Spell
FieldIgnition Phoenix
Archetype:
Igknight
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All "Igknight" monsters on the field gain 300 ATK and DEF. Once per turn: You can target 1 "Igknight" card you control; destroy it, and if you do, add 1 "Igknight" card from your Deck to your hand.
Ignition Phoenix — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 46 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 44 · Deck: 48 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Ignition Phoenix is a Field Spell whose main value is a once-per-turn exchange: destroy one of your Igknight monsters to add another Igknight from your Deck. That is a roughly card-neutral search that also fuels the graveyard, and its static +300 ATK/DEF buff to Igknights is board support rather than a route to a winning board. The card scores in the mid-40s because it is archetype-locked and has no recorded combo boards to show it converting a start into advantage; its high deck inclusion (6 of 6 sampled decks, co-played with most Igknight staples) confirms it is a reliable part of the Igknight shell, not that it is strong on its own. Its ATK/DEF and popularity contributed nothing to the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Carried in all 6 sampled decks at about 2.2 copies on average and co-played with most Igknight staples, but there is no recorded searcher or starter route in the combo data (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No recorded combo boards; the card's conversion is inferred from text only: a static field-wide buff plus a once-per-turn destroy-and-search (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Destroy-then-add is a roughly even exchange on the board, with the destroyed monster going to the graveyard as fuel; no net advantage is shown in the data (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no opponent-facing negation, removal, or hand-trap effect (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 15 | It is a Spell with no material role, and the Field Spell's own effects give it no body to use as material (verified from card text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | It sits in the Field Spell zone, where a single field-destruction or removal effect can end its buff, and its once-per-turn effect cannot be repeated in a turn (verified from card text; inference on field vulnerability). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Runs at 1 to 3 copies with no garnet or lock restriction, but it takes a Field Spell slot and only pays off in Igknight decks (observed from deck copies; inferred on slot cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 44, Deck ≈ 48, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn search of an Igknight from Deck, with the destroyed monster fuelling the graveyard
- Static +300 ATK/DEF buff to every Igknight on the field
- Present in all 6 sampled Igknight-related decks with strong partner co-occurrence
Weaknesses
- Archetype-locked to Igknight, so it has no value outside that shell
- Card advantage is roughly neutral because the search costs a monster
- No recorded combo boards showing it converting a start into a full board
- Occupies the Field Spell zone, where field removal ends the buff
Counters / choke points
- Field-destruction or field-removal effects that clear the Field Spell zone
- Monster removal or destruction that stops the once-per-turn search from having an Igknight target
Best use
Searcher/Tutor with a field-wide Igknight ATK/DEF buff. Decks: Igknight Field Spell shells (Igknight Cavalier, Igknight Templar, Igknight Paladin lines). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Field Spell: all Igknight monsters on the field gain 300 ATK and DEF (card text); Once per turn: target 1 Igknight you control, destroy it, and if you do, add 1 Igknight from Deck to hand (card text); Present in 6 of 6 sampled decks, average 2.17 copies, max 3 (deck data); Top partners include Igknight Cavalier, Igknight Templar and Igknight Paladin at 100% co-deck rate (deck data)
- Observed: Co-played with most Igknight staples across 5 archetype IDs in the deck sample (deck data); Runs in main deck in all 6 sampled decks (deck data)
- Inferred: Destroy-and-search is roughly card-neutral on the board (inference from text); Field Spell zone exposure makes the buff vulnerable to field removal (inference from card type); Deck-level role is a self-sustaining Igknight search shell (inference from partners plus 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 meta sample: meta power is null