Axe of Despair

Spell Card · Equip · Archfiend

Market price

$0.46

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 2 days ago.

(This card is always treated as an "Archfiend" card.) The equipped monster gains 1000 ATK. When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard: You can Tribute 1 monster; place this card on the top of your Deck.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

156

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#2,546

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.64

Copies per deck

62.8% run 1

0.1%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.4% of everything else

In the main deck of 156 decks. Sided in another 12, 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

Archfiend26.3%
Gaia The Fierce Knight1.8%
Ninja1.5%
Gouki1.5%
Dark World1.1%
Amazoness1.1%
No archetype1%
Dark Magician0.6%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20181.4%
20190.4%
20200.4%
20210.2%
20220%
20230.2%
20240.4%
20250.3%
20260.4%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 26 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Speed Duel GX: Duelists of ShadowsSGX3-ENE16	Common	1st Edition	$0.45	—	Buy
Super Starter: Space-Time ShowdownYS14-EN026	Common	1st Edition	$0.51	—	Buy
Battle Pack 2: War of the GiantsBP02-EN131	Common	1st Edition	$0.60	—	Buy
Starter Deck: Dark LegionYS15-ENL19	Common	1st Edition	$0.61	—	Buy
Retro Pack (2020 Date Reprint)RP01-EN051	Rare	Unlimited	$0.62	—	Buy
Starter Deck: Yugi EvolutionSYE-035	Common	Unlimited	$0.64	—	Buy
Battle Pack: Epic DawnBP01-EN067	Starfoil Rare	Unlimited	$0.70	—	Buy
Battle Pack 2: War of the GiantsBP02-EN131	Common	Unlimited	$0.74	—	Buy
Battle Pack: Epic DawnBP01-EN067	Common	1st Edition	$0.78	—	Buy
Starter Deck: Yugi EvolutionSYE-035	Common	1st Edition	$0.84	—	Buy
Dark LegendsDLG1-EN052	Common	Unlimited	$0.92	—	Buy
Battle Pack: Epic DawnBP01-EN067	Starfoil Rare	1st Edition	$0.97	—	Buy

Show all 26 printings (14 more)

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 2 days 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.