#3 - Tour Guide from the Underworld (By Debris)

It pains me to say it, but if there was ONE card I could invest in right now and make the most money it would just happen to be the most expensive one. Tour Guide from the Underworld is a ridiculously broken card that is worth $140-150 a pop, and just keeps on rising. Tour Guide from the Underworld is great in every deck for many things. It can instantly search a Sangan to the field, it can turn itself into an instant 2500 beater (3000 in Japan), it can be splashed in decks reliant on LIGHT monsters to allow running of Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, and it can turn itself into an instant Leviair the Sea Dragon, its most notable application.

Tour Guide from the Underworld
Effect Monster Card
DARK / Fiend / ATK-1000 / DEF-600
When this card is Normal Summoned, you can Special Summon 1 Level 3 monster from your hand or Deck. Its effects are negated, and it cannot be used as a Synchro Material Monster.

This card and Reborn Tengu are pretty much both the only reasons the OCG is different than the TCG, and they make so much of an impact that some decks become so much more powerful than others it's unbearable. This card allows for 1 turn Leviairs, something the OCG can't do. When you look at it this way, imagine what decks would be even more broken if they could instantly summon one of their banished cards.

Rescue Rabbit decks can now instantly summon their Rabbit back to the field, allowing for a maximum of 2 reuses out of one Rabbit, but chances are you've won the game after the initial activation and the second one. Combo'd with some other TCG exclusives like Wind-Up Zenmaines and Evolzar Dolkka, and this deck has the chance to become seriously dangerous. Rescue Rabbit requiring people to run Normal monsters hinders it much more than Tour Guide's requirement of more Tour Guides or Sangan.

Dark World decks become crazy with this card. Absolutely crazy. If you thought they were amazing before, wait until after you see the deck with Tour Guide. Look at it this way, the deck was amazing and debatably the top of Tier 1 in Japan, and they just got better. I know this is all obvious, but here are the main ways this card helps the deck:

• Naturia Beast being summoned first turn usually absolutely destroys Dark Worlds. With Tour Guide, you can instantly get out an even bigger beater than it to run it over.
• Tour Guide is an instant search for Broww, Huntsman of Dark World, so if you draw Tour Guide you can instantly use that Grapha in grave and plus.
• Leviair the Sea Dragon is invaluable in this deck. The amount this deck banishes because of The Gates of Dark World is amazing, and Leviair can just get them back for more damage, Xyzing, or Grapha.

This card will only get more expensive with the release of the Dark World structure deck and Photon Shockwave, so if you want to get your copies, you should get them fast. Tour Guide still has quite a few months of life before its inevitable and spectacular reprint, so that thing will be rising until the day the reprint is announced.

Buy / Trade for all you can at the lowest you can find, try to get yours for about $420 for the set.
This investment is: NOT SAFE, because Konami loves reprinting cards with such a significant amount of demand, so the time rule might not apply to this card much longer. Get them for your deck and sell them while they are rising, it will really be a test of predicting skills