LIGHT
4Apocatequil
ATK:
1800
DEF:
1200
View:
2761
While this card is face-up on the field, it is Level 5 if you control a face-up Tuner monster. When this card on the field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can select and Special Summon 1 "Oracle of the Sun" from your Graveyard.
Apocatequil — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50.3 · Deck: 50.2 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Apocatequil scores on its conditional Level shift and its graveyard trigger, which recovers one "Oracle of the Sun" after the card is destroyed. The 1800 ATK earns nothing, and the score would not rise on it. Its strength is a one-for-one recovery into a partner that appears in all three sampled decks, not a demonstrated board-breaking line, because no combo boards were supplied.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | No searcher or combo route appears in the evidence, and the card is a plain Level 4 body that is only live once it is on the field (text-only, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The graveyard trigger points at Oracle of the Sun, which co-occurs in 3 of 3 decks, but no combo boards show what follows (observed co-occurrence, inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The effect is a single Special Summon from the graveyard after destruction, a one-for-one recovery with no extra card draw or refuel (verified text, inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card text has no negate, removal, or hand-trap effect (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | It is a Level 4 LIGHT Thunder body that becomes Level 5 with a face-up Tuner, so it is usable as material, but the Level change is an effect and is lost if negated (verified text, inferred use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The graveyard trigger does not fire if the card is banished, returned to hand, or negated, so it only works in one way and one zone (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | It runs at 1 to 3 copies with no garnet, lock, or banlist restriction in the evidence, which is cheap to run (observed deck copies, verified formats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 50.3, Deck ≈ 50.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Graveyard trigger gives a one-for-one recovery after destruction
- Conditional Level 5 when a Tuner is face-up
- Cheap to run at 1 to 3 copies with no restriction
- Runs in 3 sampled decks across 2 archetypes
Weaknesses
- No interaction or negation
- Effect depends on being destroyed and sent to the graveyard, so banish or negation shuts it off
- Oracle of the Sun is the only named target, which narrows the route
- No combo or guide evidence to confirm practical conversion
Counters / choke points
- Banish or negation effects on the card, which stop the graveyard trigger
Best use
Extender / graveyard recovery into Oracle of the Sun. Decks: Earthbound, Blackwings. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4, LIGHT Thunder Effect Monster, ATK 1800 / DEF 1200 (card text); Level 5 while face-up and a face-up Tuner is controlled (card text); When destroyed and sent to the graveyard, can Special Summon 1 "Oracle of the Sun" from the graveyard (card text); Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks (card)
- Observed: Appears in 3 sampled decks across 2 archetypes (Earthbound 2, Blackwings 1), average 1.67 copies per deck (deck data); Oracle of the Sun is a top partner in 3 of 3 decks (deck data)
- Inferred: The graveyard trigger works as a one-for-one recovery with no added card advantage (text plus rules reading); The Level 5 clause is a Synchro-material route with a Tuner (inferred from text, not observed)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the 3-deck sample only No card text for Oracle of the Sun in the evidence, so its own stats and effect are not assessed