Statement begins.
The third core booster pack for 2025, “BURST PROTOCOL” is confirmed for release on October 25th, 2025. This pack includes powerful new themes, new cards that power-up popular past themes, and cards connected to the promotional animated shorts series “Yu-Gi-Oh! CARD GAME THE CHRONICLES”.
This box’s special bonus favor is the “+1 Assist Pack” that reprints vital cards needed to build Decks based on the themes included.
And, 20 of the cards come in Prismatic Secret Rare & Secret Rare.
BURST PROTOCOL
Release Date: October 25th, 2025
Maker: KONAMI
Price: 176 Yen for 1 Pack of 5 Cards
30 Packs per Box
46 Comments
Salamangreat or Rokkets.
Make Salamangreats Meta Again 🔥.
PLEASE no… when they were meta in Duel Links, I could NEVER win with them because they had TOO MANY options.
The time hath come
Rokket sees another chance at the cover
As much as I want it to be Salamangreats it probably is Rokkets since the last set with a Borreload monster was called Burst of Destiny.
duel links. Lol, lmao even
Burst Protocols, anyone else thinking Machine support, if so and “this is just me” but I’m hoping for some Ancient Gear and magnet.
Sky Striker
Yes because when you hear the word “protocol” it instantly makes you think of antique clockwork and rare earth magnets.
Great. More support that has nothing to do with helping Dark Magician reach the Tier 1 status.
@LongDong- And why have you decided that DM should reach tier 1 status in the first instance?
A deck doesn’t ‘deserve’ to be meta just because you like it.
BAAAAAAAAT
Good.
If it is gonna be Rokkets, are they gonna errata Savage so it can be unbanned in the TCG?
The OCG does not errata cards for the TCG’s wild decisions.
no, there was never a need…Savage was never banned in OCG
We need new Dark Magician support! WTF ARE YOU DOING KONAMI? DAMN!
og era already got its two packs
You just got 4 new cards and 2 new alt artworks, give it rest.
The January pack already had a Vrains cover. If this pack’s cover is Revolver, that would be two Vrains covers in one year. I think it’s unlikely.
@Sinuba even through last year DM got 2 pack covers back to back.
@Sinuba- Whilst rare, it can happen, we’re having Rage of the Abyss and Duelist’s Advance which are both ZEXAL themed sets being released within a year of eachother.
We also had Darkwing Blast and Duelist Nexus (both 5ds themed) being released within a year of eachother too.
BURP?
BUPR
Topologina please?
You will get Nabee and Nabee only.
You might be right, but doubtful since they don’t do anime imports for the core/cover archetype atm for the main sets. Usually a wave of anime support, so we might just get straight topologic support too🙂
oh yeah hopefully we got those Topologina Bees anime cards
Burst could reference anything, like Evolution Burst, Burst Stream, Life Stream.
I do wish it was a Cyber Dragon set because that deck always gets a card that reads “this would have been so good 3 years ago” and it’s just funny to see it lag behind powerscaling
Twin Peaks jumpscare
Protocol? Maybe Altergeist?
Weirdly, it’s been a while since the last 5Ds header pack- ZeXal got to go twice in under a year, so we all kinda got lost in the shuffle.
“Burst Protocol” is leading me towards Rokket/Borrel, though.
Same thoughts
It was either gonna be 5Ds or Vrains headlining. The other 4 series have all got 2 packs in this cycle already. That means this cycle will have begun with a 5Ds headline and end with a 5Ds headline.
plunder support is coming
People: Salamangreat, Rokkets, any machine archetype
Konami: More Sky Striker support
Hmm… “Burst” is used quite a bit, but there are a few archetypes with which it has a strong association: Blue-Eyes, Cyber Dragon, and Odd-Eyes. It’s POSSIBLE that this title could be referencing Revolver’s deck, but I rather doubt it. “Burst” is not used in any of the Japanese attack or effect names in VRAINS. In fact, it only appears in the name of one card: Triple Burst Dragon (Three Burst Shot Dragon). The possibility is still there, but I doubt Konami’s gonna go out of their way to make Triple Burst Dragon better.
There’s also another tenuous possibility: Shooting Quasar Dragon’s attack name also has “Burst” in it, and we’re apparently getting a Junk Warrior structure deck soon. Yusei was also a genius not just in dueling, but also with machines and computers. I’m a huge Yusei and Synchro fan, so I’ll admit that I’m leaning this way more than I should. This is, as I said, tenuous at best.
In my opinion, the most likely outcome is going to be Cyber Dragons. “Burst” is present in tons of their attack names, they’re machines… yeah. Maybe they’ll finally evolve in the direction of Synchros.
That said, it could also be Odd-Eyes venturing into the realm of Link Monsters…
It makes the most sense to you that while 5Ds and Vrains are the only series that haven’t had a second headliner in this current cycle it’s more likely that after already getting Evil HEROs and Yubel headliners we’ll be getting a third GX headline just for CyDra?
if it is rokkets. I hope they get better options for the fusion borrel.
This could be anything.
Salamangreat, Rokket/Borrel, or CyDra. I expect Rokket/Borrel
We had 2 GX headliners already in this cycle. Vrains and 5Ds are the only ones that have only had 1 core set in this cycle so far.
Cyberdark support please…even just 1 good card that glues the archetype together. And I’ll forgive Konami for making Wurm Cydra support.
At Last!!! Topologic!!! it’s always Borreloads when it comes to revolver, good thing they didn’t forget
Give us bullet Rokket support. None of that D-link.
You know what’s funny. Last burst pack had someone HERO reprint. You know who has burst in its name. She’s a HERO monster. Hehehehe
Burst lady goona make you burst a nurt.