Magicians' Defense

Trap Card · Continuous

Market price

$0.87

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 5 hours ago.

While you control a Spellcaster-Type monster, any damage you take is halved. (You cannot halve the same damage twice this way.) If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard: You can target 1 Spellcaster-Type monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon it.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 57,061 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#6,160

Most played

Of 14,423 cards played at all

1.38

Copies per deck

71.6% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.2% of everything else

In the main deck of 74 decks. Sided in another 5, 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

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20190.2%
20200%
20210.1%
20220.3%
20230.1%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260.1%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 5 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
The Dark Side of Dimensions Movie Pack: Gold EditionMVP1-ENG28	Gold Rare	1st Edition	$0.87	—	Buy
The Dark Side of Dimensions Movie PackMVP1-EN028	Ultra Rare	Unlimited	$0.90	—	Buy
The Dark Side of Dimensions Movie PackMVP1-EN028	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.97	—	Buy
The Dark Side of Dimensions Movie Pack: Gold EditionMVP1-ENG28	Gold Rare	Unlimited	$2.39	—	Buy
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions Movie Pack Secret EditionMVP1-ENS28	Secret Rare	1st Edition	$2.52	—	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.