Pre-Preparation of Rites

Spell Card · Normal

Market price

$0.18

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

Add 1 Ritual Spell from your Deck to your hand, and add 1 Ritual Monster from your Deck or GY to your hand whose name is listed on that Ritual Spell. You can only activate 1 "Pre-Preparation of Rites" per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

1,439

Decks play it

2.5% of the corpus

#163

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

2.43

Copies per deck

61.4% run 3

3.6%

Of competitive decks

Against 2.3% of everything else

In the main deck of 1,439 decks. Sided in another 46, 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

Prediction Princess87.3%
Eyes Restrict87.1%
Mitsurugi85%
Voiceless Voice83.3%
Demise72.5%
Nouvelles69.2%
Vendread49.6%
No archetype3.5%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20183.2%
20192.2%
20201.7%
20212.2%
20221.8%
20231.4%
20242.1%
20252.5%
20263.5%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 16 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Legendary Modern Decks 2026L26D-ENM11	Common	1st Edition	$0.16	—	Buy
Wild SurvivorsWISU-EN056	Rare	1st Edition	$0.19	—	Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN055	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.31	—	Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN055	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.42	—	Buy
2017 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP17-EN034	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.44	—	Buy
Shining VictoriesSHVI-EN065	Super Rare	Unlimited	$0.69	—	Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN055	Prismatic Collector's Rare	1st Edition	$1.91	—	Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN055	Secret Rare	1st Edition	$2.22	—	Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN055	Prismatic Ultimate Rare	1st Edition	$2.27	—	Buy
Speed Duel: Battle City BoxSBCB-EN121	Common	1st Edition	$2.60	—	Buy
Shining VictoriesSHVI-EN065	Super Rare	1st Edition	$2.70	—	Buy
Ultimate Tournament Pack 1UP01-EN018	Super Rare	Limited	$2.82	—	Buy

Show all 16 printings (4 more)

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.