Black Luster Soldier - Legendary Swordsman

Ritual Effect Monster · EARTH · Warrior · Level 8 · Black Luster Soldier

Market price

$4.71

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

You can Ritual Summon this card with "Chaos Form" or "Super Soldier Ritual". Must be Ritual Summoned. During your Draw Phase, before you draw: You can reveal this card in your hand; give up your normal draw this turn, and if you do, add 1 Ritual Spell from your Deck to your hand. Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects during your Battle Phase. When this attacking card, that was Ritual Summoned using a Normal Monster, destroys an opponent's monster by battle: You can shuffle all cards your opponent controls into the Deck.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

147

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#3,209

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.54

Copies per deck

61.2% run 1

0.2%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.3% of everything else

In the main deck of 147 decks. Sided in another 9, 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

Lo, the Prayers of the Voiceless Voice80%
Black Luster Soldier60.4%
Chaos Grepher50%
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning33.3%
Gaia The Fierce Knight9.5%
Dark Magician2.3%
Light and Darkness Ritual1.9%
No archetype0.1%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20220.1%
20230.1%
20240.5%
20250.4%
20260.2%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 3 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling MirrorsMP24-EN129	Prismatic Secret Rare	1st Edition	$4.74	—	Buy
Maze of MemoriesMAZE-EN011	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$5.44	—	Buy
Maze of MemoriesMAZE-EN011	Collector's Rare	1st Edition	$21.77	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed last month. 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.