Photon Emperor

Effect Monster · LIGHT · Warrior · Level 8 · Photon

Market price

$0.16

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

If this card is sent to the GY, except from the field, while another "Photon" or "Galaxy" monster is on your field or in your GY: You can Special Summon this card in Defense Position. You can only use this effect of "Photon Emperor" once per turn. After you Normal or Special Summon this card, you can Normal Summon 1 LIGHT monster during your Main Phase this turn, in addition to your Normal Summon/Set. (You can only gain this effect once per turn.)

Deck Search works without an account — it asks about the corpus, not about what you own.

Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

189

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#2,517

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.30

Copies per deck

74.1% run 1

0.3%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.4% of everything else

In the main deck of 189 decks. Sided in another 4, 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

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20230.5%
20240.6%
20250.4%
20260.3%

Printings

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

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Photon HypernovaPHHY-EN001	Common	1st Edition	$0.15	—	Buy
25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling MirrorsMP24-EN165	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.33	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 4 weeks 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.