WATER
5Bolt Escargot
ATK:
1400
DEF:
1500
View:
2377
''After rendering an opponent immobile by spitting a sticky goo, this monster closes in for the attack.''
Bolt Escargot — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 43 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 40 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body
Why it scores here
Bolt Escargot is a vanilla Normal Monster with no mechanical effect in the evidence, so its score rests on being a clean Level 5 WATER body that converts into material with nothing to negate. Its 1400 ATK and 1500 DEF earn no points. It runs once in each of two Umi Control decks, which confirms a real but narrow home and adds little synergy, since no combo boards or guides were supplied.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Run once in each of 2 Umi Control decks with no searcher evidence; Foolish Burial Goods co-occurs in both, but a route to draw it is not confirmed (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No combo boards are recorded, and a vanilla body builds nothing on its own (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | No effect text means no card advantage, refuel, or search; it is a 1-for-1 body at best (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | No opponent interaction is printed on the card; the quoted description is flavor text, not an effect (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Level 5 WATER Thunder with no effect converts cleanly as material and has nothing to negate (inferred from type and level). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Nothing to negate, but no redundancy or recovery route, and it sits in a single archetype (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | One copy with no garnet or lock restriction, but it takes a main-deck slot for a body with no effect (verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body / Normal primary; no secondary role. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 40, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 5 WATER Thunder body that is a generic material fit with nothing to negate
- No garnet or lock restriction; a single copy is cheap to run
- Confirmed live in two recent Umi Control decks
Weaknesses
- No effect text, so no card advantage, search, or interaction
- No recorded combo boards or guides to show it converting into a board
- Only two sampled decks, both from one archetype and one 2023 window
Best use
Material body / Normal. Decks: Umi Control. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card type is Normal Monster: Level 5, WATER, Thunder, ATK 1400 / DEF 1500 (card); Two recent decks run one copy in the main deck, both Umi Control (decks); Description is quoted flavor text with no effect text recorded (card)
- Observed: Appears in 2 of 2 sampled decks at 1 copy each (decks); Foolish Burial Goods, Called by the Grave and Forbidden Droplet co-occur with it in both decks (decks)
- Inferred: Level 5 WATER Thunder body is a plausible generic material for Level 5 monsters (type and level only, not checked against deck lists)
- Data gaps: Description is flavor text; there is no effect text to decompose no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only Deck sample is only 2 decks from one archetype and one 2023 window