EARTH
1Glow-Up Bulb
ATK:
100
DEF:
100
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If this card is in your GY: You can send the top card of your Deck to the GY, and if you do, Special Summon this card. You can only use this effect of "Glow-Up Bulb" once per Duel.
Glow-Up Bulb — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 60 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 61 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
The card's score comes from being a Level 1 Tuner (Plant, EARTH) that is a clean material body for Level 2 and higher Synchros, plus a once-per-duel effect that Special Summons it from the GY after sending the top deck card to the GY, which gives one free body. Its 100/100 stats earn nothing. It has no opponent interaction, needs to be in the GY to work, and the combo evidence (3 boards, generic level-based combos, no role tags) is too thin to confirm a stronger role.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Needs the card in the GY before the effect works and no searcher or second card is evidenced, so it is not reliably live in the opening hand (verified text, inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Gives one extra body once per duel, and the 3 sampled boards are generic level-based combos with empty combo role (observed, weak). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Sends one top deck card to the GY to make one body, so net advantage is roughly even with a small deck-thinning gain (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | Text has no negation, removal, or interaction effect on the opponent (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 80 | Level 1 Tuner with Plant/EARTH fits many Level 2+ Synchro and link-style material needs, and the body is useful even if the GY effect is negated (verified text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The GY-based effect is outside the field where most negations act, but it is once per duel and has no redundancy (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Single-copy generic Level 1 tuner with no garnet or lock restriction, and 386 of 400 sampled decks run one copy (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 61, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 1 Tuner that fits many Synchro material needs (verified text, inferred)
- GY self-revival gives one free body once per duel (verified text)
- Single-copy generic card with no garnet or lock cost (observed)
- Plant/EARTH attribute and race give broad material compatibility (verified text, inferred)
Weaknesses
- Once per duel, so the recursion is a one-time value (verified text)
- Needs to be in the GY before it does anything (verified text)
- No opponent interaction (verified text)
- Thin card-specific combo evidence: 3 boards, no role tags, no material role or starter role hits (observed)
Counters / choke points
- GY-hate and hand traps that respond to GY-bound deck-to-GY effects (inferred from general rules, not verified against the card text in evidence)
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is the most common partner in the sample, which suggests it is often run alongside hand-trap defence rather than countered by it (observed)
Best use
Level 1 Tuner material body with a once-per-duel GY self-revival. Decks: Rose Dragon (archetype 831), Synchron (archetype 718), Junk (archetype 1566), Azamina (archetype 1941). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Tuner Monster, Level 1, EARTH Plant, ATK and DEF 100/100 (card); GY effect: send top card of Deck to GY, then Special Summon this card; once per duel (description); Formats TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks (card)
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, 1.04 average copies, 386 decks run one copy (deck data); Present in 3 of 3 sampled boards, all generic level-based combos, combo role empty (combo data); Inclusion 100 percent in 4 small-sample archetype stat rows (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Level 1 Tuner is a clean material body for Level 2+ Synchro needs (text plus rules); Net resource value is roughly even, since the self-mill is a deck-to-GY cost paid for one body (text); GY-hate and GY-effect negation are the realistic counters (general rules, not in evidence)
- Data gaps: no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) decks running it in the Main Deck is 400 of 400 with 1.04 average copies, which is implausibly uniform for a Level 1 tuner; archetype rows cover only 246 of 400 decks, so inclusion is unverified combos: only 3 boards, all generic level-based combos with empty combo role; no material role or starter role corroboration guides: none of the 6 snippets names Glow-Up Bulb, and its passcode 67441435 does not appear in any section co_card_ids no ruling data for the once-per-duel and GY-activation interaction