DARK
1Jester Confit
Archetype:
Jester
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
View:
4168
You can only control 1 "Jester Confit". You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) in Attack Position. If Summoned this way, during your opponent's next End Phase: Target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; return both that target and this face-up card to the hand.
Jester Confit — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 57.7 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker / Going-second · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Jester Confit is a cheap Level 1 hand-summon whose real job is a delayed tempo bounce: at the opponent's next End Phase it returns one face-up opponent monster and itself to the hand, so it costs no lasting card advantage. Its score comes from accessibility, near-free deck cost and broad use across 67 archetypes, not from its 0 ATK/0 DEF body or from its popularity. Combo evidence is absent, so the combo axis stays low and the score rests on text plus deck evidence.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 75 | Hand-summonable at no cost and carried by 400 sampled decks, but the sample is conditioned on containing the card, so true inclusion is unknown (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | The text yields one bounce and no board; zero recorded combo boards exist to confirm any larger line (verified text, no combo data). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | The bounce returns its own card to hand and costs the opponent tempo rather than cards, so it is roughly card-neutral with a small tempo edge (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | A soft, delayed bounce that only hits face-up monsters and can be answered before the End Phase trigger resolves (verified text, inferred impact). |
| Material Utility | 45 | Level 1 DARK Spellcaster is a usable body, but the effect returns it to hand, so it rarely stays on the field as material (verified text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Copies are capped at one on the field and the summon can be answered, but the card can be re-summoned from hand across turns (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | A Level 1 body with no garnet cost, 1-copy field restriction and a 76% single-copy sample rate makes it cheap to slot (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Board breaker + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 57.7, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap, free-to-run Level 1 hand-summon that costs no card advantage
- Delayed bounce hits a face-up opponent monster and returns itself, keeping its card safe
- Broad use across 67 archetypes with a 1-copy-heavy sample (76% of decks run one)
Weaknesses
- No combo boards recorded, so no evidence of a larger line
- Bounce is tempo, not removal, and fires only at the opponent's next End Phase
- Only hits face-up monsters, and the card does not stay on the field as material
Counters / choke points
- Any response to the Special Summon or the delayed End Phase trigger that negates it or protects the target (general category, inferred; no rulings supplied)
Best use
Tempo bounce / hand-summoned Level 1 tech. Decks: Yummy, Jester, Sky Striker. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand Special Summon in Attack Position, Level 1 DARK Spellcaster, ATK/DEF 0; Delayed End Phase bounce of one face-up opponent monster plus itself; Max 1 on field by its own text
- Observed: 400 sampled decks, 76% run one copy, average 1.39 copies; Top partners Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (74%) and S:P Little Knight (69.5%); Usage statistics show 100% inclusion in Jester (Level-1 tech) and Royal lists
- Inferred: Tempo role rather than removal, since the bounce returns the monster to hand; Accessibility is high because the card is a free hand-summon; Deck inclusion is conditional on sample selection, so the true rate is unknown
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference the 400-deck sample is conditioned on containing the card, so inclusion rate is unknown guide snippets do not name Jester Confit and the co_card_ids do not include its passcode no banlist token, so copy limit assumed at 3 (unlimited) no rulings or timing references supplied for the delayed trigger