LIGHT
6Herald of Perfection
Archetype:
Herald
ATK:
1800
DEF:
2800
View:
4444
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Dawn of the Herald". During either player's turn, when your opponent activates a Spell Card, Trap Card, or monster effect: You can send 1 Fairy-Type monster from your hand to the Graveyard; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it.
Herald of Perfection — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Herald of Perfection's score comes almost entirely from its field negate: it can negate any Spell, Trap or monster effect on either player's turn and destroy the card, at the cost of sending one Fairy from hand. That is a strong, flexible interaction, but the card only does this while it is on the field, and it needs a Ritual Summon via Dawn of the Herald to get there. Its 1800 ATK and 2800 DEF earn no points; the score rests on interaction reach, a clean Level 6 LIGHT Fairy body, and its wide deck presence (36 distinct archetype tags, with strong co-occurrence with Dawn of the Herald and Benten). The lack of recorded combos caps combo conversion and confidence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Reaching the field requires the specific Ritual Summon via Dawn of the Herald (text), which is a common partner in the deck sample (75.8% co-occurrence), so access is real but not free (verified text, observed deck partner rate). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No combo boards are recorded, so conversion is only the text-level effect of one negate-and-destroy with no board creation (inferred, combo data total combos = 0). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The negate costs one Fairy from hand and destroys the opponent's card, which is roughly an even one-for-one trade with no refuel or draw (verified text, inferred trade). |
| Effect & Interaction | 75 | Negates Spell, Trap and monster effects on either player's turn and destroys the card, a strong and flexible interaction limited mainly by the need to keep a Fairy in hand (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 6 LIGHT Fairy Ritual body is a usable material and keeps its value when blanked, but it does not fit as a generic material (verified text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | It works on the field across both turns, but it dies to any destruction or board removal and has no recursion (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | It needs one Ritual spell plus the monster, and a Fairy in hand as a cost; the 1.21 average copies per deck suggest a light slot cost (observed deck stats, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Material body (blended per rubric). Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Specific-spell dependency (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Negates Spell, Trap and monster effects on either player's turn
- Destroys the negated card, so the negate is also removal
- Clean Level 6 LIGHT Fairy body that stays useful as material when blanked
- Broad deck presence across 36 distinct archetype tags
Weaknesses
- Only works while it is on the field, so it is exposed to removal and destruction
- Needs Dawn of the Herald for the Ritual Summon
- Requires a Fairy-type monster in hand as a cost
- No recorded combo boards, so its conversion value is unproven
Counters / choke points
- Board removal and destruction effects that remove it from the field
- Monster-targeting effects that do not depend on a chain response
- Opponent plays that bait the negate with a low-value card first
Best use
Field negate and Ritual boss body, backing up Dawn of the Herald lines. Decks: Herald, Drytron, Cyber Angel. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Ritual Summon via Dawn of the Herald; Negates Spell, Trap and monster effects on either player's turn, with a Fairy from hand as cost; Level 6 LIGHT Fairy Ritual monster with 1800 ATK and 2800 DEF
- Observed: Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks; Dawn of the Herald co-occurs in 75.8% of decks; Average 1.21 copies per deck across 36 archetype tags
- Inferred: Negate-and-destroy trade is roughly even on resources; Field-based negate is exposed to removal; Light deckbuilding slot cost
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is from the deck sample only average starter count when present unknown, so deck resilience is inferred