The Blue-Eyes White Dragon archetype continues to gain popularity, as more support cards enjoyed a climbing market trend over the weekend.
The Crimson Dragon
Released back in 2023 with the Duelist Nexus expansion, Crimson Dragon has seen its normal 1st Edition versions going from an average $7 from last year to over $40 with the most recent weekend.
The Quarter Century Secret Rare (QCSR) version of Crimson Dragon has also shared in this rising trend. The card Started at the same time with a sales average of $107. It has since plateaued at $182. Some individual sales of the Crimson Dragon QCSR are already going for over $200.
The Crimson Dragon synchro monster has found homes in decks like Centur-Ion and Mannadium because of its ability to cheat out hard-to-summon synchro monster cards.
This effect does have a caveat of locking the player into using other dragon synchro monsters as viable targets. Much to the delight of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon archetype, the deck has one of the easiest play lines that coincide with such a restriction.
The Playmakers for the Crimson Dragon
Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon is a level 9 synchro monster that can easily be created from just a low price of a single Blue-Eyes White Dragon and one tuner monster. Most competitive Blue-Eyes decks being used today are usually supported by the archetype’s specific tuner monsters, Sage with Eyes of Blue and Maiden of White. These two level-one tuner monsters can easily be brought out within the archetype.
Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon’s level already makes it an easy swap for cards like Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier -which needs three materials vs spirit dragon’s two for normal synchro plays-. A player could also use spirit dragon’s special ability to climb into a level twelve synchro monster, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Spirit Dragon, before coming in with Crimson Dragon’s ability to tag it out.
Thanks to the Blue-Eyes White Destiny structure deck that was recently released, common versions of Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon and its tuner support monsters can easily be found for less than a dollar over at second-hand markets like TCGplayer.com
However, for players who are looking to add a little bit of shine with the foil versions of Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, Sage with Eyes of Blue, or Maiden of White, they may need to open their wallets a little more.
The Secret Rare version of Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon from the Shining Victories set is already being sold at an average of $15 a piece and some individual sales are hopscotching their way through $30 to $40 already.
Sage with Eyes of Blues from the Legendary Kaiba collection has an asking price of about $24 on average. The Maiden of White Secret Rare (SR) from the structure deck has a lower cost of about $2-5 on the average.
However, if you manage to find the QCSR of Maiden of White from the same structure deck, it can command a price of anywhere between $120 to $150.
It should be stated that Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, Sage with Eyes of Blue, and Maiden of White are usually played at maximum copies of three a piece for how much consistency they can bring to the Blue-Eyes archetype. This is more so than the titular Blue-Eyes White Dragon itself, which is usually played at two copies. This can help explain why more expensive variations of cards like Maiden of White have such a massive premium.