WIND
1Altergeist Pixiel
Archetype:
Altergeist
ATK:
100
DEF:
100
View:
3468
You can Tribute this card; excavate the top 3 cards of your Deck, add 1 excavated "Altergeist" card to your hand, also send the rest to the GY. You can only use this effect of "Altergeist Pixiel" once per turn.
Altergeist Pixiel — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Altergeist Pixiel's value is its once-per-turn Tribute-cost search: it converts its own body into one Altergeist card, while excavating and sending two more cards to the GY as fuel. Its 100 ATK and 100 DEF earn nothing on their own, and it has no interaction. The score rests on its live placement in all 13 sampled decks, its Altergeist-core partners, and its card-advantage conversion. With no combo evidence, the combo axis is inferred from text alone, which keeps the band wide.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 75 | Present in 13 of 13 sampled decks at an average of 2 copies, with the Altergeist core partners at 61–77% co-occurrence, though combo starter/searched counts are zero because no combos were supplied (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | The text yields one Altergeist search plus a GY send, but no recorded board shows what that search converts into, so conversion depends on the rest of the Altergeist engine (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Tributing itself to add one card and send two to the GY gives a net +1 card in hand for one body spent, plus GY fuel for the Altergeist line (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | Level 1 WIND Spellcaster is a verified level, but the Tribute cost spends the body, so material use is only inferred and no material stats were supplied (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The search is once per turn and requires the body to be tributed, with redundancy from an average of 2 copies per deck and no further recovery effect in the text (verified; observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | It is a low-cost body with no garnet, but its search only returns Altergeist cards, so it is restricted to Altergeist-compatible builds (verified; observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in every sampled deck (13 of 13) at an average of 2 copies
- Tribute-cost search gives a net +1 card and GY fuel for one body
- Simple once-per-turn text with no garnet or lock
- Strong, consistent Altergeist partner co-occurrence in decks
Weaknesses
- 100/100 body with no board presence or interaction
- Search returns only Altergeist cards, limiting it to Altergeist-compatible builds
- Once per turn, so it cannot be repeated in a turn
- No combo evidence, so conversion beyond the search is unverified
Counters / choke points
- No counter data in the evidence; negation of the search effect is the expected interaction (inferred)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor for the Altergeist core, cashing in its own body for one Altergeist plus GY fuel. Decks: Altergeist core lists (Altergeist archetype variants). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Tribute this card; excavate top 3, add 1 Altergeist to hand, send the rest to the GY; once per turn; Level 1 WIND Spellcaster, 100 ATK / 100 DEF, Effect Monster; Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks
- Observed: Present in 13 of 13 sampled decks, average 2 copies, max 3; Partner co-occurrence: Kunquery, Multifaker, Silquitous, Meluseek, Personal Spoofing at 10 of 13 decks
- Inferred: Search route is the primary function; the body's Tribute is a cost; GY fuel supports Altergeist recursion; Level 1 body is usable as material only before it is tributed
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so starter role/searched-for role/material role and power index are unavailable No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for this card No banlist token, so 3 copies are assumed Guide snippet is empty; the only guide mention lacks substantive text No rulings or counter data supplied