Metal Raiders (25th Anniversary Edition)

144 printings, priced daily from TCGplayer, as of Oct 17, 2026


Most valuable cards

TCGplayer market price, Oct 17, 2026

Highest current market prices across this set's printings. Tap a card to view it on TCGplayer (affiliate).

Cards in this set

14 cards, each at the highest TCGplayer market price among its printings, named beside it

Break-aways

Heavy Storm (Unlimited) is this set's largest break-away, +94% beyond this set's move over the 28 days to the week of Apr 22, 2024, ending at $18.15. The set's own move over that window was −6.7%. 21 break-aways across this set's history; for its size, within 1.5x of the typical Yu-Gi-Oh! set. 14 moved up, 7 moved down.

Named moves in this set

Cards that moved furthest from the rest of this set, across the tracked archive (since Feb 2024). Ordered by size of departure, counting a drop and a rise of the same size as equal, so a drop can sit above a larger-looking rise.

  1. +94%Heavy Storm (Unlimited)to $18.15 week of Apr 22, 2024
  2. +77%Kuriboh (Unlimited)to $8.05 week of Aug 10, 2026
  3. −43%Barrel Dragon (Unlimited)to $8.74 week of Apr 29, 2024
  4. +72%Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon (Unlimited)to $5.70 week of Aug 10, 2026
  5. +58%Change of Heart (Unlimited)to $14.29 week of Sep 2, 2024
  6. −35%Magic Jammer (Unlimited)to $5.55 week of Sep 29, 2025
  7. −33%Gate Guardian (Unlimited)to $3.26 week of Dec 29, 2025
  8. +45%Horn of Heaven (Unlimited)to $7.47 week of Mar 11, 2024
  9. +43%Mirror Force (Unlimited)to $16.85 week of Apr 8, 2024
  10. −29%Soul Release (Unlimited)to $3.39 week of Apr 1, 2024
  11. −28%Sanga of the Thunder (Unlimited)to $3.00 week of Apr 29, 2024
  12. +37%Seven Tools of the Bandit (Unlimited)to $6.84 week of Jul 8, 2024

How Yu-Gi-Oh! sets usually behave

Value concentrates hard: across the 487 Yu-Gi-Oh! sets we measured this on, the single top card typically holds about 13% of a set's total card value.

On average, a new Yu-Gi-Oh! set's cards worth $0.50 or more, weighted by price, are about 47% below the set's release-week level in weeks 26 to 30 (averaged over 39 to 40 of the sets released since February 8, 2024, when our price history starts, in each of weeks 26 to 30). About 30% of that drop came in the first week after release, 60% within about 5 weeks and 80% within about 11. The level was still falling over weeks 20 to 30, and week 30 is as far as we measure, so how far it falls is not known. A card's price change from one week to the next counts only when both of those prices are $0.50 or more. Single sets can land well away from that.

Counting each card's largest 4-week move relative to its set's average, across 74,293 cards, moves above the set outnumber moves below it about 1.5 to 1.

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Source: daily TCGplayer market prices.