FIRE
4Laval Cannon
Archetype:
Laval
ATK:
1600
DEF:
900
View:
3639
When this card is Normal or Flip Summoned: You can target 1 of your banished "Laval" monsters; Special Summon that target.
Laval Cannon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Laval Cannon's power is its reusable recursion: on each Normal or Flip Summon it Special Summons a banished Laval monster, so a Laval body that has already been spent can return at no cost to the card itself. It is a live, cheap 4-drop that appears in 39 recent decks at about 2 copies each, with most of those decks in the Laval archetype. The 1600 ATK and Level 4 Fire Warrior stats earn nothing by themselves; the score comes from the recursion and the clean deck cost. Combo conversion is text-only because no board data was supplied, so it stays modest.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Normal-summonable Level 4 body in 39 decks at an average of 2.03 copies, but its trigger needs a banished Laval target, so it is conditional (verified deck count; inferred conditionality from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The text returns one banished Laval to the field, which is a fair body but not a one-card-to-board conversion; no combo data was supplied (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Recursion of a banished Laval monster is a repeatable +1 with no cost to itself, but it depends on banish fuel being available (verified text; inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The effect has no negation, removal or hand-trap reach; it is a summon trigger only (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 4 Fire Warrior is a usable material, and the body still exists when its trigger is negated, though this is not measured (verified stats; inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A single summon trigger is easy to negate and works only on the Normal or Flip Summon window, so the line is fragile (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Runs 1 to 3 copies with no garnet or lock; 19 of 39 decks run 3 copies, so redundancy is cheap (observed from deck copy distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Free, repeatable recursion of a banished Laval monster on each Normal or Flip Summon
- Clean Level 4 Fire Warrior body that is usable as material
- Low deck cost: 1 to 3 copies with no garnet, and live in 39 recent decks
Weaknesses
- Needs a banished Laval monster as the target, so it is dead without banish fuel
- Trigger-only effect with no negation, removal or hand-trap reach
- No combo evidence supplied, so its real board conversion is unverified
Counters / choke points
- Negation of its summon trigger (generic)
Best use
Recovery/Recursion. Decks: Laval. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: on Normal or Flip Summon, Special Summon one banished Laval monster; Level 4, 1600 ATK, Fire Warrior Effect Monster; 39 decks, 39 running main, 82.1% in the Laval archetype; Copies per deck: 18 decks at 1, 2 at 2, 19 at 3 (avg 2.03)
- Observed: Top partners: Laval Volcano Handmaiden 94.9% and Laval Lakeside Lady 89.7% co-occurrence; Not in any sampled combo board (0 combos supplied)
- Inferred: The recursion is conditional on banish fuel, which limits accessibility; The effect is weak against negation because it is a single summon trigger; The card is a fair material body, not a high-value one
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only legal_copies empty — format legality not confirmed beyond the formats list