WATER
3Geomancer of the Ice Barrier
Archetype:
Ice Barrier
ATK:
800
DEF:
1200
View:
3231
Discard 1 card and declare 1 Attribute. This card cannot be selected as an attack target by monsters with that Attribute. This effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field.
Geomancer of the Ice Barrier — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Geomancer converts into a Level 3 WATER Tuner body, and that body stays a Tuner even when its effect is negated, so material utility carries most of the score. Its effect is a single-use-per-face-up attack-target protection that costs a discard and only applies against one declared Attribute, so it earns little. The 60/60 deck inclusion and the 85-88% partner co-occurrence with Ice Barrier support confirm the card is a consistent home fit, but those frequencies were not allowed to inflate the score (guardrail 3). No combo evidence exists, so combo conversion rests on card text alone.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Present in all 60 sampled decks at 1.07 average copies, but no combo starter or searched appearances are recorded, so reach is inferred from deck inclusion only (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Card text shows no board-building effect of its own; the Tuner body feeds Ice Barrier lines, and no combo boards are recorded to confirm it (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 15 | The effect is a discard cost with no card return, so it is a net -1 when used (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 25 | Attack-target protection is soft, limited to monsters of one declared Attribute, and cannot stop non-attack interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 70 | A Level 3 Tuner with 800 ATK keeps its Tuner type and level when its effect is negated, so it converts as material even when blanked (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The protection works only once while face-up on the field, and the body is a single target for interaction (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | A single copy is typical, and the card carries no garnet or lock restriction in the evidence, so slot cost is mild (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean Level 3 Tuner body that keeps its material value when its effect is negated
- Included in all 60 sampled decks at about one copy each
- Single-use protection costs no extra slot and needs no garnet support
Weaknesses
- Effect costs a discard and returns nothing
- Protection is once per face-up and only works against one declared Attribute
- No combo evidence to show it converts into a strong board
- Its own effect adds little beyond the material body
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation removes the attack-target protection, but the Tuner body remains (inferred)
Best use
Material body (Tuner) in Ice Barrier shells. Decks: Ice Barrier. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Tuner Monster, Level 3, WATER Spellcaster, 800 ATK / 1200 DEF, archetype Ice Barrier; Effect: discard 1 card and declare 1 Attribute; cannot be selected as an attack target by monsters with that Attribute; usable once while face-up; Present in 60 of 60 sampled decks at 1.07 average copies
- Observed: Ice Barrier-named archetype ids account for 32 of 60 decks (53%); Top partners co-occur in 85-88% of decks; Single-copy inclusion dominates (57 of 60 decks)
- Inferred: Tuner body keeps material value when its effect is negated; Attack-target protection is a soft interaction, not negation
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only Ice Barrier is split across three archetype ids, which may inflate the distinct-archetype count