FIRE
3Caninetaur
ATK:
1500
DEF:
200
View:
3167
Once per turn, if this card battles an opponent's monster, during damage calculation (in either player's turn): You can send 1 Beast, Beast-Warrior, or Winged Beast-Type monster from your hand or Deck to the Graveyard, and if you do, this card gains ATK equal to the sent monster's Level x 100, until the end of the Battle Phase.
Caninetaur — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 45 ± 10 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46 · Deck: 44 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Caninetaur is a vanilla-sized 1500 ATK Level 3 Beast-Warrior whose only text is a once-per-turn battle-step pump: it discards one Beast, Beast-Warrior or Winged Beast from hand or Deck to gain up to +800 ATK during a battle. That converts a Level 3 body into a modest battle-step threat and a small self-mill resource, but it never builds a board, draws, searches or interacts, so it earns little beyond a usable generic body. Its 1500 ATK and the 8-deck count are not counted as power; the deck count only confirms it is played in Tri-Brigade and similar Beast-Warrior shells.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Plain Level 3 body with no searcher or recorded starter role; reaching it depends on the draw, and combo data is absent (inferred, deck count 8 is observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Text only: the battle-step ATK pump converts a fight, not a board, and no combo boards record it (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | Its effect costs one card from hand or Deck for an ATK gain, a net -1 with no recursion or draw (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | No negation, removal or hand-trap reach; the effect is a battle pump only (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 3 Beast-Warrior fits common Level 3 material needs and stays a body if its effect is negated (inferred, role matches text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Once-per-turn battle-step effect is shut off by a single negate in damage calculation, and it is not multi-zone (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | No garnet or lock, and up to 3 copies are run in 5 of 8 decks (observed, deck evidence). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default); no role blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 46, Deck ≈ 44, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Plain Level 3 Beast-Warrior body that is easy to run up to 3 copies
- Battle-step ATK pump scales up to +800 with a Level 8 Beast-type discard
- Appears in 8 recent decks across Tri-Brigade, Lunalight and Fire Fist shells
Weaknesses
- Effect only matters in battle; no board, draw, search or interaction
- Discard cost is a net -1 card with no recovery
- Once-per-turn timing is easy to shut off with one negate
Counters / choke points
- Single negate or effect-negating trap during damage calculation
- Opponent monster with higher ATK when the pump is not yet live
Best use
Battle-step attacker and generic Level 3 body. Decks: Tri-Brigade, Lunalight, Fire Fist. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect is once per turn during damage calculation, sends one Beast/Beast-Warrior/Winged Beast from hand or Deck to GY, gains ATK equal to its Level x 100 until end of Battle Phase; Level 3 Fire Beast-Warrior, 1500 ATK / 200 DEF
- Observed: Present in 8 of 8 recent decks, 3 archetypes, average 2.5 copies; Co-occurs with Fire Formation - Tenki in 100 percent of sampled decks
- Inferred: Battle-step pump only; no board, draw or interaction value; Generic Level 3 material utility that survives a negate
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for archetype inclusion no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited)