As of today, "Qliphort Monolith" is the hottest card in Konami’s Yu-Gi-Oh!--Secrets of Eternity set, as measured by total dollar amount sold through the TCGplayer.com website.  Secrets of Eternity added support for a multitude of popular deck themes, including Qliphorts, Burning Abyss, Shaddolls, and Stellarknights, as well as the new "diabolical" theme.
 

Top 10 'Yu-Gi-Oh!: Secrets of Eternity' Cards by Dollar Volume
$ Vol. Rank	Card Name	Average Price
1	Qliphort Monolith	$33.91
2	Soul Transition	$24.50
3	Infernoid Harmadik	$12.58
4	Infernoid Onuncu	$10.48
5	Qliphort Stealth	$21.34
6	Nekroz of Gungnir	$16.94
7	Stellarknight Constellar Diamond	$9.21
8	Malacoda, Netherlord of the Burning Abyss	$17.00
9	Nephe Shaddoll Fusion	$12.93
10	Good & Evil in the Burning Abyss	$4.94

Qliphorts and Burning Abyss continue to be frontrunners in the Advanced format, with cards like "Qliphort Monolith" and "Malacoda, Netherlord of the Burning Abyss" further empowering these themes.

This latest release and the most recent Forbidden & Limited list that went into effect on January 1st have both caused players to reconstruct their decks to account for the changing card pool of the formats.

These trends give us an idea of what cards players are considering for upcoming events.

--Ray Moore is a writer for TCGPlayer.com, the largest collectible card marketplace on the web, with hundreds of brick and mortar sellers listed.

--The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial staff of ICv2.com.