Spell
ContinuousGoddess Skuld's Oracle
Archetype:
Valkyrie
View:
3274
When this card is activated: If all monsters you control are "Valkyrie" monsters (min. 1), you can add 1 "Goddess Verdande's Guidance" from your Deck to your hand. Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can look at the top 3 cards of your opponent's Deck, and if you do, place them on top of their Deck in any order, but you cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except Fairy monsters. You can only activate 1 "Goddess Skuld's Oracle" per turn.
Goddess Skuld's Oracle — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
The card's value is one conditional search for Goddess Verdande's Guidance, available only while every monster you control is a Valkyrie (min. 1), plus a once-per-turn look at and reorder of the opponent's top 3 cards. The reorder is soft manipulation with no negation, and it locks your own non-Fairy summons for that turn, which costs you when you use it. No recorded boards exist, so the conversion is text-only inference. Its high presence in Valkyrie decks confirms accessibility, not strength, and the view count and ATK/DEF contribute nothing.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Activates from hand when every monster you control is a Valkyrie (min. 1), a condition the archetype usually meets, and it appears in 18 decks (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The only conversion is one conditional search of Goddess Verdande's Guidance; no recorded boards exist, so the line is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | One conditional +1 search, and as a Continuous Spell it stays on the field after use, so it is net-positive with no refuel or repeated draw (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | The top-3 look and reorder of the opponent's deck is soft manipulation with no negation, is once per turn, and self-restricts your summons (verified). |
| Material Utility | 0 | A Spell card cannot be used as material and does not convert as a body (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The Continuous Spell on the field is exposed to backrow removal, and the search is a one-time event (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | One slot with no garnet or brick, but the optional summon lock on its second effect costs tempo when used (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Conditional search gives a +1 with no board cost beyond keeping the Valkyrie condition true
- Continuous Spell stays on the field after activation, so it is not spent
- Legal in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel with no banlist token supplied
Weaknesses
- Activation needs an all-Valkyrie board, so it is dead in non-Valkyrie lines
- Searches only one Valkyrie-linked support, so the payoff is narrow
- Top-3 reorder is soft interaction, not negation
- Summon lock hurts the user on the turn it is used
Counters / choke points
- Backrow removal or destruction of the Continuous Spell
- Opponent ignoring the top-3 reorder, since it does not stop their next draw from being the card they want
Best use
Conditional Valkyrie search with optional top-3 deck disruption. Decks: Valkyrie (archetype 871), Valkyrie (archetype 1146).
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Search condition: every monster you control is a Valkyrie (min. 1); Once-per-turn top-3 look and reorder, with a self-restricted summon lock for the turn; Continuous Spell, so it remains on the field after activation; Legal in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel
- Observed: In 18 decks, 7 of them in Valkyrie archetype 871; Average 1.61 copies per deck, max 3; Co-occurs with Pot of Extravagance in 50% of decks and with Valkyrie support in 44%
- Inferred: The search target is a Valkyrie-linked support, which sets the payoff ceiling; Backrow exposure is the main interaction risk; The conversion from search to board is not measured without combo data
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only searched target's own text not supplied, so the payoff size is inferred