Thunder King, the Lightningstrike Kaiju

Effect Monster · LIGHT · Thunder · Level 9 · Kaiju

Market price

$0.23

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

You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) to your opponent's side of the field in Attack Position, by Tributing 1 monster they control. If your opponent controls a "Kaiju" monster, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand) in Attack Position. You can only control 1 "Kaiju" monster. Once per turn: You can remove 3 Kaiju Counters from anywhere on the field; your opponent's cards and effects cannot be activated for the rest of this turn, also this card can make up to 3 attacks on monsters during each Battle Phase this turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

660

Decks play it

1.2% of the corpus

#313

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.43

Copies per deck

69.5% run 1

0.8%

Of competitive decks

Against 1.3% of everything else

In the main deck of 660 decks. Sided in another 247, 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

Kaiju78.4%
Mikanko40.1%
Crusadia37.9%
Blitzclique30.5%
Eyes Restrict26.7%
Watt17.6%
Mathmech8.9%
No archetype0.8%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20181.3%
20191.8%
20201.7%
20211.2%
20221%
20231.5%
20241.1%
20251.1%
20261.1%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 5 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Structure Deck: Albaz StrikeSDAZ-EN008	Common	1st Edition	$0.23	—	Buy
Magnificent MonstersMAMO-EN046	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.31	—	Buy
Shining VictoriesSHVI-EN087	Rare	Unlimited	$0.82	—	Buy
Shining VictoriesSHVI-EN087	Rare	1st Edition	$1.24	—	Buy
2017 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP17-EN046	Rare	1st Edition	$1.86	—	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.