Archfiend Emperor, the First Lord of Horror

Effect Monster · DARK · Fiend · Level 8 · Archfiend

Market price

$0.17

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 2 days ago.

You can Normal Summon this card without Tributing, but its original ATK/DEF become halved. If Summoned this way, this card is destroyed during the End Phase. You cannot Special Summon any monsters, except Fiend monsters. Once per turn: You can banish 1 "Archfiend" card from your hand or GY, then target 1 card on the field; destroy it.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#6,048

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.65

Copies per deck

57.6% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.2% of everything else

In the main deck of 66 decks. Sided in another 7, which is not counted above — completion is scored over the main and extra deck only, plus a Domain deck’s Deck Master.

Archetypes that play it

Share of that archetype’s own decks

Archfiend33.1%
Chaos1.3%
Greed1.1%
Infernity0.9%
Spirit Message0.9%
Gunkan0.7%
No archetype0.3%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.4%
20190.4%
20200.2%
20210.2%
20220%
20230.2%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260.2%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 6 printings, and we have a price for 5 of them.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Judgment of the LightJOTL-EN031	Rare	1st Edition	$0.17	—	Buy
Judgment of the LightJOTL-EN031	Rare	Unlimited	$0.22	—	Buy
2014 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP14-EN084	Rare	1st Edition	$0.25	—	Buy
Structure Deck: Lair of DarknessSR06-EN007	Common	1st Edition	$0.37	—	Buy
Judgment of the Light: Deluxe EditionJOTL-ENDE1	Ultra Rare	Limited	$0.47	—	Buy
2014 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP14-EN084	Rare	Unlimited	—	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 2 days 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. We have no price for 1 of these, shown as “—” rather than as zero. Buy links go to TCGplayer through YGOPRODeck, who provide this data.