Artmage Varnish -Alteration-

Spell Card · Normal · Artmage

Market price

$0.93

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

Place 1 "Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis" from your Deck or GY, face-up in your Field Zone, or if you control "Artmage Academic Arcane Arts Acropolis", add 1 "Artmage" card from your Deck to your hand instead, except "Artmage Varnish -Alteration-". When your "Artmage" monster is targeted for an attack: You can banish this card from your GY; negate that attack, then you can Special Summon 1 "Medius the Pure" from your hand. You can only use each effect of "Artmage Varnish -Alteration-" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

221

Decks play it

0.4% of the corpus

#2,012

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

2.20

Copies per deck

55.2% run 3

0.8%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.3% of everything else

In the main deck of 221 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 and Deck Masters that play it

Share of that archetype or Deck Master’s own decks

Artmage98.1%
K91.3%
DoomZ1%
Darklord0.9%
P.U.N.K.0.4%
Blue-Eyes0.3%
No archetype0.1%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20250.4%
20260.9%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 2 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Duelist's AdvanceDUAD-EN058	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$1.05	—	Buy
Duelist's AdvanceDUAD-EN058	Starlight Rare	1st Edition	$16.38	—	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.