EARTH
4Prickle Fairy
ATK:
300
DEF:
2000
View:
2621
Your opponent cannot attack Insect monsters. If this card battled a monster, at the end of the Damage Step: Change that monster to Defense Position.
48± 6/ 100
Power Score
Intrinsic
52
Deck
49
Prickle Fairy — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Floodgate/Control · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Prickle Fairy scores in the mid range because its continuous 'cannot attack Insect monsters' effect functions as a soft floodgate in Insect-centric strategies, confirmed by consistent pairing with Insect Barrier across 52.9% of its decks. Accessibility is reasonable since Lonefire Blossom can search it directly, appearing as a co-partner in 58.8% of builds. However, the card offers zero combo extension, generates no card advantage, and loses all value the moment it is removed by a targeted effect — its 300 ATK and 2000 DEF earned nothing in this scoring.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Lonefire Blossom co-occurs in 58.8% of its 17 decks, confirming Plant-search access at Normal-Summon cost with no summoning prerequisites (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 18 | Zero combo appearances in the recorded board database — the card does not appear in any combo lines and offers no extension from text analysis (verified). |
| Resource Economy | 28 | Neither effect draws, searches, or refuels; the persistent protection has implicit ongoing value but generates no card advantage, netting roughly break-even (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 48 | The continuous 'cannot attack Insect monsters' restricts the opponent's battle phase whenever an Insect is present, acting as a one-directional soft lock; the DEF-flip on battle is supplementary minor interaction (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 52 | EARTH Level 4 Plant provides generic Extra Deck material scope; 2000 DEF grants battle-phase utility; co-occurrence with Naturia and Ragnaraika partners at 47.1% suggests it feeds Plant/Insect-specific summons (observed). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 38 | 2000 DEF survives combat pressure but a single targeted removal instantly ends all Insect protection; spread across 7 archetypes shows topical flexibility though the core effect is narrow (observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Typically run at exactly 1 copy (avg 1.12; 16 of 17 decks run one copy), searchable via Lonefire Blossom, and imposes no tribute cost or hard lock — minimal slot burden for the protection it provides (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Floodgate/Control + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Narrow application (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Grants complete attack immunity to all Insect monsters on the field while this card is present
- Searchable by Lonefire Blossom, giving Plant and Insect decks easy single-card access
- 2000 DEF makes it difficult to run over in combat, extending its protective presence
- Forces any monster it battles into Defense Position, reducing the opponent's offensive follow-up
Weaknesses
- 300 ATK means targeted effect removal instantly ends the protection with no residual value
- Zero contribution to combo lines or board-building — purely a static presence piece
- Protection is conditional, covering only Insects rather than the full board
- No card advantage generation of any kind
Counters / choke points
- Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, or Skill Drain negate the protection effect without attacking
- Non-attack removal such as destruction or banish effects bypass the battle restriction entirely
- Burn or effect-damage strategies are completely unaffected by the attack-immunity effect
Best use
Insect attack-shield and floodgate support piece. Decks: Ragnaraika, Naturia, Traptrix, Paleozoic, Umi Control. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 EARTH Plant with 300 ATK / 2000 DEF (card text); Continuous effect: opponent cannot attack Insect monsters (card text); Trigger effect: battled monster switches to Defense Position at end of Damage Step (card text); Appears in 17 decks across 7 archetypes including Ragnaraika, Naturia, Traptrix, Paleozoic, Umi Control (deck data); Zero combo appearances in recorded board data (combo data)
- Observed: Predominantly run at 1 copy per deck (avg 1.12; 16 of 17 decks run exactly 1) (deck data); Lonefire Blossom co-occurrence 58.8% confirms practical Plant-search access (top partners); Insect Barrier co-occurrence 52.9% confirms usage as part of an Insect protection package (top partners); Resonance Insect co-occurrence 52.9% confirms Insect-strategy context (top partners); 100% inclusion in Umi Control per usage statistics (usage statistics)
- Inferred: Searchable by Lonefire Blossom as an EARTH Plant Level 4 (from card type and Lonefire Blossom partnership data); Primary value is the Insect attack shield in decks fielding multiple Insect bodies (from archetype distribution and Insect Barrier co-occurrence); EARTH Level 4 Plant body provides generic Extra Deck material scope (from type, attribute, and level)
- Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied — human role context is entirely absent No banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Absence of combo evidence means DeckSynergy and resilience sub-estimates are partially inferential