WINDGreatfly
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1400
LINK-2
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2 WIND monsters All WIND monsters on the field gain 500 ATK/DEF, also all EARTH monsters on the field lose 400 ATK/DEF. If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can target 1 WIND monster in your GY; add it to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Greatfly" once per turn.
Greatfly — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery / Recursion · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Greatfly reliably converts a WIND-heavy board into a stat-boosted 1400-ATK Link-2 body: its field effect gives all WIND monsters +500 ATK/DEF and all EARTH monsters -400 ATK/DEF, and its once-per-turn destruction effect returns a WIND monster from the Graveyard to hand, which roughly offsets its own loss. Its 1400 ATK and Link-2 body earned no points on their own. Its presence in all 400 sampled decks (almost all Radiant Typhoon) confirms a real home, but guardrail 3 means that frequency only confirms the role, not extra power. Combo evidence is absent, so the combo axis rests on card text alone.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Link Summon needs 2 WIND monsters on the field and the card is in 400 of 400 sampled decks with a 100% partner rate on Radiant Typhoon cards, but no combo data confirms how often it is reached (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | The field buff and link arrows support a fair WIND board from one body, but no combo examples or power index exist to show the conversion (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | The destruction effect returns one WIND monster from the GY to hand, roughly even card economy that also recovers a dead card (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negate, removal or hand-trap effect, so it brings no opponent interaction (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A WIND Insect Link-2 is a usable Link material for WIND-oriented Link Summons, but it has no Level or Tuner value and loses its buff when negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The GY effect triggers after the card is destroyed, but a negate on the card's effects also shuts off the field buff and the recovery (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | The card runs 1.05 copies on average, has no garnet or lock, and is legal in all listed formats, so it is cheap to play (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Field effect gives +500 ATK/DEF to all WIND monsters and -400 ATK/DEF to all EARTH monsters
- Once-per-turn GY effect returns a WIND monster from the Graveyard to hand after the card is destroyed
- Runs about one copy per deck, with no garnet or lock restriction
- Present in all 400 sampled decks, with 100% partner rate on Radiant Typhoon cards
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction of its own
- Its value depends on a WIND-heavy board, mainly Radiant Typhoon
- No combo or guide evidence corroborates its conversion
- A negate on the card shuts off both the field buff and the GY recovery
Counters / choke points
- Generic effect negation, which removes both the field buff and the GY recovery (inferred)
Best use
Recovery/Recursion support Link body in WIND decks. Decks: Radiant Typhoon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Field effect: WIND monsters +500 ATK/DEF, EARTH monsters -400 ATK/DEF (card text); GY effect: once per turn, after destruction by battle or card effect, add 1 WIND monster from the GY to hand (card text); Link-2 WIND Insect with link arrows Bottom-Left and Bottom-Right, legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks (card data)
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, average 1.05 copies per deck (deck data); Top partners are Radiant Typhoon cards at 100% co-occurrence (deck data); Radiant Typhoon usage statistics inclusion 100%, typical 1 copy (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Destruction recovery is roughly card-neutral: the card leaves and a WIND monster returns; Usable as a WIND Link material with no Level or Tuner value; Field buff is a board-shift effect, not a board-build effect
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) distinct archetypes (29) counts the same archetype name under several IDs (Radiant Typhoon x3, Branded x2), so the portability proxy is inflated