WIND
2Horseytail
ATK:
400
DEF:
500
View:
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When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Horseytail Token" (Plant-Type/WIND/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0) to your opponent's side of the field in Defense Position. When this Token is destroyed by battle with a Plant-Type monster, its controller sends 1 card from their hand to the Graveyard.
Horseytail — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 29 ± 10 · Confidence: Low
- Intrinsic: 29 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Horseytail converts a battle loss into a Level 1 0/0 Plant token placed on the opponent's side, so its text mostly hands the opponent a body and a discard tax rather than advantage for its controller. Its 400 ATK and Level 2 body earn nothing on their own, and the card has no deck, combo, or guide evidence to show it is played or converts in practice. The score is a provisional Intrinsic value only, with Deck left null, so confidence is Low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 20 | Only live after it is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, with no searcher or deck evidence to show a reliable route (verified text; no decks supplied). |
| Combo & Conversion | 10 | The effect yields a 0/0 token for the opponent and nothing for the controller, so it does not build a board (verified from text; no combos supplied). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | The only card-economy clause is a discard that falls on the token's controller, which is the opponent, so there is no net gain for the user (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No interaction for the controller; the token is a free body and a discard tax for the opponent (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | A generic Level 1 WIND Plant token can serve as opponent material, but the Level 2 body is not a clean material for its controller (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 20 | Its effect requires destruction by battle, so common effect-based removal does not trigger it and it has no redundancy (verified text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | A cheap, unrestricted card with no garnet or lock cost, though with little reason to run (verified from text and banlist assumption; no decks supplied). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default), no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 29, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Intrinsic (provisional: no decks and no combos; Deck = null)
Strengths
- Cheap, unrestricted Level 2 body with no garnet cost
- Effect triggers from a battle loss, so it can still generate an opponent-side token when the card is lost in combat
Weaknesses
- The token benefits the opponent rather than the controller
- No searcher, no recursion, and no interaction for the controller
- The 400 ATK body has no stat or board value that the rubric rewards
Best use
Situational fodder or a tax on opponents who must lose a Plant token in battle; no clear deck role. Suggested copies: 0.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 2 WIND Plant Effect Monster, 400 ATK / 500 DEF, legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, and DuelLinks (card text); On destruction by battle and sent to the Graveyard, Special Summons a Level 1 WIND Plant 0/0 Horseytail Token to the opponent's field in Defense Position (card text); When that token is destroyed by battle with a Plant monster, its controller sends 1 card from hand to the Graveyard (card text)
- Inferred: The token's controller is the opponent, so the discard clause falls on the opponent in practice; The opponent gains a generic Level 1 body usable as material, which is a cost to the controller rather than a benefit
- Data gaps: no decks supplied; deck and synergy signals unavailable no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion unknown no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no official ruling for the token's controller wording ('its controller') or for interaction with effect-negated destruction no top-card context supplied