Guard Mantis

Effect Monster · WIND · Insect · Level 4

Market price

$0.18

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You can pay 1000 LP; Special Summon this card from your hand in Defense Position, but while it is face-up in the Monster Zone, you cannot Special Summon monsters, except Insect monsters. During your opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Insect monster you control; change its battle position. You can only use each effect of "Guard Mantis" once per turn.

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Deck usage & meta stats

Across 45,154 decks in the corpus

Decks play it

0.1% of the corpus

#9,088

Most played

Of 14,082 cards played at all

1.35

Copies per deck

76.9% run 1

Of competitive decks

Against 0.1% of everything else

In the main deck of 26 decks. Sided in another 4, 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%
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20180%
20190%
20200%
20210%
20220%
20230.1%
20240.1%
20250.1%
20260%