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Yu-Gi-Oh! · Dark Beginning 1 · #DB1-EN033 · Common

Painful Choice

Yu-Gi-Oh! card price for Painful Choice: $3.30 market, from $1.44 at the cheapest listing, Unlimited printing, updated Oct 17, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · Unlimited · Oct 17, 2026
$3.30
−0.9% this week · +9.6% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days−0.9%
30 days+9.6%
90 days+31.5%
1 year+83.3%
All time+220.4%

Sellers right now

$1.44lowest listing$29.81highest
Market price$3.30
Mid listing$3.16
30-day avg$3.27

Market price is what a near-mint copy actually sold for. The cheapest listing is what a seller asks today — on thin markets the two differ a lot.

Where to buy

TCGplayer$3.30

One year

$1.7352-week low$3.3752-week high
In the range96%
All-time low$0.90
All-time high$3.37
First priceFeb 8, 2024
Unlimited · market price
$0.75$1.70$2.65$3.60
$3.30
Feb 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Oct 2026
TCGplayer market price · via tcgcsvtcgrate.com

Price story

Painful Choice entered our records in February 2024 at $1.03 and stands at $3.30 today, up 220% over that time. Over the past twelve months it moved +83.3%, trading between $1.73 and $3.37. The current price is near the top of that range. This is the highest market price in our records for this card. The cheapest listing right now is $1.44, and the 30-day average market price is $3.27.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
Unlimited$3.30$1.44$29.81−0.9%

The card in play

Card type
Normal Spell
Attribute
SPELL
Card text

Select 5 cards from your Deck and show them to your opponent. Your opponent selects 1 card among them. Add that card to your hand and discard the remaining cards to the Graveyard.

Other printings of Painful Choice

7 more · $1.84 – $11.17
All printings
Painful Choice (MRL-049), Magic Ruler — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price +0.1% 7d Painful Choice Magic Ruler · #MRL-049 $11.17 Painful Choice (SRL-EN049), Spell Ruler (Worldwide English) — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price 0.0% 7d Painful Choice Spell Ruler (Worldwide English) · #SRL-EN049 $9.27 Painful Choice (SRL-EN049), Spell Ruler (25th Anniversary Edition) — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price 0.0% 7d Painful Choice Spell Ruler (25th Anniversary Edition) · #SRL-EN049 $6.30 Painful Choice (RP01-EN059), Retro Pack — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price 0.0% 7d Painful Choice Retro Pack · #RP01-EN059 $3.88 Painful Choice (SRL-049), Spell Ruler — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price 0.0% 7d Painful Choice Spell Ruler · #SRL-049 $3.01

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