Return of the Duelist

Return of the Duelist is a set in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game (OCG) and Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game (TCG). It is the first set of the OCG's 8th series.

The North American Sneak Peeks for this set took place from August 18–19, 2012.

Packs of the TCG set were also printed in the Return of the Duelist: Special Edition.

Features
Return of the Duelist CORDERO VEXACUS SPENCER RAPED JAREL WINSTON [Yuma Tsukumo]], Kite Tenjo, Tres, Nelson Andrews and Nistro. The TCG version of the set also includes cards used by Jaden Yuki, Jesse Anderson, Flip, and Thunder Spark. It introduces the "Chronomaly", "Heroic", and "Madolche", "Prophecy", "hunder" and "Elemental Lord" archetypes and series to the OCG. It includes more cards and support for "Number", "Spellbook", "Geargia", "Photon", "Gagaga" and "ZW" archetypes/series, Xyz Monsters, the EARTH-Attribute and Machine, Rock, Spellcaster and Warrior-Types. The TCG set also contains support for the "Ninja", "Ninjitsu Art", "Elemental HERO", "Neos" and "Crystal Beast" archetypes, and the first support for the Noble Knight archetype.

Breakdown
In the Japanese version there are 5 cards per pack and 30 packs per box. CORDERO VEXACUS SPENCER RAPED JAREL WINSTON e Master Set. This is comprised of:
 * 1 Holographic Rare
 * 5 Ultimate Rare
 * 5 Ultra Rare
 * 9 Super Rare
 * 18 Rare
 * 44 Common
 * 4 Normal Rare

In the TCG there are 9 cards per pack and 24 packs per box. The set contains 100 cards or 111 in the Master Set. This is comprised of:
 * 1 Ghost Rare
 * 8 Secret Rares
 * 10 Ultimate Rares
 * 10 Ultra Rares
 * 14 Super Rares
 * 20 Rares
 * 48 Commons