Ancient Fairy Dragon: Every Printing & Price (Yu-Gi-Oh OCG)

What Ancient Fairy Dragon Is

Ancient Fairy Dragon (エンシェント・フェアリー・ドラゴン) is a LIGHT / Dragon / Synchro / Effect monster, Level 7, with 2100 ATK / 3000 DEF. It’s built with 1 Tuner plus 1 or more non-Tuner monsters, putting it in the same general Synchro-summoning bracket as other Level 7 dragon-type Synchros from the 5D’s era.

The card has been errata’d since its original printing, and the current, tournament-legal text reads as a once-per-turn effect with a choice of two modes: either Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your hand (at the cost of skipping your Battle Phase that turn), or destroy Field Spell Cards, gain 1000 Life Points, and add a Field Spell Card with a different name from your Deck to your hand. That “different name” restriction and the hard once-per-turn limit are the two additions that separate the current, legal version of the card from the pre-errata original — more on why that mattered in the banlist section below.

As a Level 7 Synchro requiring only a single Tuner alongside one or more non-Tuner monsters, Ancient Fairy Dragon sits at an accessible summoning cost relative to its stat line and utility. The Field Spell mode is the effect most collectors and players ask about specifically — searching a different Field Spell from the Deck while also gaining 1000 Life Points is a two-for-one that touches both resource development and the life-point game at once, which is part of why the pre-errata, non-once-per-turn version of the effect was considered strong enough to warrant a ban rather than a lesser restriction.

Banned in 2018, Back in 2023: The Errata Story

Ancient Fairy Dragon was placed on the Forbidden list in 2018. In its original, pre-errata form, its Field Spell search-and-destroy effect wasn’t restricted to once per turn, which let it be looped for repeated Field Spell destruction and deck-thinning in ways that went well beyond what Konami intended for a single copy of a card. That combination was considered strong enough to warrant a full ban rather than a Limited or Semi-Limited restriction.

It returned to legal play in 2023 after Konami issued the errata described above, adding the once-per-turn limit and the “different name” restriction on the Field Spell search. The MAZE-EN050 printing (Maze of Memories, 2023) is the TCG printing noted as carrying this corrected, errata’d text.

The mechanics of why it worked as a loop piece are straightforward once you see the pre-errata wording: without a once-per-turn limit, resolving the Field Spell mode repeatedly in a single turn could destroy and re-search Field Spells over and over, each activation adding another 1000 Life Points and thinning the Deck by one more card. Add the once-per-turn restriction back and that repeatable engine collapses into a single activation per turn — the same value on any individual turn, but none of the loop.

The Chase: ANPR-JP040 Holographic Rare

ANCIENT PROPHECY (April 18, 2009) printed Ancient Fairy Dragon in three rarities: a standard Ultra Rare, an Ultimate Rare with the embossed/relief foil treatment, and the set’s Holographic Rare — the top rarity slot for this specific booster set, and the printing collectors mean when they talk about “the” chase copy of this card. If you’re trying to identify which one you have, the Holographic Rare is the full-holo treatment rather than the embossed relief pattern of the Ultimate Rare, so the two are visually distinct even before you check the set code.

The DE04-JP020 Ultra Rare reprint from 2012’s DUELIST EDITION Volume 4 put a second Ultra Rare into circulation three years later, but it did not touch the Holographic Rare slot — that finish stayed exclusive to the original 2009 print run until the 2023 Quarter Century reprint arrived with an entirely different rarity system.

What We Have Listed

We didn’t find enough comparable outside secondary-market listings for Ancient Fairy Dragon in our sourcing to state a reliable asking-price range for this card at write time, so we’re not printing third-party market figures here. What we can anchor on is our own current listing.

Acquista questo setPSA10 Ancient Fairy Dragon HR[ANPR-JP040](ANCIENT PROPHECY)

¥116,640Ne restano pochiPSA 10

Spedito da Tokyo con tracciamento

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This is the original 2009 Holographic Rare printing — the chase rarity from ANPR’s initial print run, not the later DE04 Ultra Rare reprint or the 2023 QCSE. PSA independently determines authenticity and grade, so a PSA 10 label reflects PSA’s assessment of this specific submitted card rather than a claim we’re making ourselves.

Where to Buy Ancient Fairy Dragon from Japan

We ship graded and raw Japanese singles from Tokyo with tracked delivery worldwide, including this PSA 10 ANPR-JP040 Holographic Rare. If you’re building out a broader Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh collection rather than hunting one specific card, our Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh cards buying guide covers how to shop OCG singles and sealed product more generally, and our most expensive Yu-Gi-Oh cards guide puts this card’s price in context against the game’s documented sales and OCG grails.

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