Heroic Challenger - Spartan

Effect Monster · EARTH · Warrior · Level 4 · Heroic

Market price

$0.11

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 3 days ago.

Once per turn, when an opponent's monster declares an attack: You can target 1 face-up "Heroic" monster you control, except this card; this card gains ATK equal to that face-up monster's original ATK, until the end of the Battle Phase.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 47,952 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#7,636

Most played

Of 14,229 cards played at all

2.11

Copies per deck

41.3% run 3

Of competitive decks

Against 0.1% of everything else

In the main deck of 46 decks. Sided in another 7, 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

Heroic44%
U.A.1.1%
Ancient Warriors1%
T.G.1%
Destiny HERO0.5%
No archetype0.1%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.4%
20190%
20200.3%
20210.2%
20220.1%
20230.1%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 2 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Return of the DuelistREDU-EN005	Common	Unlimited	$0.11	—	Buy
Return of the DuelistREDU-EN005	Common	1st Edition	$0.19	—	Buy

Prices from YGOPRODeck / TCGplayer, refreshed 3 days 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.