LIGHT
4Valkyrie Dritte
Archetype:
Valkyrie
ATK:
1000
DEF:
1600
View:
3633
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Valkyrie" card from your Deck to your hand, except "Valkyrie Dritte". You can only use this effect of "Valkyrie Dritte" once per turn. Gains 200 ATK for each of your opponent's banished monsters.
Valkyrie Dritte — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 62 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body, Starter
Why it scores here
Valkyrie Dritte earns its score as a cost-free, on-summon archetype searcher: Normal or Special Summoning it converts into one more "Valkyrie" card, making it the deck's reliable starter and a clean Level 4 LIGHT Fairy body for Herald/Trias plays. Its 1000 ATK and the 200-ATK-per-banished-monster clause contribute essentially nothing — the points come from search reliability, resource neutrality, and material quality, not from stats. The ceiling is limited by the archetype lock (it only fetches "Valkyrie" cards), by the total absence of interaction, and by the fact that no combo evidence exists to show a high-power end board. It is a strong role-player inside Valkyrie and nearly invisible outside it.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Searches the whole "Valkyrie" pool on Normal or Special Summon with no cost, and is itself fetched by the archetype's other searchers, but is dead outside Valkyrie decks (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Delivers one body plus one extra archetype card toward the Valkyrie line, with no combo data to show a full disruptive board from it (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 68 | It is a search-on-summon that replaces itself, effectively a plus-one every turn it resolves, with no discard or LP cost (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 18 | Provides no disruption, negation, or removal; the only other clause is a passive ATK gain keyed to the opponent's banished monsters (verified). |
| Material Utility | 70 | Level 4 LIGHT Fairy with 1000 ATK is a clean material for Diviner of the Herald, Herald of the Arc Light, Trias Hierarchia, and generic Rank-4/Link plays even if its effect is negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Triggers off both Normal and Special Summon so several summon routes re-enable it, but a single negation or Ash on the search blanks the turn (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 62 | No locks, no garnet, and it is run as a 2.33-average, frequently 3-of core slot in the archetype, though it is unusable as a generic splash (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 62, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches any "Valkyrie" card from Deck to hand with no cost or discard, on Normal OR Special Summon
- Only once-per-turn clause is on itself, so it is a low-risk, repeatable engine starter
- Level 4 LIGHT Fairy body that converts into Diviner of the Herald, Herald of the Arc Light, Trias Hierarchia and generic Rank-4/Link material even when its effect is negated
- Core archetype slot: 122 decks, all main-decked, 98.4% alongside Valkyrie Sechste and Valkyrie Sigrun
Weaknesses
- Search is locked to "Valkyrie" cards, so the card is essentially dead outside the Valkyrie archetype
- No interaction, removal, or negation of any kind
- 1000 ATK body; the 200-ATK-per-opponent-banished-monster clause is situational and rarely relevant
- Single search effect is easy to answer with common hand traps and negations
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (negates the search)
- Effect Veiler / Infinite Impermanence (negates the on-summon effect)
- Solemn Strike / general summon negation
- Graveyard or banish-disruption that blanks the ATK-gain clause
Best use
Archetype searcher / starter and Level 4 LIGHT Fairy material. Decks: Valkyrie. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: If Normal or Special Summoned, add 1 "Valkyrie" card from Deck to hand except "Valkyrie Dritte"; once per turn; Card text: gains 200 ATK for each of the opponent's banished monsters; Stats/typing: Level 4, LIGHT, Fairy, 1000 ATK / 1600 DEF, archetype Valkyrie, legal in TCG/OCG/Master Duel/Duel Links; Deck stats: 122 decks run it, all 122 in the main deck, average 2.33 copies (max 3), 73 decks run 3; Partner stats: co-decked with Valkyrie Sechste and Valkyrie Sigrun in 98.4% of those decks
- Observed: 16 distinct archetype labels appear, but the overwhelming majority are Valkyrie variants (41.8% + 13.9% + 5.7%); Non-Valkyrie appearances are limited and small: Toy 9%, Prediction Princess 9%, The Agent 7.4%, Herald 2.5%; No combo records exist for this card (0 appearances of 0 combos), so no starter/material/payoff ratio can be measured
- Inferred: As a Level 4 LIGHT Fairy it is usable material for Diviner of the Herald, Herald of the Arc Light and Trias Hierarchia lines; Because it triggers on Special Summon as well as Normal Summon, multiple archetype summon routes re-enable the search; Splash appearances in non-Valkyrie decks are more consistent with it being used as a LIGHT Fairy body than as a Valkyrie 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 no average power index or starter-count data, so deck synergy and deck resilience are estimated rather than measured