LIGHT
1Clear Kuriboh
Archetype:
Kuriboh
ATK:
300
DEF:
200
View:
5155
When your opponent activates a monster effect that would inflict damage (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; negate the activation. When an opponent's monster declares a direct attack: You can banish this card from your GY; draw 1 card, and if it is a monster, you can Special Summon it, then change the attack target to it. You can only use this effect of "Clear Kuriboh" once per turn.
Clear Kuriboh — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 60 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60.6 · Deck: 59.9 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Hand trap · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Clear Kuriboh is a hand trap: it negates a damage-inflicting monster effect by discarding itself and redirects a direct attack, and its graveyard effect banishes it to draw and possibly Special Summon a monster. Its score comes from accessibility (51 recent decks across 25 archetypes, 1 to 3 copies) and cheap deckbuilding, not from its stats. Its interaction is narrow, since it only answers damage-inflicting monster effects and direct attacks, and there are no recorded combos to show it converting into board value, so combo conversion stays low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Live as a hand trap in 51 of 51 recent decks, with 16 running 3 copies (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No combo boards recorded; the one-card value is a drawn monster Special Summon, which is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Negation costs the card from hand, but the graveyard banish draws 1, so it is roughly even over the exchange (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 50 | Negates damage-inflicting monster effects and redirects direct attacks, which is situational rather than broad (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 30 | Level 1 Light Fairy body is usable as material, but no material role evidence exists (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Works from hand and graveyard, covering two zones, and its redundancy is 1 to 3 copies (verified from text and deck counts). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Generic, low-cost hand trap that is splashable and fine at 3 copies, with no garnet or self-lock (observed from deck distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Hand trap + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 60.6, Deck ≈ 59.9, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic hand trap present across 25 archetypes
- Negates damage-inflicting monster effects from hand at no board cost
- Graveyard effect recovers the card and can draw a monster to Special Summon
- Cheap to run with 1 to 3 copies and no garnet
Weaknesses
- Narrow interaction: only damage-inflicting monster effects and direct attacks
- No recorded combo evidence, so board conversion is unproven
- Discarding from hand costs a card, offset only by the graveyard draw
- Level 1 body is weak as material
Counters / choke points
- Effects that do not inflict damage are outside its negation
- Hand disruption or sending it from hand before the window closes
- Opponents who make no direct attacks leave the redirect unused
Best use
Hand trap and defensive tech in monster-heavy decks. Decks: Kuriboh, Black Luster Soldier, Exodia, Generaider, Numeron.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Negates a damage-inflicting monster effect by discarding from hand (card text); Redirects a direct attack and draws on banish from graveyard (card text); Present in 51 of 51 recent decks across 25 archetypes (deck evidence)
- Observed: 16 of 51 decks run 3 copies, 33 run 1 (deck distribution); Most common gameplay type is 7 at 70.6 percent of decks (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Resource exchange is roughly even (text reasoning); Level 1 body is weak as material (text reasoning, no combo evidence)
- 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), so archetype inclusion is from the deck sample only