You’ll need a few details:
- Enter the card number (found right below the artwork).
- Click the search button. It returns the average price of recently sold cards that match your search. Use the checkboxes to pick a few exactly like yours.
Looking up a Yu-Gi-Oh Card’s Value
If you don’t get any results…
Your card is probably worthless… It’s probably not worth someone’s time to sell a card only worth a few pennies. You can see if anyone is currently selling your card by clicking the “For Sale” link right above the search results… but remember that “for sale” prices aren’t what it’s really worth, just what someone is asking for it. If you still don’t see any results… try looking up your older, more powerful Yu-Gi-Oh cards… they tend to be worth more.
If you get too many results…
Use the checkboxes! Look through the results and choose a few Yu-Gi-Oh cards exactly like yours. For example, maybe your card is a hologram or foil background, so pick a few of those. Mavin will show you an average price based on the ones you picked.
What to do next
Once you’ve searched through your cards and found the valuable ones, you have several options:
For the valuable ones: You can either hold onto the cards, perhaps get them graded, and see if they appreciate in value over time.
Alternatively, you could sell them to a local card shop knowing full well what they sell for online (because you searched for them on Mavin right?). Keep in mind dealers will buy them from you at wholesale prices… they have to make a profit after all, and selling a large collection takes a considerable amount of time and resources… so don’t expect (or demand) to get 100% of what you’d get online.
If you have the time and patience, you can sell it yourself on eBay and get a competitive price. Read our guide to selling on eBay.
For the worthless ones: Yu-Gi-Oh cards don’t have to be valuable to still be enjoyed. There’s probably a friend, a kid you know, or even a stranger who would still enjoy them. There’s still a lot of fun left in those old Yu-Gi-Oh cards collecting dust in your closet! Give them away to someone who will enjoy them! Or sell them for a fraction of what you originally paid for them by dumping them on Craigslist.
great site great info was just wondering why some of my cards have different titles than whats listed. Examples
my card SD4-EN001 is titled Sea Dragon King
my card SD3-EN001 is titled Hell Flame Emperor
thanks for any help you can provide
Robert,
I’m not entirely sure why this happens. Some cards were revised and their names were changed… so maybe it was revised? Or it could be a counterfeit, but in your case I looked online and found examples of what you’re talking about… same card number but different name and text. Maybe someone with more knowledge can enlighten us in the comments below.
how about boxes unopened 1st edition and complete sets of the first 7 release all 1st edition never played
opened and put in set
Sounds like you’ve got quite the collection! You can search for unopened boxes using the set name plus the word “Box”…like “Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon Box”: https://mavin.io/search?q=Legend+of+Blue-Eyes+White+Dragon+box&bt=sold Make sure to use the checkboxes to pick ones like yours (for example limited vs. unlimited or whatever).
You can do the same thing for complete sets, something like “Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon set” would give you this: https://mavin.io/search?q=Legend+of+Blue-Eyes+White+Dragon+set&bt=sold I’ve noticed a lot of listings use the set name prefix instead of the full set name… so instead of “Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon set” you could try “Yu-gi-oh LOB set”. I include the word “yu-gi-oh” so you don’t have to refine the results to just Yu-Gi-Oh cards: https://mavin.io/search?q=yu-gi-oh+LOB+set&bt=sold
Good luck!
Is there a way to upload all of my cards at once and see the estimated value of all of them together?
Not exactly… you could have a bunch of worthless cards or a pile of gold! No way to know unless you look them all up. I wouldn’t waste your time looking up the common cards, start with the rare/powerful ones. People sell common Yugioh cards in “lots”… like a box of common cards all at once… but the valuable ones are sold as singles. Hope that helps!
Hello,
I have four different Japanese holographic Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and none of them show up when I search by the proper number under their pictures. I was able to find my regular English based cards. Is this database only for U.S cards?
Thanks
Try adding the word “Japanese” to your search… for example, if you’re looking for a Japanese holographic Varrel Load Dragon (the name of the card is in Japanese so just use the card number!) you might enter “CIBR-JP042 Japanese” in the search and get these results: https://mavin.io/search?q=CIBR-JP042+Japanese&bt=sold
I just got 75 of these cards in flawless condition , Im not into these stuff , any body wants them.? leave address and I “l send them