These were not the first cards printed or distributed for the TCG a different print of the Starter Deck: Yugi ' Summoned Skull' had been privately distributed as a sample card some time in 2001, and another different print of it had been distributed during the Kids' WB! ' Duelin' Monsters Giveaway' in November 2001. In the press release, they announced an upcoming release of 'Yu-Gi-Oh! Starter Packs and nine-card Booster Packs', corresponding to Starter Deck: Yugi, Starter Deck: Kaiba, and Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon, to be distributed to stores on March 1. Upper Deck Entertainment first announced 'exclusive rights to market and distribute' a version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game-which had already sold over 3.5 billion cards in Japan since 1999-in North America on February 11, 2002. Later, Upper Deck removed the regional restriction on cards, opening up the North American card market to European collectors and players. Many of the cards not printed in this European release of this set were later printed in the European release of Magic Ruler (for those languages). Several of the European versions of Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (European English, European French, German, and Italian) only contained 103 of the 126 cards present in the North American version. These packs are prized for the rare ' Blue-Eyes White Dragon' and the ' Forbidden One' cards. With many cards from the manga and anime series, the 126 cards in this English set were chosen from the Japanese packs Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon and Phantom God, the former of which this set is named after. The set was released in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game in English in North America, Europe, Oceania, and Worldwide English in French in Europe and Canada and in German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game it was released in Asian-English and Korean.

It was first released in North America in English on March 8, 2002. Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon is the first set of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon promotional cards La Légende du Dragon Blanc aux Yeux Bleus For other uses, see Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (disambiguation). For the Japanese set, see Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (Japanese). This article is about the international set.

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