EARTH
3Howling Insect
ATK:
1200
DEF:
1300
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When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon 1 Insect-Type monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck.
Howling Insect — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 44 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46 · Deck: 43 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Howling Insect converts one battle loss into one Insect-type monster with 1500 or less ATK from the Deck, so its value is a single conditional body swap rather than a board. Its 1200 ATK and 1300 DEF earn nothing by themselves, and the Level 3 Earth Insect body is only a modest generic material. The score stays in the low-to-mid 40s because the trigger requires a battle destruction, the combo corpus records zero boards, and there is no interaction or multi-zone resilience.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | The card is live only after it is destroyed in battle and sent to the GY, and it appears in 2 recent decks with 3 copies each but in zero combo boards (verified text, observed deck count; reliability of the trigger is inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The effect is a one-for-one Deck-to-field summon of an Insect of 1500 ATK or less, with no recorded combo boards to show a larger payoff (verified text; observed: 0 boards). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | It gives a conditional +1 body from the Deck with no refuel, search, or cost, so card advantage only appears after a battle loss (verified text; inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | It has no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach, so it provides no opponent interaction (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | As a Level 3 Earth Insect with 1200 ATK it is a clean generic Level 3 material, but its GY effect is lost if negated (verified stats; inferred fit for Insect and Level 3 monsters). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | The GY trigger needs a battle destruction, so effect-based removal or a negate on the trigger ends it, and it has no multi-zone or multi-turn use (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | It is a 3-copy-friendly, non-garnet card with no lock, so it costs little deck space, although its Insect-only target restricts the summon pool (verified text; observed copies per deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter / Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 46, Deck ≈ 43, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts a battle-destruction loss into a 1500-ATK-or-less Insect from the Deck, a real GY-to-field conversion
- Generic Level 3 Earth Insect body that is a usable material even when its effect is blanked
- Cheap to run: 3 copies per deck, no garnet or self-lock restriction
Weaknesses
- The trigger needs a battle destruction, so it cannot be used reliably as a starter
- No combo boards in the corpus, so the conversion value is text-only inference
- Restricted to Insect monsters with 1500 or less ATK, which narrows the summon pool
- No negation, removal, or hand-trap interaction
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation of the GY trigger
- Battle avoidance, such as keeping it from being destroyed in battle
Best use
A battle-loss recovery body that summons another low-ATK Insect from the Deck. Decks: Insect-based lists with Insect Queen, Chainsaw Insect and Pinch Hopper (observed partners). Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect: when destroyed by battle and sent to the GY, Special Summon 1 Insect with 1500 or less ATK from the Deck; Level 3 EARTH Insect, 1200 ATK / 1300 DEF, no archetype
- Observed: Appears in 2 recent decks at 3 copies each, with Insect-themed partners; Appears in 0 recorded combo boards; Appears once in a Solo Mode guide reward section
- Inferred: Battle-destruction trigger makes it unreliable as a starter; Generic Level 3 Insect body is a usable material
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from a 2-deck sample no rulings available for the battle-destruction trigger timing