A Bao A Qu, the Lightless Shadow

Link Monster · DARK · Fiend · Link 4

Market price

$0.34

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

2+ monsters, including a Fiend monster During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can discard 1 card, then activate 1 of these effects; ● Destroy 1 card on the field. ● Banish this card (until the End Phase), and if you do, Special Summon 1 LIGHT or DARK monster from your GY. During your Standby Phase: You can draw cards equal to the number of different Monster Types in your GY, then place cards from your hand on the bottom of the Deck in any order, equal to the number of cards you drew. You can only use each effect of "A Bao A Qu, the Lightless Shadow" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

387

Decks play it

0.7% of the corpus

#822

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.01

Copies per deck

99% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.6% of everything else

In the extra deck of 386 decks. Sided in another 19, 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

Unchained14.7%
Light and Darkness Ritual12.4%
Dark World8.7%
Fabled7.1%
Gem-6.8%
Archfiend6.7%
Labrynth5.4%
No archetype1.2%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20251%
20261.3%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 5 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Magnificent MonstersMAMO-EN038	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.36	—	Buy
Magnificent MonstersMAMO-EN038	Secret Rare	1st Edition	$0.40	—	Buy
Supreme DarknessSUDA-EN049	Secret Rare	1st Edition	$5.68	—	Buy
Magnificent MonstersMAMO-EN038	Starlight Rare	1st Edition	$16.57	—	Buy
Supreme DarknessSUDA-EN049	Quarter Century Secret Rare	1st Edition	$65.74	—	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.