WIND
4Dancing Fairy
ATK:
1700
DEF:
1000
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As long as this card remains in face-up Defense Position on your side of the field, increase your Life Points by 1000 points during each of your Standby Phases.
Dancing Fairy — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 41 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43.7 · Deck: 39.7 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Dancing Fairy converts its face-up Defense Position presence into a 1000-point Life Point gain each Standby Phase, and that is the whole of its value. It builds nothing, draws nothing, and interacts with nothing, and its 1700 ATK earns no points. Its Level 4 WIND Fairy body is a usable generic material and it costs little to run, which keeps it in the mid-40s. The 13 decks it appears in are mostly Defense-support or generic staple lists, so the deck evidence confirms it is a real pick, not that it is strong.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | It is a plain Level 4 body with no searcher in the evidence, and the appearance in 13 decks at about 2 copies each confirms it is reachable, but it is not a reliable opening-hand starter (deck evidence, inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Zero recorded combo boards and no text beyond the LP gain, so it converts nothing into a board (combos evidence, verified: 0 appearances). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | The only return is a 1000-point LP gain per Standby Phase, which is a small non-card resource and is conditional on staying in Defense (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 WIND Fairy with no tuner or special restriction is a clean generic Level 4 material, and it still works as a body if its effect is negated (inferred from text and card stats). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Its effect only works in face-up Defense Position on your side, so one negate or a forced attack-position change ends the value, and it has no redundancy (verified from card text, inferred for interaction). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | It has no garnet or lock, is capped at 3 copies, and is cheap to slot in Defense-support decks, with an average of 2 copies per deck (decks evidence, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 43.7, Deck ≈ 39.7, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean, clear text with no fiddly timing, which keeps RulesReliability high
- Generic Level 4 WIND Fairy body that works as a material even when its effect is negated
- Near free-roll to run, with no garnet and a 3-copy cap
- Spread across 9 archetypes, so it is portable across homes
Weaknesses
- Builds no board, draws no cards, and interacts with nothing
- Its value depends on being face-up in Defense Position, which is a narrow condition
- The 1000-point LP gain is slow and small against any real pressure
- No recorded combo boards, so its conversion value is text-only inference
Counters / choke points
- Negating the effect or forcing it out of Defense Position stops the LP gain (inferred from text)
- Destroying or attacking it while in Defense removes the only source of value (inferred from text)
Best use
Defense-support body that adds slow LP gain alongside Horn of the Unicorn and Swords of Revealing Light. Decks: Solemn, Neo-Spacian, Heroic, Gaia. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: face-up Defense Position on your side, +1000 LP each Standby Phase; Level 4 WIND Fairy, 1700 ATK / 1000 DEF, no archetype; 13 decks running it, average 2 copies, max 3; Zero combo appearances and zero guides
- Observed: Appears alongside Horn of the Unicorn and Swords of Revealing Light in 92.3% of its decks; Spread across 9 archetypes, none dominant (Solemn 30.8% of decks)
- Inferred: Its value depends on staying in Defense Position, so negation or forced position change ends it; Its Level 4 body is a generic material, and it still works when its effect is negated; Its role is Defense-support LP gain rather than a starter or searched piece
- 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 is inferred from the deck sample only no top-card ranking data, so accessibility rests on deck counts alone no avg_starter_count_when_present, so DeckResilience is estimated from archetype spread