Protector Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman

Link Monster · LIGHT · Dragon · Link 2 · Destruction Sword

Market price

$0.33

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 5 hours ago.

2 monsters If this card is Link Summoned: You can send 1 "Destruction Sword" card from your Deck to the GY, then, you can Special Summon 1 "Buster Blader" monster from your hand. At the end of your Battle Phase, if your opponent controls no monsters: You can target 1 "Buster Blader" monster you control that did not declare an attack this turn; inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monster's ATK. You can only use each effect of "Protector Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 57,061 decks in the corpus

151

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#3,176

Most played

Of 14,423 cards played at all

1.36

Copies per deck

72.8% run 1

0.3%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.3% of everything else

In the extra deck of 151 decks. Sided in another 8, 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

Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman75%
Dark Paladin75%
Destruction Sword68.6%
Gaia The Fierce Knight3.4%
Cyberdark3%
Bystial1.5%
Black Luster Soldier1.4%
No archetype0.1%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20200.7%
20210.5%
20220.3%
20230.4%
20240.3%
20250.2%
20260.2%

Printings

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

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Duel OverloadDUOV-EN008	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.32	—	Buy

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