FIRE
3Red Lotus King, Flame Crime
Archetype:
King
ATK:
1700
DEF:
300
View:
4125
During the Main Phase, if you control a Fiend Tuner, or your opponent controls a Special Summoned monster (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is Special Summoned: You can inflict 400 damage to your opponent for each FIRE monster you control with different names. If this card is sent to the GY as Synchro Material: You can send 1 Normal Trap from your Deck to the GY. You can only use each effect of "Red Lotus King, Flame Crime" once per turn.
Red Lotus King, Flame Crime — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Red Lotus King's reliable value is a conditional hand Special Summon plus a Synchro-material trigger that sends a Normal Trap from the Deck to the GY. The 400-deck sample shows it is a live, one-copy staple in Archfiend, Resonator and Bystial shells, with about 92% co-occurrence with the shell's core partners, which earns the accessibility score. Its 400-damage effect is a damage-based payoff rather than board conversion, it provides no negation or removal, and high adoption is treated only as guardrail-3 context, so it does not raise the score beyond accessibility and deck cost. The absence of any combo records keeps the combo axis a text-only inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Hand Special Summon needs a Fiend Tuner or an opposing Special Summon, but 400 of 400 sampled decks run it, mostly one copy, so it is live in practice (observed, plus verified condition from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The 400-damage effect depends on FIRE monsters with different names and no combo boards record it, so conversion into a board is inferred from text only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | The Synchro-material effect sends one Normal Trap from the Deck to the GY, a small GY-send refuel with no draw, per card text (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | The card text contains no negation, removal or hand-trap effect, so opponent interaction is effectively absent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 3 FIRE Fiend body that is a Synchro material even when its effects are negated; the body converts, while the GY trigger is lost if negated (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Summon and GY effects are both conditional and once per turn each, with no multi-zone or redundant route in evidence (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Typically one copy (357 of 400 decks), no garnet or lock restriction in the text, so the slot cost is low (observed plus verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body / Normal. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, combos absent, meta unknown)
Strengths
- Conditional hand Special Summon that is live in Archfiend, Resonator and Bystial shells
- Synchro-material trigger that refuels one Normal Trap from the Deck to the GY
- Clean one-copy deck slot with no garnet or lock restriction
Weaknesses
- No negation, removal or hand-trap effect
- Summon condition requires a Fiend Tuner or an opposing Special Summon
- Damage payoff depends on FIRE monsters with different names and has no recorded combo support
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation (inferred from text: the summon and GY-trap effects are lost, but the body remains as material)
Best use
Starter / Synchro material body. Decks: Archfiend, Resonator, Bystial/Byssted. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Summon condition: Main Phase, Fiend Tuner controlled or opponent Special Summon (Quick Effect), from hand; Damage effect: 400 per FIRE monster with different names on Special Summon, once per turn; GY-send effect: one Normal Trap from Deck to GY when sent as Synchro material; 400 of 400 sampled decks run it; avg 1.12 copies; 357 decks run one copy; Archfiend 33.5%, Resonator 28.5%, Bystial/Byssted 12.8%; 35 distinct archetypes; Top partners co-occur in about 82-92% of decks
- Observed: Copy distribution 1 / 2 / 3 copies = 357 / 40 / 3 decks; 92.8% of decks in gameplay type 7
- Inferred: Body converts as Synchro material even when effect-negated; Summon route is conditional and not multi-zone; Damage effect is a payoff rather than board conversion
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no rulings supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is from the deck sample only no meta sample, so meta power is null