*Cards below are written with a mock translation using the card's actual English card text. This is based on how the cards are actually translated and thus may not work exactly like the card's TCG version.

*Cards not listed below do not have a different card rarity in Japan.
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The New Challengers Different Japan Card Rarities

*Also an Ultimate Rare card and a Prismatic Secret Rare card.
**Also an Ultimate Rare card, a Prismatic Secret Rare card and a Holographic Rare (TCG Ghost Rare) card.
NECH-JP079
Card Info Solemn Scolding
Counter Trap
If this card is the only card you have in play in your Spell & Trap Zone that is Set, when a monster would be played face-up or when a Spell Card, Trap Card, or monster effect is used, pay 3000 LP to nullify the Summon or use of that card and destroy it.
SUPER RARE
NECH-JP078
Card Info Fusion Reserve
Normal Trap
Show 1 Fusion Monster in your Extra Deck to your opponent, then choose 1 of the Fusion Materials listed on that card in your Deck and add it to your hand, then you can add 1 "Polymerization" from your Graveyard to your hand.
COMMON
NECH-JP076
Card Info Naturia Sacred Tree
Continuous Trap
If this card is sent to the Graveyard, choose 1 card with "Naturia" in its name in your Deck and add it to your hand, other than "Naturia Sacred Tree". You may only use 1 of the following effects of "Naturia Sacred Tree" per turn, and only once during the turn.
● You can Tribute 1 EARTH Insect-Type monster to play 1 Level 4 or lower EARTH Plant-Type monster through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field.
● You can Tribute 1 EARTH Plant-Type monster to play 1 Level 4 or lower EARTH Insect-Type monster through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field.
COMMON
NECH-JP064
Card Info El Shaddoll Fusion
Quick-Play Spell
Play 1 Fusion Monster with "Shaddoll" in its name through a Fusion Summon from your Extra Deck by using monsters in your hand or that you have in play as Fusion Materials. You may only use 1 "El Shaddoll Fusion" per turn.
RARE
NECH-JP061
Card Info Saqlifice
Equip Spell
Equip only to a monster in play with "Qli" in its name. It receives 300 ATK and may not be defeated through battle. The equipped monster may be counted as 2 Tributes for the Tribute Summon of a monster with "Qli" in its name. If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, you can choose 1 monster with "Qli" in its name in your Deck and add it to your hand.
COMMON
NECH-JP059
Card Info 1st Movement Solo
Normal Spell
If you have no monsters in play on your field, play 1 Level 4 or lower monster with "Melodious" in its name through a Special Summon from your hand or Deck to your field. You may only use 1 "1st Movement Solo" per turn. You may not play monsters through a Special Summon during the turn you use this card, other than monsters with "Melodious" in its name.
RARE
NECH-JP053
Card Info Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon
DARK / Dragon-Type Xyz / Rank 4 / ATK 2500 / DEF 2000
2 Level 4 monsters
You can remove 2 Xyz Materials from this card, then choose 1 monster your opponent has in play that is face-up and make its ATK become halved, then this card receives ATK equal to the amount the chosen monster lost.
ULTRA RARE
NECH-JP052
Card Info Herald of the Arc Light
LIGHT / Fairy-Type Synchro / Level 4 / ATK 600 / DEF 1000
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
Any monster sent from the hand or Main Deck to the Graveyard is removed from play instead. During either player's turn, when a Spell Card, Trap Card or monster effect is used, you can Tribute this card to nullify the use of that card and destroy that card. If this card is sent to the Graveyard, you can choose 1 Ritual Monster or 1 Ritual Spell Card in your Deck and add it to your hand.
RARE
NECH-JP051
Card Info Yazi, Evil of the Yang Zing
DARK / Wyrm-Type Synchro / Level 7 / ATK 2600 / DEF 2100
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
