LIGHT
2Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers
Archetype:
Dragon Ruler
ATK:
600
DEF:
1000
View:
2430
You can discard this card and 1 Dragon or LIGHT monster; add 2 "Dragon Ruler" monsters from your Deck to your hand, except "Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers". You can banish from your GY, this card and 1 Dragon or LIGHT monster, then target 1 "Chasma, Dragon Ruler of Auroras" in your GY; Special Summon it. You can only use 1 "Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 59.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Spectral's value is its hand-cost search: discarding itself plus one Dragon or LIGHT monster adds two Dragon Ruler monsters from the Deck, so it converts a live hand card into archetype-specific access. Its GY effect banishes itself and one Dragon or LIGHT monster to Special Summon Chasma from the GY, which is a recursion route rather than extra card advantage. The 600 ATK and 1000 DEF earn nothing; the score rests on search access and its role in a Dragon Ruler network that appears in every sampled deck. Combo data is absent, so the conversion and starter claims stay inferred and confidence is Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Live from hand via a discard cost and present in 400 of 400 sampled decks at a typical 3 copies, but no combo starter data confirms how often it is actually the opening play (observed for deck presence, inferred for the hand route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Its search yields two Dragon Ruler monsters and its GY effect revives Chasma as one extra body, but no combo boards were supplied to confirm the conversion depth (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The search costs two cards (itself plus a monster) and returns two, so it is roughly card-neutral; the GY revival spends two GY cards for one board body (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 8 | Neither effect disrupts the opponent, so it contributes almost no interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A Level 2 Light Dragon body is usable as a cost and possibly as material, but no material role combo stats exist to confirm any generic material conversion (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Two effects spanning hand and GY give some multi-zone reach, but the shared once-per-turn limit on Spectral's effects caps redundancy (verified text, inferred impact). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Three copies are standard and the card fits the Dragon Ruler shell (91% of decks are that gameplay type), but it locks the deck toward the archetype (observed for deck share, inferred for restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 59.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Hand-cost search into multiple Dragon Ruler monsters
- GY revival route to Chasma
- Present in every sampled deck at a standard 3 copies
Weaknesses
- Zero opponent interaction
- Card-neutral economy with no net advantage
- Locked to the Dragon Ruler shell
- Shared once-per-turn limit on its effects
Counters / choke points
- No counters are evidenced in the supplied data; generic hand traps and GY removal would be plausible but are not supported by the evidence
Best use
Searcher/Tutor. Decks: Dragon Ruler. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Two effects: a discard-cost search for two Dragon Ruler monsters, and a banish-cost GY Special Summon of Chasma; Once-per-turn limit shared across Spectral's effects; Present in 400 of 400 decks; 365 run 3 copies
- Observed: 91% of decks are Dragon Ruler gameplay; Top partners all Dragon Ruler monsters at 87-100% co-occurrence; 100% inclusion across three archetypes in usage statistics
- Inferred: Hand-live accessibility via the discard cost; Two-for-two search is roughly card-neutral; Chasma revival gives one extra body; Material and resilience ratings rely on text alone
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter claims are text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; legal copies is empty and the 3-copy limit is assumed no rulings supplied for the shared once-per-turn interaction