Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards on TCGplayer: April 2025
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 April 1 and April 30, 2025. 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 April 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 Seventh Tachyon
Set: Maze of the Master
Average Sale Price: $60.24
As a flexible search spell that can add consistency to a wide variety of decks, Seventh Tachyon remains the #1 chase card from the March 14 Yu-Gi-Oh release Maze of the Master.
While Quarter Century Stampede gave players many more cards to chase, those cards were all reprints with many versions for players to choose from. Seventh Tachyon on the other hand has only two printings (both in Maze of the Master), so it was still the newest competitive staple over $50 in April.
#2 Fiendsmith's Tract
Set: The Infinite Forbidden
Average Sale Price: $59.55
The reprinting of Fiendsmith Engraver in Quarter Century Stampede caused that card’s original version in The Infinite Forbidden to plummet to just $6 (down from nearly $100 at the start of the year). But all that value didn’t just evaporate. Instead, the Fiendsmith cards that weren’t reprinted in Quarter Century Stampede have gone up in price as players have bought into the archetype now that its central card is more affordable.
Fiendsmith’s Requiem and Lacrima the Crimson Tears both rose in April, but only Fiendsmith’s Tract managed to break the $50 to become the new choke point for the archetype—the most expensive card that’s necessary for the deck to function.
#3 Primite Lordly Lode
Set: Rage of the Abyss
Average Sale Price: $58.37
In October, Rage of the Abyss introduced the Primite archetype, which is built around summoning Normal Monsters. It takes a lot of power to catch Normal Monsters up with modern Effect Monsters, but Primite cards deliver that power. Primite Lordly Lode is a key piece of the archetype which allows you to search up a Primite card and Special Summon a Normal Monster from your deck, hand, or GY.
Primite breathes new life into a host of beloved power-crept archetypes, which has made all the Primite cards extremely popular. More than that, Primite is actually competitive, whether paired with actual Normal Monster archetypes in Primite Blue-Eyes, or alongside Effect Monsters like in Primite Ryzeal. Given this popularity and competitive success, we can expect Primite cards to be in demand for a long time.
#4 Dragon Master Magia (PUR)
Set: Quarter Century Stampede
Average Sale Price: $50.30
Before the release of Quarter Century Stampede in April, Dragon Master Magia had only a single printing: its Quarter Century Secret Rare version from Battles of Legend: Terminal Revenge. Being a QCSR with no other printings predictably made Dragon Master Magia a multi-hundred dollar card, and everyone wanted it—if not for its fame and value, than just for it being the fusion of Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Black Luster Soldier.
Now, there are three more versions in the world, so players and fans who were put off by the original version’s legendary price tag have other options to consider. Of them, this one is the most affordable, though it still sold for an average of just over $50 in April and therefore qualifies for this section of the report.
#5 Mulcharmy Meowls
Set: Supreme Darkness
Average Sale Price: $56.78
Maliss was topping tournaments before the release of Alliance Insight, so players expect this archetype to be even more dominant with the addition of cards like Maliss <P> March Hare. To counter this deck, more players are buying copies of Mulcharmy Meowls, the best Mulcharmy hand trap against decks that Special Summon cards from the GY or banishment.
Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Stampede
Average Sale Price: $1.36
In April, most of the bestselling cards under $50 were Quarter Century Stampede reprints of once-pricy competitive staples.
Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis has grown in popularity since December as an easy way to counter 3000 ATK cards like Ryzeal Detonator and Nibiru, the Primal Being. Before the release of Quarter Century Stampede, players who wanted this “free” summon had to pay just shy of $30 per copy. Now, they can nab this lower-rarity version for less than $2.
#2 Mulcharmy Fuwalos (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Stampede
Average Sale Price: $16.65
$16 isn’t nothing, but it’s still much less than the $80+ players had to pay for a copy of Mulcharmy Fuwalos in March.
#3 Fiendsmith Engraver (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Stampede
Average Sale Price: $1.74
At the start of 2025, the most affordable printing of Fiendsmith Engraver cost almost $100. The new lowest-rarity printing goes for less than $2, so players are buying in while they can.
#4 Fiendsmith Engraver
Set: Quarter Century Stampede
Average Sale Price: $1.73
Different version, same story. Players don’t want to miss their chance to own a card that once cost three figures.
#5 Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis
Set: Quarter Century Stampede
Average Sale Price: $1.24
Like the UR version, Super Rare Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis is much more affordable than the versions of the card that were available before the release of Quarter Century Stampede. Players are picking up their low-cost copies while they can.
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.