Vanguard of the Underground Emperor

Effect Monster · EARTH · Reptile · Level 8

Market price

$0.04

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed yesterday.

If a monster(s) is sent from the hand to the GY, while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card, but place it on the bottom of the Deck when it leaves the field. You can only use this effect of "Vanguard of the Underground Emperor" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#9,341

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.48

Copies per deck

58.6% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.1% of everything else

In the main deck of 29 decks. Sided in another 2, 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

Vernusylph9.7%
Ogdoadic6.7%
Ragnaraika5.6%
Reptilianne3%
Therion2.7%
Evolsaur1.7%
T.G.1%
No archetype0.2%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20220.1%
20230.2%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 3 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Power of the ElementsPOTE-EN081	Common	Unlimited	$0.04	—	Buy
Power of the ElementsPOTE-EN081	Common	1st Edition	$0.06	—	Buy
25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling MirrorsMP24-EN307	Common	1st Edition	$0.10	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed yesterday. 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.