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Yu-Gi-Oh! · Magic Ruler · #MRL-040 · Common

Darkness Approaches

Yu-Gi-Oh! card price for Darkness Approaches: $0.27 market, from $0.11 at the cheapest listing, 1st Edition printing, updated Oct 18, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · 1st Edition · Oct 18, 2026
$0.27
0.0% this week · −10.0% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days0.0%
30 days−10.0%
90 days−6.9%
1 year+12.5%
All time−57.8%

Sellers right now

$0.11lowest listing$19.81highest
Market price$0.27
Mid listing$0.35
30-day avg$0.28

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$0.27

One year

$0.2452-week low$0.3452-week high
In the range30%
All-time low$0.20
All-time high$0.64
First priceFeb 8, 2024
1st Edition · market price
$0.23$0.27$0.31$0.35
$0.27
Oct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026Oct 2026
TCGplayer market price · via tcgcsvtcgrate.com

Price story

Our price record for Darkness Approaches (1st Edition) begins in February 2024 at $0.64; the market price today is $0.27, down 57.8% since then. In the last year the price changed +12.5% and ranged from $0.24 to $0.34, and it now trades in the middle of that range. The highest price we have recorded is $0.64, 137% above today. Listings currently start at $0.11; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $0.28.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
1st Edition$0.27$0.11$19.810.0%
Unlimited$0.15$0.07$19.810.0%

The card in play

ATK0
DEF0
Card type
Normal Spell
Attribute
SPELL
Card text

Discard 2 cards from your hand. Select 1 face-up monster and flip it face-down, but do not change its battle position.

Other printings of Darkness Approaches

3 more · $0.17 – $0.71
All printings
Darkness Approaches (SRL-EN040), Spell Ruler (Worldwide English) — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price 0.0% 7d Darkness Approaches Spell Ruler (Worldwide English) · #SRL-EN040 $0.71 Darkness Approaches (SRL-040), Spell Ruler — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price 0.0% 7d Darkness Approaches Spell Ruler · #SRL-040 $0.25 Darkness Approaches (SRL-EN040), Spell Ruler (25th Anniversary Edition) — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price +6.3% 7d Darkness Approaches Spell Ruler (25th Anniversary Edition) · #SRL-EN040 $0.17

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