An exact code can still be incomplete
Search Konami’s English TCG database for Alpha, the Master of Beasts. RA01-EN022 appears repeatedly in the 25th Anniversary Rarity Collection entries, with seven different rarity labels. This is not seven different card names. The code has located the right printing family while leaving a choice about its treatment.
Decide what you are collecting
If the aim is to own the named card, the database also lists a Common printing under SR14-EN022 from Structure Deck: Fire Kings. If the aim is a particular Rarity Collection finish, that other printing does not answer the same request. Neither goal needs to become a requirement to collect all seven finishes.
Konami’s product description explicitly says each card in this collection is available in seven rarities. The practical consequence is to write the wanted rarity next to RA01-EN022. A request for the code alone leaves a seller free to understand a different version from the one you imagined.
Keep the purchase request specific
For a particular finish, ask for Alpha’s full name, RA01-EN022 and the precise rarity label, with images of the actual offered card that can resolve that treatment. If the finish is still unclear, keep that part of the decision open. A stock illustration of the card’s artwork cannot distinguish every rarity that shares it.
For a collection centred on characters or artwork rather than treatments, choose a named printing that fulfils that goal and stop there. The database helps separate those goals; it does not decide that the most elaborate finish is the right one for every collector.
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