FIRE
1Legendary Fire King Ponix
Archetype:
Fire King
ATK:
500
DEF:
200
View:
6111
If your monster(s) that was originally FIRE is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Fire King" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand. During the next Standby Phase after this card was destroyed and sent to the GY: Add this card from the GY to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Legendary Fire King Ponix" once per turn.
Legendary Fire King Ponix — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 64 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 63 · Deck: 65 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Ponix converts a single Level 1 body into two card-advantage effects: a Normal or Special Summon adds a Fire King Spell/Trap from the Deck, and the Standby Phase after it is destroyed returns it from the GY to hand. Its high deck count (400/400 decks, 3 copies in 328) and 100% co-occurrence with Fire King partners confirm the role is live and practical, but that frequency only raises accessibility and deckbuilding scores, not intrinsic power. The 500 ATK and Level 1 body earn nothing directly; the score comes from the search and recursion engine. There is no observed combo data, so the combo conversion score is text-based inference and is capped accordingly.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 75 | Three copies run in most decks and its summon trigger is live from a Normal Summon, but the hand Special Summon needs a FIRE destruction first (verified text; deck counts observed; 328/400 decks at 3 copies) |
| Combo & Conversion | 52 | The text gives one search plus a later recursion, which is a fair board with help rather than a one-card board; no combos were recorded to confirm it (verified text; combo count 0, so inferred) |
| Resource Economy | 78 | Two separate +1 advantage effects from one body, the summon search and the GY return, each once per turn (verified text; the GY route is a repeatable refuel) |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap reach; it is an engine card, not an interaction card (verified text) |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 1 FIRE Winged Beast is a usable material, but no material role combo evidence supports it and its value as material is inferred (inferred) |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 62 | It works from hand and GY across two turns, so it survives some interruption, though the GY effect can be countered by search-negation (verified text; counter behaviour inferred) |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 66 | No garnet or lock, three copies is normal, and it is a cheap FIRE body, but it requires running a FIRE and Fire King shell (observed deck data; restriction inferred) |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 63, Deck ≈ 65, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Two separate card-advantage effects from one body: summon search plus a Standby GY return
- Live in 400/400 sampled decks, with 3 copies in most, so accessibility is consistently real
- Works from hand and GY across multiple turns, which is multi-zone resilience
Weaknesses
- The hand Special Summon depends on a FIRE monster being destroyed first, so it is not a guaranteed opening-hand play
- No effect interaction; it does nothing to stop the opponent
- Its power depends on the Fire King shell it searches into, and it is not a standalone engine
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring style search negation can answer the summon search and the GY return (inferred)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor and recursion body that feeds the Fire King Spell/Trap package. Decks: Fire King shells (archetype 1336, 750, 1272), Snake-Eye Fire King builds. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Summon trigger adds one Fire King Spell/Trap from Deck to hand (card text); Hand Special Summon requires a FIRE monster you control to be destroyed (card text); Standby Phase after being sent to GY adds it from GY to hand (card text); Each effect is once per turn (card text)
- Observed: Included in 400/400 sampled decks; 328 run 3 copies (deck evidence); Fire King archetype 1336 accounts for 38.8% of decks (deck evidence); Fire King partners appear in 98-100% of decks (deck evidence); Usage inclusion 66-100% across six archetypes (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Level 1 FIRE body is a usable material (no material role data); Search-negation counters can answer its effects (text-based reasoning); Combo conversion is fair-board-with-help (no combo data)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion and starter/material shares are text-only inference no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings supplied for the 'originally FIRE' wording or the Standby timing guide snippets are thin and do not describe the card's role in detail