DARKCondemned Darklord
Archetype:
Darklord
ATK:
1600
LINK-2
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2 Fairy monsters You can Tribute Summon Fairy monsters that require 2 Tributes by banishing 2 monsters from your GY instead of Tributing (it is still treated as a Tribute Summon). You can discard 1 card; take 1 "Darklord" monster from your Deck, and either add it to your hand or send it to the GY. You can only use this effect of "Condemned Darklord" once per turn. Once per turn, during your End Phase: Gain 500 LP for each Fairy monster on the field.
Condemned Darklord — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Condemned Darklord is a Link-2 Extra Deck body whose value is its discard-to-search of a Darklord monster and its Tribute Summon extension for 2-tribute Fairies, not its 1600 ATK, which earns nothing. The deck sample shows a tight Darklord core (top partners at about 96%), and the guides describe it as cheap to run in any Fairy build, which supports the deckbuilding and generic-utility scores. The main drag is that the combo evidence records zero starter, searched, material or payoff roles across 7 boards, so its conversion power is only moderately supported and it has no interaction of its own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Extra Deck Link-2 needs a Link Summon, but the discard-search gives a live route to Darklord monsters from the field (text-verified; the 100% combo presence is observed, but the role breakdown is empty). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Average combo power index is 39.1 across 7 boards, with the 100-index Despia boards driven by other pieces, so this card's own conversion is modest (observed; the role breakdown is absent). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Discarding 1 card to add 1 Darklord is roughly even, and banishing 2 GY monsters for the Tribute is a cost; LP gain is minor (text-verified; guide notes resource cost early on, observed). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect (text-verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Dark Fairy Link-2 with only bottom arrows is usable as Link material but awkward to place; no combo evidence shows it as material (text-verified; inferred from link arrows). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The search effect is once per turn and the body sits in the Extra Deck, so it is exposed to a single negate; redundancy comes only from Darklord searches (inferred from text; observed Darklord partner density). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | One copy in the Extra Deck, usable across Fairy homes without a heavy lock according to a Vietnamese guide, with no garnet cost (observed from guides and deck copies averaging 1.68; text-verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Discard-to-search of a Darklord monster gives a repeatable access route (text-verified)
- Extends Tribute Summons of 2-tribute Fairies by banishing from the GY (text-verified)
- Cheap single Extra Deck slot that runs across 35 archetypes in the sample (observed)
- Strong Darklord-core integration with top partners at about 96% (observed)
Weaknesses
- Link-2 needs a Link Summon, so it is not live in the opening hand (inferred)
- Only bottom-facing link arrows limit where it can link (text-verified)
- Its discard cost is a real resource spend early on (guide-observed)
- No negation, removal or hand-trap effect of its own (text-verified)
- Combo evidence records no starter, searched, material or payoff roles, so its specific role is unconfirmed (observed gap)
Counters / choke points
- Effect-negation hand traps on the discard-search activation, such as Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (inferred from general card knowledge; it appears only as a deck partner in the evidence)
Best use
Link-2 searcher and Tribute-summon extender in a Darklord or Fairy build. Decks: Darklord (archetype 729), Darklord (archetype 259), Darklord (archetype 558). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-2 Dark Fairy, ATK 1600, bottom-left and bottom-right arrows; Discard-to-search of a Darklord monster, once per turn; Tribute Summon of 2-tribute Fairies by banishing 2 GY monsters; End Phase once-per-turn gain of 500 LP per Fairy
- Observed: Appears in 7 of 7 recorded combos, with average power index 39.1 and average starter count 1.14; 400 of 400 sampled decks run it, averaging 1.68 copies, across 35 archetypes; Top partners co-occur in about 96% of sampled decks; Usage inclusion of 100% in Darklord (gameplay 6) and 44% in Darklord (gameplay 7)
- Inferred: Searcher is the primary role from the discard-search text; Extra Deck placement limits accessibility to a Link Summon route; Link-2 material role is awkward due to bottom-only arrows
- Data gaps: Deck sample is matched by CardId, so 400 of 400 decks running the card is true by construction and does not measure popularity Combo combo role is empty, so starter, searched, material and payoff counts are all zero and unverified Only 7 recorded combos No banlist token; legal copies is empty, so copies assumed at 3 No rulings data Usage statistics cover only 4 archetypes Not a Rush Duel card, so max_atk is not applicable