Trickstar Lycoris

Trickstar Lycoris — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 62 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 60.8 · Deck: 63 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body, Combo enabler

Why it scores here

Trickstar Lycoris is a reliable archetype extender: revealed in hand it Special Summons itself off any other Trickstar you control, adding a body without spending the Normal Summon, and it is easy to find because its core decks run Trickstar Light Stage (100% co-deck) and Trickstar Candina (97.2%) as searchers on top of 2.28 average copies. Its second effect — 200 damage per card added to the opponent's hand — is a steady burn clock that pairs with the deck's Reincarnation/Droll lines rather than a card-advantage engine. Its 1600 ATK and Level 3 statline earn it nothing here; the score comes from cheap extra material for Trickstar Link plays and the low deck-building cost, while the complete absence of recorded combo data leaves its ceiling as inference. It brings no negation or removal, so it is scored as a support piece, not a win condition.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 60.8, Deck ≈ 63, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Special Summons itself from hand as a Quick Effect without using the Normal Summon, extending Link plays
• Highly searchable and redundant in its home deck (Light Stage 100%, Candina 97.2%, 2.28 copies average)
• Recycles a Trickstar to hand, keeping that body available for a later summon or as material
• Passive burn of 200 per card added to the opponent's hand complements the archetype's Reincarnation/Droll lines
• Level 3 LIGHT Fairy body that is clean material for Trickstar Link monsters and Rank 3

Weaknesses

• Requires another face-up Trickstar you control to do anything; a lone Lycoris in hand is a dead card
• Cannot target other copies of Trickstar Lycoris with its own effect, limiting the bounce loop
• Provides no negation, removal, or floodgate — no disruption on its own
• Burn output is slow and passive compared to the opponent's own draw volume
• Effectively unplayable outside Trickstar builds despite the noisy 41-archetype sample

Counters / choke points

• Negating the Light Stage or Candina search cuts off the route to Lycoris
• Removing the only other Trickstar on board leaves Lycoris stranded in hand
• Effect negation on the Special Summon (e.g. Solemn Strike-style negation) blanks the extend
• Graveyard/banish-heavy control decks blunt the burn-and-recycle plan

Best use

Extender / Link material in the Trickstar core. Decks: Trickstar, Trickstar (Light Stage build), Trickstar Burn, Diabellstar-Trickstar hybrid. Suggested copies: 2.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: Quick Effect reveal-in-hand Special Summon targeting 1 other Trickstar you control, returning that monster to hand; Card text: 200 damage per card added to the opponent's hand; Level 3 LIGHT Fairy, 1600 ATK / 1200 DEF, Trickstar archetype, legal in TCG/OCG/MasterDuel/DuelLinks; Deck sample: 400/400 decks run it in the Main Deck, average 2.28 copies (1 copy in 67 decks, 2 in 154, 3 in 179)
• Observed: Trickstar Light Stage co-occurs in 100% of its decks and Trickstar Candina in 97.2% — the search engine that finds it; Top partners are all Trickstar pieces (Corobane 92.2%, Reincarnation 88.8%, Lilybell 78.8%), confirming an archetype-locked role; 41 distinct archetype labels appear, but Trickstar entries dominate (~72.8%) with only minor splashes (Diabellstar 8.5%, Fiendsmith 2%); No combo records (0 appearances), so no measured starter/material/payoff share exists
• Inferred: With any other Trickstar on board it functions as a free extra body for Trickstar Link summons (Holly Angel, Bloom, Divaridis) or Rank 3; The self-bounce can recoup a Trickstar for reuse, making the exchange roughly card-neutral; Burn output scales with the opponent drawing, so it pairs with the archetype's opponent-draw disruption lines; It remains a usable material body even when its summon effect is negated
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no average power index or starter-count data to calibrate how far the Lycoris lines actually build archetype labels in the sample are noisy (41 distinct labels for an archetype-locked card)