Shade the Obscure

Pendulum Effect Monster · DARK · Fairy · Level 4 · | supports_archetypes Power Patron

Market price

$5.34

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

[ Pendulum Effect ] You cannot Pendulum Summon, except Pendulum Monsters (this effect cannot be negated). If a monster(s) with 1000 ATK or less is Special Summoned (except during the Damage Step): You can return this card to the hand. You can only use this effect of "Shade the Obscure" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] If you have a card in your Pendulum Zone and this card is in your hand: You can Special Summon this card. You can pay 1000 LP; destroy 1 Pendulum Monster Card in your hand or face-up field, then you can add 1 Pendulum Monster from your Deck to your face-up Extra Deck. You can only use each effect of "Shade the Obscure" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#6,243

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.68

Copies per deck

55.4% run 1

0.4%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.1% of everything else

In the main deck of 74 decks. Sided in another 3, 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

Artmage17.8%
Odd-Eyes4.3%
DoomZ2.1%
Magician2.1%
Metalfoes1.1%
No archetype0.6%
Darklord0.5%
Elfnote0.4%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20260.4%

Printings

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

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Blazing DominionBLZD-EN083	Secret Rare	1st Edition	$6.10	—	Buy
Blazing DominionBLZD-EN083	Starlight Rare	1st Edition	$18.36	—	Buy

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.