Yu-Gi-Oh! Beyond the Brave: most valuable cards
The 10 most valuable Beyond the Brave cards with prices in USD and CAD, the Starlight Rare odds, and why a booster box now costs half its suggested price.
Beyond the Brave is the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG core booster set released on October 9, 2026, and three weeks in, one card carries the whole set: The Great Gallant Bandit Starlight Rare in extended art, at $378.32 USD (about $528 CAD) on October 30. A booster box, meanwhile, sells for about half its suggested price. Here are the 10 most valuable cards, the odds of pulling a Starlight Rare, and what a box gives back.
Beyond the Brave is a Yu-Gi-Oh! set released Oct 9, 2026, with 136 singles and 3 sealed products on Kontora. The highest reference price in the set on Nov 8, 2026 is The Great Gallant Bandit (Starlight Rare) (Extended Art) at US$293.14.
Beyond the Brave at a glance
| Beyond the Brave | |
|---|---|
| Release | October 9, 2026 (October 7 in Official Tournament Stores) |
| Suggested price | $4.49 USD per pack |
| Set size | 100 cards: 10 Secret Rare, 14 Ultra Rare, 26 Super Rare, 50 Common |
| Starlight Rares | 25: 5 extended art cards in Ultra Rare and Starlight Rare, plus 20 more as Starlight Rares |
| Booster box | 24 packs of 9 cards |
| Box market price, October 30 | $56.49 USD (about $79 CAD) |
Prices in this guide are Kontora market prices on October 30, 2026, in USD.
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Release dates, price and rarity counts are from Konami's product page; pack and box sizes from TCGTalk. At the suggested $4.49, 24 packs add up to $107.76 USD. The box now sells for about half of that, and it was around $69 USD in release week, according to TCGTalk.
The set brings Joey Wheeler's Dark Time Wizard and a new Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, Destiny HERO cards for Aster Phoenix fans (Doom Overlord, Destro-Dogma, Dreadnought Master), Atlantis cards, Ashtra Traps, and support for Endymion, Clown Crew and Predaplant decks.
The 10 most valuable Beyond the Brave cards
| Rank | Card | Rarity | Market price, October 30, 2026 | In CAD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great Gallant Bandit (extended art) | Starlight Rare | $378.32 USD | about $528 |
| 2 | Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed (extended art) | Starlight Rare | $260.10 USD | about $363 |
| 3 | Hey, Space Trunade! | Starlight Rare | $99.06 USD | about $138 |
| 4 | CXyz Hope Chaos Barian Dragon (extended art) | Starlight Rare | $86.51 USD | about $121 |
| 5 | The Great Gallant Bandit (extended art) | Ultra Rare | $85.58 USD | about $119 |
| 6 | Elemental Saga Doriado (extended art) | Starlight Rare | $77.19 USD | about $108 |
| 7 | Mediclius the Extraordinary Power Patron | Starlight Rare | $61.89 USD | about $86 |
| 8 | The Great Gallant Bandit | Secret Rare | $61.22 USD | about $85 |
| 9 | Dark City at Midnight | Starlight Rare | $56.95 USD | about $80 |
| 10 | Ars Magna the Finite and the Infinite | Starlight Rare | $54.89 USD | about $77 |
The Great Gallant Bandit appears three times in the top 10, in three rarities. That is a player's card, not only a collector's: even the plain Secret Rare costs $61.22 USD. In the Asian-English format, where the set came out earlier, it was described as a board breaker in the style of Lava Golem, according to TCG Corner. If you need one to play, the Secret Rare is the cheapest copy.
Prices are easing as more boxes get opened: TCGTalk had the extended art Starlight Bandit at about $422.52 USD on October 25, so it is down about 10% in five days.
Beyond the Brave pull rates
Konami does not publish pull rates. A community sample of 312 packs (13 boxes), compiled by TCGTalk, gives this per 24-pack box:
| Rarity | Per box (312-pack sample) |
|---|---|
| Ultra Rare | about 4 |
| Secret Rare | about 1.8 |
| Starlight Rare (any) | about 1 in 3.3 boxes |
| Extended art Starlight Rare | 1 in 13 boxes (a single pull in the sample) |
TCGTalk itself calls these an "optimistic ceiling": with 13 boxes, one lucky pull changes the result. With 25 Starlight Rares in the set, the chance that a given box holds the Starlight Bandit is tiny.
Is a Beyond the Brave booster box worth opening?
It is closer than you might think, because the box is so cheap. With the sample odds and today's prices, an average box holds about $17 USD in plain Ultra Rares (4 at about $4.37), roughly $11 to $28 in Secret Rares (the Gallant Bandit pulls the average up), and about $20 in Starlight Rare chances. That is roughly $50 to $65 USD against a $56.49 box.
So a box is roughly a fair bet on paper, and much of the value rides on whether you hit a Starlight. For a specific card, buy the single. To play the format's new cards and enjoy opening, a box at half its suggested price is a good deal.
What comes next
Magnificent Maestros, a set box rather than a booster, arrives on November 13, 2026 in North America with three 5-card packs per box, reports ICv2. The next core booster on Konami's release list is Glorious Victors, on December 4, 2026.
FAQ
When did Yu-Gi-Oh! Beyond the Brave come out?
October 9, 2026 in North America, and October 7 in Official Tournament Stores, according to Konami.
What is the most valuable card in Beyond the Brave?
The Great Gallant Bandit, Starlight Rare in extended art, at $378.32 USD (about $528 CAD) on October 30, 2026.
How many Starlight Rares are in Beyond the Brave?
25: the 5 extended art cards also come as Starlight Rares, and 20 more cards have a Starlight Rare version, according to Konami.
What are the odds of pulling a Starlight Rare in Beyond the Brave?
About one per 3.3 booster boxes in a community sample of 312 packs. Konami does not publish official odds.
How much is a Beyond the Brave booster box?
24 packs at a suggested $4.49 USD each, or $107.76 USD. On October 30, 2026 boxes sold for $56.49 USD (about $79 CAD).
Card prices are TCGplayer reference market prices in US dollars as of Nov 8, 2026. A reference price is not an offer.
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