: You can target 1 Set Spell/Trap your opponent controls; destroy that target. Neither player can activate Spell/Trap Cards in response to this effect's activation."

Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder: "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by sending 3 face-up Continuous Spell Cards you control to the Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard: Inflict 1000 damage to your opponent. While this card is in face-up Defense Position, monsters your opponent controls cannot target monsters for attacks, except this one."

Raviel, Lord of Phantasms: "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by Tributing 3 Fiend-Type monsters, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. If your opponent Normal Summons a monster(s): Special Summon 1 "Phantasm Token" (Fiend-Type/DARK/Level 1/ATK 1000/DEF 1000) for each monster Summoned, but it cannot declare an attack. Once per turn: You can Tribute 1 monster; this card gains ATK equal to the original ATK of the Tributed monster until the end of this turn."

Armityle the Chaos Phantasm is the Fusion of all three: ""Uria, Lord of Searing Flames" + "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" + "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms". Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing the above cards you control. (You do not use "Polymerization".) Cannot be destroyed by battle. Gains 10,000 ATK during your turn only." Getting all three onto the field is the hard part, and none of the four was on the TCG Forbidden & Limited List as of October 2, 2026.

Sacred cards and God cards

People sometimes use "sacred cards" or "god cards" for the three Egyptian God cards, Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon and The Winged Dragon of Ra, and the story of The Sacred Cards game is built around them. They're a different trio from the Sacred Beasts. For the gods themselves, their printings and what they do, read Yu-Gi-Oh! God cards.

Collecting them

For the Sacred Beasts, the printing decides the price. The Ultimate Rare copies from Shadow of Infinity are the expensive ones: as of October 2, 2026, their TCGplayer market prices ran from about $420 to about $1,000 depending on the card and edition, with Uria's 1st Edition Ultimate Rare (SOI-EN001) at the top. The Ultra Rare copies from the same set were under $30 in either edition. Among later reprints, the Dark Revelation Volume 4 Ultra Rares of Uria and Raviel were in the high $30s, and most others were a few dollars or less.

That spread is why it helps to record the exact printing. TurnZero HQ tracks a Yu-Gi-Oh! collection by set code, rarity and edition, so a TSC-001 Great Moth and an Ultimate Rare Uria are each priced as what they are, from TCGplayer's market price, updated daily. 1st Edition Yu-Gi-Oh! cards explains why the edition mark changes the price. How the collection tracker works →

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