Most Yu-Gi-Oh booster boxes are sold on what the cards do. QUARTER CENTURY ART COLLECTION is sold on how they look.
Released in Japan on February 22, 2025, QCAC is a 100-card special pack built around a single curatorial idea: every card in it exists with two or more illustrations. Konami took that pool of multi-artwork cards, reprinted them in premium rarities, added newly commissioned artwork, and folded in illustrations appearing in Japan for the first time. The result is less a booster set than a gallery you open four cards at a time — and it has become one of the most requested Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh products we track at our Tokyo shop.
This guide explains exactly what QCAC is, how the 100-card list breaks down, what the Quarter Century Secret Rare treatment means, why the glowing-name Dark Magician Girl became the face of the set, and how international collectors actually go about ordering the Japanese version from Tokyo.
Sealed Japanese QCAC booster boxes most recently sold in our store at ¥5,775 (~$35) and are currently out of stock. Because this is a Japan-origin collection product, allocations resurface in waves rather than on a schedule — the collectors who get boxes are the ones who ask first. You can register a restock request on the QCAC booster box product page (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) or via Quick Order, and we’ll contact you when Tokyo supply lands.
Set facts below are per Konami’s official Japanese product page for QCAC. The only prices referenced in this article are our own store prices for sealed boxes.
What Is the Quarter Century Art Collection?
QUARTER CENTURY ART COLLECTION — QCAC on the pack code — is a Japanese OCG special pack released on Saturday, February 22, 2025. Its full official name is 遊戯王オフィシャルカードゲーム デュエルモンスターズ QUARTER CENTURY ART COLLECTION, and it sits in the “Quarter Century” family of products Konami built around Yu-Gi-Oh’s 25th anniversary era.
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| Set code | QCAC |
| Release date (Japan) | February 22, 2025 |
| Card count | 100 types total |
| Rarity split | 40 Ultra Rare / 60 Super Rare |
| Pack configuration | 4 cards per pack |
| Box configuration | 15 packs per box |
| Concept | Cards with 2+ illustration variants, reprinted in premium rarities |
Two things about that table are unusual by normal booster standards. First, there is no common or rare slot anywhere in the set — the floor is Super Rare. All 100 cards are foil reprints in premium treatments, which is why collectors talk about QCAC boxes the way Pokemon collectors talk about high-class packs: every single card that comes out of a pack is a “hit” by mainline-set standards.
Second, the selection logic is artistic rather than competitive. The 100 cards were not chosen because they define the current meta. They were chosen because they carry multiple illustrations — and that one criterion changes who the product is for. QCAC is aimed squarely at art collectors, binder builders, and anyone whose attachment to Yu-Gi-Oh runs through its characters and artwork rather than its tournament scene.
If you want to see the full 100-card list before chasing a box, we maintain a dedicated QCAC card list page you can browse card by card.
The Art-Variant Concept: Why Every Card Has at Least Two Faces
The entry requirement for QCAC’s card list is simple: a card qualifies if two or more illustrations of it exist. In a game that has been running for a quarter century, that pool is rich — Yu-Gi-Oh has a long tradition of alternate-artwork printings, and the cards that receive multiple illustrations tend to be exactly the ones players and fans care about most. Signature monsters, iconic spells, characters with real story weight: multiple artworks are, in effect, a popularity signal, and QCAC harvested that signal into one product.
But QCAC is not just a reprint anthology of artwork that already existed. Konami layered in two more things on top of the base concept:
- Newly commissioned artwork. Some cards in the set carry brand-new illustrations drawn for this product — artwork that did not exist anywhere before QCAC. For an art-themed set, this is the difference between a museum retrospective and a new exhibition: part of the appeal is seeing familiar cards through an illustrator’s fresh interpretation.
- Japan-first illustrations. The set also includes illustrations making their first domestic appearance in Japan. Yu-Gi-Oh artwork does not always travel between regions at the same time or in the same form, and QCAC used that history as material — bringing art into the Japanese card pool that Japanese collectors had never been able to own locally.
