"Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning" Rating Score by ねおんちゃん

Very easily he can Special Summon and also search with Isolde and Chaos Space.
With this alone, it's inferior to other searches and the easy level 8 of Special Summon (《Galactic Spiral Dragon》, etc.), but in addition to having high body stats, it is possible to use materials after excluding an opponent's monster. It clearly outperforms other Special Summon level 8 in points.
It is extremely easy to accumulate light and darkness in the GY in the middle of an appropriate link deployment, so it is relatively easy to incorporate it into the deployment route, and it can be sufficiently considered for use in the deck that extends the eight-axis deployment.
Since it's status is high in the first place, it's good to just add it to the side as an accompaniment to the deployment, and even if you treat it like that, you can extend the hit point with two attacks, so it's very versatile.
It's really hard to believe that this kind of performance, which is sufficiently convincing even for a new model in 2022 and can withstand practical use, was born in 2003. Well, at that time, it would be a must-have frame.
As expected, compared to modern Yu-Gi-Oh's crazy punch power cards, it's a little inferior, and it's not enough to be forced to use it, but even now, the high stats exclusion that lands under this easy condition is still used as a removal factor and as a deployment part. Good enough value. Cheers to the old soldier who has not yet decayed.
As for the illustration, he is Gaia the Fierce Knight's transformed Black Luster Soldier, and this one has a Curse of Dragon design. I can see that. Super cool.