Summary
Yu-Gi-Oh!can be one of the most enriching games to get your brain working overtime. It can also be the perfect gateway for collectors to build up a pretty valuable binder full of quarter-century rare cards. These cards are printed with special foils and vibrant colors that gleam in the light. They even come with the special 25th-anniversary seal of approval.
The value of these cards is dependent on their rarity but also how useful they can be in an actual match. This can allow the most dedicated players to flex how shiny their cards are when playing. These are the most valuable cards in Legacy of Destruction!
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10Veidos The Dragon Of Endless Darkness (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $77.89
The Ashened archetype is inspired by the Dark Souls franchise, and now it hasa big bad fusion monster. To fusion summon it, you will need Veidos the Eruption Dragon of Extinction, and two or more level nine or lower pyro monsters.
On summon, it can wipe your opponent’s back row. It also has a quick effect that can be activated when your opponent tries to activate a card or effect on the field. You can send an Ashened card from the field to the grave and destroy your opponent’s card.
9Saffira, Divine Dragon Of The Voiceless Voice (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $78.69
The voiceless voice archetype revolves around ritual summoning monsters. With Saffira, Divine Dragon of the Voiceless Voice, life just got a bit easier. If it is ritual summoned while you have Lo, the Prayers of the Voiceless Voice on the field or in your graveyard, you can draw two cards, then discard one.
It can also help you pick off cards from your opponent’s hand when it attacks. Hand rips can be deadly in modern Yu-Gi-Oh! since they have a chance of getting rid of valuable combo pieces.
8Snake-Eyes Diabellstar (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $79.70
The trend of giving Fire monsters even more buffs continues withSnake-Eyes Diabellstar. This level-eight monster allows you to send your opponent’s monsters to the back row, where they essentially become useless.
Meanwhile, Snake-Eyes Diabellstar has an ability while in the spell and trap card zone. It can grab a fire monster from your graveyard and place it in the back row. Then, it can special summon itself to the field, allowing it to just keep coming back each turn.
7Diabellze The Original Sinkeeper (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $93.85
Diabellze the Original Sinkeeper is the next phase of the Sinful Spoils archetype. It is a level seven Light Illusion monster. It can special summon itself by having a sinful spoils card in either graveyard. It also acts as a monster version of Anti-Spell Fragrance.
While on the field, your opponent must set their spells and traps before activating them. If they set a card then you can target one of their cards and one of your own and destroy them. This can get rid of their setups while also activating effects on your side that go off on destruction.
6Centur-Ion Auxila (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $99.28
Centur-lon Auxila is a level 12 generic synchro monster. Its effects protect your spells and traps from being destroyed by card effects. This can be useful for protecting your floodgates or other Cenrut-lon cards that you have gathered.
When special summoned, you’re able to search out a Centur-lon monster and add it to your hand. During the end phase, you can place a non-synchro Centur-lon monster in your banish pile or in your graveyard and set it up in your back row as a continuous spell.
5Minerva, The Athenian Lightsworn (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $123.22
Banishing effects can put a real damper on many decks that utilize the graveyard. Minerva, the Athenian Lightsworn, is designed to help your Lightsworn monsters on the field get to the graveyard safely so they can use additional effects.
If the card is synchro summoned, you may send Lightsworn monsters from the deck to the graveyard as long as they have different types and add up to the monsters used to make it. You can also banish up to four cards from the grave to mill even more cards from the deck.
4Nightmare Apprentice (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $128.43
Nightmare Apprentice makes the illusion archetype even stronger than before. Illusion cards are retrains of monsters used in the Duel Monsters era of Yu-Gi-Oh! With a new design twist inspired by the Millennium items.
Nightmare Apprentice allows you to discard one card from your hand to special summon itself from your hand. If it battles a monster, neither can be destroyed by the battle. On summon, it can add an illusion monster from your deck to your hand making it an excellent searcher for the archetype.
3Lightsworn Dragonling (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $153.87
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of Destruction adds support to the popular Lightsworn archetype. Lightsworn monsters are known for having effects that send cards to the graveyard. Some even have effects while there. Lightsworn Dragonling special summons itself from the hand if you have a Lightsworn monster in your graveyard.
On summon, you can send a Lightsworn card directly from your deck to the grave. If it dies and gets sent to the graveyard you can then add one dragon monster with 3,000 attack and 2,600 defense from your deck to your hand.
2Nightmare Throne (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $157.36
Nightmare Throne is another expansion to the Yubel archetype. This field spell lets you take a fiend monster with zero attack and defense from your deck and add it to your hand or destroy it. It can also help you get more Yubel cards into your hand if your current Yubel leaves the field.
This is a must-have for anyone running a fiend-centric deck, especially since Yubel is making a comeback. With the card picking up in popularity, having a quarter-century version of the spell is a fantastic flex.
1Varudras, The Final Bringer Of The End Times (Quarter Century Secret Rare)
Market Price: $159.58
The most valuable cardin Legacy of Destruction is Varudras, the Final Bringer of the End Times. This rank ten card is a generic XYZ monster, making it the perfect fit for any deck that utilizes level ten monsters.
Non-targeting removal can help you get many cards off the field with a single monster. This makes the card just as useful as it is valuable. The fact that it also comes as a quarter-century rare, only makes it even more of a good hit if you manage to pull one from a pack.
