DARK
3Clear Phantom
Archetype:
Clear
ATK:
1200
DEF:
800
View:
2306
You are unaffected by the effects of "Clear World". You can discard 2 cards, including this card; add 2 cards from your Deck to your hand, that are "Clear World" or Spells/Traps that mention it. You can only use this effect of "Clear Phantom" once per turn. If this card is destroyed: You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy it, and if you do, send the top 3 cards of their Deck to the GY.
Clear Phantom — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56.5 · Deck: 59.7 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Removal
Why it scores here
Clear Phantom's value is that a hand discard (itself plus one card) converts into two Clear World or Clear World-mentioning Spells/Traps from the Deck, which gives it reliable access to the archetype's enablers in 129 of the sampled decks, usually at 3 copies. Its on-destruction effect adds a conditional one-for-one removal plus a mill of 3, which is real but needs the card to be destroyed. The 1200 ATK and Level 3 body earn little on their own, and the card's power rests on the Clear World engine it searches into, not on its stats. The archetype dependence caps generic portability.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Runs as a 3-copy staple in 129 decks (87 of them Clear World) and is live from hand with a discard cost, but it cannot search itself and no combo data confirms the route (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Search of two Clear World pieces per turn feeds the archetype's boards, but there are zero recorded combos, so the conversion is text-based inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Discarding two cards including itself to add two from Deck is roughly card-neutral; the mill of 3 hits the opponent, not the controller's resources (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | On destruction it destroys one opposing monster and mills three, a conditional, one-shot removal that requires the card to be destroyed first (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 3 DARK Fiend with no Tuner or special material property is a usable but generic material body, and its effect-negation behavior is not stated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its once-per-turn search depends on a hand discard and it is immune only to Clear World effects, so it has no broad protection against interruption (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Runs at a typical 3 copies with no garnet or lock restriction, and the 67% Clear World share is a mild archetype restriction (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Removal/Negation. Intrinsic ≈ 56.5, Deck ≈ 59.7, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Reliable access to the Clear World enablers it searches (verified text, observed in 129 decks)
- Dual use: a search effect plus a conditional removal on destruction (verified)
- Clean 3-copy staple with no garnet or lock restriction (observed)
Weaknesses
- Search is archetype-locked; outside Clear World it has little use (observed, 67% of decks)
- Its search costs a hand discard of two cards, so it is card-neutral at best (verified)
- Removal needs the card to be destroyed first, and the 1200 ATK body is weak on its own (verified)
Counters / choke points
- Opponent interaction that blocks the hand discard or the destruction trigger (generic; no specific cards named in evidence)
Best use
Searcher that feeds the Clear World engine, with a conditional removal when destroyed. Decks: Clear World. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Immune to the effects of Clear World; Discard 2 cards from hand including itself to add 2 Clear World or Spells/Traps mentioning it from Deck, once per turn; On destruction: destroy 1 opposing monster and, if done, send the top 3 cards of the opponent's Deck to the GY; Average 2.71 copies per deck, with 105 of 129 decks running 3
- Observed: Present in 129 of the sampled decks, 87 of them Clear World (67.4%); 100% co-occurrence with Clear World, Clear Vicious Knight and Clear Wall in the sampled decks; Clear World usage inclusion 87.5% with typical 3 copies over the historical sample
- Inferred: Searcher/Tutor is the primary role: the search is the main value, with the removal as a secondary effect; Its search route is viable as an opening-hand or mid-turn enabler, though no combo data confirms it; Generic portability is low because the search text is locked to Clear World
- Data gaps: No combo evidence supplied, so combo conversion and starter/material roles are text-based inference No banlist token; 3 copies assumed as unlimited No rulings supplied for the destruction trigger's timing or the discard cost's interaction with the search Guide evidence is a single snippet, so the role in play is thinly documented