Painful Choice

Spell Card · Normal

Market price

$1.80

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 4 hours ago.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

733

Decks play it

1.5% of the corpus

#265

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.07

Copies per deck

96.2% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 2% of everything else

In the main deck of 733 decks. Sided in another 11, 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

Tearlaments Merrli90.9%
Elementsaber Lapauila Mana75%
Uni-Zombie75%
Starliege Seyfert73.3%
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning50%
Invoked Elysium45.7%
Exodia9.1%
No archetype1.4%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20190.1%
20200.1%
20210.1%
20220.2%
20231.1%
20241.6%
20252.3%
20261.9%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 9 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Retro Pack (2020 Date Reprint)RP01-EN059	Rare	Unlimited	$1.80	—	Buy
Dark LegendsDLG1-EN060	Common	Unlimited	$1.88	—	Buy
Magic RulerMRL-049	Super Rare	Unlimited	$2.66	—	Buy
Spell RulerSRL-049	Super Rare	Unlimited	$2.94	—	Buy
Dark Beginning 1DB1-EN033	Common	Unlimited	$3.01	—	Buy
Retro Pack 1RP01-EN059	Rare	Unlimited	$4.58	—	Buy
Spell Ruler (25th Anniversary Edition)SRL-EN049	Super Rare	Unlimited	$6.98	—	Buy
Spell Ruler (Worldwide English)SRL-EN049	Super Rare	Unlimited	$9.27	—	Buy
Magic RulerMRL-049	Super Rare	1st Edition	$11.00	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 5 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.