The Dark Magician is one of the most iconic cards from theYu-Gi-Oh! TCG. It was one of the first boss monsters summoned by Yugi and, since then, has only become more popular. The Dark Magician has also had its fair share of reprints, including extensions to its archetype.
With so many Dark Magician cards to collect, some hold more value than others. This includes special edition printings, powerful pieces from the card game’s past, and fan-favorite monsters. So take a look at your old collection and see if you have a little nugget of gold stashed away.
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11Dark Magician 2002 Collector’s Tins $113.06
Choose Your Tins Wisely
There’s nothing quite like opening a Collector’s Tin. You get a neat box to store cards in, a few booster packs, and a rare promo card that comes with it. While there were six cards available, one tin guaranteed you a Dark Magician card.
This card is special since it depicts the Dark Magician in its anime style. It is also a secret rare card, giving it that special foiling. This card features the Limited Edition classification under the art box as well as the special number, BPT-001 to help identify it.
10Dark Magician Girl Duelist League Promo $149.97
A Card For Beginners
The Duelist League is a special event open to less experienced duelists with beginner-friendly thresholds. Before these events died out, you could obtain special cards for participating. One of these is the Dark Magician Girl promo.
This Dark Magician Girl card is printed as a rare, but its most defining trait is the special ink used for its name. Dark Magician Girl has purple letters instead of the usual silver. It also has that shiny texture commonly seen on rare and ultra-rare cards.
9Official Judge Field Center Token: Dark Magician Girl The Dragon Knight $149.99
A Decorative Card For Judges Only
While not a playable card, this Field Center Token is still one of the more valuable cards to depict a Dark Magician. Field Center Tokens are used as a way to determine where cards will be placed when using a mat that doesn’t have placement boxes.
This Field Center Token is one of the rarest to find because it is exclusive to judges. This means in order to obtain it, you would need to learn the Yu-Gi-Oh! rulebook by heart, be accepted as a judge, and be active at the time this card was being handed out.
8Dark Magician Of Chaos Dark Revelation Volume 2 $159.95
A Classic Monster Reborn
Dark Magician of Chaos is one of the coolest evolutions of the Dark Magician. It is a retrain of the Ritual monster known as the Black Magician of Chaos. Found in Dark Revelation 2, this card found plenty of use as a way to get back a Spell from the graveyard.
Monsters that end up on the receiving end of attacks from this card are also banished instead of being sent to the graveyard. This isa staple of the chaos formatof the time.
7Dark Magician Girl Ghosts From The Past: The 2nd Haunting $185.14
A Fan Favorite Card In A Fan Favorite Style
The Dark Magician Girl is one ofthe most popular monsters to come out of the Battle City arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. One of the most valuable printings can be found in the Ghosts From The Past: The 2nd Haunting set.
This ghost rare Dark Magician Girl, has a special white holographic foiling. This means looking at the card at a certain angle will only show you a clean silver box. Tilting it will reveal the monster within.
6Dark Magician Girl Magician’s Force $249.43
The Debut Of The Dark Magician Girl
Cards will hold value due to the rarity of their printing. However, there is also a special place in any collection for fan-favorite cards from their original sets. This Dark Magician Girl is pricey due to being from the Magician’s Force set.
It also helps that Dark Magician Girl was first printed as a secret rare. This means that trying to pull one from this set could be quite difficult compared to some of the other reprints this card would eventually get.
5Dark Paladin Magician’s Force $266.72
Two Powers Combine
Dark Paladin is a fascinating card for the time it was printed because it allowed players to negate Spell cards. This card is from the original Magician’s Force set and, unlike other reprintings, it features the original card art which was changed later on.
This makes this specific printing one of the rarer ones to find. It is also printed as an ultra rare, making it even harder to find from a pack.
4Dark Magician Dark Duel Stories $324.47
The Most Expensive Pack To Open
Imagine buying a video game just for the cards that come with it. This is the idea behind Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories for the Game Boy Color. Each box comes with a copy of the game and three of six prismatic secret rare cards.
One of the more valuable sets includes a copy of The Dark Magician and, because of its exclusiveness, fetches a high price. This also causes unopened boxes of the game to be held in high regard.
3Dark Magician Girl Magnificent Mavens $426.01
Millennium Eyes Everywhere
Magnificent Mavens is a fantastic holiday set because it includes a unique rarity called the pharaoh’s rare. These cards come as secret rares but with a special holographic foiling around the card body that depicts Egyptian hieroglyphs.
This makes the Dark Magician Girl found in this set a valuable addition to any collection. The only downside is that these rarities are on the same level as quarter-century and collector’s rare. So they are difficult to find in a pack.
2Dark Magician Ghosts From The Past $434.32
Ghostly White Dark Magician
If you’re looking for the most valuable card that depicts the original Dark Magician, you will find it in the original Ghosts From The Past set. This ghost rare card has the Dark Magician artwork from the anime staring back at you.
Likeother ghost rares, it has a white holo foiling that makes the art go invisible when looked at from certain angles. It also gives it a bit of depth when you tilt it side to side.
