EARTH
6Dark Lucius LV6
ATK:
1700
DEF:
600
View:
2956
If this card was Special Summoned by the effect of "Dark Lucius LV4", negate the effects of your opponent's monsters destroyed by battle with this card. Once per turn, during the Standby Phase of your next turn after this card negated your opponent's monster effect by this effect: You can send this card to the GY; Special Summon 1 "Dark Lucius LV8" from your hand or Deck.
Dark Lucius LV6 — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 40 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43 · Deck: 39 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Dark Lucius LV6 is a Level 6 Fiend body whose real value comes from its conditional text: it only negates opponent monsters destroyed by battle with it when it was Special Summoned by Dark Lucius LV4, and its once-per-turn Standby effect sends it to the GY to Special Summon Dark Lucius LV8. That converts one body into a stronger one, but it does not add cards or build a board on its own. The 1700 ATK and Level 6 body earn no points by themselves; the score reflects the conditional chain and the single-deck evidence. Deckbuilding cost is low, but accessibility and resilience are held down by the LV4 dependency and the battle-only negation.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | Reaching it depends on Dark Lucius LV4 (or the Lv-up line) rather than a direct searcher, and no starter or searched stats exist in the evidence (inference from text; one deck only). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Text converts it into Dark Lucius LV8 via its GY-send effect, but there are zero recorded combo boards to confirm a board-building line (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | The GY send and LV8 Special Summon swap one body for a stronger one with no net card gain and no refuel (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | Negation applies only to monsters destroyed in battle while the LV4 condition holds, which is narrow and easy to play around (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 6 Fiend Earth body is a generic material, but no material role combo stats exist to confirm it converts after its effect is negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | The effects are once-per-turn and battle-gated, with no redundancy or multi-zone recovery in the text (verified from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Observed at 2 copies in a single Malefic deck with no garnet or lock text in the card (observed from decks and text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Negation/Interaction (Removal / Negation row). Intrinsic ≈ 43, Deck ≈ 39, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts itself into Dark Lucius LV8 through its Standby effect, which gives a stronger follow-up body (verified from text)
- Clean Level 6 Fiend body with generic material utility (verified from text; no material role stats)
- Low deckbuilding cost: observed at 2 copies in one deck with no garnet text (observed)
Weaknesses
- Negation only applies to monsters destroyed in battle while the Dark Lucius LV4 condition holds (verified from text)
- Once-per-turn Standby timing and the LV4 dependency limit how often the effect is live (verified from text)
- No recorded combo boards, guides, or usage statistics to show the card converting in practice (verified from evidence gaps)
Best use
Extender with conditional negation, live after Dark Lucius LV4 Special Summons. Decks: Malefic. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Negates opponent monster effects only when destroyed in battle with it and Special Summoned by Dark Lucius LV4 (card text); Standby Phase, once-per-turn GY send to Special Summon Dark Lucius LV8 from hand or Deck (card text); Level 6 Fiend Earth, 1700 ATK / 600 DEF, Effect Monster (card data); Appears in 1 of the sampled decks at 2 copies, in the Malefic archetype (deck evidence)
- Observed: Dark Lucius LV8, Dark Lucius LV4 and Malefic Level-up partners co-occur in the single sampled deck (deck evidence, n=1)
- Inferred: Extender role: its GY-send effect converts one body into a stronger one with no net card gain; Negation is narrow and easy to play around because it requires a battle destruction and the LV4 condition; Score is capped by the LV4 dependency and the lack of combo or usage data
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion inferred from a single deck card archetype field is null; Malefic is taken from deck archetype evidence only decks evidence is a single deck, so deck synergy and resilience are low-confidence