Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Statistics 2026
Computed from our own dataset of 55,658 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards across 363 sets, the same data behind our Yu-Gi-Oh! card price pages. Free to cite with a link.
- Median card price
- $1.19
- vs $10.35 average
- Median PSA 10 premium
- 12.1x
- over the same card raw
- Cards with graded sales
- 12,847
- of 55,658 tracked
- Cards tracked
- 55,658
- across 363 sets
Key takeaways
- The median Yu-Gi-Oh! card sells for $1.19 raw. The average is $10.35, about 9x higher, because a few chase cards pull it up.
- 80% of priced cards sell for under $5. Only 1.0% reach $100, and 0.06% reach $1,000.
- A PSA 10 sells for a median 12.1x the same card raw.
How Yu-Gi-Oh! card prices are spread
Share of the 54,023 priced Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in each raw (ungraded) price band.
$1.19median card
- Under $145.6% 24,617
- $1 to $534.3% 18,539
- $5 to $2014.5% 7,820
- $20 to $1004.6% 2,506
- $100 to $1,0000.94% 508
- $1,000 or more0.06% 33
The band that holds the median card.
Raw prices from recent sales. Cards without a price and sealed product are left out.
The average Yu-Gi-Oh! card price is misleading
The mean price of a Yu-Gi-Oh! card in our dataset is $10.35. The median is $1.19, about 9x lower. Both numbers are correct, and only one of them describes the card you just pulled.
That gap is the whole shape of the hobby. Tournament prizes and early Japanese promos carry enough value to lift the average well above the median, while decades of reprints keep most of the pool near bulk. Any headline claiming the “average” card is worth $10.35 is quoting the mean of a distribution that has no meaningful middle.
What a PSA 10 is actually worth
Across the 5,036 cards where we hold both a raw price and a PSA 10 price.
12.1xmedian PSA 10 premium
The median PSA 10 sells for 12.1x the ungraded card, at a median of $118.39.
The multiple is the number worth internalising, because grading costs are flat while the premium is proportional. A 12.1x multiple on a $1.19 card is still under a dollar of upside. The premium only pays on cards that already carry value, which is the opposite of how most submission decisions get made.
We hold real graded sales history for 12,847 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. PSA population figures are not published on this page: our coverage for Yu-Gi-Oh! currently spans 9 cards, too few to say anything honest about the graded population as a whole.
The 10 most valuable Yu-Gi-Oh! cards
Ranked by raw (ungraded) price across the whole dataset.
Raw prices from recent sales.
Methodology
- Computed over 55,658 card records in 363 Yu-Gi-Oh! sets, the same dataset behind our Yu-Gi-Oh! card price pages.
- Price statistics use the 54,023 cards carrying a raw price above zero. Cards with no price are excluded rather than counted as zero, which would drag every average down.
- Sealed product is excluded. 763 rows for booster boxes, elite trainer boxes, blisters and tins are dropped before anything is counted, because a booster box is not a card and leaving them in inflates the average by roughly a third.
- Grading premiums use only cards with a raw price of $1 or more. Below that, rounding in the raw price alone can manufacture a 100x multiple.
Citing these numbers
Journalists and creators are welcome to use any statistic on this page with attribution and a link to banktcg.com/yugioh-card-statistics. If you need a figure we haven't published, whether a specific set, era or grade, get in touch and we'll run it.