DARK
5Big-Winged Berfomet
ATK:
1400
DEF:
1800
View:
5290
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 Level 4 Beast monster and/or 1 "Chimera Fusion" from your Deck to your hand, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Fusion Monsters. If this card is sent to the GY as material for a Fusion Summon: You can target 1 Illusion monster in your GY; Special Summon it. You can only use each effect of "Big-Winged Berfomet" once per turn.
Big-Winged Berfomet — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 63 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60.4 · Deck: 65.2 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Big-Winged Berfomet's value is that its Normal/Special Summon effect searches a Level 4 Beast and/or Chimera Fusion, and its GY effect Special Summons an Illusion monster when it is sent as Fusion material. It is in all 400 sampled decks and in every recorded combo, so its place in the Chimera shell is confirmed, but that inclusion reflects being a required engine piece rather than intrinsic strength. The 1400 ATK and 1800 DEF contribute nothing to the score, and the combo tags record 0 searched or starter boards even though the text searches, so the search role rests on the card text, not the combo tags.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | The card must be in hand and summoned to fire its search, and it is in 400/400 decks at an average of 1.63 copies, but combo tags show 0 starter/searched appearances (observed; search route from text, verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 62 | Recorded boards containing it average power index 57.3 and 6 of 18 reach end-board, with power-100 examples that include it as a support body (observed; ceiling is inferred from examples). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The on-summon search is a +1 to +2 card gain and the GY-to-field effect is a recursion, with examples showing netCardAdvantage of 4 to 5 (verified text; observed netCardAdvantage). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | It has no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach, so the only interaction is its own effects, which are easy to shut off (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | A Level 5 DARK Fiend is a flexible Fusion material for Chimera-family Fusions, and the GY effect still fires as material even if the body is negated (inferred from text and rules). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | It has two effects, each once per turn, on separate zones, but both are blanked by a negate on its summon, and the search requires a live summon (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It is a 1 to 3 copy staple of its own archetype with no garnet or brick cost, but the Extra Deck summon lock for the rest of the turn costs real flexibility (verified text; observed copies).. |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 60.4, Deck ≈ 65.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Extra Deck summon lock (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in all 400 sampled decks, so accessibility is well confirmed
- Searches two cards (a Level 4 Beast and Chimera Fusion) on summon, giving resource gain
- GY effect recurs an Illusion monster when it is used as Fusion material
- Cheap to run: 1 to 3 copies, no garnet or brick cost
Weaknesses
- Score depends on a single summon, so one negate on the summon ends most of its value
- Zero effect interaction of its own
- Extra Deck summon lock for the turn
- Search only pays off inside its own Chimera/Beast shell
Counters / choke points
- Generic on-summon negation or hand-trap pressure that blanks the search before it resolves
Best use
Searcher/Tutor. Decks: Phantom Beast (Chimera), Chimera, Hecahands. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Searches a Level 4 Beast and/or Chimera Fusion from Deck to hand on Normal or Special Summon (card text); GY effect Special Summons an Illusion monster when sent to GY as Fusion material (card text); Blocks non-Fusion Extra Deck Special Summons for the rest of the turn (card text); Present in 400/400 sampled decks at 1.63 average copies (decks_evidence)
- Observed: 0 of 18 combos tag it as starter, searched, or material; 6 of 18 reach end-board (combos_evidence); Average power index 57.3 across appearances; several power-100 boards include it (combos_evidence); Inclusion 100% in Chimera archetypes and 54% to 62% in Hecahands and Phantom Beast (Chimera) lists (usage_statistics)
- Inferred: The search feeds Chimera Fusion, which is the engine's main conversion, so the search is central despite the combo tags; A negated body is still a Level 5 Fusion material (rules reasoning); Accessibility is capped by needing the body in hand and summoned
- Data gaps: No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Combo tags record 0 searched/starter appearances despite on-summon search text, so combo-role data under-counts this card No card rulings in evidence Rush Duel max_atk is 0 (non-Rush), so no Rush-specific data top_card_context has no rankings