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Yu-Gi-Oh! · Magic Ruler · #MRL-049 · Super Rare

Painful Choice

Yu-Gi-Oh! card price for Painful Choice: $11.17 market, from $4.83 at the cheapest listing, 1st Edition printing, updated Oct 17, 2026. Full price history since Feb 8, 2024 below.

Market price · 1st Edition · Oct 17, 2026
$11.17
+0.1% this week · +1.6% in 30 days
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1 day0.0%
7 days+0.1%
30 days+1.6%
90 days−3.4%
1 year+8.6%
All time+50.5%

Sellers right now

$4.83lowest listing$95.82highest
Market price$11.17
Mid listing$11.01
30-day avg$11.06

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$11.17

One year

$8.3152-week low$11.7652-week high
In the range83%
All-time low$7.20
All-time high$11.76
First priceFeb 8, 2024
1st Edition · market price
$6.93$8.69$10.45$12.22
$11.17
Feb 2024Dec 2024Nov 2025Oct 2026
TCGplayer market price · via tcgcsvtcgrate.com

Price story

Our price record for Painful Choice (1st Edition) begins in February 2024 at $7.42; the market price today is $11.17, up 50.5% since then. In the last year the price changed +8.6% and ranged from $8.31 to $11.76, and it now trades near the top of that range. The highest price we have recorded is $11.76, 5.3% above today. Listings currently start at $4.83; over the last 30 days the market price averaged $11.06.

Printings

PrintingMarketLowHigh7d
1st Edition$11.17$4.83$95.82+0.1%
Unlimited$2.59$1.88$49.810.0%

The card in play

ATK0
DEF0
Card type
Normal Spell
Attribute
SPELL
Card text

Select 5 cards from your Deck and show them to your opponent. Your opponent must select 1 card and will be added to your hand. Discard the remaining cards to the Graveyard.

Other printings of Painful Choice

7 more · $1.84 – $11.17
All printings
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 (DB1-EN033), Dark Beginning 1 — Yu-Gi-Oh! card price −0.9% 7d Painful Choice Dark Beginning 1 · #DB1-EN033 $3.30 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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