LIGHT
4Sakitama
ATK:
400
DEF:
900
View:
6955
Cannot be Special Summoned. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if this card was Normal Summoned or flipped face-up this turn: Return this card to the hand. You can only use each of the following effects of "Sakitama" once per turn. You can reveal this card in your hand; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 Spirit monster from your hand. If this card is Tributed: Target 1 Spirit monster in your GY; add it to your hand.
Sakitama — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58.1 · Deck: 55.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Sakitama is scored as a hand-live Normal Summon extender with a Graveyard recovery effect, not for its 400 ATK or its Level 4 body. Its hand reveal lets it Normal Summon another Spirit, and tributing it adds a Spirit from the GY to hand, so it converts one slot into extra bodies and a recovered card. The 400-deck inclusion and 86% MasterDuel share confirm it is a practical, cheap staple across several homes, but no combo boards are recorded, so the conversion score stays moderate and does not rise on popularity.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Its hand-revealed effect is live from hand and it appears in 400 of 400 decks across 57 archetypes, with 1.75 average copies (observed; combo starter data absent, so the route is inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | The hand effect adds one extra Normal Summon and the tribute effect recovers a Spirit, a fair board extension with help rather than a one-card full board (inferred from text; no combo examples). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Tributing it to recover a Spirit from the GY is card-neutral and the self-return at End Phase recycles the body, giving repeated value without a net gain (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | It has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect, so it brings almost no opponent interaction (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 45 | It is a generic Level 4 LIGHT Fairy body that can be Tributed for recursion, but it is a low-ATK Spirit with no clear material fit (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Its effects work from hand, field and GY, and the self-return keeps it recyclable across turns, but the once-per-turn shared limit and no negation limit its interaction (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | It is a cheap one-to-three-copy slot with no garnet or lock restriction, aside from the Cannot be Special Summoned clause (verified from text and deck copy distribution). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 58.1, Deck ≈ 55.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Cannot be Special Summoned restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live from hand: the reveal effect works without the card on the field
- Extra Normal Summon of another Spirit from hand
- Self-return at End Phase allows repeated reuse
- Tribute recovers a Spirit from the GY to hand
- Cheap to run across many homes with no garnet cost
Weaknesses
- Cannot be Special Summoned, so it depends on a Normal Summon
- Low 400 ATK / 900 DEF body with no board presence
- Once-per-turn shared limit across its effects
- No negation, removal or hand-trap effect
- No recorded combo boards, so real conversion is unverified
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation in response to the hand reveal or End Phase effect (inferred from text; no counter data)
- Opponent's Normal Summon restriction or summon-based disruption (inferred from text)
Best use
Extender / Normal Summon enabler with GY recovery. Decks: Exosister, Constellar, Ryzeal, Tellarknight. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Cannot be Special Summoned (card text); Once per turn End Phase return to hand if Normal Summoned or flipped this turn (card text); Hand reveal Normal Summons 1 Spirit from hand, once per turn (card text); Tribute adds a Spirit from the GY to hand (card text); In 400 of 400 recent decks, 86.2% MasterDuel gameplay (deck data); Copies per deck avg 1.75, max 3 (deck data)
- Observed: Exosister is 44.5% of decks; top partners include Ash Blossom (77.2%) and Infinite Impermanence (63.5%) (deck data); Inclusion is 100% in Chronomaly, Shinobird and Time Thief StatisticsCard rows (usage statistics); Four guides mention the card in Shinobird, Gunkan Suship, Tellarknight and Battlin' Boxer contexts (guide data)
- Inferred: Primary role is Extender (Normal Summon enabler) with secondary Recovery/Recursion from the tribute effect; Accessibility is high because the hand effect is live from hand; Resource economy is card-neutral because the tribute returns a card for the one tributed
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter role are text-only inference no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) is assumed no average starter count when present, so DeckResilience is estimated from archetype spread