LIGHT
4Delta Tri
ATK:
1200
DEF:
1000
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If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle, select and activate 1 of these effects: ● Select 1 appropriate Union monster in your Graveyard and equip it to this card. ● Select 1 face-up LIGHT Machine-Type monster you control, and return it to the Deck. Then draw 1 card.
Delta Tri — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Delta Tri is a 1200/1000 Level 4 LIGHT Machine whose value comes entirely from its battle-destruction trigger: it either re-equips a Union from the Graveyard, which is a free refuel, or returns a face-up LIGHT Machine to the Deck to draw 1. Its high-tier usefulness is limited by the battle condition, the low DEF, and the absence of any opponent interaction, and its 1200 ATK earned no points. The score is held up by the observed fact that it appears in all 11 sampled decks alongside the Union support package, with no combo or usage data to confirm its conversion beyond that.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Present in 11 of 11 sampled decks at 1.27 copies on average, but it is a body that must reach the field and win a battle, with no searcher listed (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No recorded combos and no guide mentions, so conversion rests on the battle-trigger text alone (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The Graveyard Union equip is a repeatable refuel and the draw mode nets +1 card for a 1-card bounce, so the trigger is card-positive when it fires (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | Offers no negation, removal or hand-trap reach; it only triggers after the card has already won a battle (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | Level 4 LIGHT Machine is usable material with a generic attribute and race fit, but its effects are lost if negated and it is not a Tuner (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | A 1000-DEF body dies to most battle and removal, and the trigger requires it to survive combat; it has no redundancy in its own text (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Single-copy-friendly with no garnet or lock, and the 1.27 average copies show it is cheap to run inside the Union shell (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Battle-triggered recursion: re-equips a Union from the Graveyard, a free refuel that does not cost a card
- Optional draw mode returns a face-up LIGHT Machine to the Deck and draws 1, so it is card-positive when it fires
- Appears in all 11 sampled decks, always alongside the Union support package at 100% co-occurrence for five partners
- Cheap to run, with 1.27 average copies and no garnet or lock
Weaknesses
- Effect only triggers after it destroys a monster by battle, so it is dead if it cannot attack through
- No negation, removal or hand-trap reach
- Draw mode needs a face-up LIGHT Machine to return, which is a conditional cost
- 1000 DEF and no protection make it fragile to most interaction
- No combo, guide or usage-statistics evidence to confirm conversion beyond the deck sample
Counters / choke points
- Pre-battle removal or negation of the body before it attacks (inferred from text; no counter data in evidence)
- Destroying the Union support it recurs from, so the Graveyard equip target is gone (inferred)
Best use
Battle-trigger recursion body that refuels Union monsters from the Graveyard. Decks: Union / Heavy Mech shell (observed in 11 of 11 sampled decks).
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: battle-destruction trigger with two modes (Union equip from Graveyard, or return a face-up LIGHT Machine to draw 1); Level 4 LIGHT Machine, ATK 1200, DEF 1000, not Top Card; Decks: 11 sampled, 1.27 average copies, 2 archetype labels, 2 gameplay types
- Observed: Present in 11 of 11 sampled decks; Five partners co-occur in 100% of decks, and nine more in 72.7%; Zero recorded combo boards and zero guide mentions
- Inferred: Primary role is recursion, since the Graveyard equip is the main repeatable value; Graveyard Union equip is a free refuel, which makes resource economy the strongest axis; Effect is effectively limited to turns where the card wins a battle
- 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 deck sample only card.archetype is null; deck archetype labels are 'Không có' and 'ABC' and were not treated as a card archetype