Light and Darkness Dragonlord

Light and Darkness Dragonlord — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Boss/End-board

Why it scores here

The 3400 ATK body earns nothing on its own. The score comes from the face-up Quick Effect, which negates any Spell/Trap or monster effect once per Chain at the cost of 1000 ATK/DEF, and from the GY revive of a Dragon when an opponent's card destroys it. Its reach is wide (the card is run across 51 archetypes), but the negate is capped by its ATK budget and depends on a Fusion Summon with two specific Level 8 Dragons. No combo data exists, so combo conversion is scored from text alone and kept low.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Fusion-only restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Quick, once-per-Chain negate of Spell/Trap and monster effects, usable on the opponent's turn while face-up
• Strong interaction value from a single body; ATK cost is the only stated price
• Dragon revive in the GY when an opponent's card destroys it gives a conditional backup
• Run across 51 archetypes, showing the effect is portable between homes
• Typically one copy per deck (avg 1.1), so slot cost is low

Weaknesses

• The negate costs 1000 ATK/DEF each use, so it is limited by the ATK budget (inferred: about three uses from 3400 ATK)
• Works only while face-up on the field; removal shuts it off
• Needs a Fusion Summon with two specific Level 8 Dragons
• The revive needs destruction by an opponent's card, so banish or self-destruction does not trigger it
• No combo, starter, or ruling data supports how often it converts into a winning board

Counters / choke points

• Removing or banishing the face-up body before its Quick Effect is used
• Destruction by a non-card source, which does not trigger the GY revive
• Multiple activations in one Chain: the once-per-Chain limit allows a second effect to resolve before the ATK cost runs out

Best use

Field-resident quick negate with a Dragon-revive backup body. Decks: Bystial/Byssted, Branded, Dragonmaid, Despia, Tenpai Dragon, Red-Eyes. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Quick, once-per-Chain negate of any Spell/Trap or monster effect for 1000 ATK/DEF, on a face-up Fusion monster (card text); GY Dragon revive only when destroyed by an opponent's card while in its owner's possession (card text); Fusion-only, must be Fusion Summoned (card text); Played in 400 sampled decks, avg 1.1 copies, 51 distinct archetypes (deck data)
• Observed: Top partners: Bystial Magnamhut 81.5%, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 68%, Called by the Grave 66.2% (deck data); Gameplay type 7 accounts for 78.8% of decks (deck data); Guide note calls the support strong against hand traps and says it is not once per turn (guide data, human context)
• Inferred: ATK budget caps repeat negates at about three uses from 3400 ATK, assuming no ATK gains (text plus rule reading); Effect is a permanent ATK loss since no duration is stated (inference); Negate is the main value; the body is secondary (inference from text and deck roles)
• Data gaps: no combo data: combo conversion, starter/material shares and power index are text-only inference no banlist token: unlimited copies assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for inclusion % beyond the deck sample deck data is card-selected (decks running it in the Main Deck equals total decks = 400), so it cannot measure inclusion rate no rulings supplied for the ATK-loss and once-per-Chain interaction level_or_rank of 10 on a Fusion monster is not used in scoring evidence has one guide mention, providing limited role context