Trap
NormalApple of Enlightenment
Archetype:
Valkyrie
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Target cards in your opponent's GY, up to the number of "Valkyrie" monsters you control; banish them. If this Set card in its owner's control has left the field because of an opponent's effect, and is now in the GY or banished: You can draw cards equal to the number of "Valkyrie" monsters you control +1.
Apple of Enlightenment — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 46 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
The card is a Set trap whose main value is conditional: it banishes opponent GY cards up to the number of Valkyrie monsters you control, and it draws Valkyrie count +1 if it leaves the field to an opponent's effect. Its score comes from that reactive graveyard interaction and the draw trigger, both of which depend on Valkyrie monsters being present. It has no material value and no combo evidence, so it cannot convert a board on its own. The fact that it appears in 9 of 9 sampled Valkyrie decks shows it is consistently played in that archetype, not that it is intrinsically strong, so that inclusion did not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Set trap that needs Valkyrie monsters on board to scale; 9 of 9 sampled decks run it, but no combo starter or searched data exists (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Text gives a Valkyrie-count-scaled GY banish plus a draw, but no recorded boards show it converting a start into a board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Draw of Valkyrie count +1 when it leaves the field to an opponent's effect is conditional card advantage from text (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Banishes opponent GY cards, which is graveyard-only interaction with no board or negation reach in the text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A trap card has no monster body, so it cannot be used as material (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The draw still triggers after it is removed from the field by an opponent's effect, but it is a set backrow card with no recorded resilience data (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | Usable only with Valkyrie monsters, with average 1.33 copies per deck and no garnet or lock restriction in the text (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 46, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: archetype-restricted dependence (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Banish count scales with the number of Valkyrie monsters you control
- Draw trigger when it leaves the field to an opponent's effect gives card advantage from text
- Consistently included in the sampled Valkyrie decks (9 of 9)
Weaknesses
- Depends on Valkyrie monsters on field for its banish count and draw
- No combo evidence, so board conversion is text-only inference
- Zero value as material; a set backrow card with no body
Best use
Graveyard hate with a conditional draw. Decks: Valkyrie.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Banish of opponent GY cards up to the number of Valkyrie monsters you control; Draw of Valkyrie count +1 when it leaves the field due to an opponent's effect and is in the GY or banished; Average 1.33 copies per deck across 9 decks
- Observed: Present in 9 of 9 sampled decks, all Valkyrie-based; Valkyrie partner cards co-occur in 100% of the sampled decks
- Inferred: Its reactive draw is a recovery-style role when it is destroyed by an opponent; Usable only in Valkyrie shells, so deck flexibility is low
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only legal copies is empty for all formats