Return of the Duelist
223 cards at daily TCGplayer market prices · as of Sep 3, 2026
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Alchemic Magician (1st Edition) made the set's biggest move, +288% to $23.93. 60 cards broke away from the set's shared move over the 28-day window, in the typical range for Yu-Gi-Oh! sets (26.9 per 100 cards vs. a 23.8 median). 37 moved up, 23 moved down.
Most valuable printings
TCGplayer market price · Sep 3, 2026
$54.45
Spellbook of Secrets
$43.15
Heroic Champion - Excalibur
$39.99
High Priestess of Prophecy
$37.94
Spellbook Magician of Prophecy
Highest current market prices across this set's printings. Tap a card to view it on TCGplayer (affiliate).
How Yu-Gi-Oh! sets usually behave
Value concentrates hard: across 481 measured Yu-Gi-Oh! sets, the single top card typically holds about 13% of a set's total card value.
New Yu-Gi-Oh! sets have typically settled about 47% below their release-week price, with most of that easing done within roughly 13 weeks (measured across 49 recent releases).
Over the first 30 weeks after release, that easing runs about 28% deeper than the market's own drift.
Across 71,958 measured breakaway moves in our archive, upward moves outnumber drops about 1.5 to 1.
Named moves in this set
The set's largest single-card departures from its own shared move, across the tracked archive (since Feb 2024).
- +288%
Alchemic Magician (1st Edition)to $23.93 May 18, 2026 - +143%Alchemic Magician (Unlimited)to $15.82 Jun 1, 2026
- -58%
Soul of Silvermountain (1st Edition)to $3.36 Dec 16, 2024 - +113%
Gear Gigant X (1st Edition)to $22.82 Sep 16, 2024 - +103%
Geargiarmor (1st Edition)to $8.78 Sep 9, 2024 - -50%
Advanced Dark (Unlimited)to $3.25 Jul 15, 2024 - +69%
Soul Drain (1st Edition)to $6.87 Feb 3, 2025 - -39%
Spellbook of Secrets (UTR) (Unlimited)to $18.50 Feb 16, 2026 - +63%
Prophecy Destroyer (UTR) (Unlimited)to $6.70 Jan 19, 2026 - +63%Soul of Silvermountain (Unlimited)to $5.92 Oct 14, 2024
- -38%Gear Gigant X (Unlimited)to $7.80 Nov 17, 2025
- +61%
Grandsoil the Elemental Lord (1st Edition)to $10.65 Apr 27, 2026
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