LIGHTTrickstar Bloom
Archetype:
Trickstar
ATK:
100
LINK-1
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1 Level 2 or lower "Trickstar" monster If this card is Link Summoned: You can make your opponent draw 1 card. If a face-up "Trickstar" monster this card points to is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can inflict 200 damage to your opponent for each card in their hand. You can only use this effect of "Trickstar Bloom" once per turn.
Trickstar Bloom — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54.8 · Deck: 56.9 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Trickstar Bloom is a zero-main-deck-cost Extra Deck Link-1 that converts one Level 2 or lower Trickstar into an extra body, so its value comes from laddering into bigger Trickstar Links and from the hand-size burn package, not from its 100 ATK. It is included in roughly half of the sampled Trickstar decks at an average of 1.41 copies, which confirms the role is real and practical rather than theoretical. However it is strictly archetype-locked on its material, its on-summon effect hands the opponent a card, and its 200-per-card burn is conditional on a pointed-to Trickstar being destroyed, so the ceiling is modest. No combo appearances were recorded at all, so combo conversion is text-only inference, which is the main reason the score sits in the mid-50s; the low ATK and the high page-view count earned nothing.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Text requires exactly 1 Level 2 or lower "Trickstar" monster, but as a Link-1 it sits in the Extra Deck and is live the moment any such body hits the field (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 48 | No combo appearances are recorded (0 of 0), so its payoff is inferred from text only: one small Trickstar becomes one Link body that can be laddered, not a one-card full board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 42 | The on-summon effect is optional but makes the opponent draw 1 card, a raw card gift that is only repaid by the hand-size-scaled burn (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 22 | The card provides no negation, removal, or disruption; its only offensive output is 200 damage per opponent hand card when a pointed-to Trickstar is destroyed (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Once summoned it is a clean LIGHT Fairy Link-1 for further Link Summons with no restriction on how it is used as material, so it keeps value even if its effects are blanked (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 48 | It lives in the Extra Deck so it is never a dead draw, and the burn effect is once per turn, but the trigger depends on a pointed-to Trickstar being destroyed by battle or effect (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 74 | 400 of 400 sampled decks run it in the Main Deck at 1.41 average copies, most commonly a single copy, since it costs one Extra Deck slot and no main-deck slots or garnets (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 54.8, Deck ≈ 56.9, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Exceptional compactness (1). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Extra Deck piece: costs no main-deck slots and is never a dead draw
- Converts a Level 2 or lower Trickstar into an extra Link body for laddering
- Optional on-summon effect that feeds Trickstar hand-size burn lines
- Cheap to run — average 1.41 copies, most builds use a single copy
- Retains material value even if its effects are negated
Weaknesses
- Material is strictly archetype-locked to a Level 2 or lower "Trickstar" monster
- Hands the opponent a free card on Link Summon
- Burn effect is conditional on a pointed-to Trickstar being destroyed by battle or effect
- No negation, removal, or any form of disruption
- Only 100 ATK, so it cannot contest any board by battle
Counters / choke points
- Solemn Strike or Solemn Judgment negating the Link Summon
- Infinite Impermanence or Effect Veiler negating the on-summon effect
- Hand traps stopping the Trickstar starter before a Level 2 or lower body reaches the field
- Removing or banishing the pointed-to Trickstar so the destruction trigger never resolves
Best use
Extra Deck Link-1 ladder/enabler inside Trickstar and Trickstar-burn builds. Decks: Trickstar. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Link-1, LIGHT Fairy, 100 ATK, Bottom link arrow, requires 1 Level 2 or lower "Trickstar" monster.; If this card is Link Summoned, you can make your opponent draw 1 card.; Once per turn, if a face-up "Trickstar" monster this card points to is destroyed by battle or card effect, inflict 200 damage per card in the opponent's hand.; 400 of 400 sampled decks run it in the Main Deck at an average of 1.41 copies (max 3).; combos_evidence records 0 combo appearances, so no board-level performance data exists.
- Observed: 48.5% of the 400-deck sample is Trickstar, with 274 decks running exactly 1 copy.; Co-deck rates are dominated by core Trickstar cards: Light Stage 71.2%, Candina 70.2%, Reincarnation 67.0%, Corobane 66.2%, Noble Angel 64.0%.; Both recorded guides list the card in their Extra Deck sections.; usage_statistics reports 100% inclusion at ~1 copy in The Agent and Hecahands samples and ~66.7% at 3 copies in Archfiend and Ogdoadic samples.
- Inferred: It acts as an Extra Deck ladder piece, turning one small Trickstar into a body that can be used for a Link-2 or higher Trickstar Link Summon.; The optional opponent-draw synergises with hand-size-scaled burn, since Trickstar Reincarnation appears in 67.0% of its co-decks.; The once-per-turn clause covers only the burn effect, so the on-summon draw is not once-per-turn.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no starter-count or end-board data to measure resilience or line redundancy evidence does not list which Trickstar monsters are Level 2 or lower, so material availability is inferred from deck usage rather than confirmed