DARK
5Berfomet
ATK:
1400
DEF:
1800
View:
5318
When this card is Normal or Flip Summoned: You can add 1 "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" from your Deck to your hand.
Berfomet — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 62 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60 · Deck: 62 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Berfomet's value is its one search: when it is Normal or Flip Summoned, it adds Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts from the Deck to hand, and the deck evidence shows Gazelle is run alongside it in 97.1% of the 272 sampled decks. The search is gated by a summon, has no interaction on its own, and is a single-copy body, so it scores as a mid-tier enabler rather than a boss. Its Level 5 Fiend body adds material value for the Chimera ecosystem named in the guide, but there are no recorded boards to confirm how often that conversion happens. Its 1400 ATK and 1800 DEF earn no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | The summon-triggered search reaches Gazelle, which is a 97.1% co-deck partner, so the route is live in many decks, but the summon cost and the search itself are not in the evidence (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | No recorded combo boards exist, so the score rests on the Chimera guide's description of a mid-range engine and Chimera Fusion co-occurrence at 90.1% (observed partners plus guide text, inference). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The search is roughly one-for-one, since the card is spent as the summoned body while adding one card to hand, so net advantage is modest and there is no recursion (verified from text, inferred for net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | It is a Level 5 Fiend, and the guide names Fiend as a valid Chimera Fusion material, so it converts into material even when the search is negated (verified race and level, guide-cited, inferred for the fusion route). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The only effect is a summon-triggered search, so a single negate removes its whole value and it has no redundancy in its own text (verified from text, inferred for the impact). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It is run at one copy in 264 of 272 decks (average 1.03) across 35 archetypes with no garnet or lock text, so it is a cheap, portable slot (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 60, Deck ≈ 62, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Summon-triggered search reaches Gazelle, a 97.1% co-deck partner, so the route is consistently live across many decks
- Level 5 Fiend body gives material value into the Chimera ecosystem named in the guide
- One-copy, no-garnet slot that runs in 35 archetypes with no restriction on the rest of the deck
Weaknesses
- The search requires a Normal or Flip Summon, which is a timing and cost gate the evidence does not spell out
- No recorded combo boards, so combo conversion is supported only by text and the guide
- No interaction, and a single negate on the trigger removes its entire value
- Frequency is high, but that confirms accessibility and not intrinsic power (guardrail 3)
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the summon trigger removes the search (inferred from the summon-triggered text)
Best use
Summon-triggered searcher for Gazelle and fusion material for Chimera Fusion. Decks: Chimera / Fiend Chimera-based shells that run Gazelle, Edge Imp, Invoked, Frightfur. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: when Normal or Flip Summoned, add 1 Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts from the Deck to hand; Level 5 Fiend, DARK, 1400 ATK / 1800 DEF, no archetype; Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks; Gazelle co-occurs in 264 of 272 decks (97.1%)
- Observed: Average copies per deck 1.03 across 272 decks in 35 archetypes; Gazelle, Polymerization and Chimera Fusion are the top partners; Guide describes Chimera Fusion as taking Beast, Fiend or Illusion materials
- Inferred: The summon-triggered search is the card's main value and the card is a searcher first; Material value is real for Chimera Fusion, based on guide text and the Fiend race; The search loses value when the summon trigger is negated
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter or material shares are text and guide inference only no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the deck sample only summon cost and any once-per-turn wording are not in the card text supplied guide evidence is a single Chimera guide snippet