LIGHT
8Legendary Knight Timaeus
Archetype:
Legendary Knight
ATK:
2800
DEF:
1800
View:
5303
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 Spell in your GY; Set that target.
Legendary Knight Timaeus — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker / Going-second · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Timaeus converts a Legend of Heart Special Summon into one 2800-ATK body and a free banish of one face-up Spell/Trap, which is a real but one-shot board-breaking effect. Its ceiling is set by the Legend of Heart requirement, which the deck evidence shows it almost always runs with (86.4% co-occurrence), so accessibility is decent but dependent on one partner. The recorded combo evidence is empty, so no combo-conversion credit is given beyond the text. The 2800 ATK and Level 8 body earned little on their own; the score comes from the banish and the attack-trigger Spell recovery, not from stats.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live only through the Legend of Heart Special Summon, which appears in 19 of 22 decks, and it cannot be Normal Summoned or Set (verified text; partner co-occurrence observed; inferred that Legend of Heart is the sole route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No recorded combo boards, so conversion is text-only: one body plus one Spell/Trap banish on Special Summon (verified text; combo stats absent, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | The Special Summon banish is free and the attack-trigger Set returns one Spell from the GY, but neither is card advantage (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Banishes one face-up Spell/Trap when Special Summoned, a reliable but single-target and non-negating removal effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A Level 8 LIGHT Warrior with a 2800 ATK body is usable material in principle, but no material stats were supplied, so the score is near neutral (inferred, no combo or deck material evidence). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The attack-trigger Set can return a Spell after it is targeted, giving partial multi-turn recovery, but the body is a single 2800/1800 monster with no protection (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Restricted to Special Summon via one partner, and it runs at about 1.3 copies per deck with 10 archetypes, so it is not a brick but it does lock the build into that partner (observed deck evidence; verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Board breaker / Going-second profile (no secondary blend applied; Recovery secondary is captured within the Board breaker axes). Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (with -3 modifier applied to Deck)
Strengths
- Free banish of one face-up Spell/Trap on Special Summon (verified text)
- Strong, consistent deck fit with Legend of Heart at 86.4% of decks (observed)
- Attack-trigger Set of a Spell from the GY gives partial recovery (verified text)
- Spread across 10 archetypes and several gameplay types, so it is not tied to a single home (observed)
Weaknesses
- Cannot be Normal Summoned; access depends on the Legend of Heart condition (verified text)
- No recorded combo boards, so its real conversion rate is unmeasured (data gap)
- Single-target, non-negating removal only (verified text)
- Average 1.32 copies per deck suggests it is a situational pick rather than a core staple (observed)
Counters / choke points
- Negation or backrow removal that stops the Special Summon before the banish resolves (inferred from text)
- Spell/Trap removal responses that stop the banish target from being chosen (inferred from text)
- Interruption of the Legend of Heart line before Timaeus can be summoned (inferred from partner dependency)
Best use
Board breaker that clears one face-up Spell/Trap on Special Summon, with Spell recovery after an attack. Decks: Legendary Knight decks running Legend of Heart and Legendary Knight Hermos/Critias, Dark Magician and Magician Girls decks that already run Legend of Heart (observed in top archetypes). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set; requires the Legend of Heart Special Summon (card text); On Special Summon, may banish one face-up Spell/Trap (card text); When targeted for an attack, may Set one Spell from the GY (card text); ATK 2800, DEF 1800, Level 8 LIGHT Warrior (card data); Appears in 22 recent decks; Legend of Heart co-occurs in 19 (deck stat)
- Observed: Average 1.32 copies per deck with 18 of 22 decks running one copy (deck stat); Legend of Heart and the Legendary Knight partners co-occur at 72% to 86% (deck stat); Spread across 10 archetypes and 5 gameplay types (deck stat)
- Inferred: Legend of Heart is the only Special Summon route in the evidence, so access is single-partner dependent; The banish is a board-breaker rather than a negation effect; Material value is moderate because the body is a Level 8 Warrior, but no material stats were supplied; A Legendary Knight-line home is the most likely practical deck
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion inferred from the 22-deck sample only No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Legend of Heart's own text not supplied; its restrictions are taken only from the partner name and the Timaeus text