Put those three layers together — multi-illustration icons, newly drawn art, and Japan-first debuts — and the collecting logic of the set becomes clear. You are not opening packs hoping to find one specific chase and treating the rest as filler. Each of the 100 cards is a deliberate artwork selection, which is why complete-set collecting and binder curation are far more common with QCAC than with a standard booster.
Quarter Century Secret Rares and the Glowing-Name Dark Magician Girl
The listed rarity floor of QCAC is Super Rare and Ultra Rare — but the treatment collectors chase hardest sits above the base list: the Quarter Century Secret Rare, the anniversary-era premium foil that has become the signature high rarity of the whole Quarter Century product family. QCAC carries a Quarter Century Secret Rare lineup as part of its premium rarity structure, which means the set’s most iconic artworks can appear in the most prestigious finish of the anniversary era.
And one card was given a treatment beyond even that.
QCAC includes a special Quarter Century Secret Rare Dark Magician Girl (Black Magician Girl in the OCG) featuring a glowing card name and the 25th anniversary logo. It is the set’s flagship anniversary variant — the card Konami built the product’s identity around.
The choice of Dark Magician Girl is no accident. She is arguably the single most illustrated character in Yu-Gi-Oh history — precisely the kind of multi-artwork icon the set’s concept was designed to celebrate — and giving her a one-off variant with a luminous name treatment and the anniversary mark turned her into the shorthand for the entire product. When collectors outside Japan ask us about “the QCAC Dark Magician Girl,” this is the card they mean.
For collectors, the practical takeaway is that QCAC operates on two levels at once. At the base level, every pack delivers premium-foil artwork from a curated 100-card list. Above that, the Quarter Century Secret Rare lineup — crowned by the glowing-name Dark Magician Girl — gives sealed boxes a genuine top-end ceiling. That combination of a high floor and an anniversary-grade ceiling is exactly what has kept demand for sealed Japanese boxes alive well past the release window.
Inside the Box: 15 Packs, 4 Cards, 100 Types
A sealed QCAC box contains 15 packs of 4 cards each — 60 cards per box, drawn from the 100-type list of 40 Ultra Rares and 60 Super Rares. That configuration shapes how people collect the set in three concrete ways:
- No filler slots. With no common or rare tier, all 60 cards in a box are Super Rare or better. Opening a QCAC box feels categorically different from opening a mainline booster: there is no stack of bulk to set aside, only a curated spread of foil artwork.
- One box cannot complete the set. Sixty cards against a 100-type list means a single box mathematically cannot hold every card — before even accounting for duplicates. Set completists typically work across multiple boxes or pair sealed boxes with targeted singles pickups from the QCAC card list.
- Compact, display-friendly boxes. Fifteen four-card packs make for a small-format box, which matters more than it sounds: QCAC sealed boxes are collected as display objects in their own right, and the compact anniversary packaging is part of the appeal for sealed-product collectors.
It’s worth stating clearly what this article deliberately does not do: we are not quoting pull rates or per-card odds here. Konami does not publish insertion ratios, and secondhand ratio claims for a Japan-origin collection product age badly. What the official configuration guarantees is the part above — 60 premium-rarity cards per sealed box from a 100-card art-first list — and that is the honest basis on which to decide whether the product fits your collection.
Why Art Collectors Import the Japanese Version
QCAC is a Japan-origin product, and for the collectors this set is aimed at, the Japanese printing is the version that matters. A few reasons come up again and again in the orders we ship:
- It is the original release. QCAC debuted in Japan on February 22, 2025 as a Japanese OCG product. For an art collection, provenance carries weight — the Japanese box is the form the product was designed in, with the original packaging, pack art, and card layout.
- Japan-first illustrations live here. Part of the set’s stated concept is artwork making its first appearance in Japan. Collectors who follow Yu-Gi-Oh illustration history specifically want those cards in their Japanese printing, because that printing is the debut.
- Japanese text as an aesthetic choice. This is an art set, and a large share of our buyers simply prefer how the artwork presents with Japanese card text — the same preference that drives imports of Japanese Pokemon and One Piece product. For binder display, the language of the text box is part of the composition.
- Buying at the source. Japan-origin collection products are allocated to the Japanese market first, so Tokyo is where sealed supply surfaces. Importing directly from a Japan-based shop shortens the chain between you and that supply — relevant for a product that moves in waves rather than sitting on shelves.
