Mist Body

Mist Body — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 27 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 31 · Deck: 27 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Utility

Why it scores here

Mist Body is a narrow defensive equip that only prevents battle destruction—a situational effect in modern formats where effect-based removal dominates. While it can provide multi-turn protection in specific matchups, the card offers no combo synergy, no resource advantage, and requires a monster already on field to function, making it a tech-slot-only inclusion. The 21 decks running it confirm accessibility for generic play, but the lack of archetype concentration and zero combo appearances indicate it is a metagame call, not a power piece.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Primary role: Utility (default, no clear role). Intrinsic ≈ 31, Deck ≈ 27, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Brick/Garnet Risk (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks known, combos absent)

Strengths

• Simple, clear effect text with no timing complications
• Accessible in multiple deck archetypes (12 distinct homes)
• Can provide reliable multi-turn protection against pure battle-damage strategies

Weaknesses

• Only prevents battle destruction; ineffective against effect-based removal (the modern standard)
• No combo synergy or extension value; purely defensive
• Requires a monster on field to function; can brick in early-game hands
• Single-target; does not protect your entire board or prevent effects
• No resource advantage; −1 card with no refuel or draw

Counters / choke points

• Effect destruction (MST, Cyclone, Galaxy Cyclone)
• Non-battle removal (Raigeki, Dark Hole, Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan)
• Effect negation of the equipped monster
• Bounce and return effects (Compulse, Karakuri Komachi)
• Equip destruction (Harpie's Feather Duster, Mobius the Mega Monarch)

Best use

Metagame tech / defensive equip. Decks: Noble Knights (archetype synergy potential), Any control deck running 1–2 defensive equips.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: 'The equipped monster cannot be destroyed by battle.' (evidence.card.description); Type: Equip Spell (evidence.card.frame_type = 'spell'); Appeared in 21 decks, average 1.1 copies per deck (decks_evidence); Spread across 12 distinct archetypes with no concentration above 9.5%; most decks are untyped generic (decks_evidence.distinct_archetypes, archetypes)
• Observed: Most common in 'Không có' (no archetype) decks at 23.8% and 19%; indicates tech-only, archetype-agnostic usage; Top partners are universal staples (Ash, Harpie's, Raigeki, Called by the Grave), not archetype-specific synergy; Zero appearances across all recorded combos (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0, appearances = 0); Runs across multiple gameplay types (33.3% control, 33.3% combo, 23.8% midrange); confirms generalist flexibility without specialization
• Inferred: Requires a monster on field to equip, reducing accessibility from opening hand and creating conditional dependency; Effect only prevents battle destruction; powerless against effect-based removal, bounce, banish, and negation (modern removal standard); Equip frame means card cannot serve as fusion/synchro/link material or provide useful material properties when negated; Multi-turn protective value if both equipped monster and equip survive; single-target scope limits board protection; Brick risk in hands without monsters or in high-combo-line decks with few main monsters
• Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0) No guides supplied — strategic usage context is text-only (guides_evidence.total_guides = 0) No banlist information — assumed unlimited 3 copies No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion inferred from 21-deck sample only No archetype-specific synergy data; cannot confirm if card is core support in any archetype