Paleozoic Opabinia

XYZ Monster · WATER · Aqua · Rank 2 · Paleozoic

Market price

$0.20

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 15 hours ago.

2 Level 2 monsters This card is unaffected by other monsters' effects. You can activate "Paleozoic" Trap Cards from your hand. If this card has a Trap Card as Xyz Material: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; add 1 "Paleozoic" Trap Card from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Paleozoic Opabinia" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

261

Decks play it

0.5% of the corpus

#1,253

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.84

Copies per deck

40.2% run 1

0.3%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.6% of everything else

In the extra deck of 261 decks. Sided in another 5, 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

Paleozoic94.8%
Aquaactress17.4%
Frog7.2%
Tearlaments7%
Spright2.8%
Runick2.6%
Labrynth2.5%
No archetype1%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20175.3%
20183.2%
20191%
20200.5%
20210.6%
20220.4%
20230.3%
20240.2%
20250.8%
20260.4%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 4 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Invasion: VengeanceINOV-EN099	Super Rare	Unlimited	$0.20	—	Buy
2025 Mega-PackMP25-EN138	Prismatic Secret Rare	1st Edition	$0.24	—	Buy
Invasion: VengeanceINOV-EN099	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.37	—	Buy
2017 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP17-EN172	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.45	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 15 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.