DARK
5Dark Angel
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
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When your Fairy monster is targeted for an attack: You can Tribute it and send this card from your hand to the GY, then target 1 face-up monster you control; change the attack target to your targeted monster, and if you do, it gains ATK equal to the original ATK of the Tributed monster, until the end of this turn.
Dark Angel — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 41 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 45 · Deck: 38.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Hand trap
Why it scores here
Dark Angel is a hand-trap-style redirect: from hand, it answers an attack on a face-up Fairy by tributing that Fairy, sending itself to the GY, and moving the attack to one of your monsters that gains the tributed monster's ATK. Its power is capped by its narrow trigger (Fairy attacks only) and by a two-card cost (the tributed Fairy plus itself), so resource_economy and combo_conversion stay low. The ATK value in the evidence is recorded as 0 and was not used; high stats earned no points. Evidence is thin (2 Trickstar decks, 0 combos, no guides), which holds confidence at Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Live from hand only when a Fairy monster is attacked, with no searcher or combo evidence to show other routes (verified text; starter role/searched-for role both 0 of 0 combos) (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | The text creates no board and no extra body; it redirects an existing attack, and no recorded boards show it in play (verified text; 0 combos) (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | Costs two cards (the tributed Fairy and itself) for one redirect and a temporary ATK gain, a net negative exchange (verified text) (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 50 | Strong for its trigger: it stops a Fairy's attack and redirects it to a monster that gains ATK, but it is silent against non-Fairy attacks and direct effects (verified text) (verified). |
| Material Utility | 10 | It leaves the field to the GY as a cost and is not a field body, so it offers little as material (verified text) (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | A single hand-trap activation that a standard negation would end, and it is not multi-zone or multi-turn (inferred from text) (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | One copy in each sampled deck, no garnet or lock, and the Fairy requirement is broad enough to fit many Fairy decks (observed copies; verified text) (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Hand trap, single profile (no secondary blend). Intrinsic ≈ 45, Deck ≈ 38.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, meta unknown)
Strengths
- Redirects an attack on a Fairy to one of your monsters from hand, without needing it on the field
- The redirect target gains ATK equal to the tributed monster's original ATK for the turn, so it can survive the battle (verified text; survival is inferred)
Weaknesses
- Costs the Fairy it protects (tribute) plus itself, a two-card cost for one redirect
- Only live when a Fairy monster is attacked, so it does nothing against non-Fairy attacks or non-attack lines
- Thin evidence: 2 sampled decks, all Trickstar, and no recorded combo or guide use
Counters / choke points
- Negating the activated effect in response (general hand-trap interaction; inferred, no negation evidence in pack)
- Attacks on non-Fairy monsters, which the card cannot redirect (verified text)
- Removing or switching the Fairy before the attack is declared (inferred)
Best use
Hand trap (Fairy attack redirect). Decks: Trickstar. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: from hand, when a Fairy monster is targeted for an attack, tribute it and send this card to the GY to redirect the attack and grant ATK equal to the tributed monster's original ATK until end of turn; Decks: 2 of 2 sampled decks run 1 copy in the main deck (100% Trickstar)
- Observed: 2 of 2 sampled decks run it (copies distribution 1:2); 0 combo appearances in the recorded boards
- Inferred: Hand trap primary role, from the text's attack-response timing; Redirect target survives the battle because of the granted ATK; Generic utility proxy of about 45 from 1 distinct archetype, capped because the text is Fairy-type rather than archetype-specific
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): inclusion % not available no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited); legal copies is empty atk and def are recorded as 0 in evidence and were not used for scoring only 2 decks, all Trickstar: too small to confirm use outside one archetype format 7 has no label in evidence, so the gameplay context is unknown