Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards on TCGplayer: November 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 November 1 and November 25. 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 November 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: $66.54
Most of the top-selling Yu-Gi-Oh cards over $50 in October repeated their performance in November. With the November Yu-Gi-Oh set (Quarter Century Bonanza) only including reprints, the top competitive 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: $52.71
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 just keep getting made.
#3 Mulcharmy Fuwalos
Set: Rage of the Abyss
Average Sale Price: $122.17
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: $68.64
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 Triple Tactics Thrust (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Set: Quarter Century Bonanza
Average Sale Price: $51.00
Triple Tactics Thrust is the first newcomer to this list in November. The reprints in Quarter Century Bonanza drove down the price of most versions of TTT, so fans who remember when this card’s base version cost $70 were happy to pick up the Quarter Century Secret Rare for $50.
Top Selling Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: $1.00 to $49.99
#1 Triple Tactics Thrust (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Bonanza
Average Sale Price: $7.37
Triple Tactics Thrust sets a pattern we’re going to see repeated across all the remaining cards on this list: it’s a competitive staple that used to be ridiculously expensive, but is now way more affordable thanks to Quarter Century Bonanza reprinting it in seven different rarities. Players who remember those sky-high prices are picking up these cards while they’re still affordable.
Around this time last year, TTT was selling for $70, so players are happy to be able to grab it now for a tenth of what they paid then.
#2 S:P Little Knight (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Bonanza
Average Sale Price: $5.71
S:P Little Night started 2024 at over $130, and the generic Extra Deck monster is just as useful today as it was 12 months ago—just much more affordable.
#3 Diabellstar the Black Witch (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Bonanza
Average Sale Price: $2.85
Diabellstar the Black Witch was just under $40 at the same time S:P Little Knight was going for $130. Diabellstar and Sinful Spoils have gotten even more support with the release of Rage of the Abyss in October, so players are snatching up copies now that it’s a fraction of its old price.
#4 Bonfire (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Bonanza
Average Sale Price: $2.78
Bonfire reached a high of over $100 in February when it was a necessary piece of the indisputably best deck in the game. Snake-Eye and Centur-Ion duelists are advised to pick it up now as insurance in case that happens again.
#5 WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils (UR)
Set: Quarter Century Bonanza
Average Sale Price: $2.89
Finally, Wanted: Seeker of Sinful Spoils was $100 at the start of the year. It belongs in the same deck with Diabellstar the Black Witch and benefitted from the same support in Rage of the Abyss, so fans are grabbing it 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.