WATER
8Ice Queen
ATK:
2900
DEF:
2100
View:
3811
Cannot be Special Summoned from the GY. When this face-up card you control is destroyed and sent to your GY: You can target 1 Spell in your GY; add that target to your hand. You must have 3 or more Spellcaster monsters in your GY to activate and to resolve this effect.
Ice Queen — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Ice Queen's power is a conditional recovery: when it is destroyed face-up and sent to the GY, it adds one Spell from the GY to hand, but only with 3 or more Spellcaster monsters in the GY. Its 2900 ATK and Level 8 body earn little on their own, and that is not the basis of the score. It is a clean Level 8 non-effect-dependent body for material use, and it appears in 9 of 10 sampled decks alongside Necro Synchron, Sorciere de Fleur and Dingirsu, which supports practical accessibility. With no combo or guide evidence, combo conversion stays low and the score is capped by Medium confidence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Present in 10 of 10 sampled decks across 7 archetypes, but no searcher or routing evidence is supplied and it cannot be Special Summoned from the GY (observed deck count, text; inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No combo boards supplied, so conversion from a starter is text-only: a 2900-ATK body with a destruction-triggered Spell recovery (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Destruction recovers one Spell from the GY to hand, gated by 3 Spellcasters in the GY, so the advantage is conditional but real (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect in its text (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 60 | Level 8 Water Spellcaster with no listed effect dependency, a generic Synchro/Xyz body that remains usable when its effect is negated (inferred from text and stats). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its recovery triggers on destruction, which helps it persist, but the 3-Spellcaster GY requirement and the GY Special Summon ban limit redundancy (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Average 1.5 copies per deck, max 3, with no garnet or lock text in evidence, so it is a low-cost slot (observed deck stats; text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Destruction-triggered Spell recovery adds card advantage when the 3-Spellcaster condition is met
- Level 8 non-Tuner Water Spellcaster body is a generic material for Synchro and Xyz
- Low copy cost: 1.5 copies on average across the sampled decks
- Consistently present in the sample (9 of 10 decks) alongside Necro Synchron, Sorciere de Fleur and Dingirsu
Weaknesses
- Cannot be Special Summoned from the GY
- Recovery needs 3 or more Spellcaster monsters in the GY to activate and to resolve
- No negation, removal or hand-trap effect
- No combo boards or guides supplied, so conversion evidence is absent
Counters / choke points
- No counter data in the evidence; interaction that removes the body without destroying it does not trigger the recovery effect (inferred from text)
Best use
Recovery body in Spellcaster-heavy GY lines, and a Level 8 material body. Decks: Fleur, Infernoble Knight, Vendread, Pendulum, Thunder Dragon, Zombies, Dogmatika.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Destruction-triggered Spell recovery, conditional on 3 or more Spellcaster monsters in the GY (card text); Cannot be Special Summoned from the GY (card text); Level 8 Water Spellcaster, 2900 ATK / 2100 DEF (card stats); Average 1.5 copies in 10 sampled decks (decks_evidence)
- Observed: Present in 10 of 10 sampled decks; 9 of 10 run it as main deck (decks_evidence); Top partners: Necro Synchron and Sorciere de Fleur in 9 of 10 decks (decks_evidence)
- Inferred: Generic Level 8 material body for Synchro and Xyz (from stats and text, no material data); Destruction-based recovery improves resilience (from text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no avg_starter_count_when_present, so DeckResilience relies on archetype spread only