FIRE
2Fox Fire
ATK:
300
DEF:
200
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During the End Phase, if this card was destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard this turn and was face-up at the start of the Damage Step: Special Summon this card from the Graveyard. This face-up card cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon.
Fox Fire — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 42 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43 · Deck: 42 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Fox Fire is a 300-ATK Level 2 Pyro whose only value is a conditional Graveyard recursion: it returns only if it was destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard in the same turn while face-up at the start of the Damage Step. That is a narrow window, so the score stays near the middle of the scale. Its Level 2 body is a usable generic material, and it is cheap to run as a single copy across six archetypes, which earns points for deckbuilding efficiency. The 11-deck presence and high partner percentages confirm it is played, not that it is powerful; the staple partners (Dark Hole, Heavy Storm, MST) show the company it keeps rather than a synergy. The low ATK earns nothing.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | No searcher or draw route appears in the text, and it is in 11 decks at one copy each with no combo evidence of how it is reached (inferred, deck count is observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Its text only returns itself from the Graveyard under a battle-destruction condition, with no board-building effect; no combo examples exist (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | Recursion from the Graveyard refuels one card when the narrow condition is met, with no repeated advantage (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 2 Pyro body is a generic material for many Level 2 requirements, and the Tribute restriction does not stop material use (inferred from text and stats). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Its recursion needs a battle-destruction in the same turn and a face-up state, so one interruption or a non-battle removal ends it (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | One copy in every deck, no garnet or lock, and a splashable Level 2 body across six archetypes (observed from deck evidence). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 43, Deck ≈ 42, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Returns from the Graveyard under a narrow battle-destruction condition
- Level 2 Pyro body is a generic material
- Single copy, no garnet, runs across six archetypes
Weaknesses
- Recursion needs battle destruction in the same turn, a fiddly timing window
- No searcher or draw route in the evidence
- Low ATK gives little board presence
Counters / choke points
- Graveyard banish or GY-hate effects before the End Phase (inferred)
- Non-battle removal that prevents the battle-destruction condition (inferred)
Best use
Recovery body and Level 2 material. Decks: Volcanic, Book Of, Greed, Dark World. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: End Phase recursion requires battle destruction, same-turn Graveyard entry, and face-up status at the start of the Damage Step; Card text: cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon while face-up; Appears in 11 of 11 sampled decks at 1 copy each, main deck only
- Observed: Six distinct archetypes; Volcanic, Book Of, Greed, and Dark World each at 2-3 decks; Top partners are staples (Dark Hole, Heavy Storm, MST, Snatch Steal) present in about 55% of decks
- Inferred: Recovery role is real but conditional, so the score sits in the 40s rather than higher; Generic Level 2 material fit is inferred from stats and text, not from combo evidence
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only