Simorgh, Bird of Protection

Effect Monster · WIND · Winged Beast · Level 4 · Simorgh

Market price

$0.18

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 3 days ago.

When this card is Normal Summoned: You can target 1 card in your opponent's Spell & Trap Zone; return it to the hand. If this card is in your GY and your opponent controls no cards in their Spell & Trap Zone: You can Special Summon this card in Defense Position, but banish it when it leaves the field, also you cannot Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except Winged Beast monsters. You can only use each effect of "Simorgh, Bird of Protection" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.2% of the corpus

#5,526

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.84

Copies per deck

46.1% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.2% of everything else

In the main deck of 76 decks. Sided in another 6, 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

Simorgh61.5%
Harpie2.9%
Raidraptor1.5%
Gusto1.1%
Radiant Typhoon0.8%
Floowandereeze0.5%
Blackwing0.3%
No archetype0.2%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20190.1%
20200.2%
20210.5%
20220.3%
20230.1%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260.1%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 2 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Rising RampageRIRA-EN020	Common	Unlimited	$0.18	—	Buy
Rising RampageRIRA-EN020	Common	1st Edition	$0.20	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 3 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. Buy links go to TCGplayer through YGOPRODeck, who provide this data.