FIRE
6Laval Lancelord
Archetype:
Laval
ATK:
2100
DEF:
200
View:
3594
You can Normal Summon this card without Tributing. If you do, during the End Phase: Send it to the Graveyard. When this card on the field is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 of your banished FIRE monsters; add that target to your hand.
Laval Lancelord — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Starter/Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Laval Lancelord is a Level 6 FIRE Warrior that can be Normal Summoned without Tributing, and its End Phase send to the Graveyard feeds the Laval Graveyard engine. Its main value is a single recovery: when it is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, it adds one banished FIRE monster to hand, a clean +1 that depends on the card being destroyed. No combo data exists, so the combo axis rests on text and deck partners only. High ATK and the 2100 stat line earn no points; the score comes from accessibility, recovery, and a cheap, low-restriction deckbuilding profile.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Tribute-free Normal Summon makes it live in hand, and it is played in 8 of 14 Laval decks; no searcher routes are recorded to confirm further access (observed + verified text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Text shows a Graveyard send and a destruction recovery, but there are zero recorded combos, so conversion into a board is inferred from the Laval engine only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The destruction trigger returns one banished FIRE monster to hand, a roughly +1 recovery that needs the card to be destroyed first (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | Level 6 FIRE Warrior is a usable material body, but no combo data shows it as material and its text does not add material value (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Its recovery needs it to be destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, so the effect is not usable while it is on the field and a negate only partly shuts it down (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | No garnet or lock on the card, 1 to 2 copies per deck (average 1.21), and no splash restriction in the sample (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Tribute-free Normal Summon gives an easy, low-cost body
- Destruction recovery returns a banished FIRE monster to hand
- Feeds the Laval Graveyard engine through its End Phase send
- Few copies needed and no garnet restriction
Weaknesses
- No effect of its own on the field besides the destruction trigger
- No recorded combo evidence, so board conversion is unconfirmed
- Strongly tied to the Laval archetype, limiting use outside it
- Effect only works after the card has been destroyed
Best use
Recovery/Recursion body that feeds the Laval Graveyard engine. Decks: Laval. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Tribute-free Normal Summon and End Phase send to the Graveyard (card text); Destruction recovery adds one banished FIRE monster to hand (card text); No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect (card text)
- Observed: Appears in 14 of 14 sampled decks, 8 of them Laval (57.1%); Average 1.21 copies per deck, max 2; Top partners include Laval Archer and Laval Lakeside Lady at 71.4% co-deck
- Inferred: Recovery needs the card to be destroyed, so it is not usable while face-up on the field; Board conversion depends on the Laval engine, since there are no combo records
- 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