LIGHT
1Vylon Sphere
Archetype:
Vylon
ATK:
400
DEF:
400
View:
2911
If this card is sent from the Monster Card Zone to the Graveyard: You can pay 500 Life Points to target 1 face-up monster you control; equip this card to that target. You can send this Equip Card to the Graveyard to target 1 Equip Spell Card in your Graveyard; equip that target to the monster this card was equipped to.
Vylon Sphere — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57.4 · Deck: 57.9 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Vylon Sphere's value is mainly as a Level 1 Tuner body: it is a cheap, Light Machine Tuner that appears in 19 sampled decks across 9 archetypes (including Infernoble Knight, Speedroid, Fiendsmith and White Forest), which is the observed sign of a generic material role. Its GY effect costs 500 LP to equip itself to a monster and can retrieve an Equip Spell from the Graveyard, which adds modest recursion but no board, card advantage or interaction. The recorded combo evidence is empty, so no conversion or starter role is credited; the frequency of its partners, such as Ash Blossom at 79%, confirms that it is played, not that it is powerful, and that did not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | A Level 1 Tuner is easy to draw and live in most hands, and it appears in 19 decks across 9 archetypes, but no searcher route or starter use is evidenced (observed deck count; inferred live-hand access). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No recorded boards and no combo examples; the text only equips it to a monster for 500 LP and converts nothing into a board on its own (verified text, no combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | The 500 LP cost is paid for a single equip, and the GY option retrieves an Equip Spell, a small refuel with no net card advantage (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 72 | A Level 1 Light Machine Tuner is a clean generic material, and its GY trigger still works when it is sent as material, so the body converts even when the effect is ignored (verified text; inferred conversion). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | It is a single-zone body whose value depends on the monster-zone-to-GY trigger, with no evidenced redundancy beyond 1 to 3 copies per deck (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It is one slot at 1 to 3 copies, with no garnet or self-lock and a low cost to splash, shown by an average of 1.74 copies across the sampled decks (observed deck stat). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 57.4, Deck ≈ 57.9, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Exceptional compactness (2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 1 Tuner body that works as Synchro and Tuner material across many archetypes
- Cheap to run: one slot, 1 to 3 copies, no self-lock
- Its GY trigger still fires when it is used as material
Weaknesses
- Costs 500 LP for each equip, which is a real cost in a race
- No board creation, negation or removal on its own
- The GY effect only recurs an Equip Spell and gives no card advantage
Counters / choke points
- Monster-zone interaction that removes or banishes it before it is used as material
- Opponent's Tuner-based plays that make the body irrelevant
Best use
Level 1 Tuner body and Equip Spell recursion for Vylon and cross-archetype Tuner decks. Decks: Infernoble Knight, Speedroid, Fiendsmith, White Forest.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 1 Tuner, Light, Machine, 400 ATK / 400 DEF (card text); The GY effect costs 500 LP and equips the card to a face-up monster (card text); The GY option retrieves an Equip Spell from the Graveyard (card text)
- Observed: 19 sampled decks across 9 archetypes, average 1.74 copies per deck (deck data); Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring co-occurs in 15 of 19 decks, 79% (deck data)
- Inferred: Live in most hands as a Level 1 Tuner, with access routed through Vylon searchers (inference from text and deck partners); Its trigger still fires when it is used as material (inference from the send-to-GY timing)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited)