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Alpha, the Master of Beasts

Effect Monster · EARTH · Beast · Level 8

Market price

$0.13

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

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) while the total ATK of all monsters your opponent controls is more than that of all monsters you control. You can target any number of Beast, Beast-Warrior, and/or Winged Beast monsters you control; return them to the hand, then, return face-up monsters your opponent controls to the hand, equal to the number of cards you returned to the hand, also for the rest of this turn, "Alpha, the Master of Beasts" you control cannot attack directly. You can only use this effect of "Alpha, the Master of Beasts" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 57,061 decks in the corpus
275
Decks play it
0.5% of the corpus
#808
Most played
Of 14,423 cards played at all
1.65
Copies per deck
58.5% run 1
0.2%
Of competitive decks
Against 0.6% of everything else

In the main deck of 272 decks. Sided in another 150, 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

  • 20200.1%
  • 20210.7%
  • 20220.5%
  • 20230.7%
  • 20240.5%
  • 20250.6%
  • 20260.4%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 12 printings, all priced.

SetRarityEditionPriceFoil
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN022Ultra Rare1st Edition$0.10—Buy
Structure Deck: Fire KingsSR14-EN022Common1st Edition$0.15—Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN022Super Rare1st Edition$0.15—Buy
2021 Tin of Ancient BattlesMP21-EN179Ultra Rare1st Edition$0.22—Buy
Structure Deck: Fire KingsSR14-EN022CommonUnlimited$0.25—Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN022Platinum Secret Rare1st Edition$0.25—Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN022Secret Rare1st Edition$0.27—Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN022Prismatic Collector's Rare1st Edition$0.32—Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN022Prismatic Ultimate Rare1st Edition$0.41—Buy
Phantom RagePHRA-EN023Secret Rare1st Edition$0.48—Buy
25th Anniversary Rarity CollectionRA01-EN022Quarter Century Secret Rare1st Edition$2.74—Buy
Phantom RagePHRA-EN023Starlight Rare1st Edition$7.39—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.