Cyberpunk TCG: 11 Cards You Cannot Pull From a Booster

Cyberpunk TCG has a booster set, a starter deck line and a promo programme, and WeirdCo has been clear about the policy connecting them — it will not reprint Welcome to Night City, and promos will only ever be variants of cards you can already get. What it has never published is the list. Which cards, specifically, are you unable to open in a pack?

The official card database answers it, because every card entry carries its full printing history. As of 23 August 2026 the database holds 131 cards, and eleven of them have no printing in any Welcome to Night City booster set — not the Beta version sold through Kickstarter, and not the Retail version arriving 6 November.

Re-checked 31 August 2026: the database had grown to 149 cards and the list below had not changed. Re-checked 1 November 2026: it now holds 151 cards, and it is still the same eleven. Every card added since 23 August arrived with a booster printing. What has changed is that six of the Legends and one Unit on the list have since picked up extra event printings, noted below.

Seven of those eleven are Legends. That is a quarter of a card type the constructed rules make you run exactly three of.

What counts as unpullable here

On 23 August the database split Cyberpunk TCG into twelve product codes, two of them boosters. By 1 November it carries 24 set codes, because French-language versions have their own codes and event and promo codes have been added. Three are boosters: Welcome to Night City — Beta, Welcome to Night City — Retail and Welcome to Night City — Retail — FR. Everything else is a starter deck, a demo deck, a box topper, a Pre-Release kit, an event-season code (Edgerunner Open, Night City Brawl, Night City Showdown) or a promo (Set 1 Promos, Judge Promos).

So the test used here is narrow and mechanical: does the card have at least one printing in one of the three booster codes? If yes, you can open it in a pack, eventually. If no, it is on the list below.

Two things this test deliberately does not mean. It does not mean the card is rare in its own product — four of the eleven are Uncommons sitting in a fixed starter deck list (one of them, Minotaur, has since gained Nova Rare event printings). And it does not mean the card is expensive, because a starter deck is a fixed-price product rather than a lottery ticket. It means there is no amount of pack-opening that gets you there.

The eleven cards with no booster printing

Each starter deck exists in a Beta and a Retail printing, and the exclusives appear in both. The Beta versions carry a β prefix on the collector number — Yorinobu is β001 in the Beta deck and 001 in the Retail deck — and the same prefix marks the Beta printings of the booster set, both starter decks and the box toppers. It is not a universal rule: the Pre-Release Beta code numbers its eleven printings 001 to 011 with no prefix at all.

The database now also lists all six exclusive Legends under Edgerunner Open S 1, each as a Nova Rare (collector numbers 034 to 053), and Minotaur under Night City Brawl S 1. These are event-season codes, not booster products, so the test above is unchanged: none of the eleven can be opened in a booster pack. The database does not say how those event printings are obtained, and this post does not guess.

Five and five: the starter-deck promise, kept

WeirdCo's Kickstarter FAQ makes one commitment about deck contents: each starter deck "will include 5 mechanically unique cards exclusive to their respective product."

Count the table. Embracing Power has five — three Legends and two Units. The Heist has five — three Legends and two Units. The database and the FAQ agree exactly, which is worth noting because this is the specific clause the reprint policy leaves uncovered. WeirdCo has pledged never to make a mechanically unique promo. It has made no equivalent pledge about starter decks, and here are the ten cards that live in the gap.

The shape is consistent too. In both decks the three exclusive Legends are Epic and the two exclusive Units are Uncommon. Nobody put a Secret Rare behind the starter-deck wall.

For a constructed player this is the practical takeaway: seven of the 27 Legends now in the database are unreachable through boosters, and a Legend is not a card you can skip. You need three. Every Legend that prints a RAM value carries RAM 2, so RAM cannot separate them — colour and rules text do. Eight of the 27 Legends also print a power value, and two of those eight are starter-deck exclusives: V — Corporate Exile at 8 and Goro Takemura — Hands Unclean at 7.

The two boxes split those colours cleanly rather than overlapping. Embracing Power holds the Red exclusive Legend and both Green ones; The Heist holds the Yellow and both Blue. No colour has its exclusive Legends spread across both decks, so if you want either Blue one there is exactly one box to buy.

Box toppers are those same Legends in Nova Rare

The database lists Box Toppers — Beta and Box Toppers — Retail (plus a French Retail code) as separate product codes, and each contains the same six cards.

All six are Nova Rare in the box-topper printing. All six are the starter-deck exclusive Legends and nothing else — three from each deck, one card type, no Units.

WeirdCo's FAQ defines the mechanism plainly: a box topper is "a single random promotional card included inside of a booster display," added to Beta Booster Displays as the $6 million and $8 million stretch goals. Singular and random, which means a display gets you one of six.

Read together with the starter-deck list, that is a fairly elegant piece of design. The six Legends you cannot pull from a pack are exactly the six that turn up as the premium card packed into a display of those same packs. Buying a display gives you a shot at the treatment; buying the deck gives you the card. Neither substitutes for the other, and opening packs gives you neither.

One thing the FAQ does not explain: it describes box toppers as a Beta Booster Display stretch goal, yet the database carries a full Box Toppers — Retail code with the same six cards and non-β collector numbers. What triggers a retail box topper has not been published.

The free way to test all ten

Before you buy either deck to chase a Legend, note that all ten starter-deck exclusives also carry a printing in one of WeirdCo's two demo decks — the Arasaka demo deck for the Embracing Power five, the Merc demo deck for The Heist five.

