LIGHT
4Silent Paladin
Archetype:
Silent Swordsman
ATK:
500
DEF:
1500
View:
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When this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 "Silent Swordsman LV3" or "Silent Magician LV4" from your Deck to your hand. During either player's turn, when a Spell Card is activated that targets exactly 1 monster you control (and no other cards): You can negate the activation. This effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field. If this card is destroyed by battle, or if this card in its owner's control is destroyed by an opponent's card effect: You can target 1 LIGHT "LV" monster in your Graveyard; add it to your hand.
Silent Paladin — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher / Tutor · Secondary: Negation/Interaction, Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Silent Paladin is a compact in-archetype tutor: a Normal Summon fetches Silent Swordsman LV3 or Silent Magician LV4, it can negate a single-target Spell once while face-up, and it refunds a LIGHT "LV" monster from the Graveyard when destroyed by battle or an opponent's effect. Those give it real but narrow utility — the search is roughly a one-card gain and the recursion keeps the LV line alive. Its 500 ATK / 1500 DEF earn no points here; the score instead reflects a conditional, archetype-locked search and a once-per-run negation that only pays off in Silent Swordsman / Silent Magician builds. With no combo evidence the ceiling is unconfirmed, so it lands around the middle of the scale.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 58 | Level 4 LIGHT Fairy in 24 sample decks (avg 1.79 copies) with no searchable route to itself, and its own search only fetches two named cards after a Normal Summon (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 48 | A Normal Summon converts into one specific LV monster that feeds the archetype's Level Up! line, but zero combo appearances exist to confirm any larger board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The on-Summon search is a straight +1 and the destruction trigger recovers a LIGHT "LV" monster from the Graveyard, keeping trades even-to-plus (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 38 | Negates a Spell that targets exactly one monster you control, once while face-up — situational and easy to route around (verified). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 4 LIGHT Fairy body usable as Rank 4 / LIGHT material even when its effects are blanked, though 500 ATK makes it a fragile attacker (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 42 | Its only real staying power is the on-destruction recovery; 500 ATK / 1500 DEF means it dies easily and the negate is a single use (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 48 | Cheap inside its archetype at ~1.79 copies, but the Silent Swordsman LV3 / Silent Magician LV4 targets are required for the search not to be dead (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 average(Negation/Interaction, Recovery/Recursion). Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- One-card tutor for Silent Swordsman LV3 / Silent Magician LV4 on Normal Summon
- Recovers a LIGHT "LV" monster from the Graveyard when destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect
- Occasional Spell negation against single-target Spells
- Level 4 LIGHT Fairy body usable as material
Weaknesses
- Very low 500 ATK for a Level 4 body
- Search and negation are both narrow and archetype-locked
- Negation can only be used once while face-up on the field
- No combo evidence, so the practical ceiling is unconfirmed
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring / Effect Veiler on the Normal Summon search
- Infinite Impermanence or Forbidden Chalice to blank the search and negation
- Non-targeting or multi-target removal dodges the single-target negation clause
- Any removal before it resolves leaves a 500-ATK body
Best use
Early-game tutor and Spell negation for the LV line. Decks: Silent Swordsman, Silent Magician. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Summon: adds Silent Swordsman LV3 or Silent Magician LV4 from Deck to hand; Once while face-up: negates a Spell that targets exactly 1 monster you control; When destroyed by battle or opponent's effect: adds 1 LIGHT "LV" monster from GY to hand; Level 4 LIGHT Fairy, 500 ATK / 1500 DEF
- Observed: 24 sample decks run it, all in the main deck, avg 1.79 copies (max 3); Distributed across 10 tagged archetypes, led by Silent Swordsman (33.3%) and Silent Magician (20.8%); Top co-deck partners: Silent Magician (87.5%), Silent Magician LV8 (83.3%), Silent Swordsman LV7 (75%)
- Inferred: Search converts into one LV monster, supporting the archetype's Level Up! evolution line; Usable as Level 4 LIGHT material for Rank 4 / LIGHT plays even if its effects are negated; Deckbuilding profile depends on running the two named targets so the search is not dead
- 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