Piercing the Darkness

Spell Card · Continuous

Market price

$0.58

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 21 hours ago.

If you Normal or Special Summon a non-Token Normal Monster(s) (except during the Damage Step): You can draw 1 card. When an attack is declared involving an opponent's monster and a monster you control that is a Level 5 or higher Normal Monster, or was Ritual Summoned using a Normal Monster, or was Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz Summoned using a Normal Monster as material: You can make that monster you control gain ATK equal to that opponent's monster's ATK, until the end of this turn. You can only use each effect of "Piercing the Darkness" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

178

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#2,587

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.51

Copies per deck

60.7% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.4% of everything else

In the main deck of 178 decks. Sided in another 10, 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

Gunkan18.9%
Magikey18.9%
Primite12.7%
Phantasm Spiral10.4%
Dark Magician7.6%
Hieratic5.7%
Blue-Eyes1.9%
No archetype0.2%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20220.3%
20230.3%
20240.5%
20250.4%
20260.3%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 1 printing, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
2021 Tin of Ancient BattlesMP21-EN257	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.54	—	Buy

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