LIGHT
4Fabled Grimro
Archetype:
Fabled
ATK:
1700
DEF:
1000
View:
3175
If you control a "Fabled" monster: You can send this card from your hand to the GY; add 1 "Fabled" monster from your Deck to your hand, except "Fabled Grimro".
Fabled Grimro — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter
Why it scores here
Fabled Grimro converts a Fabled monster on the field into a hand-to-GY cost plus a search for another Fabled monster, so it is a near card-neutral Fabled searcher that is live in hand whenever a Fabled body is out. Its 1700 ATK and Level 4 body earn no points. Its body is a weak material, and it has no interaction, so those axes stay low. Its 97% usage across the Fabled and Fiendsmith decks is consistent with a staple role and was not used to raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Live from hand when a Fabled monster is controlled, and it appears as a starter in 1 of 8 combos, so the route is real but thin (observed/verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Average power index of 56 across 8 boards, and it is a starter in one of them; it does not build a board by itself (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Hand-to-GY cost paired with a Fabled search is roughly card-neutral and adds Fabled fuel to the GY (verified text, inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The text has no negation, removal or disruption, so this axis is near zero (verified). |
| Material Utility | 30 | The body is a plain Level 4 LIGHT Fiend with 1700 ATK, and no combo shows it as material (verified text, inferred weakness). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The effect works from hand and is redundant at 3 copies in 376 of 400 decks, though it depends on a Fabled monster staying on the field (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Three copies in almost every deck, no garnet or lock, and it is cheap to run inside the Fabled shell (observed deck counts). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked text (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Works from hand as a cost, so it is live in opening hands that already contain a Fabled monster
- Converts a dead Fabled in hand into a search for another Fabled monster, with roughly even card economy
- Redundant at 3 copies with no garnet or lock cost
Weaknesses
- Only works while a Fabled monster is controlled, so it is dead in hands without a Fabled body
- Its own body is a weak 1700 ATK Level 4 with little material or board value
- No interaction, so it cannot stop the opponent
Counters / choke points
- Monster removal or a board wipe that clears the Fabled monster it needs
- Negating the search effect, which leaves the card as a hand-to-GY cost already paid
Best use
Searcher/Tutor (Fabled hand-to-GY search). Decks: Fabled, Fiendsmith. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: send from hand to GY while controlling a Fabled monster, then add 1 Fabled monster from Deck except Fabled Grimro; Level 4 LIGHT Fiend, 1700 ATK, 1000 DEF; Appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks, 3 copies in 376 of them
- Observed: Starter in 1 of 8 recorded combos; Average power index 56 across boards it appears in; Guides describe it as a Fabled core card
- Inferred: Searcher role is the main route to value; Card is roughly card-neutral and adds GY fuel; Resilience is limited because the effect depends on a Fabled monster staying on the field
- Data gaps: no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only only 8 recorded combos, so combo conversion is thinly sampled no once-per-turn wording in the text or evidence, so timing reliability cannot be confirmed