Swarm of Scarabs

Effect Monster · DARK · Insect · Level 3

Market price

$0.24

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 20 hours ago.

Once per turn: You can change this card to face-down Defense Position. When this card is Flip Summoned: Target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy that target.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#9,451

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.73

Copies per deck

57.7% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.1% of everything else

In the main deck of 26 decks. Sided in another 6, 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

Worm2.1%
Subterror1.2%
Gravekeeper's1%
Ghostrick0.8%
No archetype0.6%
Amazoness0.6%
Ninja0.5%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20190.1%
20200%
20210%
20220%
20230.1%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260.1%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 7 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Speed Duel: Battle City FinalsSBC2-ENG06	Common	1st Edition	$0.24	—	Buy
Astral Pack 3AP03-EN016	Common	Unlimited	$0.28	—	Buy
Speed Duel: Battle City BoxSBCB-EN152	Common	1st Edition	$0.29	—	Buy
Pharaonic GuardianPGD-021	Common	Unlimited	$0.29	—	Buy
Dark Beginning 2DB2-EN221	Common	Unlimited	$0.48	—	Buy
Gold Series 2008GLD1-EN008	Common	Limited	$0.48	—	Buy
Pharaonic GuardianPGD-021	Common	1st Edition	$0.67	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 20 hours 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.