LIGHT
4Bujingi Fox
Archetype:
Bujin
ATK:
200
DEF:
2100
View:
3310
During either player's turn: You can banish this card from your Graveyard and send 1 "Bujin" monster from your hand to the Graveyard; you take no damage this turn.
Bujingi Fox — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 42 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 39 · Deck: 44 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Bujingi Fox converts almost nothing into board presence: its only effect banishes itself from the Graveyard and sends a Bujin from hand to the Graveyard to stop damage for one turn, which is a net card cost with no body, search or removal attached. Its value is as a Bujin-archetype Graveyard enabler and a small damage-prevention option, not as a winning piece. The 200 ATK and the 2100 DEF earn nothing, and the 40-deck presence confirms it is a consistent archetype support card, not that it is strong on its own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Needs a Bujin in hand to pay the cost, so it is live only in Bujin lines and is not a standalone opening-hand card (verified text; 40 decks, 60% Bujins archetype; inferred from cost wording). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Its text produces no board, summon or search, and no combo boards were supplied, so conversion is text-only (inferred; combo data has 0 appearances). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | Costs one hand Bujin plus itself from the Graveyard for a single-turn damage prevention, a net disadvantage with only Graveyard-to-Graveyard repositioning as a benefit (verified text; inferred card-economy read). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | Its only interaction is preventing damage to its controller for the turn, not negating or removing an opposing card or effect (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 4 LIGHT Beast body with 200 ATK can be Normal Summoned as a generic Level 4 material, but its effect is usable only from the Graveyard, so the blank-body case is weak (verified text; inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Its effect works from the Graveyard, so it is unaffected by field-based negation, and it has no stated once-per-turn limit in the text; however it still depends on a Bujin being available in hand (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Average 1.55 copies per deck, no garnet or lock clause, and no restriction beyond being archetype-linked, so the slot cost is modest but the card has little use outside Bujin (observed decks; verified text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Combo enabler (Starter row). Intrinsic ≈ 39, Deck ≈ 44, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Consistent inclusion in Bujin decks: 40 sampled decks, 1.55 average copies
- Graveyard-activated, so it is not dead in hand when the Bujin field is blanked
- Clean, no-garnet text with a modest slot cost
Weaknesses
- Net card disadvantage: costs a hand Bujin plus itself
- Damage prevention only, with no negation or removal
- Little value outside the Bujin ecosystem; 200 ATK and a Level 4 body add almost nothing
Counters / choke points
- Opponent cards that punish Graveyard-activated effects or banish-from-Graveyard costs (inferred)
- Using the card as a damage-prevention answer, not a board breaker, means the player has already committed a Bujin to the Graveyard
Best use
Graveyard-activated Bujin support: damage prevention for one turn and a cost-based enabler for Bujin Graveyard effects. Decks: Bujin (Bujins archetype), Chimera, Bujin. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 LIGHT Beast Effect Monster, 200 ATK, 2100 DEF, Bujin archetype; Effect banishes itself from the Graveyard and sends one Bujin from hand to the Graveyard to take no damage this turn; 40 sampled decks, Bujins 60%, gameplay type 3 at 85%
- Observed: Average 1.55 copies per deck, distribution 1:22, 2:14, 3:4; Co-occurs with Bujingi Crane, Bujingi Turtle, Fire Formation - Tenki and Bujintei Susanowo in 72.5% of decks
- Inferred: Enables Bujin Graveyard effects by moving a hand Bujin to the Graveyard; Net card disadvantage as a damage-prevention action
- Data gaps: 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 no top-card ranking data no average starter count (average starter count when present is null)