Every figure below is computed from our own dataset of 37,635 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards across 358 sets, not scraped from another price guide. Free to cite with a link.
The mean price of a Yu-Gi-Oh! card in our dataset is $9.86. The median is $1.34, about 7x 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 $9.86 is quoting the mean of a distribution that has no meaningful middle.
| Raw price | Cards | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $100 or more | 367 | 1.0% |
| $1,000 or more | 15 | 0.04% |
| Priced cards in the dataset | 35,607 | 100% |
Across the 4,251 cards where we hold both a raw price and a PSA 10 price, the median PSA 10 sells for 14.0x the ungraded card, at a median of $102.50.
The multiple is the number worth internalising, because grading costs are flat while the premium is proportional. A 14.0x multiple on a $1.34 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 5,869 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. PSA population figures are not published on this page: our coverage for Yu-Gi-Oh! currently spans 8 cards, too few to say anything honest about the graded population as a whole.
| Card | Raw price |
|---|---|
| Dark Magical Curtain [Overframe Grand Master Rare] LOCH-JP003 | $20,700 |
| Dark Magician, the Pharaoh's Servant [Overframe Grand Master Rare] LOCH-JP001 | $19,001 |
| Darklord Asmodeus [Ultra Rare] YCSW-EN001 | $16,000 |
| Number 106: Giant Hand [Ultra Rare] YCSW-EN006 | $12,000 |
| Number 93: Utopia Kaiser [Ultra Rare] YCSW-EN009 | $11,000 |
| Revolution Cyber Dragon [Overframe Grand Master Rare] LOCR-JP005 | $8,984 |
| Gagaga Magician - Gagaga Magic [Overframe Grand Master Rare] LOCH-JP011 | $4,100 |
| Duel Link Dragon, the Duel Dragon [Ultra Rare] YCSW-EN012 | $3,500 |
| Favorite HERO Flame Wingman [Overframe Grand Master Rare] LOCH-JP005 | $2,800 |
| Darklord Superbia YCSW-EN002 | $2,028 |
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.