Escalation of the Monarchs

Trap Card · Continuous · Monarch

Market price

$0.32

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 24 minutes ago.

Once per turn, during your opponent's Main Phase or your opponent's Battle Phase, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Tribute Summon 1 monster.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

111

Decks play it

0.2% of the corpus

#4,049

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.37

Copies per deck

70.3% run 1

0.2%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.2% of everything else

In the main deck of 111 decks. Sided in another 16, 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

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20190.1%
20200.5%
20210.4%
20220.3%
20230.2%
20240.2%
20250.2%
20260.2%

Printings

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

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Structure Deck: Emperor of DarknessSR01-EN036	Common	1st Edition	$0.33	—	Buy
Structure Deck: Emperor of DarknessSR01-EN036	Common	Unlimited	$0.39	—	Buy
Primal OriginPRIO-EN089	Super Rare	Unlimited	$0.60	—	Buy
2015 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP15-EN054	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.62	—	Buy
Primal OriginPRIO-EN089	Super Rare	1st Edition	$1.37	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 4 weeks 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.