WATER
1Fishborg Blaster
Archetype:
Fishborg
ATK:
100
DEF:
200
View:
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If you control a face-up Level 3 or lower WATER monster: You can discard 1 card; Special Summon this card from your Graveyard. If this card is used as a Synchro Material Monster, all other Synchro Material Monsters must be WATER.
Fishborg Blaster — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Fishborg Blaster is a Level 1 WATER Tuner that can return from the Graveyard to the field when a face-up WATER monster of Level 3 or lower is present, so its value is a recursive Tuner body rather than any board impact of its own. Its ATK and DEF earn nothing; the score comes from a clean Tuner body that converts into a Synchro summon and from a GY revival that is live across turns. The Synchro material restriction (other materials must be WATER) is a real self-lock cost and is applied as a modifier. Recorded decks confirm a real Frog-engine home (57% Frog, 93% co-present with Swap Frog), but combo evidence is absent, so the score rests on text plus deck usage.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live in 54 recent decks, but the revival needs a face-up WATER Level 3-or-lower monster and a card discarded to the GY first (verified text; deck usage observed, no combo starter data). (observed) |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Converts into one Tuner body that feeds a Synchro summon; no recorded boards show what it builds beyond that (inferred from text; combos_evidence has 0 appearances). (inferred) |
| Resource Economy | 50 | The discard cost is paid back by revival of the card itself, which is roughly card-neutral and not a card-advantage engine (inferred from text). (inferred) |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal, or hand-trap effect; it provides no opponent interaction (verified text). (verified) |
| Material Utility | 60 | Clean Level 1 WATER Tuner that stays a Tuner body even if the effect is negated, but its Synchro material restriction narrows what it pairs with (verified text). (verified) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its revival is multi-turn and sits in the GY, but a single negate on the revival or a lack of Level 3-or-lower WATER monsters stops it (inferred from text). (inferred) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Cheap 1-slot Tuner that runs 1 to 3 copies (avg 1.94) with no garnet; the Synchro restriction is a mild self-lock (verified deck counts, verified text). (verified) |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking Synchro restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 1 Tuner body that enables Synchro summons
- Revives itself from the Graveyard when a face-up WATER Level 3-or-lower monster is present
- Cheap single slot that runs 1 to 3 copies in recent decks
- Consistently paired with Swap Frog and Treeborn Frog in recorded decks (92.6% each)
Weaknesses
- Revival requires a specific face-up WATER monster and a discard
- Synchro restriction forces WATER materials
- No combo evidence, so board conversion is unproven
- Adds nothing to opponent interaction
Counters / choke points
- Negating the GY trigger or banishing it from the Graveyard (inferred from text; no counter data supplied)
Best use
Extender / Level 1 Tuner recursion. Decks: Frog, Monarch. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 1 WATER Tuner with GY self-revival condition and Synchro material restriction (card text); 54 decks run it; 57.4% Frog, 27.8% Monarch (deck counts); Copies distribution 1:18, 2:21, 3:15 (deck counts)
- Observed: Co-present with Swap Frog and Treeborn Frog in 92.6% of decks (deck partners); Frog engine is the dominant home (deck archetypes)
- Inferred: Acts as a Tuner for Synchro and a recursion body (role from text); Revival is card-neutral overall (from text); Mainly a Frog-engine piece rather than a standalone threat (from deck spread)
- Data gaps: No combo evidence (0 combos), so combo conversion and starter/material roles are text-only inference No guides supplied No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available legal_copies is 0 in every format while the card is in 54 recent decks; this conflicts and needs a banlist check before the Deck figure is trusted No rulings or once-per-turn wording in the supplied text