LIGHT
5Artifact Achilleshield
Archetype:
Artifact
ATK:
1500
DEF:
2200
View:
3865
You can Set this card from your hand to your Spell & Trap Zone as a Spell Card. During your opponent's turn, if this Set card in the Spell & Trap Zone is destroyed and sent to your Graveyard: Special Summon it. If this card is Special Summoned during your opponent's turn: Your opponent cannot target "Artifact" monsters you control for attacks for the rest of this turn.
Artifact Achilleshield — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Achilleshield's power is recursion and protection, not board presence. Its text lets it be Set from hand as a Spell and Special Summoned from the Graveyard after it is destroyed on the opponent's turn, so it keeps returning as a body. Its second effect stops the opponent from targeting Artifact monsters for attacks for the rest of that turn, which is situational defence. Its 1500 ATK and LIGHT Level 5 body earn little on their own. Strong deck presence (24 of 24 sampled decks, 15 of them Artifact) confirms it is a real, practical role, but it does not raise the score by itself. No combo data is supplied, so conversion is text-only and held low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Run in all 24 sampled decks at about 2.1 copies, and it can be Set from hand with no cost (verified; deck count is observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No combo boards recorded, and the card's own text does not build a board beyond its own revival (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Returns itself from the Graveyard when destroyed on the opponent's turn, a free recursion that costs no extra card (verified text, inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Its attack-target lock applies only to Artifact monsters and only on the turn it is Special Summoned during the opponent's turn, so it is soft, situational protection (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | Level 5 LIGHT Fairy with no recorded material use; the body is generic but unevidenced as material (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 70 | Revives from the Graveyard across turns when destroyed, which resists a single removal event (verified text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Commonly run at 2 to 3 copies with no garnet or lock restriction and no legal-copy cap in the evidence (observed deck stats, verified legality assumption). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Revives itself from the Graveyard when destroyed on the opponent's turn
- Set from hand as a Spell, so it can be held as a flexible backrow
- Protects Artifact monsters from attack targeting during the opponent's turn
- Runs in 24 of 24 sampled decks at about 2 copies with no garnet cost
Weaknesses
- No recorded combo role, so conversion into a board is unproven
- Attack-target protection only covers Artifact monsters and only for one turn
- Body is 1500 ATK with no evidenced material value
Counters / choke points
- Destruction on your own turn does not trigger the revival, because the revive needs the opponent's turn
Best use
Recursive backrow protection for Artifact decks. Decks: Artifact. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Set from hand to Spell & Trap Zone as a Spell Card; Revives itself from the Graveyard when destroyed on the opponent's turn; Attack-target lock on Artifact monsters for the rest of the turn when Special Summoned on the opponent's turn; Run in 24 of 24 sampled decks, average 2.12 copies
- Observed: Strong co-occurrence with Artifact Aegis (100%) and Artifact Caduceus (95.8%); 15 of 24 decks are Artifact-archetype
- Inferred: Generic Level 5 LIGHT body has modest material value; Recursion yields a resource gain across turns
- 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