This card may not be chosen by an opponent's card effect. You may only use each of these effects of "Yazi, Evil of the Yang Zing" once per turn.
● You can choose 1 monster you have in play with "Yang Zing" in its name and 1 card your opponent has in play and destroy them.
● When this card you have in play is destroyed and sent to your Graveyard, you can play 1 Wyrm-Type monster through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field in Defense Mode.
ULTRA RARE
NECH-JP050
Card Info First of the Dragons
DARK / Dragon-Type Fusion / Level 9 / ATK 2700 / DEF 2000
2 Normal Monsters
This card may not be played through a Special Summon other than by a Fusion Summon. You may only have 1 "First of the Dragons" in play on your field at a time. This may not be defeated through battle, other than with a Normal Monster, and may not be affected by other monster effects.
RARE
NECH-JP049
Card Info El Shaddoll Shekhinaga
EARTH / Machine-Type Fusion / Level 10 / ATK 2600 / DEF 3000
1 monster with "Shaddoll" in its name + 1 EARTH monster
This card must be initially played through a Fusion Summon. During either player's turn, when a monster that was played through a Special Summon uses its effect while you have a card in your hand with "Shaddoll" in its name, you can nullify the use of that card's effect and destroy that monster, then send 1 card with "Shaddoll" in its name from your hand to the Graveyard. You may only use this effect of "El Shaddoll Shekhinaga" once per turn. If this card is sent to the Graveyard, you can choose 1 Spell or Trap Card in your Graveyard with "Shaddoll" in its name and add it to your hand.
ULTRA RARE
NECH-JP048
Card Info El Shaddoll Grysta
FIRE / Rock-Type Fusion / Level 7 / ATK 2450 / DEF 1950
1 monster with "Shaddoll" in its name + 1 FIRE monster
This card must be initially played through a Fusion Summon. During either player's turn, when your opponent would play a monster(s) through a Special Summon while you have a card in your hand with "Shaddoll" in its name, you can nullify the Summon and destroy that monster, then send 1 card with "Shaddoll" in its name from your hand to the Graveyard. You may only use this effect of "El Shaddoll Grysta" once per turn. If this card is sent to the Graveyard, you can choose 1 Spell or Trap Card in your Graveyard with "Shaddoll" in its name and add it to your hand.
SUPER RARE
NECH-JP046*
Card Info Frightfur Bear
DARK / Fiend-Type Fusion / Level 6 / ATK 2200 / DEF 1800
"Edge Imp Sabres" + "Fluffal Bear"
When this card defeats a monster your opponent has in play through battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you can equip that monster to this card as an Equip Spell Card with this effect.
● The equipped monster receives 1000 ATK.
ULTRA RARE    
NECH-JP045
Card Info Herald of Ultimateness
LIGHT / Fairy-Type Ritual / Level 12 / ATK 2000 / DEF 3000
You can play this card through a Ritual Summon using "Oracle of the Herald". This card may not be played through a Special Summon other than by a Ritual Summon. During either player's turn, when your opponent would play a monster(s) through a Special Summon or uses a Spell Card, Trap Card, or monster effect, you can send 1 Fairy-Type monster from your hand to the Graveyard to nullify the Special Summon or the use of that card and destroy it.
SUPER RARE
NECH-JP041
Card Info Denko Sekka
LIGHT / Thunder / Level 4 / ATK 1700 / DEF 1000
This card may not be played through a Special Summon. While you have no Spell or Trap Cards in play that are Set, neither player may Set Spell or Trap Cards nor use Spell or Trap Cards in play that are Set.
COMMON
NECH-JP039
Card Info Rescue Hamster
EARTH / Beast-Type Pendulum / Level 4 / ATK 300 / DEF 100 / Scale 5
Pendulum Text:
You can remove this card in your Pendulum Zone play to choose 2 Monster Cards with the same name in your Extra Deck that are face-up and add them to your hand. You may only use this effect of "Rescue Hamster" once per Duel.