If you are newer to importing, our Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh buying guide walks through the whole landscape — how the OCG relates to the TCG, what’s currently sealed and available, and how ordering from Japan actually works.
While QCAC itself is out of stock awaiting restock, collectors who want a sealed Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh box on the shelf now usually pick up the current mainline set instead:
QCAC and the Limit Over Collections: Konami’s Collection-Box Family
QCAC did not stay a one-off. In 2026, Konami released two more Japanese collection sets in the same 4-cards-per-pack, 15-packs-per-box format: LIMIT OVER COLLECTION – THE HEROES – (LOCH, February 28, 2026) and LIMIT OVER COLLECTION – THE RIVALS – (LOCR, March 20, 2026). Each is an 80-card set split 38 Ultra Rare / 42 Super Rare, and together they confirm that the premium small-box collection format QCAC helped define is now a recurring part of the OCG calendar.
The organizing idea shifted, though. Where QCAC curates by artwork — cards with multiple illustrations — the Limit Over Collections curate by character, with THE HEROES built around protagonist cards and THE RIVALS around their rivals. If QCAC’s gallery-first approach appeals to you, the Limit Over pair is the natural next shelf: we break both boxes down in our Limit Over Collection guide.
For a wider view of every recent Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh set and where each one fits, our Yu-Gi-Oh card list hub indexes the full lineup in one place.
How to Order QCAC from Tokyo
We ship sealed Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh product worldwide from Tokyo with tracked delivery. For QCAC specifically, the honest picture as of this writing: our most recent store price for a sealed box was ¥5,775 (~$35), and the box is currently out of stock — restock requests are the mechanism, and they genuinely drive what we hunt for first when Japan-side supply appears. Three ways forward from here:
- Register a restock request. The QCAC booster box product page (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) is the place to raise your hand. Requests are queued, and when boxes land in Tokyo we work through that queue before anything goes to general listing.
- Study the set first. If you’re deciding between chasing sealed boxes and picking up specific cards, the QCAC card list lets you review all 100 types — and figure out whether your targets are Ultra Rare or Super Rare slots — before committing either way.
- Ask us directly via Quick Order. For restock notifications, mixed orders, or anything not on a product page, Quick Order is the fastest line to us. Tell us you want QCAC and we’ll contact you when supply lands — no obligation attached to asking.
One closing note on timing: Japan-origin anniversary products don’t follow mainline reprint logic, and windows where sealed QCAC is buyable at a Tokyo storefront have been intermittent since release. If the set fits your collection, being on the request list costs nothing and decides who hears first.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Yu-Gi-Oh Quarter Century Art Collection (QCAC)?
QCAC is a Japanese OCG special pack released February 22, 2025. It collects 100 cards that each exist with two or more illustrations, reprinted in premium rarities — 40 Ultra Rares and 60 Super Rares — including newly commissioned artwork and illustrations debuting in Japan for the first time.
How many cards are in the QCAC set?
100 card types in total, split into 40 Ultra Rares and 60 Super Rares. There is no common or rare tier — every card in the set is a premium-rarity foil.
How many packs come in a QCAC booster box?
Each sealed Japanese QCAC box contains 15 packs with 4 cards per pack — 60 cards per box drawn from the 100-type list.
What is the special Dark Magician Girl in QCAC?
QCAC features a special Quarter Century Secret Rare Dark Magician Girl variant with a glowing card name and the 25th anniversary logo. It is the flagship anniversary card of the set and part of QCAC’s Quarter Century Secret Rare lineup.
Why do collectors buy the Japanese version of QCAC?
QCAC is a Japan-origin product: the Japanese box is the original release, it contains illustrations that debuted in Japan first, and many art collectors prefer the artwork presented with Japanese card text. Buying from a Tokyo shop also puts you closest to where sealed supply surfaces.
Is the QCAC booster box still available?
Our most recent store price for a sealed QCAC box was ¥5,775, and it is currently out of stock. You can register a restock request on the product page or via our Quick Order page, and we’ll contact you when new Tokyo supply lands.
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