Shining Sarcophagus

Spell Card · Continuous · Shining Sarcophagus

Market price

$0.40

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 18 hours ago.

Cannot be destroyed by monster effects. You can only use each of the following effects of "Shining Sarcophagus" once per turn. During your Main Phase: You can add 1 card that mentions "Shining Sarcophagus" from your Deck to your hand, except "Shining Sarcophagus". If your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) from the GY (except during the Damage Step): You can discard 1 Spell, then target 1 of those monsters; send it to the GY.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

286

Decks play it

0.5% of the corpus

#1,358

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

2.11

Copies per deck

45.5% run 3

0.4%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.5% of everything else

In the main deck of 286 decks. Sided in another 8, which is not counted above — completion is scored over the main and extra deck only, plus a Domain deck’s Deck Master.

Archetypes and Deck Masters that play it

Share of that archetype or Deck Master’s own decks

Dark Magician Girl the Magician's Apprentice100%
Shining Sarcophagus98.9%
Chaos Grepher41.7%
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning27.8%
Silent Swordsman24.1%
Dark Magician21.7%
Light and Darkness Ritual8.1%
No archetype0.7%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20240.2%
20250.7%
20260.9%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 4 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Magnificent MonstersMAMO-EN096	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.39	—	Buy
2025 Mega-PackMP25-EN005	Starlight Rare	1st Edition	$2.07	—	Buy
Legacy of DestructionLEDE-EN051	Secret Rare	1st Edition	$4.86	—	Buy
Legacy of DestructionLEDE-EN051	Quarter Century Secret Rare	1st Edition	$23.16	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 4 weeks ago. Each is that printing’s own market price, which is why they differ from the single market price beside the card above — that one is what every deck cost on this site is worked out from. Buy links go to TCGplayer through YGOPRODeck, who provide this data.