LIGHT
8Legendary Knight Critias
Archetype:
Legendary Knight
ATK:
2800
DEF:
1800
View:
4434
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned with "Legend of Heart". When this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 face-up Spell/Trap on the field; banish that target. When this card is targeted for an attack: You can target 1 Trap in your GY; Set that target. It can be activated this turn.
Legendary Knight Critias — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Legendary Knight Critias converts its Special Summon into a one-for-one banish of a face-up Spell/Trap and, when attacked, a Trap set from the GY. Its 2800 ATK and Level 8 body earn no points on their own. The Legend of Heart requirement caps accessibility, and the 32 sampled decks show it is consistently run (observed), not that it is intrinsically strong (guardrail 3). With no combo or guide evidence, the score rests on text plus deck usage, so confidence is Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set and needs Legend of Heart, a specific second card, though that partner appears in 29 of 32 decks (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The text gives a one-for-one banish on Special Summon plus a Trap set from the GY on attack, and no recorded combo boards show a larger line (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The banish is one-for-one and the GY trap set is roughly card-neutral, with no recorded refuel or net advantage data (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | The targeted banish of a face-up Spell/Trap on Special Summon is real backrow removal, while the attack trigger only sets a Trap and does not negate (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 8 Light Warrior body is a plausible material, but no material appearances were recorded (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The Special Summon trigger depends on Legend of Heart and the attack trigger is a single Trap set, with no redundancy evidence (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Typically one copy (avg 1.06) with a mild Special Summon restriction and a widely shared partner set (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Special Summon-only restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Backrow removal on Special Summon
- Attack-triggered Trap recovery from the GY
- Present in all 32 sampled decks across several archetype labels
Weaknesses
- Requires Legend of Heart to be Special Summoned
- No recorded combo or guide evidence
- Removal is one-for-one with no card advantage
Counters / choke points
- Negating the Special Summon (inferred from the Special Summon condition)
- Interrupting the Legend of Heart route before the summon (inferred)
Best use
Removal / Recovery. Decks: Legendary Knight, Morphtronic, Bamboo Sword. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Special Summon condition requires Legend of Heart and forbids Normal Summon/Set; Special Summon trigger banishes one targeted face-up Spell/Trap; Attack-targeted trigger sets one Trap from the GY; Listed in 32 of 32 sampled decks at 1.06 average copies
- Observed: Legend of Heart and The Fang of Critias each co-occur in 29 of 32 decks (90.6%); Spread across 14 archetype labels, several of them unnamed; Mostly Gameplay type 4 (18 of 32 decks)
- Inferred: Legend of Heart requirement is the main access limit; Banish is one-for-one with no recorded advantage; Level 8 Light body gives moderate material value
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), inclusion inferred from the deck sample only Legend of Heart card text not supplied, so its access route is unverified Description has no once-per-turn wording, so the trigger limits are unknown