Yu-Gi-Oh!: The 10 Most Valuable Quarter Century Secret Rare Cards

Summary

• Quarter century secret rare cards are not only rare, but also expensive and valuable for competitive play in Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG.
• Cards like Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring and Nightmare Throne have unique effects that can disrupt opponent's strategies.
• Dragon Master Magia is the most expensive quarter century secret rare, boasting three negates and a high price tag for serious players.

A quarter century secret rare is a rarity introduced for the 25th anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Card game. With over 25 years of anime, manga, and competitions, Yu-Gi-Oh! is one of the most iconic TCG of all time. Now, there are even more cards to play, collect, and trade.

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Quarter century secret rares are also some of the most expensive cards, especially when they are either hard to find or can actually be used in a competitive deck as opposed to sitting around in your binder. It’s all about the flex. Hold on to your wallets, here are the ten most valuable quarter century secret rare cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Prices reflected are as seen on TCGplayer.com and may be subject to change with time.

10 Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Sky Crisis ($161.83)

Meet The Anti Zeus

Super Star Slayer TY-PHON -Sky Crisis is already an excellent card due to its effect of shutting down your opponent’s most powerful Monsters. While it’s on the field, any Monster with more than 2900 attack cannot activate their effects.

Not only is it useful, but it is also easy to get out as long as your opponent Special Summons two times during their turn. Then any Monster can be used as material for TY-PON. Use this to interrupt their play or remove a material from the card to send something back to the hand.

9 Ash Blossom And Joyous Spring ($169.24)

A Staple Interruption

In the original Rarity Collection set, many cards got rarity bumps. One card that got plenty of reprints in the set is Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring. Now sporting a fashionable quarter century printing, it gleams in the light and has the stamp to prove its legitimacy.

Ash Blossom is expensive not just because of the printing itself, but because the card is one of the most common hand traps in Yu-Gi-Oh! It can stop your opponent from searching out a card or Special Summoning a Monster from their deck.

8 Nightmare Throne ($185.68)

Yubel’s Field Spell

Nightmare Throne is a must-have card for anyone wishing to play Yubel. It is the ultimate searcher for the deck, which also acts as a Field Spell. It allows you to search out a Yubel or any other Fiend Monster with zero attack and defense.

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If a Yubel Monster leaves the field because of a card effect, you can search out another Yubel Monster from your banish pile, your graveyard, or your deck and Special Summon it as long as it’s one level higher or lower than the one that got removed from the field.

7 Phantom Of Yubel ( $193.44)

A Yubel Fusion Monster

Phantom of Yubel is a fantastic Fusion Monster for the Yubel Archetype. It is a Contact Fusion which means you don’t need to use Polymerization to get it on the field. Instead, you can just shuffle cards from your hand, field, or graveyard back into the deck to bring it out.

It is immune to battle damage and cannot be destroyed by those battles. It also has a Quick Effect that can negate another Monster Effect by switching what it originally does. So instead of having something that benefits your opponent, the effect can now benefit you by destroying a Yubel in your deck.

6 Blue-Eyes White Dragon ($212.12)

A Classic Card’s 25th Anniversary

The quarter century secret rare version of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is exclusive to the American release of the Ultimate Kaiba Set. The set comes with four copies of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. While most are secret rare versions of the anime art, one card has the gleaming colors of a quarter-century rare.

This card does not have the anime art, but has the tablet art instead. Despite this, it is still one of the more expensive Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards in the entire game due to its scarcity and printing.

5 The Bystial Lubellion ($213.40)

Most Expensive Bystial

The Bystial Lubellion is one of the ultimate Bystial cards that isn’t an Extra Deck Monster. With a quarter century printing, it makes it even more valuable when you want to flex on your opponent. This card can get other Bystial Monsters into your hand to use as interruptions.

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Besides loading your hand, Lubellion can also be used to get your copies of the Branded Continuous Spells and Traps directly from your Deck to the field. This makes it a necessary card for the strategy. Good thing lower rarities exist.

4 Sky Sriker Mobilize, Engage! ($214.62)

Sky Strikers Number One Card

If you ask a Sky Striker player what the one card they always want in hand is, they would probably say Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! In the early game, it searches out your other Sky Striker cards directly from the Deck and adds them to your hand.

If you have three or more Spells in your graveyard, you also get to draw an additional card. This card is excellent for getting your combo set up, but also for getting more cards in your hands to set on the field.

3 Fiendsmith Engraver ($234.47)

The Most Competitive Quarter Century Secret Rare

One card can make all the difference in the meta and Fiendsmith Engraver is one of them. Released in The Infinite Forbidden set, it can be used as a searcher for your Fiendsmith Spells or Traps. It can also send cards to the graveyard without destroying them.

In addition to being an excellent searcher, it can also Special Summon itself from the graveyard by shuffling a Light Monster into the deck. The secret rare version of the card is one of the best cards to pull from The Infinite Forbidden, this one is three times as valuable.

2 S:P Little Knight ($407.44)

Banish Monsters Left And Right

One card that is an absolute necessity for Modern Yu-Gi-Oh! is S:P Little Knight. It is one of the most valuable Extra Deck Monsters in the game and easily summonable due to its Link-2 rating. It can banish some of your opponent’s more troublesome cards or any of your own Monsters to dodge targeting effects.

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If you Special Summon it using any other Extra Deck Monster such as I:P Masquerena, you can instantly remove something from the field on your opponent’s turn. This allows it a second banish.

1 Dragon Master Magia ($624.98)

The Most Expensive Quarter Century Rare

The most valuable quarter century secret rare is Dragon Master Magia. This card is expensive because of a variety of factors. Not only does it have three negates, making it a powerful card if Summoned, but it only exists as a quarter century secret rare.

This means anyone wishing to play this card will have to pay the full price if they want to run it in a deck. Dragon Master Magia is one of the most valuable cards in Terminal Revenge and one of the most valuable cards in general due to this printing.

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