LIGHT
2Time Wizard
Archetype:
Magician
ATK:
500
DEF:
400
View:
9093
Once per turn: You can toss a coin and call it. If you call it right, destroy all monsters your opponent controls. If you call it wrong, destroy as many monsters you control as possible, and if you do, take damage equal to half the total ATK those destroyed monsters had while face-up on the field.
Time Wizard — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 63 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 63 · Deck: 63 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Time Wizard's power comes from one coin-flip activation that, on heads, destroys every monster the opponent controls. Tails is a self-inflicted wipe of its own board plus half the ATK as damage, so the card is a high-variance board breaker rather than a reliable one. The 500 ATK and 400 DEF earn nothing, and the card scores mainly on effect interaction and deckbuilding cost. The 146-deck spread across 43 archetypes confirms it is a live, portable card, but deck frequency alone does not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | A Level 2 monster in 146 sampled decks with no text-stated searcher; it is drawn through partners such as Polymerization and Foolish Burial, so access is real but not guaranteed (observed + inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Builds no board of its own; the value is a single removal activation with zero recorded combo boards (text-only inference). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Heads is a large one-for-many card advantage swing, while tails costs its own monsters and deals damage; the expected value is close to even at a coin flip (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 80 | One activation can clear the opponent's entire monster zone at 50% reliability, which is a strong, flexible disruption effect (verified card text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 2 Light Spellcaster is a generic-fit body, but the deck data shows no material use and the card's text says nothing about materials (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | A 400 DEF body that is easy to remove, and its once-per-turn activation can be negated; it works in several zones but resists little (verified card text + inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Single copies average 1.26 per deck, there are no garnets, and it has no self-lock, so it is cheap to run (observed deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Board breaker / Going-second, single role (no secondary blend). Intrinsic ≈ 63, Deck ≈ 63, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Heads destroys every monster the opponent controls in one activation (verified card text).
- Level 2 body, once per turn, with a single-copy deck slot (verified card text, observed copies).
- Live across 146 sampled decks and 43 archetypes, with Polymerization and Foolish Burial as frequent partners (observed).
Weaknesses
- Tails destroys as many of its own monsters as possible and deals damage equal to half their total ATK (verified card text).
- Once per turn, and the outcome depends entirely on the coin flip (verified card text).
- No combo data is recorded, so conversion value is text-only inference.
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation of the activation (inference from the card's effect; no named counter in evidence).
- Opponent has few or no monsters on field, which weakens the heads payoff (inference).
Best use
Board breaker: coin-flip wipe of the opponent's monster zone. Decks: Orcust, Dark Magician, Red-Eyes, Archfiend, Harpie, Resonator. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: once per turn coin toss; heads destroys all opponent monsters; tails destroys own monsters and deals half their ATK as damage.; Level 2 Light Spellcaster, 500 ATK / 400 DEF, Effect Monster.; Present in 146 sampled decks across 43 archetypes, with 1.26 average copies (distribution 1:122, 2:10, 3:14).
- Observed: Gameplay type 7 accounts for 43.8% of sampled decks and type 4 for 37%.; Top partners include Polymerization (34.2%) and Foolish Burial (31.5%).
- Inferred: The coin-flip expected value is roughly even on card count, with the swing depending on the opponent's board size.; Access depends on drawing it or searching it through partners, since the text names no searcher.
- 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 legal_copies is empty for all formats