WIND
4Search Striker
ATK:
1600
DEF:
1200
View:
2420
If this card attacks a face-down Defense Position monster, you can destroy the monster immediately with this card's effect without flipping it face-up or applying damage calculation. If you do, this card is changed to Defense Position at the end of the Battle Phase. This card's battle position cannot be changed until the end of your next turn, except with a card effect.
Search Striker — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 39 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 39.2 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal · Secondary: Material body, Utility
Why it scores here
Search Striker reliably converts only one narrow thing: when it attacks a face-down Defense Position monster, that monster is destroyed immediately without being flipped face-up and without applying damage calculation, so Flip effects are bypassed and the attacker is not put at risk. Beyond that it is a 1600 ATK Level 4 WIND Warrior with no archetype, no listed search route, no board build and no resource gain, so its stats and Level 4 body earn it almost nothing here. The effect then self-locks it (Defense Position, position locked until the end of your next turn), leaving it inert after a single use. With zero deck and zero combo evidence, the score stays near the vanilla-body baseline rather than rising on the strength of its battle effect.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 48 | Normal-summonable Level 4 WIND Warrior with no archetype lock or summoning condition, but no listed searcher route and the effect is only live when the opponent controls a face-down Defense Position monster (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 14 | No decks or combos place it as starter, extender, searched piece or payoff; the text builds no board on its own (verified). |
| Resource Economy | 42 | The attack removes one set monster without damage calculation and without losing the attacker, effectively a 1-for-1 that generates no card advantage (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 26 | The only disruption is destroying a face-down Defense Position monster it attacks - no negation, no hand-trap reach, no interaction with face-up monsters, Spells or Traps (verified). |
| Material Utility | 52 | A clean generic Level 4 WIND Warrior body usable as Xyz/Synchro/Link material even when the battle effect is irrelevant or negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 28 | After the effect resolves it is changed to Defense Position and cannot change battle position until the end of your next turn, so it becomes near-inert and any single negate or removal ends it (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Costs one slot with no garnet, no archetype restriction and unlimited copies legal, but the slot buys a body close to vanilla, so the investment is cheap yet low-yield (inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 39.2, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Final = Intrinsic (no decks AND no combos; Deck = null, provisional)
Strengths
- Destroys a face-down Defense Position monster it attacks without flipping it face-up and without applying damage calculation, bypassing Flip effects and battle damage.
- The attacker is never destroyed by the destruction effect, making the removal effectively cost-free in battle.
- Generic Level 4 WIND Warrior with no archetype restriction, usable as material or a plain body when the effect is irrelevant.
- No summoning condition, no cost and unlimited legal copies, so it fits any Level 4 slot if a deck wants the niche effect.
Weaknesses
- Only functions against face-down Defense Position monsters; useless against face-up boards, hand traps, and Spell/Trap interaction.
- Self-imposed lock: it moves to Defense Position at the end of the Battle Phase and cannot change battle position until the end of your next turn.
- Builds no board, searches nothing, and generates no card advantage - no combo or resource value.
- 1600 ATK is low for a body that depends on attacking to do anything.
- No deck, combo, guide or usage evidence shows it being played anywhere.
Counters / choke points
- Flipping the set monster face-up before the attack (effect requires a face-down Defense Position target).
- Negating the trigger effect, which reduces it to a plain 1600 ATK Level 4 body.
- Removing Search Striker before the Battle Phase.
- Decks that keep no face-down monsters, making the effect a dead text box.
Best use
Situational removal of set monsters / Level 4 material body. Decks: Generic Level 4 Warrior/WIND material piles as a niche tech body. Suggested copies: 0.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: attacking a face-down Defense Position monster can destroy it immediately without flipping it face-up or applying damage calculation.; Card text: if that effect is used, the card is changed to Defense Position at the end of the Battle Phase and its battle position cannot be changed until the end of your next turn, except by a card effect.; Card identity: Level 4 WIND Warrior, 1600 ATK / 1200 DEF, no archetype, legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links.; No decks, combos or guides in the evidence sample reference this card.
- Inferred: With no archetype, no listed searcher and no combo appearances, the card functions only as a generic Level 4 body.; The battle-position lock makes the effect a one-shot per board state, leaving the card largely inert afterwards.; The effect is card-advantage neutral: one set monster destroyed at the cost of committing the attacker to Defense Position.; The Level 4 WIND Warrior typing keeps some material value (Xyz/Synchro/Link fodder, WIND and Warrior synergy) even when the effect is blanked.
- Data gaps: no decks supplied - deck/synergy signals unavailable no combos supplied - combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token - assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) - archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only