Rising Fire

Rising Fire — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 63 ± 5 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 61 · Deck: 62 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Recovery · Secondary: Utility, Removal

Why it scores here

Rising Fire is a recovery and recursion tool that revives a FIRE monster from the GY when your field is empty, enabling Salamangreat's synergy loops and multi-turn resilience. The +500 ATK buff and conditional banish effect provide modest board support and opponent interaction, but the activation requirement (no monsters on field) limits its primary use to turn-2 recovery after board breaks. Strong deck inclusion across 9 archetypes and core Salamangreat synergy (79.2% co-appearance with key monsters like Foxy, Sanctuary, and Roar) confirm accessibility and cross-archetype utility, though the absence of combo evidence prevents empirical validation of true board-building power.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Recovery / Recursion profile. Intrinsic ≈ 61, Deck ≈ 62, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: minor garnet risk (-1); cross-archetype splashability (2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• High splashability across 9 distinct archetypes (treated as Salamangreat).
• Strong synergy with core Salamangreat monsters (79.2% co-appearance with Foxy, Sanctuary, Roar, Rage, Heatleo, etc.).
• Conditional banish effect provides opponent interaction when destroyed by opponent's card effect.
• Recovery tool for board-break scenarios (turn 2 reactivation after going second).
• Once-per-turn clause prevents over-saturation while still providing turn-2 recovery option.

Weaknesses

• Activation condition (no monsters on field) is a significant blocker, making the card dead in hand when you have board presence.
• No card advantage generation (break-even resource economy); reuses GY but loses the revived body when Rising Fire leaves field.
• Equipped monster is destroyed when Rising Fire leaves field, creating a trap scenario where the revived body is vulnerable to follow-up removal.
• Combo conversion empirically unmeasured (no combo data); true power and board-building potential in combo lines unknown.
• Only effective on turn 2 or in recovery scenarios; limited utility in turn-1 combos where Salamangreat typically ends with a full board.

Counters / choke points

• Spell removal (e.g., Cosmic Cyclone, Harpie's Feather Duster, Tornado Dragon).
• Graveyard disruption (e.g., Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle & Haunted Mansion, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring).
• Opponent's forced monster summoning (locks Rising Fire's activation condition).
• Board-filling strategies that prevent empty-field scenarios.

Best use

Recovery enabler for empty-board scenarios and turn-2 reactivation. Decks: Salamangreat, Igknight, Gunkan. Suggested copies: 2.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Rising Fire is a Spell card, type Equip, treated as Salamangreat.; Activation condition: If you control no monsters, target 1 FIRE monster in GY, Special Summon and equip.; Destruction clause: When Rising Fire leaves field, destroy equipped monster.; Banish effect: If destroyed by opponent's card effect, banish 1 monster on field.; Once-per-turn on each effect.; Appears in 24 decks across 9 archetypes, primarily Salamangreat (46%, 11/24 decks).; Average copies per deck: 1.42 (distribution: 1 copy in 16 decks, 2 copies in 6 decks, 3 copies in 2 decks).; Top partners are all core Salamangreat cards (Foxy, Sanctuary, Roar, Rage, Heatleo, etc., with 79.2% co-appearance).
• Observed: Rising Fire appears in 11 Salamangreat decks (46% of 24 total), 3 Igknight, 2 Gunkan, 2 Anti, 2 Solemn, 1 each in Atlantean and other builds.; Distinct archetypes using Rising Fire: 9 (indicating high portability across meta archetypes).; All top 15 partners are Salamangreat archetype cards, with 79.2% co-appearance, confirming core synergy within the archetype.; Gameplay types: 45.8% (11 decks in type 7), 41.7% (10 decks in type 4), 12.5% (3 decks in type 6).
• Inferred: Activation condition (no monsters on field) makes Rising Fire primarily a recovery card, activated after board breaks or on turn 2.; GY revival synergizes with Salamangreat's tight loops, providing material for Link summons or further synergy chains.; Banish effect provides conditional removal when opponent destroys Rising Fire, useful for reactive interaction.; Cross-archetype appeal (9 archetypes) suggests generic FIRE support utility beyond just Salamangreat.; The +500 ATK buff is marginal and does not drive the card's power; the summoning effect is primary.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference, cannot empirically verify board power or starting frequency in competitive combos. No guides supplied — human strategy context and role confirmation in meta decks missing. No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % and typical copy count inferred from 24-deck sample only, not from historical / seasonal statistics. No banlist token — assumed unlimited (3 copies); actual banlist status in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks unknown.