DARK
6Archfiend's Awakening
Archetype:
Archfiend
ATK:
2500
DEF:
1200
View:
3692
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Contract with the Abyss". This card's name becomes "Summoned Skull" on the field, but is still treated as an "Archfiend" card. Cannot be destroyed by battle, except by battle with a Ritual Monster, and cannot be destroyed by monster effects, except those of Ritual Monsters. If this Ritual Summoned card you control is sent to your GY by an opponent's card: You can Special Summon 1 "Summoned Skull" from your hand, Deck, or GY.
Archfiend's Awakening — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Archfiend's Awakening scores on being a hard-to-remove 2500-ATK Ritual body that returns to the board. Its text blocks battle destruction except against Ritual Monsters and blocks monster-effect destruction except from Ritual Monsters, and when an opponent's card sends it to the GY it can Special Summon a Summoned Skull from hand, Deck, or GY. The 2500 ATK earns no points by itself, and the score stays moderate because Ritual Summoning needs Contract with the Abyss and six levels of tribute, and no combo data was supplied to confirm what it converts into.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Ritual Summon needs Contract with the Abyss plus six levels of tribute, which is a specific route, but the card appears in 50 recent decks across 15 archetypes with Contract with the Abyss at 44% co-occurrence (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No combo boards were supplied, so the card's conversion into a full board rests on its text alone: a 2500-ATK body with a revival trigger (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The opponent-triggered revival of Summoned Skull can recover a body from hand, Deck, or GY after it is removed, giving some value per trigger, but no refuel or draw is printed (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | The card gives no active negation or removal; its value is protection from battle and monster-effect destruction, which blunts removal but does not interact (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | It is a Ritual monster with no clean generic material role in the evidence, so the body is mainly a Ritual target rather than a material source (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 75 | Protection from battle and non-Ritual monster effects, plus the revival when sent to the GY by an opponent's card, makes it hard to clear and gives it recovery across zones and turns (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Average 1.64 copies per deck with 12 decks running 3, so it is a one-to-three slot card with no garnet or lock; the Ritual-support requirement adds some cost (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Protected from battle destruction except by Ritual Monsters (verified)
- Protected from monster-effect destruction except by Ritual Monsters (verified)
- Revives a Summoned Skull from hand, Deck, or GY when an opponent's card sends it to the GY (verified)
- Played across 15 archetypes in the 50-deck sample (observed)
Weaknesses
- Requires a Ritual Summon via Contract with the Abyss and six levels of tribute (verified)
- Ritual Monsters and Ritual-based effects can still destroy it (verified)
- No combo evidence, so board conversion is unconfirmed (inferred)
Counters / choke points
- Ritual Monster effects and battle with a Ritual Monster can still destroy it (verified)
- Removing it by a non-Ritual card's effect does not trigger the revival in every case; the revival needs an opponent's card to send it to the GY (inferred)
Best use
Ritual boss with self-revival. Decks: Archfiend, Summoned Skull, Unchained.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Ritual Summon via Contract with the Abyss; Cannot be destroyed by battle except battle with a Ritual Monster; Cannot be destroyed by monster effects except those of Ritual Monsters; Opponent-triggered Special Summon of Summoned Skull from hand, Deck, or GY; Copies per deck: 1 (30 decks), 2 (8), 3 (12)
- Observed: Appears in 50 recent decks across 15 archetypes; Contract with the Abyss co-occurs in 44% of decks; Summoned Skull co-occurs in 60% of decks
- Inferred: Zone and turn resilience is high because of the revival; Ritual support is a real accessibility constraint
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed legal no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for archetype inclusion beyond the deck sample