LIGHT
Bujintei Kagutsuchi
Archetype:
Bujin
ATK:
2500
DEF:
2000
View:
4382
2 Level 4 Beast-Warrior-Type monsters When this card is Xyz Summoned: Send the top 5 cards of your Deck to the Graveyard (or your entire Deck, if less than 5), also this card gains 100 ATK for each "Bujin" card sent to the Graveyard by this effect. If a "Bujin" Beast-Warrior-Type monster(s) you control would be destroyed by battle or by card effect, you can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card instead of destroying 1 of those monsters. You can only control 1 "Bujintei Kagutsuchi".
Bujintei Kagutsuchi — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Bujintei Kagutsuchi is a Rank 4 Xyz that, on summon, mills 5 cards from the owner's Deck and gains 100 ATK per Bujin milled, then can detach a material to save a Bujin from destruction. The 400-deck sample shows it is run as a single copy almost everywhere, which confirms it is accessible and cheap to play, but that frequency is not evidence of power. Its only observed combo role is an end-board body (power index 12, no starter, searched, material or payoff tags), so the score rests on its text, which gives a modest self-mill cost, a soft protective detach and a Bujin-locked ATK gain rather than strong conversion. The 2500 ATK and high inclusion rate earned no points on their own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Summoned from Level 4 materials that many decks carry and it is in 400 of 400 sampled decks, but it is never observed as a starter or searched card in the 2 combos (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | On summon it mills 5 and gains ATK per Bujin milled, but the only recorded boards show one end monster and one boss with no extra bodies (observed, plus text-based inference). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | Self-mill of 5 is a cost with no recovery in the text, and the combo boards show netCardAdvantage 0 (inferred from text, observed in combos). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | The detach replaces destruction for Bujin monsters only, so it is soft protection rather than negation or removal (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 25 | As an Xyz it is a terminal body and is not a generic Level 4 material for other summons, and it is never observed as material (verified from text, observed in combos). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Detaching materials can protect Bujin across several turns while materials last, but the card itself is a single-copy, single-zone body (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | One copy per deck, no garnets or self-lock beyond the 'only control 1' clause, and easy to slot into many homes (observed in deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Boss / End-board primary, no secondary role. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Playable as a single copy in a wide range of decks (35 distinct archetypes in the sample)
- Detach replacement protects Bujin monsters from battle and effect destruction
- ATK gain on summon scales with how many Bujin it mills
Weaknesses
- Self-mill of 5 with no recovery
- Protection only covers Bujin monsters
- Weak observed combo conversion: one end-board body in recorded boards
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the summon or the detach effect
- Board wipes or destruction effects that do not target Bujin
Best use
End-board Xyz body with Bujin protection. Decks: Bujin, Lunalight, Lightsworn. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Rank 4 Xyz, Beast-Warrior, LIGHT, 2500 ATK, Bujin archetype; On summon: mill top 5 cards and gain 100 ATK per Bujin milled by this effect; Detach 1 Xyz Material to replace destruction of a Bujin Beast-Warrior by battle or effect; Only 1 copy may be controlled
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, almost all at 1 copy; Recorded combos: 2 appearances, none tagged as starter, searched, material or payoff; average power index 12; Top partners are Lunalight and Tearlaments bodies at roughly 40 to 55 percent co-occurrence
- Inferred: Accessibility is adequate because it is an Xyz with common Level 4 material; Its power is mainly the ATK gain and protection, which is modest in this pool; The sample mostly reflects a Lunalight-heavy metagame, so the deck rate is confirmatory, not a power signal
- Data gaps: No banlist token, so unlimited legal copies were assumed Only 2 recorded combos, so combo conversion is thinly evidenced The 400-deck sample all contain the card (selection bias), so inclusion carries no weight for power Only one guide mention, which is a general Lunalight guide and not about this card