LIGHT
7Athena
ATK:
2600
DEF:
800
View:
1608
If another Fairy monster(s) is Summoned: Inflict 600 damage to your opponent. Once per turn: You can send 1 face-up Fairy monster you control to the GY, except "Athena", then target 1 Fairy monster in your GY, except "Athena"; Special Summon that target.
Athena — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 46.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Athena's value is a once-per-turn recursion: it sends one face-up Fairy to the GY as a cost and Special Summons a Fairy from the GY, so it turns a dead Fairy back into a body rather than adding advantage. Its 2600 ATK and the 600-damage trigger on Fairy summons earn almost nothing, and the score does not credit either. Accessibility and combo conversion stay mid-range because it needs a Fairy already on the field and the evidence holds no combo boards. Presence in 72 sampled decks across 25 archetypes confirms it is practical, not that it is strong.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Not searchable and needs a face-up Fairy already on the field to do anything, so it is rarely live from hand, and no starter or searched counts exist to show otherwise (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The text converts one Fairy on the field into one Fairy from the GY once per turn, with a 600-damage ping on Fairy summons, and no recorded combo boards show a larger line (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | It is one card out for one card back from the GY, so it is card-neutral and recovers a dead Fairy rather than generating advantage (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | It has no negation, removal or hand-trap reach; the 600-damage trigger on Fairy summons is a small, situational deterrent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 7 LIGHT Fairy is a serviceable material body with a plain stat line, and its effect does not block that conversion; the ATK is not credited (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The effect is once per turn, it cannot revive itself, and on the field it is a single body that one monster removal ends (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It is a single copy in 51 of 72 decks (average 1.39 copies), and its text has no garnet, lock or self-restriction beyond the Fairy and name limits (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 46.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn GY revive of a Fairy keeps a dead Fairy in play
- Single-copy deckbuilding with no garnet or lock
- Spread across 25 archetypes in the sample, so the role is portable
Weaknesses
- Needs a face-up Fairy to pay the cost, so it is dead on an empty board
- Cannot revive itself, and is a single Fairy body on the field
- The damage trigger is small and does not win the game
Counters / choke points
- Monster removal on the face-up Fairy that pays the cost or on Athena itself
- Negation of the once-per-turn effect (inferred from text; no interaction data supplied)
Best use
Single-copy Fairy recursion body that refills the field from the GY. Decks: Darklord, Diabellstar, The Agent. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Fairy-only cost and target, once-per-turn wording, 600-damage trigger, and the except-Athena clauses; Level 7 LIGHT Fairy with 2600 ATK and 800 DEF; 72 sampled decks across 25 archetypes; average 1.39 copies, 51 decks at one copy; Darklord is the largest named archetype at 14 of 72 decks (19.4%)
- Observed: Gameplay type 7 holds 41 of 72 decks (56.9%) and type 4 holds 23 (31.9%); Top partners are generic staples: Harpie's Feather Duster 34 co-decks, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 32, Valhalla 31
- Inferred: It acts as a GY-to-field recursion engine that needs a Fairy already on the field; Its material value is a plain Level 7 LIGHT Fairy with no clean blanking-proof upside
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter/material rates are text-only inference No guides supplied No usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion is inferred from the 72-deck sample only legal_copies lists only duellink: 1 although formats include TCG, OCG and MasterDuel; the TCG/OCG limit is unknown and no modifier was applied No rulings supplied for the Fairy-count trigger or the except-Athena wording