Price Trends: Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards Climbing in Price - 6/03/2026
By Peter Day •
We want you to have the best information available when you price cards on the TCGplayer Marketplace. So to help you get the most from your inventory, we’ve put together a downloadable CSV report of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards that have dramatically increased in Market Price in the past 30 days.
(Note: This report only considers Near Mint copies of cards with at least ten sales between May 2 and May 31, 2026.)
Here are ten highlights from that report. First, we have the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price of $10 or less.
Top 5 Price Increases—YGO Cards $10 or Less
- Set: Fists of the Gadgets
- Increase: +$10.74
- Current Market Price: $11.99
The Power Patron pendulum monsters in Blazing Dominion have given players a reason to care about Pendulum Monsters in 2026. A small number of those players picked up copies of Amorphage Sloth, alongside Amorphage Lechery and Amorphage Goliath, in the hopes of locking their opponents out of Extra Deck monsters.
Those few sales wiped out all the lower-cost listings for this seven-year-old card.
- Set: Battles of Legend: Terminal Revenge
- Increase: +$11.21
- Current Market Price: $17.04
As part of the new Shaddoll support coming in Battles of Legends: Glorious Gallery, we’re getting a new searcher spell called Void Unleashing. Infernoid Evil can search Void Unleashing, and Void Unleashing can return Infernoid Evil to your hand, for a two-card engine that grabs whichever Shaddoll pieces you need.
- Set: Hidden Arsenal 4
- Increase: +$11.48
- Current Market Price: $13.16
Sales of Naturia Exteria exploded on May 11 when the Forbidden & Limited List update unbanned Metamorphosis. With Metamorphosis and one Level 10 monster, you can now Special Summon Naturia Exterio and lock your opponent out of Spell and Trap cards.
- Set: Shining Victories
- Increase: +$11.90
- Current Market Price: $13.96
Amorphage Sloth’s original printing is spiking for the same reason as its second.
- Set: Return of the Duelist
- Increase: +$22.23
- Current Market Price: $27.19
Some players have experimented with a copy of Alchemic Magician in lists built around the new Fairy Tail engine of Level 4 Spellcasters. Since Alchemic Magician has only been printed once, 14 years ago, it’s especially sensitive to this increase in demand.
Next, these are the five cards that gained the most value in the past 30 days after starting with a Market Price over $10.
Top 5 Price Increases—YGO Cards Over $10
#5 Paladins of Bonds and Unity
- Set: Supreme Darkness
- Increase: +$36.27
- Current Market Price: $125.97
Paladins of Bonds and Unity sees next to no play. But it’s also only been printed once, as a QCSR, which makes evaluating what it “should” cost extra tricky.
The card dropped below $100 last year during November, and sales picked up soon after that. By April, those sales had wiped out all the copies below $75, and it became a seller’s market.
For now, this card is ostensibly $125. Since both the latest sale and all the remaining listings are above $240, that may not last long.
- Set: The Duelist Genesis
- Increase: +$39.34
- Current Market Price: $454.54
This 18-year-old card is so rare that it only sees about one sale per month, which inevitably impacts its Market Price. That’s exactly what happened in May.
#3 Varudras, the Final Bringer of the End Times (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
- Set: Legacy of Destruction
- Increase: +$39.53
- Current Market Price: $102.88
Every version of Varudras began spiking in early April as Japanese duelists got their first look at the new Sacred Beast support coming in Chaos Origins. The new Hamon, Raviel, and Uria are significantly easier to summon, and any two of them combine to make Varudras for an omni-negate.
- Set: Burst Protocol
- Increase: +$49.86
- Current Market Price: $99.50
Sales of Forbidden Crown were only slightly elevated in May compared to April, with no anomalous days. But when the lower-cost listings ran out early in the month, the card’s price quickly jumped.
Forbidden Crown has a long list of effects and that can’t be replicated by any other card in the game. Buyers appear to be just as willing to pay $100 for those effects as they were to pay $50.
#1 Forbidden Crown (Starlight Rare)
- Set: Burst Protocol
- Increase: +$52.94
- Current Market Price: $188.59
The same reasoning applies to Forbidden Crown’s only other version.
By selling these cards online, you can reach a broad audience of customers who are willing to pay what these cards are truly worth. Download the June 2026 Price Trends Report to review every Yu-Gi-Oh! card that went up in value this month. Then list those cards on TCGplayer so your inventory can do more for your business.
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