WATER
4
2Performage Water Dancer
Archetype:
Performage
ATK:
1200
DEF:
1400
View:
2209
[ Pendulum Effect ] If you control a "Performage" monster: You can Special Summon this card. When a monster declares an attack: You can target 1 Attack Position monster on the field; change it to Defense Position. You can only use each effect of "Performage Water Dancer" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] If this card is Pendulum Summoned: You can add 1 "Polymerization" from your Deck or GY to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Performage Water Dancer" once per turn. If this card on the field is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can target 1 Attack Position monster on the field; change it to Defense Position.
Performage Water Dancer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Searcher/Tutor
Why it scores here
Performage Water Dancer is a Level 4 Pendulum body whose main value is conditional: a Performage monster on the field enables its Special Summon, and a Pendulum Summon adds Polymerization from Deck or GY, which converts into the Fusion route. Its position-change effects are once-per-turn soft interaction, which keeps the effect axis low. The very high deck inclusion (193 decks, 100% inclusion in its home archetype) confirms it is reliably played, but that frequency was not used to raise the score, and the absence of combo boards keeps combo conversion near the middle. High ATK/DEF earned nothing here.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Runs in 193 of 193 decks at an average of 2.21 copies, and is archetype-gated by a Performage requirement that the 50% Performage deck share makes usually reachable (observed; the Special Summon zone is not stated in the supplied text, so the route is inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 48 | No combo boards are recorded, so conversion relies on the text: a Pendulum Summon fetches Polymerization, which is a Fusion route, and this is only inferred (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | One conditional card-advantage search for Polymerization on a Pendulum Summon, with no graveyard refuel (verified from text; partly inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Two once-per-turn position-change effects that move an attack-position monster to defense, a soft, situational interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 Spellcaster Pendulum body with 1200 ATK and 1400 DEF, which is a usable generic material; the blanked body keeps its level and type (inferred from the card stats). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 58 | The destruction trigger still gives value after the card leaves the field, and the search and position effects are separate once-per-turn uses (verified from text; the resilience value is inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Typical use is 3 copies in its home archetype, a Pendulum monster with no garnet or lock restriction, but it is tied to the Performage shell (observed usage statistics, with the archetype lock inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter + 0.3 Searcher. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Reliably played: 193 of 193 recent decks, with 97.9% of them in gameplay type 7
- Pendulum Summon search for Polymerization gives a route into the Fusion engine
- Two independent once-per-turn effects give some interaction and value
Weaknesses
- Conditional on a Performage monster being on the field
- No recorded combo boards, so combo conversion is unconfirmed
- Position-change effects are soft interaction, not a strong removal or negation
Counters / choke points
- Generic negations of its effects (inferred; the evidence has no counter data)
- Hand traps that stop the Special Summon condition (inferred)
Best use
Pendulum body that searches Polymerization on a Pendulum Summon, with soft interaction on attacks. Decks: Performage.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Special Summon condition requires a Performage monster you control; Text: Pendulum Summon adds 1 Polymerization from Deck or GY to hand; Text: two once-per-turn position-change effects, on attack declaration and on destruction; Stats: Level 4 Spellcaster Pendulum, 1200 ATK / 1400 DEF
- Observed: Decks: 193 total, 97.9% gameplay type 7, avg 2.21 copies; Partners: Performage Fire Dancer 97.4%, Performage Plushfire 94.8%; Usage statistics: 100% inclusion in archetype 1156 at typical 3 copies
- Inferred: Special Summon location is not stated in the supplied text, so the route is assumed; The Polymerization search gives a Fusion conversion route; Archetype lock limits generic portability
- Data gaps: No combo boards supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Special Summon zone not stated in the supplied description text No rulings supplied for the interaction between the two once-per-turn effects