FIRE
2Laval Coatl
Archetype:
Laval
ATK:
1300
DEF:
700
View:
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If you have 3 or more "Laval" monsters with different names in your Graveyard, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand).
Laval Coatl — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Laval Coatl's text is a conditional hand Special Summon that needs three Graveyard Laval monsters with different names, so its value is gated by the Laval shell rather than by the card alone. Its main reliable output is a Level 2 FIRE Pyro Tuner body, which keeps material value even if the effect is negated. The deck sample (12 of 12 decks main-deck, 58% in Laval archetype, strong partner co-occurrence) confirms the card is a live, practical part of its shell, but there are no combo boards to show it converting into a board, and ATK 1300 contributes nothing to the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Hand summon is gated by three different-named Laval monsters in the GY; 12/12 decks run it, so the condition is routinely met in practice (observed, inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Text only summons itself and builds no extra bodies; no combo examples or starter role data supplied, so conversion is inferred to be modest (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | No card advantage, search, or GY refuel text; the GY condition consumes a resource but returns nothing (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap text; the card provides no opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | Tuner, Level 2, FIRE Pyro: a clean Tuner body that still works as material when its effect is negated (verified from text, inferred for Synchro use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Single GY-conditioned hand summon with no redundancy; a one-card GY condition or negation of the effect ends the line, though the body remains (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | No garnet or lock text; 1.33 average copies per deck and a Laval shell that tolerates it, so slot cost is low (observed from decks, inferred from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body / Normal. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 2 Tuner body that remains useful as material even when its effect is negated
- Hand summon with a clear, checkable Graveyard condition
- Consistently played in the Laval shell across 12 sampled decks, with strong partner co-occurrence
- Low deckbuilding cost: 1.33 average copies, no garnet or lock text
Weaknesses
- Summon is gated by three different-named Laval monsters in the Graveyard
- No opponent interaction, negation, or removal
- No card advantage or refuel text
- No combo evidence supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference
- Single-card line with no redundancy if the Graveyard condition is not met
Counters / choke points
- Graveyard hate or Graveyard interaction (inferred from the Graveyard condition; no counter evidence supplied)
Best use
Tuner body and conditional hand-summon enabler inside the Laval shell. Decks: Laval archetype decks.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Tuner Monster, Level 2, FIRE Pyro, ATK 1300 (card data); Hand Special Summon requires 3+ Laval monsters with different names in the Graveyard (card text)
- Observed: Present in 12 of 12 sampled decks, 58.3% in the Laval archetype; Strong co-occurrence with Lavalval Dragon (100%) and Laval Lakeside Lady / Laval Volcano Handmaiden (91.7%)
- Inferred: Modest combo conversion, since the card only summons itself and no board data was supplied; Low resilience: a single GY-gated summon with no redundancy; Material value holds even when the effect is negated, because the body is still a Level 2 Tuner
- 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