Block Dragon

Effect Monster · EARTH · Rock · Level 8

Market price

$0.28

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

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand or GY) by banishing 3 EARTH monsters from your hand and/or GY. Rock monsters you control cannot be destroyed, except by battle. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can add up to 3 Rock monsters from your Deck to your hand, whose total Levels equal 8. You can only use this effect of "Block Dragon" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

159

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#2,641

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.34

Copies per deck

77.4% run 1

0.2%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.4% of everything else

In the main deck of 155 decks. Sided in another 5, 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

Adamancipator24.7%
Magnet14.4%
Triamid13.3%
Megalith12.8%
Fossil8.1%
Gem-7.5%
Burning Abyss3.1%
No archetype1.2%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.7%
20190.7%
20201.4%
20210.2%
20220.2%
20230.3%
20240.2%
20250.5%
20260.1%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 6 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Secret SlayersSESL-EN038	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.29	—	Buy
2017 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP17-EN085	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.41	—	Buy
Quarter Century StampedeRA04-EN268	Platinum Secret Rare	1st Edition	$0.46	—	Buy
The Dark IllusionTDIL-EN034	Ultra Rare	Unlimited	$1.00	—	Buy
The Dark IllusionTDIL-EN034	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$1.07	—	Buy
Quarter Century StampedeRA04-EN268	Quarter Century Secret Rare	1st Edition	$12.59	—	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.