EARTH
1Super Soldier Soul
Archetype:
Black Luster Soldier
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
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You can send 1 "Black Luster Soldier" monster from your hand to the Graveyard; until your opponent's next End Phase, this card's ATK becomes 3000, and this card's name becomes "Black Luster Soldier". You can banish this card from your Graveyard; add 1 "Beginning Knight" or "Evening Twilight Knight" from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Super Soldier Soul" once per turn.
Super Soldier Soul — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Super Soldier Soul is a Level 1 body whose value comes from two once-per-turn effects: it can become a Black Luster Soldier-named 3000 ATK monster by discarding a BLS monster from hand, and it can banish itself from the Graveyard to search a Beginning Knight or Evening Twilight Knight. The Graveyard search is a real refuel that gives it resource economy and a searcher role, and it appears in 95 of 95 sampled decks with both Knights as partners at 96.8%, which confirms a practical role rather than inflating the score. The 3000 ATK and the name change earn credit only as a material and conversion route, not for raw ATK. No combo boards were supplied, so combo conversion and resilience rest on text and deck evidence and are kept moderate.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Sampled decks run it in 95 of 95 lists at about 1.6 copies each, but getting it into hand or Graveyard depends on the BLS line and no combo starter counts exist (observed deck frequency; inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | No combo boards are recorded, so conversion from a single starter is inferred only from the text: name change to BLS and the Knight search (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | Banishing it from the Graveyard to add a Beginning Knight or Evening Twilight Knight is a clean one-for-one Graveyard refuel (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in its text (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 1 Earth Warrior that can be named Black Luster Soldier, so it can serve as BLS-line material even though its ATK is 0 (verified text, inferred use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Two separate once-per-turn effects from hand and Graveyard give multi-zone access, but both can be stopped by a single interaction (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | About 1.6 copies per deck with no garnet or lock restriction; it fits the Black Luster Soldier build cleanly (observed deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Graveyard banish gives a Knight search, a refuel that does not need the card to stay on the field
- Level 1 body with a BLS-name conversion that makes it useful as material
- Deck sample shows it in every list with a 96.8% partner rate for both Knights, so the role is real in practice
Weaknesses
- 0 ATK and no negation or removal in its text; the value is entirely in its two effects
- Both effects are once per turn and need a BLS monster in hand or a card in the Graveyard
- No combo boards recorded, so the claimed conversion is text-based only
Best use
Searcher/Tutor with a Graveyard refuel, plus a Level 1 BLS-name body. Decks: Black Luster Soldier. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 1 Earth Warrior Effect Monster with ATK 0 and DEF 0 (card); Hand effect: send 1 BLS monster to GY to set ATK 3000 and name to BLS until the opponent's next End Phase (card text); Graveyard effect: banish to add 1 Beginning Knight or Evening Twilight Knight from Deck (card text); Both effects are once per turn (card text); Present in 95 of 95 sampled decks, average 1.61 copies (deck evidence)
- Observed: Beginning Knight and Evening Twilight Knight each co-occur in 92 of 95 decks (96.8%) (deck evidence); Super Soldier Synthesis co-occurs in 79 decks (83.2%) (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Graveyard search is a practical refuel for the BLS line (inferred from text and partner rate); Name change makes it usable as BLS-line material (inferred from text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is from the deck sample only legal copies is empty for all formats