Darkest Diabolos, Lord of the Lair

Effect Monster · DARK · Dragon · Level 8

Market price

$1.98

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed yesterday.

Your opponent cannot Tribute this face-up card on the field, and cannot target it with card effects. You can only use each of these effects of "Darkest Diabolos, Lord of the Lair" once per turn. ● If a DARK monster you control is Tributed (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your GY (if it was there when you Tributed) or hand (even if not). ● You can Tribute 1 DARK monster; your opponent places 1 card from their hand on either the top or bottom of the Deck.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

135

Decks play it

0.3% of the corpus

#2,976

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

1.24

Copies per deck

83% run 1

0.3%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.3% of everything else

In the main deck of 135 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

Lady of Lament71.4%
Sacred Beast9.5%
Infernoid8.6%
Ogdoadic5.8%
Thunder Dragon5.5%
Bystial5.3%
Danger!5.1%
No archetype0.8%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20181.8%
20191.5%
20200.5%
20210.3%
20220.2%
20230.4%
20240.2%
20250.2%
20260.2%

Printings

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

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Structure Deck: Lair of DarknessSR06-EN001	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$1.93	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed yesterday. 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.