Archfiend Emperor, the First Lord of Horror

Effect Monster · DARK · Fiend · Level 8 · Archfiend

Market price

$0.17

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You can Normal Summon this card without Tributing, but its original ATK/DEF become halved. If Summoned this way, this card is destroyed during the End Phase. You cannot Special Summon any monsters, except Fiend monsters. Once per turn: You can banish 1 "Archfiend" card from your hand or GY, then target 1 card on the field; destroy it.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 45,154 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#6,218

Most played

Of 14,082 cards played at all

1.74

Copies per deck

51.7% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.2% of everything else

In the main deck of 58 decks. Sided in another 7, which is not counted above — completion is scored over main and extra decks only.

Archetypes that play it

Share of that archetype’s own decks

Played by year

Share of the decks the corpus holds for that year

20160%
20170%
20180%
20190.3%
20200.1%
20210.2%
20220%
20230.2%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260.2%