WATER
4Cold Enchanter
ATK:
1600
DEF:
1200
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You can discard 1 card to target 1 face-up monster on the field; place an Ice Counter on that target. This card gains 300 ATK for each Ice Counter on the field.
Cold Enchanter — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 44 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 45 · Deck: 43 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Cold Enchanter converts a discarded card into one Ice Counter on a face-up monster, and its +300 ATK per Ice Counter is a text-only payoff that no recorded board confirms. Its 1600 ATK earns nothing by itself. The card scores mid-range because it is a clean, cheap Level 4 WATER body that appears in 25 decks across 13 archetypes, while its discard cost and weak effect keep the value low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Sits in 25 of the sampled decks, but with no combo or searcher evidence it is a generic body, not a live starter (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | The Ice Counter placement is verified from text, but there are zero recorded combo appearances to show it builds a board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | Costs a card from hand (discard) for one counter with no draw, search or recursion, so it is close to a pure -1 (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 20 | The counter placement is soft interaction and not removal or negation; any real Ice Counter interaction is unconfirmed by the evidence (inferred). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 WATER Aqua body with 1600/1200 stats fits Level 4 summons, and the body still exists when the effect is negated (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The discard cost is paid before the effect resolves, but the effect is a single-target counter placement that is easy to blank (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Typically runs 1 copy (avg 1.24), needs no garnets or locks, and is cheap to slot into many decks (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 45, Deck ≈ 43, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 4 WATER Aqua body that converts as material even when its effect is negated
- Cheap to run: about 1 copy per deck with no garnet or lock cost
- Broad deck presence across 13 archetypes, so it is not locked to one home
Weaknesses
- Discard cost gives no card advantage and only a single Ice Counter in return
- The +300 ATK per counter payoff is not supported by any recorded board
- Its ATK is not earned by the effect; a 1600 ATK body is ordinary for a Level 4
Counters / choke points
- Negation or blanking of the effect leaves only a 1600/1200 vanilla body
- Unverified: the evidence does not show which interactions meaningfully target the Ice Counter
Best use
Generic Level 4 utility body; the Ice Counter is a minor bonus. Decks: Greed, Exodia, Performapal, Darklord, Icejade. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect text: discard 1 card to target 1 face-up monster and place an Ice Counter on it; Effect text: gains 300 ATK for each Ice Counter on the field; Level 4 WATER Aqua Effect Monster, 1600 ATK / 1200 DEF, legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks
- Observed: Appears in 25 sampled decks across 13 archetypes, mostly 1 copy (avg 1.24); Co-occurs with generic staples Into the Void, Magical Mallet and Upstart Goblin in 72% of decks; 0 recorded combo appearances
- Inferred: Its discard cost makes it a poor resource-economy card; Its counter placement is soft interaction only; Its generic Level 4 body is clean material
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % comes from the deck sample only no rulings for Ice Counter interactions