FIRE
4Firebird
ATK:
1000
DEF:
800
View:
2662
Each time a Winged Beast-Type monster(s) on your side of the field is destroyed, this card gains 500 ATK.
Firebird — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 43 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Firebird is a generic Level 4 FIRE Winged Beast whose only effect is a conditional +500 ATK each time a Winged Beast on your side is destroyed. That effect gives it no card advantage, interaction, or board conversion on its own, so its score rests mainly on being a clean Level 4 material body. Its 1000 ATK earns nothing, and with no deck or combo evidence there is no observed role to lift the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Level 4 generic body with no searcher, archetype, or hand-trap route in the evidence; only a normal summon path is supported (inference, no deck or combo data). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | The card does nothing beyond its 1000-base body unless a Winged Beast on your side is destroyed, and no combo example exists (verified text; inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | No draw, search, refuel, or recursion in the text, so no card advantage is produced (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect is described in the text (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 4 FIRE Winged Beast is a generic material fit, and the body stays useful as material even if its ATK-gain effect is negated (inferred from level and race). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The +500 ATK growth depends on Winged Beast destruction on your side and can be negated, but the 1000-ATK body persists (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | A single-copy generic Level 4 body with no garnet, lock, or restriction is cheap to run, though there is no deck evidence that it is ever run (verified text plus inference). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body / Normal profile; single primary role, no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 43, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Final = Intrinsic (no decks and no combos; provisional, Deck = null)
Strengths
- Generic Level 4 FIRE Winged Beast body that works as material and needs no archetype (inference from level and race)
- The +500 ATK per own Winged Beast destroyed can grow the body mid-duel (verified text)
- Single-copy, restriction-free, low deckbuilding cost (verified text)
Weaknesses
- Effect only matters when a Winged Beast on your side is destroyed, so it is inert on most boards (verified text)
- No searcher, archetype, or hand-trap route, so access is limited to normal summon (inference)
- No deck or combo evidence that it is played at all (observed absence)
Best use
Level 4 Winged Beast material body; no deck in the evidence supports a specific home.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4, FIRE, Winged Beast, 1000 ATK / 800 DEF, Effect Monster (card text and stats); Effect: each time a Winged Beast-Type monster(s) on your side is destroyed, this card gains 500 ATK (card text); Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; no archetype (card data)
- Observed: 0 decks, 0 combos, 0 guides in the evidence pack (observed absence)
- Inferred: Generic material fit from Level 4 and Winged Beast race; Growth effect is the only conversion path and needs own Winged Beast destruction
- Data gaps: no decks supplied, so deck/synergy signals unavailable no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); no archetype inclusion data no rulings or interaction examples supplied for the destruction trigger