WATER
1Fluffal Octopus
Archetype:
Fluffal
ATK:
800
DEF:
800
View:
3373
When this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can target 1 "Fluffal" or "Edge Imp" monster in your Graveyard; add it to your hand. If this card is sent to the Graveyard as a Fusion Material for a Fusion Summon of a "Frightfur" Fusion Monster: You can target up to 2 of your banished monsters; return them to the Graveyard. You can only use each effect of "Fluffal Octopus" once per turn.
Fluffal Octopus — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 59 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Material body, Extender
Why it scores here
Fluffal Octopus is a Level 1 WATER Fairy whose value is a card-advantage loop: on Normal or Special Summon it adds one 'Fluffal' or 'Edge Imp' monster from the Graveyard to hand, and when it is sent to the Graveyard as Fusion Material for a 'Frightfur' Fusion it returns up to two banished monsters to the Graveyard. The score is driven by the recovery and material-body value, which the 400-deck footprint confirms is practical. High deck counts and inclusion percentages did not earn points by themselves (guardrail 3), and the card has no interaction, no ATK-based value, and no recorded combo boards to confirm a starter or payoff role.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks as a main-deck card with 1.04 average copies, across 18 distinct archetypes, but no combo starter or searched-piece data is supplied (observed, with inference on the summon route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The card text recovers a Fluffal or Edge Imp monster and banish-recursion runs through Frightfur Fusion, but there are zero recorded combo boards to confirm the conversion (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | The Summon trigger is a one-for-one Graveyard-to-hand recovery and the Fusion-material trigger returns up to two banished monsters, which is repeated advantage across turns (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in its text (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A Level 1 WATER Fairy that is a Fusion material for Frightfur, and its Graveyard trigger fires when it is sent as material, so it converts even when the body is used up (inferred from text and the Frightfur deck pattern). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Both effects are once per turn each and the Summon trigger is a Graveyard-recovery action, which gives limited redundancy and no multi-zone interaction (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | A single copy in a main deck with 1.04 average copies, no garnet or lock restriction, and a near-universal presence in the engine decks (observed, with the restriction that the body is tied to the Fluffal and Edge Imp archetypes). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 59, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Graveyard-to-hand recovery on Summon, which is one-for-one card advantage (verified)
- Fusion-material trigger returns up to two banished monsters, which is recursion (verified)
- Present in all 400 sampled decks across Fluffal, Edge Imp and Frightfur (observed)
Weaknesses
- No interaction of any kind (verified)
- Both effects are tied to the Fluffal and Edge Imp archetypes, so the body is not generic (inferred)
- No recorded combo boards, so the conversion value is text-only (data gap)
Counters / choke points
- Opponent effect negation or Graveyard interaction, which would stop the recovery trigger (inferred)
Best use
Graveyard recovery on Summon, plus a Frightfur Fusion material body that recurs banished monsters. Decks: Fluffal, Edge Imp, Frightfur. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Summon trigger adds one Fluffal or Edge Imp monster from the Graveyard to hand (card text); Fusion-material trigger returns up to two banished monsters to the Graveyard (card text); Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks at an average of 1.04 copies (deck stat)
- Observed: Runs in 18 distinct archetypes, with Fluffal, Edge Imp and Frightfur as the main homes (deck stat); Top partners are Fluffal Dog, Frightfur Fusion and Polymerization at 97 to 100 percent co-occurrence (deck stat)
- Inferred: Recovery and material value convert into repeated card advantage across turns (text plus rules); The body stays useful as Fusion material even though the Summon effect is not relevant to it (text plus Frightfur pattern)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings or counter-card data supplied