The Kaiju Files

Spell Card · Continuous · Kaiju

Market price

$0.09

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 1 hour ago.

Each time a "Kaiju" monster(s) is Special Summoned from the hand and/or GY, place 1 Kaiju Counter on this card (max. 5). Once per turn: You can target 1 "Kaiju" monster on the field; destroy that monster, then Special Summon 1 "Kaiju" monster with a different original name from your Deck to its controller's field. You can send this card with 3 or more Kaiju Counters to the GY; add 1 "Kaiju" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand, except "The Kaiju Files".

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 57,061 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#5,646

Most played

Of 14,423 cards played at all

2.14

Copies per deck

39.8% run 2

0.1%

Of competitive decks

Against 0.2% of everything else

In the main deck of 83 decks. Sided in another 8, 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

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20180.3%
20190.7%
20200.4%
20210.3%
20220.2%
20230.2%
20240.2%
20250.1%
20260.1%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 5 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Shining VictoriesSHVI-EN089	Common	Unlimited	$0.09	—	Buy
Battles of Legend: Chapter 1BLC1-EN123	Common	1st Edition	$0.19	—	Buy
2017 Mega-Tin Mega PackMP17-EN048	Common	1st Edition	$0.21	—	Buy
Shining VictoriesSHVI-EN089	Common	1st Edition	$0.24	—	Buy
Battles of Legend: Relentless RevengeBLRR-EN091	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$0.29	—	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.