LIGHTTrickstar Noble Angel
Archetype:
Trickstar
ATK:
2000
LINK-2
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2 "Trickstar" monsters If this card is Link Summoned: You can add 1 "Blue Tears" card from your Deck to your hand. If you have a Fusion Monster in your field or GY: You can target 1 "Trickstar" monster in your GY; Special Summon it. If effect damage is inflicted (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 face-up card on the field; destroy it. You can only use each effect of "Trickstar Noble Angel" once per turn.
Trickstar Noble Angel — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor, Recovery/Recursion, Removal
Why it scores here
Trickstar Noble Angel is a Link-2 body whose text converts one Link Summon into a deck-to-hand search for a Blue Tears card, and gives a conditional revival of a Trickstar from the GY. Its once-per-turn damage trigger adds reactive destruction, but that is situational rather than a strong hand-trap or negation. Its 2000 ATK earns nothing, and the 400-deck presence is treated as confirmation of accessibility and clean deck fit, not as proof of intrinsic power, because no combo boards were recorded to show what it converts into.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | Link Summon is required, but the Trickstar shell is live: 400 of 400 sampled decks run it at 1.54 average copies, and the search fires on Link Summon (verified text, deck data). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Text shows a search plus a conditional GY revival from one Link Summon, but there are zero recorded combos, so the conversion rating rests on text alone (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | One Link Summon yields a +1 search and a possible revival of a Trickstar from the GY, which is repeatable across turns but gated by once-per-turn wording (verified text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | The destroy effect needs effect damage to be inflicted (not in the Damage Step) and targets a face-up card, so it is reactive and situational rather than a flexible negate or hand trap (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Light Fairy Link-2 with Bottom-Left and Bottom-Right arrows is a usable Link material, but its value as a generic body is unproven and the arrows are restrictive (verified stats, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its search fires on the Link Summon event, so a single negate on that summon stops it; multiple effects are once per turn each, giving moderate multi-turn redundancy across 1 to 3 copies (verified text, observed copies). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Trickstar-locked, non-garnet, with 1 to 3 copies used per deck and no evidence of self-lock, so it is cheap and clean to run inside its archetype (observed, deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Searcher / Tutor. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches a Blue Tears card from the Deck on Link Summon, giving a live search route into its engine
- Conditional GY revival of a Trickstar adds recursion once a Fusion Monster is on field or in GY
- Cheap to run inside its archetype: non-garnet, 1 to 3 copies, widely present
- Strong deck-level centrality: runs in all 400 sampled decks, with top partners at 86 to 96 percent co-occurrence
Weaknesses
- Reactive destruction needs effect damage to be inflicted and is not usable outside that window
- Heavily archetype-locked text, so GenericUtility is capped despite 35 nominal archetype IDs
- No recorded combo boards, so its real conversion into a full board is unconfirmed
- Each effect is once per turn, which limits repeated value
Counters / choke points
- Negating or stopping the Link Summon event prevents the on-summon search (inferred from text)
- Interaction that removes the Link-2 body before its effects resolve (inferred from text)
Best use
Starter / Searcher: a Link-2 bridge that searches a Blue Tears card on Link Summon and revives a Trickstar when a Fusion Monster is present. Decks: Trickstar. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-2 Light Fairy with Bottom-Left and Bottom-Right arrows, ATK 2000; On Link Summon: add 1 Blue Tears card from Deck to hand; If a Fusion Monster is in field or GY: Special Summon 1 Trickstar from GY; If effect damage is inflicted (not in Damage Step): destroy 1 face-up card on the field; Each effect is once per turn; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, average 1.54 copies, max 3
- Observed: Trickstar archetype accounts for 58.8% of decks; Trickstar Colchica co-occurs in 96% of decks; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 90.8% of decks; Archetype count is inflated: IDs 659, 310 and 488 are all named Trickstar, and 382 is an unlabelled none bucket
- Inferred: The search is a live route, since Link Summon is the only gate; The revival is conditional and the removal is reactive, so neither is a core engine on its own; Generic utility is capped because the text is archetype-locked
- 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 No rulings supplied for the Blue Tears search target or the damage-trigger timing Gameplay type IDs (7, 6, 4) are not labelled in the evidence