Both demo decks are published as free print-and-play PDFs from the site's Print & Play Decks menu, which the Kickstarter FAQ also calls the Alpha Kit decks. That is a legitimate way to see how Saburo Arasaka or MT0D12 Flathead actually plays before committing to a box. It is a printout, not a card, and WeirdCo has published no policy on printed cards in its Organized Play events — but the list of exclusives above maps one-for-one onto cards those PDFs contain.

Rebecca is the only one of the 151 with no product

Rebecca: Having a Moment is the eleventh card and the odd one out. Of the 131 cards in the database on 23 August — and of all 149 on 31 August and all 151 on 1 November — it is the only one whose entire printing history is the Set 1 Promos code. Every other card in the database carries at least one booster printing or a starter-deck printing. There is no starter deck, no demo deck, no booster and no Pre-Release kit that contains Rebecca.

There are, in fact, two of them. The database lists Rebecca under two Set 1 Promo collector numbers with two different artists — 005 by Narupiti Harunsong and 007 by Pandart Studio. Both are Nova Rare. WeirdCo has not published what distinguishes the two printings.

The card prints no cost, no RAM, no power and no rules text. WeirdCo said on 4 July that it will feature in set two and that its rules text arrives during that set's reveal season, so the textless promo is a collector's object today and a playable card later.

The Set 1 Promo numbering is also worth a glance. As of 1 November the code holds four printings: 005 and 007 are the two Rebeccas, 006 is a Nova Rare Misty Olszewski: Mender of Broken Spirits (artist Bruno Ferreira), and 008 is a Nova Rare Adam Smasher: Ender of Legends (Pandart Studio). Both Misty and Adam Smasher are cards that are in boosters. Numbers 001 to 004 are not in the database, and WeirdCo has not said what fills them.

Every route to a Rebecca, and which are open

WeirdCo's promo update lists four conventions where completing a demo earned you a Rebecca, and the company later added a backers-only digital event and further stops. Every route on the board is now past. Here it is as it stands on 1 November 2026:

The digital event was the one with a hard edge on it. WeirdCo's announcement said it would post a registration link during the livestream; backers were to enter the email address attached to their BackerKit account, which was checked against the backer database, with the promo added to the order and shipped with Wave 2. The company's own wording was that the signup page "will close as soon as the event concludes, and you won't be able to resubmit your details." That date has now passed, so the window is closed.

The event was announced for the Cyberpunk TCG Twitch and YouTube channels. It was backers-only for the promo and open to anyone to watch.

If you did not back the Kickstarter and missed the conventions, there is no open route that WeirdCo has published. As of 1 November its conventions page lists only PAX Australia and Spiel Essen, both of which have passed, and no further Rebecca stop. The 4 July promo update had promised the card at "every one of our major convention appearances between now and our retail release", so a future appearance may carry it, but none has been announced.

Lucy has two versions, and both windows are shut

Lucy is not in the card database at all, but two Lucy cards exist and the Kickstarter FAQ sets out exactly who gets which.

Both dates are in the past, so this is a checklist rather than an opportunity: if you signed up before 21 January you are owed a non-foil card even if you never pledged, and no further action is required for the foil beyond having backed. The FAQ says non-backers' shipping details are collected by email after the campaign.

There is a Nova Rare David nobody has seen

One line in WeirdCo's fulfilment FAQ names three Nova Rare cards shipping in Q4: Rebecca, Lucy — and David.

That is the entire public record. There is no David card in the database, no reveal post, no stated eligibility and no announced acquisition route. Given the promo pledge, a David card is presumably a variant of something rather than a mechanically unique card, but WeirdCo has not said so and this post is not going to pretend otherwise.

What is still unknown

• What separates the two Rebecca printings. Two collector numbers, two artists, one card name, no explanation.
• How you get the Nova Rare Adam Smasher promo. It is in the database as Set 1 Promos 008. No route has been published.
• What David is, and who is eligible. Named once, in a shipping FAQ.
• What fills Set 1 Promo slots 001 to 004, and how you get the Misty Olszewski promo. Neither is in the database or explained.
• What triggers a retail box topper. The FAQ describes the mechanism only as a Beta Booster Display stretch goal.
• Whether set two's starter decks repeat the five-exclusives pattern. WeirdCo announced Set Two, Edgerunners: Burn Bright, on 20 October 2026 for Spring 2027, with a Pre-release one week before retail. The announcement describes booster packs and says nothing about starter decks or any exclusive cards.

Quick reference

• Cards in the database: 131 on 23 August 2026, 149 on 31 August, 151 on 1 November, and the same 11 have no booster printing on all three dates.
• Embracing Power exclusives: Yorinobu Arasaka — Embracing Destruction, Goro Takemura — Hands Unclean, Saburo Arasaka — Stubborn Patriarch (all Epic Legends), Goro Takemura — Losing His Way, Minotaur (Uncommon Units).
• The Heist exclusives: Viktor Vektor — Sit Down and Relax, Jackie Welles — Pour One Out For Me, V — Corporate Exile (all Epic Legends), Dexter DeShawn — One Last Chance, MT0D12 Flathead (Uncommon Units).
• Box toppers: the six exclusive Legends above, in Nova Rare, one random card per display.
• Promo-only: Rebecca — Having a Moment, two Set 1 Promo printings, textless until set two.
• Open Rebecca routes: none published as of 1 November 2026. The Digital Beta Celebration registration (4 September), PAX Australia (9–11 October) and Spiel Essen (22–25 October) have all passed.