Yu-Gi-Oh!

The Dark Illusion

126cards measured at daily market closes. Prices here are each card's typical market price, not live listings. As of 2026-07-06.

Measured activity

Nirvana High Paladin (1st Edition)made the set's biggest measured move, +203% to $12.25. 21 cards broke away from the set's shared move over the measured window, in the typical range for Yu-Gi-Oh! sets (16.7 per 100 cards vs. a 23.8 median). 13 moved up, 8 moved down.

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 sets have typically eased about 23% more than the market overall within 30 weeks of release, fastest in the first few weeks.

Named moves in this set

The set's largest single-card departures from its own shared move.

  1. +203%Nirvana High Paladin (1st Edition)$12.25 2024-04-15
  2. +165%Magician's Rod (1st Edition)$7.12 2026-03-02
  3. +82%Toon Dark Magician (1st Edition)$11.93 2026-01-26
  4. +65%Blackwing - Gram the Shining Star (Limited)one active week$9.41 2024-11-18
  5. +56%Toon Dark Magician (Unlimited)one active week$10.05 2026-03-16
  6. -51%Coral Dragon (1st Edition)$3.99 2024-06-24
  7. -46%Cosmic Cyclone (1st Edition)$9.77 2024-05-27
  8. +42%SPYRAL GEAR - Big Red (Limited)$10.74 2025-02-03
  9. +42%Pot of Desires (Unlimited)$4.48 2025-12-08
  10. -38%Destruction Sword Memories (1st Edition)$5.22 2025-04-07
  11. +33%Dark Magical Circle (1st Edition)$6.32 2025-05-05
  12. +32%Subterror Nemesis Warrior (Limited)$6.22 2024-06-03

“One active week” means the price changed at the daily market close in only one week of the move window. A single-week jump on an otherwise flat quote can be a stale price rather than a sustained move.

Source: daily market-close consensus prices. Sets with live listing pages carry those separately, this page never mixes the two.