Purple Poison Magician

Pendulum Effect Monster · DARK · Spellcaster · Level 4 · Magician

Market price

$1.15

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 17 hours ago.

[ Pendulum Effect ] Once per turn, if your DARK Spellcaster-Type monster battles, before damage calculation: You can activate this effect; that monster gains 1200 ATK (until the end of the Damage Step), then destroy this card. [ Monster Effect ] (This card is always treated as a "Fusion Dragon" card.) If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can target 1 face-up card on the field; destroy it.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

257

Decks play it

0.5% of the corpus

#1,253

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.46

Copies per deck

65% run 1

0.5%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.5% of everything else

In the main deck of 257 decks. Sided in another 11, 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

Magician64.1%
Dracoslayer38.8%
Odd-Eyes4.4%
Endymion4.3%
Predaplant3.5%
Performapal3.5%
Melodious2.7%
No archetype1.4%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.7%
20190.8%
20200.4%
20210.9%
20220.7%
20231.3%
20240.8%
20250.3%
20260.3%

Printings

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

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Pendulum EvolutionPEVO-EN006	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$1.17	—	Buy

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