LIGHT
1Wightlord
Archetype:
Wight
ATK:
300
DEF:
200
View:
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This card's name becomes "Skull Servant" while in the GY. You can only use each of the following effects of "Wightlord" once per turn. If you have "Skull Servant" or "King of the Skull Servants" in your GY: You can send this card from your hand or field to the GY; send cards from the top of your Deck to the GY, up to the number of "Skull Servant" and "King of the Skull Servants" in your GY. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 "Skull Servant" or "King of the Skull Servants" in your GY; Special Summon it.
Wightlord — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 62 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60 · Deck: 63 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Wightlord is a Level 1 LIGHT Zombie whose hand/field effect converts itself into a GY mill for the Skull Servant engine, and whose GY effect banishes itself to Special Summon a Skull Servant or King of the Skull Servants, so it works from more than one zone. It is in 296 of the 400 sampled decks and in 100% of those with King of the Skull Servants and Wightprince, which supports a real, practical role. Its 300 ATK and Level 1 body earn nothing by themselves; the score comes from access and recursion, and it is capped by having no recorded combo boards and by its dependence on the Skull Servant cluster.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Live in hand and recurs from the GY, and is run at 2.61 copies on average across 296 decks, though its hand effect needs a Skull Servant or King in the GY (decks evidence, text; observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Mills deck cards and summons a Skull Servant, but no combo boards were supplied, so conversion rests on text alone (text; inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The hand/field effect is a -1 for mill, and the GY effect converts a banished copy into a body; the net is a refuel and a body, not card advantage (text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No opponent interaction, negation, or removal is present in the text (text; verified). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level 1 non-Tuner LIGHT Zombie is usable as Synchro/Xyz fodder, and its GY effect still works when its hand/field effect is negated (text; inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 70 | Works from hand, field, and GY across turns, with the GY effect surviving negation of the hand effect (text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Typically run at 2–3 copies with no garnet or lock, but it is tied to a Skull Servant core, so it is only efficient inside that cluster (decks evidence; observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 60, Deck ≈ 63, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live from hand, field, and GY with a GY effect that survives negation of the hand effect
- Consistently included in Skull Servant decks (296 of 400 sampled), with 100% co-occurrence with King of the Skull Servants and Wightprince
- Level 1 non-Tuner body usable as Synchro/Xyz material
Weaknesses
- Hand effect needs a Skull Servant or King in the GY, so it is dead without that line
- No effect on the opponent, and no negation or removal
- No recorded combo boards, so combo centrality is unverified
Counters / choke points
- Opponent interaction that stops a GY-based Skull Servant line (text; inferred)
Best use
Starter that mills and recurs Skull Servant bodies, feeding GY-based recursion. Decks: Skull Servant (652, gameplay 7), Skull Servant (380, gameplay 4). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: hand/field send-to-GY with mill, and GY banish-to-Special-Summon, both once per turn; 296 of 400 sampled decks run it, average 2.61 copies; 100% co-occurrence with King of the Skull Servants and Wightprince in the sampled decks
- Observed: Inclusion at 100% in Skull Servant archetype 652 and 75% in archetype 380 (usage statistics); Partners include Wightbaking, The Lady in Wight, and Skull Servant at 91%+ co-occurrence
- Inferred: Starter role is real but unconfirmed by combo evidence; Material usability as a Level 1 non-Tuner; GY effect survives negation of the hand effect
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited)