Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning

Effect Monster · LIGHT · Warrior · Level 8 · Black Luster Soldier

Market price

$0.40

An estimate from YGOPRODeck for a typical printing, refreshed 19 hours ago.

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster from your GY. Once per turn, you can activate 1 of these effects. ● Target 1 monster on the field; banish it. This card cannot attack the turn this effect is activated. ● If this attacking card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: It can make a second attack in a row.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 56,525 decks in the corpus

2,675

Decks play it

4.7% of the corpus

#74

Most played

Of 14,360 cards played at all

1.06

Copies per deck

95.1% run 1

0.6%

Of competitive decks

Against 5.8% of everything else

In the main deck of 2,657 decks. Sided in another 79, 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

Chaos Turbo100%
Chaos Control100%
Goat Control98.9%
Plant Synchro98.6%
Warrior96.5%
Black Luster Soldier91.4%
Agent89.4%
No archetype2.8%

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

200586.7%
20100%
201176.5%
201217.4%
20140%
201615%
20175.3%
20189.4%
20194.9%
20205.8%
20216.5%
202210.6%
20237.3%
20246.3%
20253.1%
20262.3%

Printings

Every version of this card we hold, cheapest first. 25 printings, all priced.

Set	Rarity	Edition	Price	Foil
Toon ChaosTOCH-EN029	Rare	Unlimited	$0.41	—	Buy
King of Games: Yugi's Legendary DecksYGLD-ENA02	Common	Unlimited	$0.64	—	Buy
King of Games: Yugi's Legendary DecksYGLD-ENA02	Common	1st Edition	$0.65	—	Buy
Toon ChaosTOCH-EN029	Rare	1st Edition	$0.66	—	Buy
Structure Deck: Shaddoll ShowdownSDSH-EN012	Common	1st Edition	$0.74	—	Buy
King of Games: Yugi's Legendary Decks (2020 Date Reprint)YGLD-ENA02	Common	Unlimited	$0.78	—	Buy
Structure Deck: Shaddoll ShowdownSDSH-EN012	Common	Unlimited	$0.96	—	Buy
Magnificent MavensMAMA-EN047	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$3.85	—	Buy
2013 Collectors Tins Wave 1CT10-EN005	Super Rare	Limited	$4.02	—	Buy
Duelist SagaDUSA-EN053	Ultra Rare	1st Edition	$7.14	—	Buy
Premium GoldPGLD-EN085	Gold Rare	Unlimited	$8.24	—	Buy
Quarter Century BonanzaRA03-EN132	Platinum Secret Rare	1st Edition	$9.15	—	Buy

Show all 25 printings (13 more)

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.