LIGHT
4Regulus the Fairy Beast
Archetype:
Ancient Fairy Dragon
ATK:
1700
DEF:
1000
View:
1831
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions "Ancient Fairy Dragon" from your Deck to your hand. During your Main Phase: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower LIGHT monster (Beast, Plant, or Fairy) from your hand in Defense Position. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Field Spell in your GY; place it on the bottom of the Deck, then draw 1 card. You can only use each effect of "Regulus the Fairy Beast" once per turn.
Regulus the Fairy Beast — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 63 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 62 · Deck: 64 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Regulus scores on what it reliably converts into: a Normal or Special Summon searches an Ancient Fairy Dragon Spell/Trap, a Main Phase hand-summon adds a Level 4-or-lower LIGHT body, and a GY banish returns a Field Spell to the Deck bottom to draw 1. The strong partner list and 141-deck inclusion confirm the role is real in practice, but that frequency is not counted as power. The 1700 ATK and Level 4 body earn nothing directly, and the absence of any negation or removal keeps effect_interaction near the floor.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Three copies run in most decks and the search fires on any summon, but it is a dead card in hand until a Normal Summon is available (decks_evidence: 141 decks, avg 2.74 copies; no combos_evidence routes) (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Only a search-plus-body text line converts; there are no recorded boards, so conversion is text-only and held at a midpoint (combos_evidence: 0 appearances; description) (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | The summon search is +1 card, and the GY banish draws 1 while recycling a Field Spell, so it refuels from the GY (description; decks_evidence) (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card text contains no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect, so it gives no opponent interaction (description) (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 LIGHT Beast is a clean generic Xyz/Synchro body that stays a Level 4 material even when its effects are negated (description; card stats) (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | It has three separate once-per-turn effects across hand, field, and GY, but a single negation of the card shuts down all of them (description) (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | It is a plain 3-copy card with no garnet or self-lock, and its shell is one archetype (decks_evidence: 3-copy distribution) (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 62, Deck ≈ 64, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches its own Ancient Fairy Dragon support on summon, giving card advantage from a single copy
- Three independent once-per-turn effects covering hand, field, and GY
- Clean Level 4 LIGHT Beast body that remains a material when negated
- Plain 3-copy card with no garnet or self-lock
Weaknesses
- No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect
- Dead in hand until a Normal Summon is available
- Single negation shuts down all three effects
- Power is tied to the Ancient Fairy Dragon shell
Counters / choke points
- Negation of its effects, which removes all three once-per-turn effects at once
- Going-second hand traps aimed at the summon or search window
Best use
Searcher/Tutor with a Level 4 Beast body. Decks: Ancient Fairy Dragon shells, Fairy Tail, Sky Striker. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Search on Normal or Special Summon for an Ancient Fairy Dragon Spell/Trap from the Deck; Main Phase hand-summon of a Level 4 or lower LIGHT Beast, Plant, or Fairy in Defense; GY banish to put a Field Spell at the Deck bottom and draw 1; No negation, removal, or hand-trap text; Present in 141 decks at 2.74 average copies, 46 archetypes
- Observed: Three copies run in most decks (123 of 141 decks at 3 copies); Top partners are the Ancient Fairy Dragon shell, with World of Spirits at 95% co-occurrence
- Inferred: Accessibility is limited by needing a Normal Summon to enable the search; Generic material value comes from the Level 4 LIGHT Beast body; Single-negation vulnerability across all three effects
- 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 no decks-side starter count, so DeckResilience is judged from archetype spread alone