The Dark Illusion
126 cards at daily TCGplayer market prices · as of Sep 3, 2026
Activity
Nirvana High Paladin (1st Edition) made the set's biggest move, +203% to $13.07. 22 cards broke away from the set's shared move over the 28-day window, in the typical range for Yu-Gi-Oh! sets (17.5 per 100 cards vs. a 23.8 median). 15 moved up, 7 moved down.
Most valuable printings
TCGplayer market price · Sep 3, 2026
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).
- +203%
Nirvana High Paladin (1st Edition)to $13.07 Apr 22, 2024 - +165%
Magician's Rod (1st Edition)to $9.02 Mar 9, 2026 - -51%
Coral Dragon (1st Edition)to $3.42 Jul 1, 2024 - -46%
Cosmic Cyclone (1st Edition)to $8.77 Jun 3, 2024 - +83%
Toon Dark Magician (1st Edition)to $12.87 Feb 2, 2026 - +65%
Pot of Desires (Unlimited)one active weekto $8.00 Aug 10, 2026 - +65%
Blackwing - Gram the Shining Star (Limited)one active weekto $9.41 Nov 25, 2024 - +62%
Card of the Soul (1st Edition)to $8.94 Jul 27, 2026 - -38%
Destruction Sword Memories (1st Edition)to $4.51 Apr 14, 2025 - +56%Toon Dark Magician (Unlimited)one active weekto $10.05 Mar 23, 2026
- -31%
Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend (1st Edition)to $7.89 Dec 16, 2024 - +42%
SPYRAL GEAR - Big Red (Limited)to $10.74 Feb 10, 2025
“One active week” means the daily market price changed 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.
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