Paleozoic Anomalocaris

XYZ Monster · WATER · Aqua · Rank 2 · Paleozoic

Market price

$0.23

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 5 hours ago.

3 or more Level 2 monsters This card is unaffected by other monsters' effects. Once per turn, if a Trap Card(s) is sent from your Spell & Trap Zone to the Graveyard (except during the Damage Step): You can excavate the top card of your Deck, and if it is a Trap Card, add it to your hand. Otherwise, send it to the Graveyard. Once per turn, during either player's turn, if this card has a Trap Card as Xyz Material: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 card on the field; destroy it.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 57,061 decks in the corpus

262

Decks play it

0.5% of the corpus

#1,554

Most played

Of 14,423 cards played at all

1.68

Copies per deck

50% run 1

0.2%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.5% of everything else

In the extra deck of 262 decks. Sided in another 3, 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

Paleozoic92.6%
Live☆Twin Ki-sikil Frost80%
Aquaactress17.4%
Frog8.9%
Tearlaments3.5%
Runick2.4%
Labrynth1.5%
No archetype0.4%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20175.3%
20182.9%
20190.9%
20200.5%
20210.6%
20220.4%
20230.2%
20240.1%
20250.7%
20260.4%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 4 printings, and we have a price for 3 of them.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
2025 Mega-PackMP25-EN137	Prismatic Secret Rare	1st Edition	$0.22	—	Buy
2017 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP17-EN126	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.46	—	Buy
The Dark IllusionTDIL-EN099	Super Rare	1st Edition	$0.48	—	Buy
The Dark IllusionTDIL-EN099	Super Rare	Unlimited	—	—	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. We have no price for 1 of these, shown as “—” rather than as zero. Buy links go to TCGplayer through YGOPRODeck, who provide this data.