NessFollowing on the report of the campaign that we mentioned before, the alternative art for Dark Magician has been revealed, along with a few more details on how to obtain it:
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the source material, a campaign to obtain a copy of a special illustration version of "Dark Magician" will be held!
2500 participants will have a chance to obtain an Ultra Rare copy of "Dark Magician" with a special art featured in the original manga! Participate in the raffle using the coupon included when buying a box of Battle of Chaos, which will be released on October the 16th.
Further details of the campaign will be revealed in following news.
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As a note, this is the art that was used for Dark Magician's very first appearance in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, during Yugi's duel against Kaiba, while Yugi is buying some time to assemble Exodia the Forbidden One. While this art was not used for the TCG/OCG, it has been used before for the Bandai version of the card game:
And it was also briefly used for its appearance in the first anime by Toei:
Source.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the source material, a campaign to obtain a copy of a special illustration version of "Dark Magician" will be held!
2500 participants will have a chance to obtain an Ultra Rare copy of "Dark Magician" with a special art featured in the original manga! Participate in the raffle using the coupon included when buying a box of Battle of Chaos, which will be released on October the 16th.
Further details of the campaign will be revealed in following news.
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As a note, this is the art that was used for Dark Magician's very first appearance in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, during Yugi's duel against Kaiba, while Yugi is buying some time to assemble Exodia the Forbidden One. While this art was not used for the TCG/OCG, it has been used before for the Bandai version of the card game:
And it was also briefly used for its appearance in the first anime by Toei:
Source.