Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG 2025 Mega-Pack Tin Review - Best Cards and More!

The 2025 Mega-Pack Tin, one of the most exciting sets as of late, was released on September 4th and brought us several great reprints. More particularly, it brought us many cards that saw play last year, so it was just incredible.

Because this set only brought us reprints, it shouldn't impact Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG's Advanced format but will certainly impact many local metas. Countless cards that have been seeing some play will become cheaper and, as such, a lot more accessible to many players.

So, in this article, we'll review what we believe to be the main cards in the 2025 Mega-Pack Tin!

Nightmare Apprentice is an excellent reprint, not necessarily for the current format but as a long-term investment. Because she gets Illusion monsters from your deck for you, she'll be great as soon as a broken deck centered around this type of monster becomes relevant.

The best Millenium cards are featured in this new tin, which will be great for many duelists. If you enjoy nostalgic decks, you'll be able to build one without spending much, and if you're more competitive, you'll be able to get a powerful Rank 8 Xyz monster engine for a fair price.

Retaliating "C" is a very welcome reprint. It recently became a staple because it is incredibly efficient against Dracotail.

Gameciel, the Sea Turtle Kaiju is the best Kaiju monster and a decent reprint. It's not popular in current side decks, though.

Infinite Impermanence has been one of the best Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG staples for years now. It was also already quite cheap and accessible, but a reprint like this is always a great call.

Number 90: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Lord is one of the best Rank 8 Xyz monsters in the game, but it was a lot more expensive than it should be in some places. This reprint should make it more accessible, and getting it now before it becomes expensive again is a good idea.

These Bystial reprints should make them cheap again. They had become more expensive lately since KONAMI restricted "Magnamhut" and "Druiswurm".

S:P Little Knight is still one of the best Link monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, despite not being critical in the most important end boards. Now is the time to get it if you didn't when the Rarity Collection came out.

Lo, the Prayers of the Voiceless Voice is the most important card for the Voiceless Voice archetype, and this reprint was just what it needed to truly become a budget strategy. It won't sit at the top of the competitive meta, but it is a decent option if you want something safe and cheap.

The Black Goat Laughs is a great card because of what it does while on the board and in your graveyard. This reprint came at the right time, as some off-meta decks have been using it.

Nearly the entire Fiendsmith engine was reprinted in this Tin, and this divided the community. On one side, this decision made one of the strongest engines in the game a lot cheaper, but, on the other, it also made it a prime target for the next banlist. The main reason behind this is that this engine is quite generic and popular, but it also wasn't that expensive to begin with. Making it a lot cheaper could make the game a bit unhealthy.

Mulcharmy Purulia and Mulcharmy Fuwalos are considered by many the best reprints in this set, and for a good reason, considering they're incredibly impactful. "Fuwalos" is probably the best handtrap in the game right now, and "Purulia" is currently quite strong because it counters Vanquish Soul.

Silhouhatte Rabbit is another incredibly interesting reprint. Recently, it has been seeing some play in Crystron K9 as a way to get Apophis the Swamp Deity, an excellent out for boardbreakers.

Dominus Purge and Dominus Impulse are also incredibly powerful handtraps. Despite not being that generic, they're practically essential in the decks that can use them.

Deception of the Sinful Spoils connects the Sinful Spoils engine to the Azamina strategy. This reprint should make it a lot cheaper and likely popular as well.

Primite Lordly Lode was the only expensive card in the Primite archetype, which is great in Blue-Eyes. Because it sees play in a nostalgic deck and was featured in the last Structural deck, "Lordly Lode" is set to be one of the most popular cards in this set.

Ryzeal has been going through it lately. It went from the best deck in the format to a mere secondary character in the new meta. It's still too early to say if it truly became weaker than Vanquish Soul, Yummy, and Dracotail, but, in terms of popularity, it has already been surpassed. Furthermore, we still don't know if KONAMI will target it in the next banlist to "kill" it for good or if they believe the new set has already powercrept it enough.

As for Maliss, it is the same as Ryzeal. This strategy is currently in limbo. We can't really say if it is a part of history now or if the best players simply started playing other strategies to get used to other lists earlier, considering the next banlist could also hit Maliss.

Salamangreat of Fire was great for its archetype, but, because of how expensive it is in some places, many players decided to wait for its reprint to get it. Now that it will become cheaper, I believe Salamangreat players will get their decks out of their folders again and revisit this old friend.

Ally of Justice Cycle Reader is quite specific but very valuable as well. Considering Fiendsmith might become quite popular in local metas and this card counters it, it will be a great option.

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