Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards on TCGplayer: September 2024
By Peter Day •
The first step to serving customer demand is to understand it. So to help you follow what’s currently popular with players and collectors, we’ve put together a pair of downloadable CSV reports of the top-selling Yu-Gi-Oh! cards of the past month.
These reports show the name and set of the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards with the highest total number of copies sold on the TCGplayer Marketplace between September 1 and September 26. The reports consider cards from different sets to be distinct (even if they have the same name), but do not distinguish copies sold by condition (Near Mint, Lightly Played, etc.) or by printing (Foil, etc.).
The two reports cover cards that had an average sale price in September within two ranges: $50.00 or more, and $1.00 to $49.99.
Here are five highlights from each report.
Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: $50 or More
#1 Mulcharmy Purulia
Set: The Infinite Forbidden
Average Sale Price: $51.81
If you read our list of top sellers from August, this month’s list is going to give you deja-vu: the top four cards over $50 are exactly the same.
At the top of the list (and just barely over the $50 threshold) we have Mulcharmy Purulia, which just released in The Infinite Forbidden on July 19. When this card was revealed it immediately drew comparisons to Maxx “C”, the anti-Special Summoning hand trap that defines the formats in Japan and Master Duel. While Purulia hasn’t been quite that game-warping, it still sees play in almost every competitive Yu-Gi-Oh deck, and it’s only become better with Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess being added to the Forbidden list.
#2 Fiendsmith Engraver
Set: The Infinite Forbidden
Average Sale Price: $92.34
Fiendsmith Engraver is the core card of the Fiendsmith archetype that was introduced in The Infinite Forbidden and quickly became part of the strongest deck in the format. The F&L update hit that deck in several ways, including by forbidding Fiendsmith’s Lacrima, which indirectly nerfs the power of Engraver. Even so, Snake-Eyes Fiendsmith is expected to remain a big contender going forward, and it and other decks will continue to run Engraver.
#3 S:P Little Knight
Set: Age of Overlord
Average Sale Price: $63.86
S:P Little Knight continues to be a highly versatile answer that can fit into almost any deck, and the F&L update did nothing to change that. Neither did the reprint this month in Dueling Mirrors Tin, which couldn’t push the price of this original version any lower than $60.
#4 Dragon Master Magia (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Set: Battles of Legend: Terminal Revenge
Average Sale Price: $152.34
This card’s “average sale price” is a bit deceptive. In English, its Market Price at time of writing is a staggering $803.14 due to it only being printed once, as a Quarter Century Secret Rare. But more than half of this card’s sales have gone to listings with photos of Japanese and Korean versions of the card, which depending on the printing can go for as little as $10.
Dragon Master Magia depicts Black Luster Soldier riding Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, a team-up that no current or former Yu-Gi-Oh fan can resist, so collectors are racing to pick up any version of the card they can. If that version happens to be in the source material’s language and cost a fraction as much as the English version, so much the better.
#5 Triple Tactics Thrust (UTR)
Set: OTS Tournament Pack 22
Average Sale Price: $54.93
Here’s our first new card for the month in the $50+ category!
All three of the Triple Tactics Thrust printings that existed at the start of September spiked after the F&L Update early in the month. Among other uses, TTThrust can search up That Grass Looks Greener, which went from Banned to Limited in that update and enables all kinds of graveyard shenanigans.
While all four versions of TThrust are valuable, only the Tournament Pack version clears the $50 threshold to appear on this half of the list.
Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Winged Kuriboh (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Set: 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Mirrors
Average Sale Price: $1.16
All the top selling cards under $50 this month came from the 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Mirrors, which included 50 iconic cards with the Quarter Century Secret Rare exclusive foiling. Every $20 Tin comes with three QCSRs, so they aren’t too hard to find, and many players took the opportunity this month to grab exceptionally shiny versions of these staples from years past.
Winged Kuriboh tops the list due to being the spirit partner of Jaiden Yuki, the protagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.
#2 Blue-Eyes White Dragon (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Set: 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Mirrors
Average Sale Price: $25.01
Blue-Eyes White Dragon bucks the trend of most of the other Quarter Century Secret Rares by being nearly $30 at time of writing, making it the most expensive QCSR of the set. That price reflects BEWD’s enduring popularity as a mascot for the entire game, and it probably would have outsold Winged Kuriboh if that price tag wasn’t a turn-off for more cost-sensitive buyers.
#3 Torrential Tribute (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Set: 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Mirrors
Average Sale Price: $2.82
Next up is Torrential Tribute, a classic trap card that still occasionally sees play 20 years after its first printing.
#4 Scapegoat (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Set: 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Mirrors
Average Sale Price: $1.51
Scapegoat shows up periodically in decks built for the Edison and Goat formats. Understandably, it’s more or less the latter’s mascot.
#5 Speedroid Terrortop (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Set: 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Mirrors
Average Sale Price: $2.63
Terrortop is still a competitive staple today thanks to its combo with Speedroid Taketomborg, which lets players go into Extra Deck monsters like Salamangreat Miragestallio and Goblin Biker Big Gabonba without even using a Normal Summon.
Selling cards that have high “velocity” keeps your cash flow healthy so you can take advantage of new opportunities. Check out our reports on the top-selling cards in Magic and Pokémon, and be sure to list these cards on TCGplayer to unlock value you can reinvest in your business.