FIRE
Infernal Flame Banshee
ATK:
1700
DEF:
600
View:
5872
2 Level 4 monsters You can detach 1 material from this card; take 1 Pyro monster from your Deck and either add it to your hand or send it to the GY. If this card is banished and you control a Pyro monster: You can Special Summon this card, and if you do, it gains ATK equal to the number of your currently banished monsters x 100 until the end of this turn. You can only use each effect of "Infernal Flame Banshee" once per turn.
Infernal Flame Banshee — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Infernal Flame Banshee turns one detached material into a Pyro card from the Deck, either added to hand or sent to the GY, and it can revive itself from the banish zone with ATK that scales with banished monsters. That gives a repeatable Pyro-only search and recursion engine rather than a board-making effect. The high deck count and the 85.8 average board power index did not earn points beyond the accessibility and resource axes, because the deck figures look like a matching artifact and the board index describes whole boards, not this card's contribution.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Needs a Xyz Summon with two Level 4 monsters and a material to detach, and the combo data shows no starter or searched role, so access is conditional (inferred from text, observed in combos). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Its search yields one card and its revive yields one body, so it builds a small board only with help; the 85.8 board power index is not attributable to this card (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 65 | Detaching a material to gain a card is a net +1 card for a non-card cost, and the GY-send option adds refuel flexibility (verified from text, inferred for value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect of its own (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 20 | As a Rank 4 Xyz with no level or attribute utility for other summons, it is a weak material body (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The banish-zone revive works from a zone that many interactions do not reach, and two once-per-turn effects give some multi-turn use, but it depends on a Pyro on the field (verified from text, inferred for resilience). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It is a single copy with no garnets and no self-lock, but it needs a Xyz deck and Pyro targets (verified from text, inferred for slot cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches a Pyro monster from the Deck or sends it to the GY, a flexible Pyro-only tutor
- Self-revive from the banish zone gives a second use after the card leaves the field
- Two independent once-per-turn effects allow repeated value over several turns
Weaknesses
- Access depends on a Xyz Summon from two Level 4 monsters
- Has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect of its own
- The Pyro-only search target restricts the decks it fits into
- The revive needs a Pyro on the field and a banished count to matter
Counters / choke points
- Negation or hand traps that stop the Xyz Summon
- Floodgates or effect negation on the search and the banish-zone revive
Best use
Pyro searcher with a banish-zone recursion for Xyz-based Pyro lines. Decks: Ryzeal, Mitsurugi, Onomat. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Xyz Monster, Rank 4, Pyro, FIRE, 1700 ATK / 600 DEF; Effect 1: detach 1 material to add or send a Pyro monster from the Deck; Effect 2: after banish with a Pyro you control, Special Summon and gain ATK equal to banished monsters x 100 until end of turn; Each effect is once per turn
- Observed: Appears in 4 of 4 sampled boards, with no starter, searched, material, or payoff role recorded; Average board power index 85.8 when present
- Inferred: Primary role is a Pyro searcher with a recursion secondary; Practical access depends on a Xyz Summon from two Level 4 monsters
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) decks_evidence shows 400 of 400 decks at about 1.01 copies with staple-level partner rates (Ash Blossom 93.5%); this is likely a matching artifact, so deck frequency and the 89 distinct archetypes are unreliable combos_evidence covers only 4 boards with empty role_in_combo, so no starter, searched, material, or payoff role is confirmed usage_statistics covers 9 archetypes and does not include Ryzeal, so it does not reconcile with the deck evidence No rulings available