EARTH
4Cattycorn
ATK:
1500
DEF:
500
View:
556
If this card is Special Summoned while you control no card in your Field Zone: You can add 1 Field Spell from your Deck to your hand. If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect and sent to the GY: You can target 1 Field Spell in your GY; add 1 card with its name from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Cattycorn" once per turn.
Cattycorn — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Cattycorn is a generic Level 4 Earth Plant whose value is two once-per-turn Field Spell searches: one on Special Summon when no card is in your Field Zone, and one from the GY after it is destroyed. It does not start a combo and has no interaction of its own, so it earns most of its points from resource gain, clean material use and cheap deck slotting. Its 1500 ATK and the 2 chances to search earn nothing by themselves, and the 397-deck inclusion is treated as popularity, not power, so the score stays in the mid-50s.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Needs a Special Summon with an empty Field Zone or a GY trigger, and no starter or searched-appearance evidence exists to show it reliably goes live (inference, deck count only confirms it is run). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No recorded boards, so it converts a Field Spell into a hand card at best and builds no board of its own (text-only inference, no combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Two possible Field Spell searches from one body give repeated card gain, but each is a one-for-one tutor with no extra card produced (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Neither effect negates, removes or disrupts an opponent card, so interaction is essentially absent (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 65 | A clean Level 4 Earth Plant body that remains usable as material even if its effects are negated (verified from text and card stats). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | The GY trigger can still fire after a battle or effect destruction, giving it two zones and two timings to convert (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single copy in 364 of 397 decks, generic non-garnet body with no locking restriction, so it is cheap to run (observed from copies_per_deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two conditional Field Spell searches from one body
- Clean generic material for Level 4 EARTH Plant and other Level-4 targets
- Cheap to run: one copy in most decks, no garnets or self-locks
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction
- Accessibility depends on empty Field Zone or a GY trigger, with no starter evidence
- Searches only Field Spells, which limits the card to Field Spell-supporting lines
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation of the Special Summon trigger, though the GY trigger still works (inferred)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor and clean Level 4 material body in generic and Field Spell-supporting decks. Decks: Traptrix, Ragnaraika, Rikka, Aroma, Therions. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Two effects from card text: Special Summon condition (no card in Field Zone) and GY trigger on battle/effect destruction, both once per turn; Single copy in 364 of 397 decks (copies_per_deck distribution); Present in 397 recent decks across 72 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Top partners include Aromaseraphy Jasmine (64.7%), Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (64.5%) and Called by the Grave (54.4%); Usage statistics show 100% inclusion in Rikka (gameplay 3) and 80% in Battlin' Boxer (gameplay 4)
- Inferred: Accessibility is conditional: no starter appearance evidence, so it is not a reliable opening-hand card; GY trigger still functions after the Special Summon effect is negated; Material value is generic for Level 4 EARTH Plant bodies
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Field Spell targets in the deck are not listed, so the search's practical hit rate cannot be measured