LIGHT
7Senko the Skybolt Star
Archetype:
Star
ATK:
2400
DEF:
0
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If an EARTH monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned to your field (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 Level 5 or higher Warrior monster you control and 1 Attack Position monster your opponent controls; your monster loses exactly 1500 ATK, and if it does, destroy that opponent's monster. You can only use each effect of "Senko the Skybolt Star" once per turn.
Senko the Skybolt Star — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 64 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 62 · Deck: 66 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Senko converts EARTH summons into a hand Special Summon, and its GY effect spends 1500 ATK on one of your Level 5+ Warriors to destroy an opposing Attack Position monster. The removal is real but conditional (Attack Position only, needs a Lv5+ Warrior, and the -1500 ATK cost), so it earns a mid-range interaction score rather than a top one. The 2400 ATK body and Level 7 do not earn points by themselves, and the deck evidence confirms the card is consistently played (183 decks, 96.7% in one gameplay) without being credited as intrinsically stronger than its effects.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Hand Special Summon triggers on your own EARTH summons and the GY effect is reachable after use, but no combo or searcher evidence was supplied to confirm how often it is live (deck data: 183 decks, avg 2.08 copies, inferred from text and deck data). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | The text converts one -1500 ATK cost into one destruction, which is a one-for-one conversion; no combo boards were supplied to measure it further (text-only inference). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Banishing from the GY as a cost is a free-to-use recursion-style removal, but it is one destruction per use with no card advantage (text-only inference). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Destroys one opposing Attack Position monster, once per turn, under a Lv5+ Warrior condition, which is situational rather than hard-to-play-around (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 7 LIGHT Warrior is a usable material body and remains a 2400 ATK body after the -1500 cost, but the material value is generic rather than exceptional (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Two effects in two zones (hand and GY), each once per turn, so it has more than one spot to act from (verified from card text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Average 2.08 copies per deck with no garnet or lock restriction in the evidence, which keeps the slot cost low (observed from deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 62, Deck ≈ 66, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two effects in two zones (hand Special Summon and GY removal), each once per turn
- Consistent deck inclusion across 38 archetypes, with 183 decks running it at an average of 2.08 copies
- Low slot cost with no garnet or lock restriction in the evidence
Weaknesses
- Removal only hits Attack Position monsters
- Requires a Lv5+ Warrior you control to pay the -1500 ATK cost
- No combo evidence, so conversion power is text-only inference
Counters / choke points
- Monsters in Defense Position are outside the GY effect's target and cannot be destroyed by it
- Negating or banishing the card in the GY stops the removal effect
Best use
Removal / Negation with a hand Special Summon from EARTH summons. Decks: Starry Knight, Battleguard, Harpie, Trickstar, Igknight. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: hand Special Summon on EARTH summons to your field, GY banish for -1500 ATK and destruction of an Attack Position opponent monster, each once per turn; Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel; 183 decks, 96.7% in gameplay type 4, average 2.08 copies
- Observed: Top partners co-occur in 67% to 91% of decks; Starry Knight is the largest archetype home at 19.7% of decks; War Rock usage statistics show 100% inclusion at 2 typical copies
- Inferred: Removal/Negation is the primary role, with Extender as the secondary role; Removal is conditional (Attack Position only, needs a Lv5+ Warrior, -1500 ATK cost); Accessibility depends on how often an EARTH summon occurs in the deck
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) legal copies is empty for all formats no rulings supplied for the once-per-turn and ATK-cost interactions