Extended Art Cards Are Coming to the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG (Rarity Collection 5, April 2026)

Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG is finally doing the thing collectors have been begging for: true “over-frame” full art style cards, officially branded as Extended Art Cards by Konami, and they’re confirmed to debut in Rarity Collection 5 (RA05) which releases in April of 2026.

Konami’s product page spells it out: this is the first-ever appearance of Extended Art Cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, featuring art that expands top-to-bottom and side-to-side, which will be the closest we’ve gotten to a full-art treatment within the classic card frame.

What are Yu-Gi-Oh! “Extended Art Cards” or "Over-Frame Cards"?

Think of them as over-frame upgrades: the illustration is reworked to extend beyond the normal card boundaries, giving the card a more premium, modern look. Konami describes them as extended art going “top-to-bottom and side-to-side.”

Confirmed Yu-Gi-Oh! Extended Art Cards

Konami specifically name-dropped several heavy hitters as part of the Extended Art lineup, including:

• Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon

• Kurikara Divincarnate

• Super Polymerization

• Dominus Purge

Important note: Konami says “including cards like…”—so these are examples, not necessarily the full list.

How To Pull Yu-Gi-Oh! Extended Art Carts: the 5th-slot chase just got real

Rarity Collection 5 packs will have 5 cards. The key twist (like prior Rarity Collections) is that the 5th card slot comes from a separate pool and in RA05, that slot is always a Special Variant Art Card.

This matters because:

• Extended Art Cards live in that same 5th-slot pool, mixed in with the other variant arts.

• Konami states there are 10 Extended Art Cards, and they’re mixed in with 58 other variant art cards that appear in that 5th slot.

So every pack gives you a guaranteed “special” card—now with a chance to hit one of the new extended art remixes.

What Else Is In Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection 5?

Konami frames RA05 as the usual Rarity Collection formula: an approximately 80-card set loaded with tournament-level staples plus fan favorites. They even call out examples spanning modern meta relevance like Chaos Angel and Kashtira Fenrir, alongside other picks.

Rarities across the set include the familiar foil staples (Super/Ultra/Secret) plus premium hits like Starlight, Platinum Secret, and the Rarity Collection-only “Prismatic-style” Ultimate and Collector’s Rares.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Rarity Collection 5 Release Date

For the English TCG product listing, Konami shows:

• Official Tournament Store launch: 04/08/2026

• Launch date: 04/10/2026

• Tournament legal date: 04/10/2026 (Yu-Gi-Oh! Card)

(Regional listings may show slightly different dates: Konami’s EU page, for example, lists 9 April 2026)

Why Is This A Big Deal?

For collectors: Extended Art Cards are a brand-new chase category with instant “first edition of a new style” energy. If Konami sticks the landing, these will be the cards people point to as the start of a new era of TCG presentation.

For competitive players: Rarity Collections are historically one of the best-value ways to pick up playable staples across multiple rarities, and Konami is again positioning RA05 as a concentrated shot of meta-relevant reprints.

Rarity Collection 5 Unknowns

Konami has confirmed the concept, the slot, and the count—but the community will be watching for:

• The full list of all 10 Extended Art Cards (only some examples have been named so far)

• How the extended art looks across different rarities, especially Starlight and premium treatments

• Any further details on distribution/rarity within the 5th-slot pool

Wrapping Up...

Rarity Collection 5 already looked like a must-open set for duelists chasing meta staples and collectors hunting premium foils, but the confirmed debut of Extended Art Cards pushes it into “instant landmark” territory.

With 10 over-frame fan favorites mixed into the Special Variant Art 5th slot alongside dozens of other new variant designs, every pack has real hit potential and a fresh chase that feels genuinely new for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG.

April 2026 can’t get here fast enough so you better start clearing binder space now, because these extended art pulls are most likely going to become grails for old and new fans of Yu-Gi-Oh!.

SOURCES:

https://www.yugioh-card.com/en/products/ra05/

https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/product/rarity-collection-5/