Monster Text:
During the turn this card was played through a Normal Summon, if you have a Level 5 or lower Pendulum Monster Card in your Extra Deck that is face-up, you can Tribute this card to choose 1 Level 5 or lower Pendulum Monster Card in your Extra Deck, and play 2 monsters through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field with the same name as the chosen card but their effects are nullified. and they are destroyed during the End Phase.
RARE
NECH-JP037
Card Info Zaborg the Mega Monarch
LIGHT / Thunder / Level 8 / ATK 2800 / DEF 1000
You can play this card through a Tribute Summon by Tributing 1 monster that was played through a Tribute Summon. If this card is played through a Tribute Summon, choose 1 monster in play and destroy it, then, if it was a LIGHT monster, both players send as many cards as possible from their Extra Deck to the Graveyard, up to the original Level or Rank of the destroyed monster. If this card was played through a Tribute Summon by Tributing a LIGHT monster, you may also use this effect.
● Choose the cards your opponent sends to the Graveyard.
SUPER RARE
NECH-JP036
Card Info Machina Megaform
EARTH / Machine / Level 8 / ATK 2600 / DEF 1500
You can Tribute this card to play 1 monster with "Machina" in its name through a Special Summon from your hand or Deck to your field, other than "Machina Megaform". If a "Machina Fortress" you have in play that is face-up is sent to the Graveyard outside of the Damage Step while this card is in your Graveyard, you can remove that "Machina Fortress" in the Graveyard from play to play this card through a Special Summon from your Graveyard to your field. You may only use 1 "Machina Megaform" effect per turn, and only once during the turn.
COMMON
NECH-JP035
Card Info Unmasked Dragon
FIRE / Wyrm / Level 3 / ATK 1400 / DEF 1100
When this card is defeated through battle and sent to the Graveyard, you can play 1 Wyrm-Type monster with 1500 or less DEF through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field.
COMMON
NECH-JP034
Card Info Night Dragolich
DARK / Wyrm / Level 4 / ATK 1700 / DEF 0
Change all non-Wyrm-Type monsters in play that were played through a Special Summon from the Main Deck or Extra Deck and are in Attack Mode to Defense Mode. All non-Wyrm-Type monsters that were played through a Special Summon from the Main Deck or Extra Deck lose DEF equal to their original DEF.
COMMON
NECH-JP032
Card Info Jiaotu, Darkness of the Yang Zing
DARK / Wyrm-Type Tuner / Level 2 / ATK 0 / DEF 2000
When this card you have in play is and sent to your Graveyard, you can play 1 monster with "Yang Zing" in its name through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field in Attack Mode, other than "Jiaotu, Darkness of the Yang Zing". If you have no other monsters in play on your field, you can send 2 cards with "Yang Zing" in their names from your hand to the Graveyard to play 1 monster with "Yang Zing" in its name with 0 ATK and 1 monster with "Yang Zing" in its name with 0 DEF through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field, but remove them from play during the End Phase. You may only use 1 "Jiaotu, Darkness of the Yang Zing" effect per turn, and only once during the turn.
SUPER RARE
NECH-JP031
Card Info Taotie, Shadow of the Yang Zing
DARK / Wyrm / Level 5 / ATK 2200 / DEF 0
When this card you have in play is destroyed and sent to your Graveyard, you can play 1 monster with "Yang Zing" in its name through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field in Defense Mode, other than "Taotie, Shadow of the Yang Zing". You may only use this effect of "Taotie, Shadow of the Yang Zing" once per turn. Once per turn, during your opponent's Main Phase or Battle Phase, you can play 1 Synchro Monster through a Synchro Summon from your Extra Deck using only monsters you have in play with "Yang Zing" in their names. The Synchro Monster that used this card as Synchro Material may not be taken control of by a card effect.
COMMON
NECH-JP025
Card Info Qliphort Shell
EARTH / Machine-Type Pendulum / Level 8 / ATK 2800 / DEF 1000 / Scale 9
Pendulum Text:
You may not play monsters through a Special Summon, other than monsters with "Qli" in its name. This effect may not be nullified. All monsters your opponent has in play lose 300 ATK.


