DARK
4Elemental HERO Shadow Mist
Archetype:
Elemental HERO
ATK:
1000
DEF:
1500
View:
11838
If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Change" Quick-Play Spell Card from your Deck to your hand. If this card is sent to the GY: You can add 1 "HERO" monster from your Deck to your hand, except "Elemental HERO Shadow Mist". You can only use 1 "Elemental HERO Shadow Mist" effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Elemental HERO Shadow Mist — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 59 · Deck: 62 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Shadow Mist's value is two search effects: one on Special Summon for a Change Quick-Play Spell and one from the GY for another HERO monster, sharing one once-per-turn limit. That converts a 1000-ATK body into two cards of card advantage, and the single-copy, no-garnet deck cost keeps it cheap to run. Its 1000 ATK and 1500 DEF earn no points, and the 400-of-400 deck count reflects how the sample was built (filtered to decks that already contain the card), not strength. Combo role tags are all zero, so the starter, searched and material roles rest on text and deck evidence rather than observed combo roles.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Live as a Heroic-line searcher target and co-occurs with Mask Change in 92% of decks, but no combo records it as searched (verified from text, observed for the co-occurrence). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Converts into a search, not a board: combos average a power index of 35.6 and it is never tagged as a starter or payoff (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 68 | Two search effects, one on Special Summon and one from the GY, give repeated +1 advantage that the GY trigger can recur on (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal or hand-trap text, so it offers no opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | Level 4 DARK Warrior Elemental HERO body that fits generic material roles; no combo records it as material, so this is inferred (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | The GY trigger still works after the field is cleared, and it is used across hand, field and GY, but the shared once-per-turn limit caps reuse (verified from text, inferred for the resilience reading). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Typically one copy, no garnet or lock restriction, and appears in 28 archetypes, so it is cheap and easy to fit (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 59, Deck ≈ 62, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two search effects give repeated card advantage
- Cheap to run: one copy, no garnet, broad archetype fit
- GY trigger keeps value after the field is cleared
Weaknesses
- No interaction: no negation, removal or hand-trap text
- Shared once-per-turn limit across both effects
- Heroic-specific text limits generic portability
Counters / choke points
- Not evidenced in the pack (no interaction data for opponents' answers)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor for Change Quick-Play and HERO monsters, with GY value after being sent. Decks: Heroic, Vision HERO, Evil HERO, Neo-Spacian. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: on Special Summon, add 1 Change Quick-Play Spell from Deck to hand; Text: if sent to GY, add 1 HERO monster from Deck to hand, except itself; Text: shared once-per-turn limit across both effects; Formats TCG, OCG, MasterDuel; 1 typical copy in usage statistics
- Observed: Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks across 28 archetypes; the sample was filtered on the card, so this is not a meta frequency; Mask Change co-occurs in 92% of decks and Polymerization in 91.8%; Usage statistics: 100% inclusion in Heroic gameplay 4 and Neo-Spacian and Evil HERO gameplay 6, 58-67% in Vision HERO; Combos: 14 of 14 appearances, avg power index 35.6, avg starter count 1.21, all role tags zero
- Inferred: Level 4 DARK Warrior Elemental HERO body is a generic material fit (no combo tags to confirm); Searched Change Quick-Play is the likely search partner, given co-occurrence
- Data gaps: No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Combo role tags are all zero (starter role, searched-for role, material role, payoff role), so combo roles cannot confirm the role deck data is filtered on card presence, so deck counts are not a meta frequency No rulings or Top Card ranking available