EARTH
3Scareclaw Belone
Archetype:
Scareclaw
ATK:
0
DEF:
1700
View:
4536
You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) to your Main Monster Zone, adjacent to a "Scareclaw" monster you control or in its column. You can only Special Summon "Scareclaw Belone" once per turn this way. If your "Scareclaw" monster in the Extra Monster Zone attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent.
Scareclaw Belone — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 62 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 60.2 · Deck: 63.1 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Starter / Combo enabler · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Scareclaw Belone is a free hand-summon: it reaches the Main Monster Zone next to or in the column of a Scareclaw monster, once per turn, with no cost. It is in 400 of 400 sampled decks, so the hand-summon route is reliably live, and its Level 3 Earth Beast body is a clean material even when its effect is negated. The score does not come from its 0 ATK or 1700 DEF or from its piercing effect, which is minor. The combo evidence is a single board, so the combo and deck-synergy axes are held back.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Hand-summonable at no cost and present in 400/400 sampled decks, but it needs a Scareclaw monster already on the field for adjacency (verified text; deck inclusion observed; 0 as_starter in combos is observed on one board only). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | Its only recorded board (power index 98) lists no role_in_combo for it, so it cannot be credited with the board's value; it is a field body that enables the Scareclaw line (inferred from text, single observed board). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | No searches, draws, or recursion, and no card advantage of its own; it is a neutral free body (verified text; inferred from the absence of a card-advantage effect). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | The only effect is piercing battle damage on an attack by a Scareclaw monster in the Extra Monster Zone; it offers no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | Level 3 Earth Beast with 1700 DEF is a clean Synchro/Link material, and its body still converts when its effect is negated (verified card stats; the guides recommend summoning defence-position Scareclaws for link and synchro material, observed in guide snippets). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Usable from hand and across the Main Monster Zone and its column, but dead without a Scareclaw monster present and limited to one summon per turn (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Average 2.16 copies per deck with 78 decks running one copy, no garnet or lock restriction, and a low slot cost for a playable body (observed from decks_evidence; no restriction in text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Starter/Combo enabler + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 60.2, Deck ≈ 63.1, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Free hand-summon with no cost, live in opening hands when a Scareclaw monster is on the field
- Present in 400/400 sampled decks as a near-universal Scareclaw body
- Level 3 Earth Beast with 1700 DEF is a clean material that still works when its effect is negated
- Easy to run: low copy count and no garnet or restriction
Weaknesses
- Adjacency requirement: dead without a Scareclaw monster on the field
- Negligible interaction: piercing damage is its only effect
- Combo evidence is a single board where its role is unrecorded, so its contribution to the 98 power index cannot be measured
- Score is capped by its 0 ATK and 1700 DEF body, which add nothing to power
Counters / choke points
- Monster-effect negation or removal of the Scareclaw field monster it needs to summon next to
- Hand-disruption before the once-per-turn summon is used
Best use
Hand-summoned field body and Level 3 Synchro/Link material in Scareclaw lines. Decks: Scareclaw. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand-summon to the Main Monster Zone adjacent to or in the column of a Scareclaw monster, once per turn (card text); Piercing battle damage effect when a Scareclaw Extra Monster Zone monster attacks a Defense Position monster (card text); Level 3, EARTH, Beast, 1700 DEF, 0 ATK (card stats); Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks (decks_evidence)
- Observed: Average 2.16 copies per deck, 78 decks at one copy (decks_evidence); Top partners at 97–99% co-occurrence, all Scareclaw (decks_evidence); Appears in 1 of 1 recorded combos, with no role_in_combo recorded (combos_evidence); Guides recommend summoning defence-position Scareclaws to link or synchro (guides_evidence)
- Inferred: Acts as a field body that enables the Scareclaw line, rather than a searcher or payoff; Its material value remains when its effect is negated, because the body is still a Level 3 Beast; Redundant enough across the line that its contribution is replaceable by other Scareclaw bodies
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Only 1 recorded combo, and role_in_combo is empty for this card, so combo conversion is unmeasured No rulings or FAQ for the adjacency and once-per-turn interaction usage_statistics covers only 2 archetypes (Burning Abyss, Scareclaw), so cross-home inclusion is thin