LIGHT
10Enlightenment Dragon
ATK:
3000
DEF:
3000
View:
3321
"Judgment Dragon" + "Punishment Dragon" Must be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing the above monsters, 1 each from your field and GY. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can pay 2000 LP; banish all other cards on the field and in the GYs. Once per turn, during your End Phase: Send the top 4 cards of your Deck to the GY. If this card in its owner's possession is destroyed by an opponent's card: You can add 2 of your banished monsters to your hand (1 "Judgment Dragon" and 1 "Punishment Dragon"), then you can Special Summon both, ignoring their Summoning conditions.
Enlightenment Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54.6 · Deck: 56.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Board breaker, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Enlightenment Dragon is a 3000-ATK Fusion whose value is its once-per-turn Quick Effect, which pays 2000 LP to banish every other card on the field and in both graveyards, a board reset usable at will. Its summon needs Judgment Dragon and Punishment Dragon, which co-occur in 98.8% to 99.8% of the sampled decks, so the engine is nearly always present, but the recorded boards show no combo evidence, so the conversion score rests on text alone. The ATK and the 3000 DEF earn no points, and the 41-archetype spread is discounted because the card's own text is specific to the Judgment/Punishment dragon engine and the non-Lightsworn archetype labels are unverified.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Summon requires Judgment Dragon and Punishment Dragon, one each from field and GY, and both appear as near-universal partners in 400 of 400 decks (observed); no starter or searched data exists, so the score stays mid-range (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | The 2000 LP board wipe turns one summon into a reset of the whole board (verified text), but total combos is 0, so the conversion rate is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | The summon is a 2-for-1 cost paid in the GY, the LP cost is steep, and the self-mill of 4 is no advantage; the only gain is the conditional recovery of two monsters after opponent destruction (verified text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 65 | The quick, flexible board wipe hits opposing field and GY cards at will, but it is LP-gated and also clears the player's own field and GY (verified text, inferred strength). |
| Material Utility | 20 | No evidence of use as Fusion, Link or Synchro material, and the card is an Extra Deck monster, so material value is low (inferred, no combo evidence). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Recovery of Judgment and Punishment, plus a Special Summon ignoring conditions, works only if destroyed by an opponent's card, which is a narrow trigger but a real rebuy path (verified text, inferred resilience). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Runs as a single Extra Deck copy in 379 of 400 decks with no garnet or lock on the card itself, though the 2000 LP cost and the dependency on two other engine cards limit flexibility (observed copies distribution, inferred cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 54.6, Deck ≈ 56.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Quick, once-per-turn board wipe that works on the opponent's field and GYs without needing a setup beyond LP
- Judgment Dragon and Punishment Dragon, its material pair, are near-universal partners in the sampled decks, so the summon is almost always live
- Destruction-trigger recovery of both material monsters gives a rebuy path after the card is destroyed by an opponent
Weaknesses
- Costs 2000 LP per activation, which is a real cost in races
- Self-banishes the player's own field and GY, which can hurt the controller's own board
- Summon needs both material monsters on field and GY at once, so it is not live in most hands
- No combo or starter data, so the real conversion rate is unproven
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Quick Effect in response to activation (inferred)
- Banish or removal that does not destroy the card, which skips the recovery clause (verified text, inferred impact)
- Extra Deck or Fusion-summon disruption before the card is out (inferred)
Best use
Boss/End-board finisher with a board-reset option. Decks: Lightsworn dragon engine lists, Judgment and Punishment Dragon shells. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Summon condition: Special Summon from the Extra Deck by banishing Judgment Dragon and Punishment Dragon, one each from field and GY (card text); Quick Effect, once per turn: pay 2000 LP to banish all other cards on the field and in both GYs (card text); End Phase, once per turn: send the top 4 cards of the Deck to the GY (card text); If destroyed by an opponent's card while in the owner's possession, add Judgment Dragon and Punishment Dragon to hand and Special Summon both, ignoring their summoning conditions (card text)
- Observed: Included in 400 of 400 sampled decks as a main-deck card, 1.05 copies on average (deck data); Judgment Dragon co-occurs in 99.8% of decks and Punishment Dragon in 98.8% (top partners); 89.2% of the sampled decks use gameplay type 7 (deck data)
- Inferred: The board wipe is the main end-board function, which places the card in the Boss/End-board role with a Board breaker secondary; The recovery clause gives partial resilience against destruction by the opponent, but not against negation or banish; Score is capped on GenericUtility because the text is specific to the dragon engine
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion and starter/material/payoff roles are text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token: copy limit assumed 3 (legal copies is empty) usage statistics lists only Exodia (archetype 167) at 100% inclusion, which does not fit this card's deck archetypes; treated as unreliable and not used for scoring Judgment Dragon and Punishment Dragon's own summoning conditions are not in the evidence, so their accessibility is inferred from partner rates only