Alternate/Starlight Rare (AltR) | White name, special horizontally-lined foil. Platinum Rare (PlR) | Platinum name, foil. Holographic Rare (HGR) | Silver name, pale art. Ghost Rare (GR) | Silver name, pale art. Ultimate Rare (UtR) | Gold and embossed name, foil. Super Rare (SR) | Non-foil name, foil card. Rare (R) | Gray or Gray-outlined text, not foil. Common spells, traps, and xyz monsters instead have white text. Common (C) | identified by their card name's plain black text-if they're a monster. (The trading card game was launched by Konami in 1999 in Japan and March 2002 in North America) CARD TYPES MONSTER SPELL TRAP RARITY It is based on the fictional game of Duel Monsters created by manga artist Kazuki Takahashi, which appears in portions of the manga franchise Yu-Gi-Oh! The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is a Japanese collectible card game developed and published by Konami.