LIGHT
4Beginning Knight
Archetype:
Black Luster Soldier
ATK:
500
DEF:
2000
View:
4566
A "Black Luster Soldier" monster Ritual Summoned using this card gains these effects. You can only use this effect of "Beginning Knight" once per turn. ● Once per turn: You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; banish it. ● When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard: You can activate this effect; this card can make a second attack in a row. If this card is banished from the Graveyard: You can add 1 Ritual Spell Card from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Beginning Knight" once per turn.
Beginning Knight — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Beginning Knight earns its points as a Level 4 LIGHT Warrior material body for Black Luster Soldier Ritual Summons and as a GY-banish source that adds a Ritual Spell from the Deck, so the card converts into a Ritual board and a search rather than into stats. Its 500 ATK / 2000 DEF body earns nothing on its own. The score is held down by the absence of any combo evidence and by text that is tied to Black Luster Soldier, so the 270-deck presence confirms that it is played, not that it is strong on its own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | 270 of 270 sampled decks run it at an average of 2.11 copies, with 96% co-occurrence with Evening Twilight Knight, but there is no starter or searched-count data to confirm how often it is live in hand (observed, with inferred live-ness). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No recorded boards exist (total_combos 0), so the Ritual-into-board conversion described in the text is text-only inference. |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The GY-banish effect adds a Ritual Spell from the Deck to hand, which is a recursion-style +1 card when triggered (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | The once-per-turn banish of an opponent monster exists only after a BLS monster is Ritual Summoned with it, so the interaction is conditional and not a flexible negate (verified from text, weighed as inferred). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A clean Level 4 LIGHT Warrior body that feeds BLS Rituals and still counts as material when its own effects are negated (verified from text; generic-fit reading is inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The GY effect is available after the card leaves the field, but its field-based banish is removed by negation, so coverage across zones is partial (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Average 2.11 copies with max 3, no garnet or lock text, and no banlist token supplied (observed from decks; text inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Searcher/Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 4 LIGHT Warrior material for Black Luster Soldier Ritual Summons
- GY-banish effect adds a Ritual Spell from the Deck to hand
- Played in 270 sampled decks across 50 archetypes at an average of 2.11 copies
- Low deckbuilding cost: no garnet or lock text in the evidence
Weaknesses
- No combo evidence, so conversion value is text-only
- Field and GY effects are conditional on Ritual Summon or banish
- Text is tied to Black Luster Soldier, limiting use outside that theme
- High deck counts mostly reflect Black Luster Soldier deck-building, not intrinsic power
Counters / choke points
- Negating the BLS Ritual monster removes the effects it gained from this card (inferred from card text)
Best use
Ritual material and GY search. Decks: Black Luster Soldier. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Ritual Summon gains a once-per-turn banish on an opponent monster; Card text: GY-banish adds a Ritual Spell from the Deck to hand; Stats: Level 4, LIGHT Warrior, 500 ATK / 2000 DEF
- Observed: 270 of 270 sampled decks run it, average 2.11 copies; Top partner co-occurrence: Evening Twilight Knight 96.3%
- Inferred: Material and GY-search value under negation; Live-in-hand frequency from deck density alone
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed legal_copies empty for all formats no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion inferred from the deck sample only no card rulings supplied