DARK
7Illusory Snatcher
ATK:
2400
DEF:
1000
View:
2650
When you Tribute Summon a monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, the Type, Attribute, and Level of this card become the same as that face-up Tribute Summoned monster.
Illusory Snatcher — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Illusory Snatcher is a free hand-to-field body that triggers only after a Tribute Summon and copies that monster's Type, Attribute and Level. It converts into a Level 7 Dark Fiend body, which is useful as material, but it needs a Tribute Summon to fire and has no searcher, negation or recursion. Its 2400 ATK and 1000 DEF earned no points; the score comes from the 16-of-16 Monarch deck inclusion, the single-copy cost, and the level-matching utility.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live from hand only after a Tribute Summon, with no searcher route in the evidence; 16 of 16 Monarch decks run it (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Text describes a Special Summon plus a Type/Attribute/Level copy, with no combo boards recorded to confirm conversion (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | Costs nothing and adds one body with no card advantage or refuel, so roughly even (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal or hand-trap reach in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Copies the tributed monster's Level and Attribute, and the body remains a Level 7 material even if its effect is negated (verified text, inferred use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Single-zone, single-turn trigger that a single negate or lack of a Tribute Summon shuts off (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Single copy in every sampled deck, no garnet or lock restriction (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Extender primary (no secondary weight blended); no combo or usage data. Intrinsic ≈ 50, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Free, single-copy body that fits all 16 sampled Monarch decks
- Copies a tributed monster's Level and Attribute, so it can convert into material even if blanked
- No garnet or self-lock restriction
Weaknesses
- Needs a Tribute Summon to fire, so it is dead without one
- No searcher, negation, or recursion route in the evidence
- Single-archetype deck evidence limits portability
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the trigger or the Tribute Summon itself removes its only function
Best use
Extender / level-matching material body after a Tribute Summon. Decks: Monarch. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Tribute Summon trigger, hand Special Summon, Type/Attribute/Level copy; Single copy in all 16 sampled decks; Monarch is the only archetype in the deck sample
- Observed: Inclusion at 100% of sampled Monarch decks; Top partners are Monarch cards at 100% co-occurrence
- Inferred: Level 7 body converts into material after a Tribute Summon; Roughly even resource economy; Single-spot resilience
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion is from the 16-deck sample only