Magician's Rod

Effect Monster · DARK · Spellcaster · Level 3 · Dark Magician

Market price

$0.68

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

When this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand, that specifically lists the card "Dark Magician" in its text. During your opponent's turn, if you activate a Spell/Trap Card or effect while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Tribute 1 Spellcaster monster; add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Magician's Rod" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

477

Decks play it

0.8% of the corpus

#654

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.96

Copies per deck

42.8% run 1

1.2%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.8% of everything else

In the main deck of 473 decks. Sided in another 12, 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%
Dark Magician80%
Chaos Grepher41.7%
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning38.9%
Light and Darkness Ritual17.1%
Red-Eyes2.1%
No archetype1.7%
Blue-Eyes1.5%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.6%
20190.1%
20200.2%
20210.2%
20220.2%
20230.1%
20240.4%
20250.7%
20261.7%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 8 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Legendary Dragon Decks (2020 Date Reprint)LEDD-ENA05	Common	Unlimited	$0.68	—	Buy
Legendary Duelists: Magical HeroLED6-EN008	Common	Unlimited	$0.93	—	Buy
Legendary Dragon DecksLEDD-ENA05	Common	1st Edition	$1.21	—	Buy
Legendary Duelists: Magical HeroLED6-EN008	Common	1st Edition	$1.37	—	Buy
Legendary Duelists: Season 3LDS3-EN086	Common	1st Edition	$1.57	—	Buy
The Dark IllusionTDIL-EN019	Super Rare	Unlimited	$8.52	—	Buy
The Dark IllusionTDIL-EN019	Super Rare	1st Edition	$13.24	—	Buy
2017 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP17-EN074	Super Rare	1st Edition	$15.08	—	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.