LIGHT
1Latency
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
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If this card is added from your GY to your hand by a card effect: You can Special Summon it from your hand. If this card Summoned this way is sent to the GY as Link Material: You can draw 1 card. You can only use each effect of "Latency" once per turn.
Latency — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 48 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Latency's power is limited because its main effect requires it to be added from the GY to hand by another card's effect before it can Special Summon from hand, so it is not a live opening-hand card. Its only resource gain is a single draw when it is sent to the GY as Link Material after that Summon, and it has no interaction. Its score comes mainly from being a clean Level 1 LIGHT Cyberse body that fits Link Summons, and from being cheap to run in 1 to 3 copies across 8 archetypes. High deck counts and partner staples such as Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring confirm it is played, but they do not raise its score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | Recovery from the GY by a card effect is required before the hand Special Summon, and no combo or searcher route is supplied (inferred from card text; 10 decks confirm it is played, not how it is reached). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Its text creates no board on its own, and combos_evidence shows zero recorded appearances (verified from text; no observed combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | The Link Material clause draws 1 card once per turn, a small one-for-one at best (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | It has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | It is a Level 1 LIGHT Cyberse with no Tuner clause, and its draw still works after its Summon if it is sent to the GY as Link Material (verified from text; fit for Link Summons is inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Its two effects are each once per turn and both depend on a prior event, so one negate removes them (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | It is run at 1 to 3 copies with no garnet or lock restriction, which makes it cheap to play (observed from 10 decks; copies avg 1.9). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 48, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 1 LIGHT Cyberse body that fits Link Summons
- Cheap to run at 1 to 3 copies with no garnet restriction
- Can draw a card when sent to the GY as Link Material after its hand Summon
Weaknesses
- Not live in the opening hand; needs a GY-to-hand effect first
- No combo conversion recorded in the evidence
- No interaction or disruption
Counters / choke points
- Generic negation of its effects, since both effects depend on a prior event (inferred; no specific counter cards are supplied in evidence)
Best use
Material body with a small draw, and a recursion target for GY-to-hand effects. Decks: Cyberse Link decks, Code Talker, Cynet.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 1 LIGHT Cyberse Effect Monster with ATK 0 and DEF 0; Effect: Special Summon from hand after being added from GY to hand by a card effect; Effect: draw 1 when sent to the GY as Link Material after that Summon, once per turn; Played in 10 decks at 1.9 average copies, across 8 archetypes
- Observed: Co-occurs in 8 of 10 decks with Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and in 7 with Maxx "C"; Zero recorded combo appearances
- Inferred: Accessibility depends on a GY-to-hand recursion effect that is not supplied in evidence; The body fits Link Summons as clean generic material
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for archetype inclusion no card that adds this card from GY to hand is listed in evidence, so the accessibility route is unconfirmed no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited)