WATER
4Great White
Archetype:
Shark
ATK:
1600
DEF:
800
View:
3940
A giant white shark with razor-sharp teeth.
Great White — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body
Why it scores here
Great White is a vanilla Level 4 WATER Fish Normal Monster (1600/800) with no effect text, so its value is entirely as a generic Level 4 WATER body that converts into Xyz/Synchro/Fusion material. Decks evidence (43 decks, 22 archetypes, 1-3 copies) confirms it is a practical, cheap, widely accepted body, which earns the deckbuilding and material axes, but that breadth is frequency rather than power (guardrail 3). High ATK earns nothing, and the absence of any combo evidence keeps combo conversion and effect interaction near zero.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live as a plain Normal Summon in hand with no searcher or support needed, but no recorded combo starts from it (inferred from text; combo data is empty). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No combos supplied and the text does nothing on its own, so conversion is limited to adding one body to a board (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | A vanilla card-for-card body with no advantage, refuel, or recursion, so the result is roughly neutral (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | No effect text, so it provides no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 65 | A Level 4 WATER body that is a clean generic material for Level 4 summons and keeps full material value because it has no effect to negate (verified from text; partners such as Number 4: Stealth Kragen suggest Xyz use, observed in decks). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Cannot be negated because it has no effect, but offers no recovery or multi-zone value (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | One slot with no garnet or lock, and 1-3 copies are played in observed decks (observed, deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body / Normal (single role, no secondary blend). Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: exceptional compactness (1). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Level 4 WATER material that works across many archetypes
- No text to be negated, so material value is never lost to interaction
- Cheap and easy to run, with no deck-building restriction
Weaknesses
- No effect, so it cannot interact, search, or generate advantage
- No combo evidence, so its conversion into a board is unproven
- Its value depends entirely on another card that makes use of it as material
Best use
Material body / generic Level 4 WATER filler. Decks: Umi Control, Shark, Xyz Remora, Number 4: Stealth Kragen.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Monster, Level 4, WATER, Fish, ATK 1600 / DEF 800, with no effect text (card); Decks: 43 total, 22 distinct archetypes, avg 1.42 copies, 43 main-deck (deck data)
- Observed: Played in 43 decks across 4 gameplay types and 22 archetypes (deck data); Umi Control usage statistics show 100% inclusion at 1 copy (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Clean generic material body that keeps its full value because it cannot be negated (text-derived); Accessibility is live as a Normal Summon but has no recorded route (text-derived; combos empty)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no counter or interaction evidence supplied