LIGHTFiendsmith's Sequence
Archetype:
Fiendsmith
ATK:
1200
LINK-2
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10041
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2 monsters, including a LIGHT Fiend monster During your Main Phase: You can Fusion Summon 1 Fiend Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, by shuffling its materials from your GY into the Deck. You can target 1 LIGHT non-Link Fiend monster you control; equip this card from your field or GY to that monster you control as an Equip Spell with the following effect. ● Your opponent cannot target the equipped monster with card effects. You can only use each effect of "Fiendsmith's Sequence" once per turn.
Fiendsmith's Sequence — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 69 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 65 · Deck: 72 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
The card's score comes from how reliably it converts into board presence: it is in all 57 recorded combos (average power index 71.4) and runs in 400 of 400 sampled decks, with 96.5% co-occurrence with its key partners. Its effect converts Graveyard material into Fusion summons and gives a no-target shield, but the Link-2 body and the single-copy, low-cost build keep the axes moderate. The 1200 ATK, the view count and the Top-Card rank earned no points; they are popularity and stat signals, not power evidence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 75 | Runs in 400 of 400 decks with 91 distinct archetypes, but the evidence has no starter role or searched-for role tagging to show the Link route it needs (inferred from text, observed in decks; deck data and combo data). |
| Combo & Conversion | 72 | Appears in 57 of 57 recorded combos with average power index 71.4, though the examples carry no role tags and do not isolate its own contribution (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Fusion summon by shuffling GY materials into the Deck gives partial refuel, but no net card gain is shown on the card itself; the netCardAdvantage values belong to whole boards (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | Its only interaction is the once-per-turn equip that stops card effects from targeting the equipped monster, which is protection rather than disruption (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Link-2 LIGHT Fiend body is a narrow material with a Fiend and attribute requirement; no material role count is recorded (inferred from text; combo data shows 0 material tags). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The shield survives targeting effects, but the card is an equip that can be removed by non-targeting effects and it has no secondary zone use beyond the field or GY (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | One copy in every deck, no garnet or lock, and redundant partners, but it occupies an Extra Deck Link slot and needs a LIGHT Fiend target (observed from deck data and text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Combo enabler + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 65, Deck ≈ 72, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Near-universal inclusion across the sample (400 of 400 decks), with 96.5% co-occurrence with its core partners
- Converts Graveyard material into a Fusion summon, letting it feed the Fiendsmith line after the body is gone
- Shields a LIGHT Fiend from card-effect targeting, which protects the engine's key monster
Weaknesses
- Protection only covers card-effect targeting; non-targeting and board-wide effects still reach the equipped monster
- Link-2 with a LIGHT non-Link Fiend requirement narrows which bodies it can use
- Its contribution inside combos cannot be isolated from the power index of the whole board
Counters / choke points
- Non-targeting or board-wide effects, which bypass the shield (inferred from text)
- Floodgate-style cards named in guides as a threat to Fiend shells, such as Dimensional Shifter (guide evidence, not tested here)
Best use
Engine link that feeds Fusion summons and protects the LIGHT Fiend body. Decks: Fiendsmith, Unchained, Evil Twin. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Fusion summon from the Extra Deck by shuffling GY materials, LIGHT non-Link Fiend equip, no-target protection, once-per-turn wording; Runs in 400 of 400 decks, 1 copy each, 91 distinct archetypes; Appears in 57 of 57 recorded combos, average power index 71.4
- Observed: 96.5% co-occurrence with Fiendsmith Engraver, Lacrima and Requiem; Top-Card rank 37 (OCG) and 89 (Master Duel); Inclusion 90–100% across listed Fiend-shell archetypes
- Inferred: Link summon routes are needed for accessibility but are not tabled in the evidence; Non-targeting effects bypass the shield; The shield is a protection rather than disruption
- Data gaps: no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) combo data has zero role tags (starter role, searched-for role, material role, payoff role), so the role of the card inside combos is unknown combo examples have empty combo role, so the card's own contribution to power index is unmeasured Link summon routes and the Link-2 material requirement are not in the evidence legal copies empty for all formats