Praying Mantis

Effect Monster · WIND · Insect · Level 4

Market price

$0.23

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

Once per turn, when an opponent's monster declares an attack: You can send 1 card from your Spell & Trap Zone to the GY; return that opponent's monster to the hand. You can only use each of the following effects of "Praying Mantis" once per turn. During your Standby Phase: You can Special Summon 1 "Baby Mantis Token" (Insect/WIND/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500). You can banish this card from your GY; Special Summon 1 "Baby Mantis Token".

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#8,832

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.06

Copies per deck

94.4% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.1% of everything else

In the main deck of 36 decks.

Archetypes that play it

Share of that archetype’s own decks

Battlewasp22.6%
Beetrooper6.9%
Digital Bug2.4%
Naturia1.6%
Gusto1.1%
No archetype0.1%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20230%
20240.1%
20250.2%
20260%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 1 printing, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Battles of Legend: Monstrous RevengeBLMR-EN033	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.23	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 4 hours 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.