It’s been over a month since the initial release of Justice Hunters. With the passing of the World Championships, the update of the Forbidden/Limited list, and the advent of Doom of Dimensions, it's worth looking back to do a pulse check and see which cards from the set are the most expensive.
Yummy★Snatchy (Starlight Rare)
Average Market Price: $50
Yummy★Snatchy is one of the main disruption effects for the Yummy archetype. This link monster comes with a non-once-per-turn quick effect that can allow you to go into Cooky★Yummy Way for a double Book of Moon effect, turning off any potential threats on the field. Snatchy is also a method for a player to access the archetype field spell, Yummyusment☆Mignon, which can be considered one of the main win conditions for the deck in general.
Copies of the Starlight Rare are going for about $50 a piece. This wouldn’t be such a bad price point under normal circumstances, since extra deck slots are limited and you’d be less inclined to run multiples. However, Yummy★Snatchy is so entrenched in the tactics of the archetype that most competitive decks usually run this card at three copies.
Thankfully, the Collectors Rare and Ultra Rare versions of this card aren’t as expensive. The former has copies being sold at slightly under $22, while the latter would cost no more than $10 on average.
The Dracotail Fusion Package
Dracotail Mululu (Collector’s Rare), Dracotail Faimena (Starlight Rare), and Rahu Dracotail (Collector’s Rare)
Average Market Price: $55 / $70 / $80
We’re grouping these cards together due to their collective nature. Each of these cards offers the Dracotail archetype some method of reaching into their extra deck fusion monsters, with some minor differences.
Dracotail Mululu may need to be summoned to the field first to initiate a fusion, but when used as a material, it can temporarily turn off a face-up monster effect. This card is more of an extender, but can be used as a combo starter in a pinch. The Collector’s Rare variant has an average asking price of about $55, but Dracotail Mululu's Ultra Rare is at a more modest $15.
Despite the similar nature to Dracotail Mululu in being a method for fusion summoning, Dracotail Faimena is functionally a hand trap. This potential turn-zero interaction point reflects in the card’s price as the Starlight Rare is being sold at about $70. For Dracotail Faimena' Collector’s Rare and Ultra Rare variants, analytics are showing an average market value of about $26 and $21, respectively.
As for Rahu Dracotail, it leads the pack with its Collector’s Rare, demanding an average sum between $60 and $80 just because it has the best target location for materials, straight from the deck. Ironically, Rahu Dracotail's Super Rare version sits at less than a dollar on second-hand markets.
Rahu Dracotail’s Super Rare being so cheap is technically a godsend when it comes to budgetary concerns. Even with a player purposefully buying the cheapest rarity variants to use, current top-performing deck lists for Dracotail run three copies of each of these cards. At best, these three cards alone would already be costing a player around $110, and that’s still not counting the rest of the deck.
K9-17 Izuna (Starlight Rare)
Average Market Price: $90
The K9 archetype has established a reputation for being particularly hostile towards hand or graveyard effects and for its turn-zero potential. As long as the controlling player opens up with just a single copy of K9-17 Izuna in hand, regardless if the deck is pure K9 or not, that automatically opens a line into a K9-17 "Ripper" for an instant negate.
At the moment, Starlight Rare versions of K9-17 Izuna are selling just north of $90, but it appears some may go above $100. Since this card is usually played at maximum copies, players looking for something more budget-friendly can look to its Collector’s Rare and Ultra Rare, which are selling for about $50 and $35 each.