Ex Raizeol

Ex Raizeol — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor

Why it scores here

Ex Raizeol converts a hand-summon into a board presence, plus a conditional FIRE Thunder search when it is summoned onto a board with no face-up non-Level/Rank-4 monsters. Its 500 ATK earns nothing, and the 400-of-400 deck presence is treated only as confirmation of access, not as power (guardrail 3). The score is held down by the Extra Deck Xyz cost, the fragile search condition, the absence of any interaction, and the lack of combo data.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Searcher. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Summonable from hand, which gives it access without a card in the hand beyond itself
• Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, at 2.8 copies on average (observed)
• Spread across 53 archetypes in the sample, although the Raizeol partners dominate (observed)
• Level 4 body that is usable as Xyz and Rank 4 material (verified text)

Weaknesses

• Requires an Xyz monster in the Extra Deck to send to the GY (verified text)
• The search only triggers when no face-up non-Level/Rank-4 monster is on your field (verified text)
• 500 ATK and no interaction (verified text)
• Deck evidence is from 2024-09 to 2025-05, about 16 months before the evaluation date (verified)

Counters / choke points

• Negation of its trigger effect (inferred from text)
• Your own face-up non-Level/Rank-4 monsters, which block the search condition (verified text)

Best use

Starter that opens the Extra Deck Xyz route and offers a conditional search. Decks: Raizeol engine lists, Level 4 Xyz lines that can use the Rank 4 exception. Suggested copies: 3.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Hand Special Summon costs one Xyz sent from the Extra Deck to the GY, once per turn, and the Extra Deck restriction exempts Rank 4 Xyz; Search effect adds one FIRE Thunder monster from the Deck, once per turn, only if no face-up monsters other than Level/Rank 4 are controlled; ATK 500, DEF 2000, Level 4, LIGHT Pyro Effect Monster; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks at 2.8 copies on average
• Observed: Appears in 53 distinct archetypes in the sample, led by Traptrix at 15.2%; Top partners include Raizeol Deadnader at 99.5% and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring at 99%; Recency window of decks runs 2024-09-02 to 2025-05-31
• Inferred: Starter role is primary because the card is a hand summon with a conditional search, but no combo data confirms it; Resource balance is roughly even (cost of one Xyz to the GY against at most one Thunder monster); Material value persists when effects are negated because the Level 4 body stays on the field
• 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) for this card, so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the deck sample only deck sample recency ends 2025-05-31, about 16 months before the evaluation date the FIRE Thunder search target pool is not in the evidence, so the search density is unknown