Monster Text:
You can play this card through a Normal Summon without Tributing. If this card is played through a Normal Summon without Tributing or is played through a Special Summon, its Level is treated as 4 and its original ATK is treated as 1800. If this card is played through a Normal Summon or Set, it may not be affected by effects used by monsters whose Level or Rank is lower than this card's Level. If this card is played through a Normal Summon by Tributing a monsster(s) with "Qli" in its name, it can perform a second attack during each Battle Phase, and if it attacks a monster in play that is in Defense Mode with DEF below the ATK of this card, your opponent takes the difference as battle damage to their Life Points.
COMMON
NECH-JP024
Card Info Qliphort Disk
EARTH / Machine-Type Pendulum / Level 7 / ATK 2800 / DEF 1000 / Scale 1
Pendulum Text:
You may not play monsters through a Special Summon, other than monsters with "Qli" in its name. This effect may not be nullified. All monsters you have in play with "Qli" in its name receive 300 ATK.


Monster Text:
You can play this card through a Normal Summon without Tributing. If this card is played through a Normal Summon without Tributing or is played through a Special Summon, its Level is treated as 4 and its original ATK is treated as 1800. If this card is played through a Normal Summon or Set, it may not be affected by effects used by monsters whose Level or Rank is lower than this card's Level. When this card is played through a Tribute Summon using a monster(s) with "Qli" in its name, you can play 2 monsters with "Qli" in their names through a Special Summon from your Deck to your field, but they are destroyed during the End Phase.
SUPER RARE
NECH-JP023
Card Info Qliphort Helix
EARTH / Machine-Type Pendulum / Level 6 / ATK 2400 / DEF 1000 / Scale 9
Pendulum Text:
You may not play monsters through a Special Summon, other than monsters with "Qli" in its name. This effect may not be nullified. All monsters your opponent has in play lose 300 ATK.


Monster Text:
You can play this card through a Normal Summon without Tributing. If this card is played through a Normal Summon without Tributing or is played through a Special Summon, its Level is treated as 4 and its original ATK is treated as 1800. If this card is played through a Normal Summon or Set, it may not be affected by effects used by monsters whose Level or Rank is lower than this card's Level. If this card is Tributed, you can choose 1 Spell or Trap Card in play and destroy it.
COMMON
NECH-JP022
Card Info Qliphort Carrier
EARTH / Machine-Type Pendulum / Level 6 / ATK 2400 / DEF 1000 / Scale 1
Pendulum Text:
You may not play monsters through a Special Summon, other than monsters with "Qli" in its name. This effect may not be nullified. All monsters you have in play with "Qli" in its name receive 300 ATK.


Monster Text:
You can play this card through a Normal Summon without Tributing. If this card is played through a Normal Summon without Tributing or is played through a Special Summon, its Level is treated as 4 and its original ATK is treated as 1800. If this card is played through a Normal Summon or Set, it may not be affected by effects used by monsters whose Level or Rank is lower than this card's Level. If this card is Tributed, you can choose 1 monster in play and return it to the owner's hand.
COMMON
NECH-JP021
Card Info Qliphort Scout
EARTH / Machine-Type Pendulum / Level 5 / ATK 1000 / DEF 2800 / Scale 9
Pendulum Text:
You may not play monsters through a Special Summon, other than monsters with "Qli" in its name. This effect may not be nullified. Once per turn, you can pay 800 LP to choose 1 card with "Qli" in its name in your Deck and add it to your hand, other than"Qliphort Scout".


Monster Text:
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Unknown publisher.
Allow C:\tierra\qliphort.exe ? <Y/N>…[Y]
Booting in Autonomy Mode…

RARE
NECH-JP018
Card Info Fluffal Owl
EARTH / Fairy / Level 2 / ATK 1000 / DEF 1000
When this card is played through a Normal Summon or Special Summon from your hand to your field, you can choose 1 "Polymerization" in your Deck and add it to your hand. You can pay 500 LP to play 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck with 'Frightfur" in its name through a Fusion using monsters from your hand or you have in play as Fusion Materials. You may only use 1 "Fluffal Owl" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
COMMON
NECH-JP017
Card Info Fluffal Dog
EARTH / Fairy / Level 4 / ATK 1700 / DEF 1000
When this card is played through a Normal Summon or Special Summon from the hand to your field, you can choose 1 "Edge Imp Sabres" or 1 monster with "Fluffal" in its name in your Deck and add it to your hand, other than "Fluffal Dog". You may only use this effect of "Fluffal Dog" once per turn.
RARE
NECH-JP014
Card Info Edge Imp Sabres
DARK / Fiend / Level 3 / ATK 1200 / DEF 800
If this card is in the Graveyard, you can choose 1 card from your hand and place it on the top of the Deck to play this card through a Special Summon from your Graveyard to your field in Defense Mode. You may only use this effect of "Edge Imp Sabres" once per turn.
RARE
NECH-JP009
Card Info Superheavy Samurai Scales
EARTH / Machine / Level 4 / ATK 800 / DEF 1800
If your opponent has 2 or more monsters in play on their field and you have no monsters in play onyour field, you can play this card through a Special Summon this card from your hand to your field. If this card is played through a Normal Summon or Special Summon, you can choose 1 Level 4 or lower monster with "Superheavy Samurai" in its name in your Graveyard, other than "Superheavy Samurai Scales" and play it through a Special Summon to your field in Defense Mode. You may only use this effect of "Superheavy Samurai Scales" once per turn.
SUPER RARE