Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards on TCGplayer: May 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 May 1 and May 31, 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 May 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 Maliss P March Hare
Set: Alliance Insight
Average Sale Price: $52.14
Maliss P March Hare was far and away the bestselling Yu-Gi-Oh card of May in this price bracket. Outside of the Quarter Century Secret Rares like Dragon Master Lords, almost none of the cards in Alliance Insight were worth more than $50 when the set released on May 2. Maliss P March Hare managed to be one of the few exceptions by belonging to the Maliss archetype, which was topping tournaments even before Alliance Insight and only got stronger with March Hare hopping on the scene.
Maliss P March Hare has since dropped below the $50 threshold, but it’s still the main chase card from Alliance Insight (aside from those QCSRs).
#2 Dominus Impulse
Set: Rage of the Abyss
Average Sale Price: $83.94
While Dominus Impulse can’t be played in Light, Earth, and Wind decks (without hurting themselves), the ability to negate a Special Summon and potentially destroy the offending card has made Dominus Impulse more or less mandatory in any decks that handle that restriction. And unlike other staple cards introduced in 2024 like Mulcharmy Fuwalos, Dominus Impulse wasn’t reprinted in Quarter Century Stampede. Players have only one option to choose from unless they want to shell out for the $250 Quarter Century Secret Rare version.
#3 Fiendsmith's Tract
Set: The Infinite Forbidden
Average Sale Price: $55.15
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 has managed to stay above $50 and become the new choke point for the archetype—the most expensive card that’s necessary for the deck to function.
#4 Mulcharmy Purulia
Set: Maze of the Master
Average Sale Price: $58.95
Next we have Mulcharmy Purulia, one of the three Mulcharmy hand traps subbing in for Maxx “C” (which is still banned in the TCG). All three of them are must-have competitive staples across every deck, but Meowls sees the least play, and Fuwalos was just reprinted in Quarter Century Stampede so the most-sold versions no longer qualify for this price bracket. That leaves Purulia as the bestselling Mulcharmy card over $50.
#5 Mulcharmy Meowls
Set: Supreme Darkness
Average Sale Price: $71.94
…with Meowls right behind it.
Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi
Set: Alliance Insight
Average Sale Price: $1.06
This month the top 14 bestselling Yu-Gi-Oh cards between $1 and $50 all came from Alliance Insight, the newest set in Yu-Gi-Oh’s catalog.
Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi is the best Mitsurugi card in Alliance Insight. Besides strengthening this already powerful competitive archetype, Ame no Habakiri also helped Charley Futch win YCS Providence the weekend Alliance Insight released, giving players even more reasons to pick up a playset.
#2 Juraishin, the Cursed Thunder God
Set: Alliance Insight
Average Sale Price: $1.36
Juraishin slots into any deck that can synchro summon Level 11 monsters and punishes opponents who try to… play Yu-Gi-Oh. Not only does Juraishin let you gain LP passively, but it forces your opponent to play with the threat of Juraishin blowing up their entire board at any moment as a quick effect.
So far Juraishin hasn’t seen much competitive play, but that could change. One of the players brave enough to try out this deity made Top 4 at the Costa Rica National Championship.
#3 Snake-Eyes Vengeance Dragon
Set: Alliance Insight
Average Sale Price: $1.07
Alliance Insight includes plenty of support for White Forest and related archetypes like Snake-Eyes, Diabell, and Sinful Spoils. Many of those new cards appeared in the same White Forest deck that made Top 4 in Costa Rica with Juraishin, so it seems players are experimenting more with the archetype to see if they can replicate that success.
#4 Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers
Set: Alliance Insight
Average Sale Price: $6.19
Dragon Rulers has been powercrept out of relevance, but die-hard fans were still excited to see that Alliance Insight brought new support to this archetype in the form of Chasma, Dragon Ruler of Auroras, which can copy the effect of other Level 7 Dragon Ruler monsters. Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers helps find any Dragon Rulers you need, and can revive Chasma, so players who want to keep the dragon dream alive are more or less required to own a playset.
#5 Witch of the White Forest
Set: Alliance Insight
Average Sale Price: $8.16
Witch of the White Forest is the new White Forest Field Spell, and is basically mandatory to the archetype now. Besides searching up White Forest monsters, it also lets any White Forest monster act like a Tuner so you can summon Snake-Eyes Vengeance Dragon, Juraishin, the Cursed Thunder God, or White Forest boss monsters like Diabell, Queen of the White Forest.
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.