Herald of Purple Light

Effect Monster · LIGHT · Fairy · Level 2 · Herald

Market price

$0.18

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

When your opponent activates a Trap Card (Quick Effect): You can send this card and 1 other Fairy monster from your hand to the GY; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

128

Decks play it

0.2% of the corpus

#2,495

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.45

Copies per deck

68.8% run 1

0.1%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.3% of everything else

In the main deck of 128 decks. Sided in another 70, 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

Diviner of the Herald66.7%
Herald62.5%
Valkyrie4.9%
The Agent4.8%
Cloudian3.1%
Drytron3%
Darklord2.8%
No archetype0.7%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20200.1%
20210.2%
20220.1%
20230.2%
20240.3%
20250.2%
20260.3%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 10 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Battle Pack 3: Monster LeagueBP03-EN023	Common	1st Edition	$0.15	—	Buy
Maze of the MasterMZTM-EN061	Rare	1st Edition	$0.16	—	Buy
Battles of Legend: Monster MayhemBLMM-EN101	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.21	—	Buy
Structure Deck: Wave of LightSR05-EN021	Common	1st Edition	$0.25	—	Buy
Enemy of JusticeEOJ-EN019	Rare	1st Edition	$0.77	—	Buy
Enemy of JusticeEOJ-EN019	Rare	Unlimited	$1.59	—	Buy
Dark Revelation Volume 4DR04-EN199	Rare	Unlimited	$2.00	—	Buy
Battle Pack 3: Monster LeagueBP03-EN023	Shatterfoil Rare	1st Edition	$2.47	—	Buy
Enemy of JusticeEOJ-EN019	Ultimate Rare	Unlimited	$46.65	—	Buy
Enemy of JusticeEOJ-EN019	Ultimate Rare	1st Edition	$52.48	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 4 weeks 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.