Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards on TCGplayer: December 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 December 1 and December 31, 2024. 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 December 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 Dominus Impulse
Set: Rage of the Abyss
Average Sale Price: $56.47
The top four top-selling Yu-Gi-Oh cards over $50 in October and November repeated their performances again in December. While Crossover Breakers introduced two themes to the competitive scene, the best multi-archetype cards have maintained their dominant positions in both the metagame and the market.
Everyone knew Rage of the Abyss had a game-changing hand trap that would punish opponents for Special Summoning. What wasn’t obvious was that it actually had two such cards, the second of which is Dominus Impulse. While it can’t be played in Light, Earth, and Wind decks, the ability to negate a Special Summon and potentially destroy the offending card has already made Dominus Impulse more or less mandatory in any decks that handle that restriction.
#2 Fiendsmith Engraver
Set: The Infinite Forbidden
Average Sale Price: $88.26
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. While the F&L update in early September dealt Fiendsmith a small blow, Fiendsmith Engraver is still a powerful engine card that can summon itself while searching up an on-theme Spell or Trap card, and new cards that work with the theme are coming in January’s Supreme Darkness set.
#3 Mulcharmy Fuwalos
Set: Rage of the Abyss
Average Sale Price: $109.89
Mulcharmy Fuwalos was the first of those game-changing hand traps from Rage of the Abyss, the one that fans saw coming. Much like Mulcharmy Purulia (which preceded it), Fuwalos recalls Maxx “C” in that it lets its player draw a card for each time their opponent Special Summons, with a few new restrictions. With Maxx “C” banned, Fuwalos and Purulia’s only competition for meta dominance is each other.
#4 Mulcharmy Purulia
Set: The Infinite Forbidden
Average Sale Price: $64.34
Mulcharmy Purulia plays a similar role to Mulcharmy Fuwalos, helping players stay in the game against decks with killer turn-one combos. The only difference is that the kinds of summoning Purulia punishes are a little less powerful on average than the ones Fuwalos hates on, but in the right matchups, you’d rather have Purulia. And in others, you want both.
#5 Maliss P Chessy Cat (CR)
Set: Crossover Breakers
Average Sale Price: $54.16
Our first newcomer to the list comes courtesy of Crossover Breakers, which released on December 6. Crossover Breakers introduced the Maliss theme (a pun on “Alice” of Alice in Wonderland and the “Mal” part of Malware), which immediately proved its competitive potential with an undefeated record in the Swiss portion of YCS Anaheim. Chessy Cat is a key Main Deck monster in the archetype, and as its CR version is less expensive than White Rabbit and Dormouse, it sees more sales than those two.
Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Maliss P White Rabbit
Set: Crossover Breakers
Average Sale Price: $39.48
While Crossover Breakers had trouble crossing into the $50+ part of our report, it broke into the $1-$50 category with ease.
Maliss P White Rabbit is a key starter for the Maliss archetype, so anyone who wants to build the fun new competitive deck full of anime girls and Lewis Carroll references has to pick up this card—or one of its two higher-rarity versions.
#2 Maliss in Underground
Set: Crossover Breakers
Average Sale Price: $36.52
Maliss in Underground is the Field Spell for Maliss and does a little bit of everything you’d want for this archetype: it banishes your monsters (letting you Special Summon them from the deck or GY), boosts the ATK of your Maliss Link Monsters, and helps protect your Main Deck Maliss Monsters from attacks. Like Maliss P White Rabbit, this Ultra Rare is more or less mandatory for anyone trying to build Maliss.
#3 Ice Ryzeal
Set: Crossover Breakers
Average Sale Price: $25.23
Ryzeal is the other tournament-topping archetype introduced in Crossover Breakers: a compact engine of Level 4 Monsters that search up their buddies and combine into Rank 4 XYZ monsters. Ice Ryzeal is one of those searchers-slash-buddies, capable of finding or being found by Sword Ryzeal, and a must-have for this archetype.
#4 Sosei Ryu-Ge Mistva
Set: Crossover Breakers
Average Sale Price: $3.37
The third new theme in Crossover Breakers is Ryu-Ge, which unlike Maliss and Ryzeal hasn’t broken through competitively. If it ever does, it’ll be with its boss monster Sosei Ryu-Ge Mistva, which can search up Ryu-Ge Realm cards that give it extra abilities. Meanwhile, Ryu-Ge will be an extremely affordable archetype, which is appealing in its own way.
#5 Ext Ryzeal
Set: Crossover Breakers
Average Sale Price: $27.30
Just like Ice Ryzeal, Ext Ryzeal finds or is found by Sword Ryzeal to kick off the Ryzeal combos. After winning YCS Annaheim in December and claiming a majority of the Top 8 spots, Ryzeal became the deck to beat in Yu-Gi-Oh, and these engine pieces will continue to sell as long as that’s the case.
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.