Shien's Advisor

Shien's Advisor — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 47 ± 7 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 50.4 · Deck: 48.2 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Floodgate/Control · Secondary: Material body

Why it scores here

Shien's Advisor is a conditional Type-lock rather than a combо piece: it only functions after a Normal Summon while you already control a "Six Samurai" monster, and the lock disappears the instant its 1200/400 body leaves the field. What it reliably converts is a soft, one-time floodgate against a single declared Monster Type — strong when it lands on a mono-Type opponent, blank when the opponent plays around it or removes the body. Its low ATK/DEF and short text earn it nothing here; the score comes from the accessibility of a Level 4 EARTH Warrior in its own engine plus the ceiling of the lock, discounted heavily for the two-card setup and complete lack of combo or resilience evidence.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Floodgate/Control + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 50.4, Deck ≈ 48.2, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Conditional two-card requirement (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Can completely shut down a mono-Type strategy by preventing both attacks and Special Summons of the declared Monster Type.
• Level 4 EARTH Warrior that doubles as generic material even when its effect never triggers.
• Cheap to include — a single copy with no garnet, lock or extra-deck cost, appearing in 111 sampled decks all in the main deck.

Weaknesses

• Only triggers on Normal Summon and only if a "Six Samurai" monster is already on the field — a two-card condition.
• 1200 ATK / 400 DEF body is trivially removed, instantly ending the lock.
• Does not stop the activated effects of monsters already on the field, only their attacks and further Special Summons.
• Declaring the wrong Monster Type makes the card effectively blank for the rest of the game.

Counters / choke points

• Any removal or negation that clears the 1200/400 body (e.g. generic removal or a negated Normal Summon).
• Book of Moon-style effects that flip it face-down and switch the lock off.
• Decks built on more than one Monster Type, or a Type you did not declare.
• Effects that do not Special Summon (Normal Summons, Spells/Traps), which the lock does not touch.

Best use

Conditional main-deck floodgate / Type lock with material value. Decks: Six Samurai, Secret Six Samurai. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: on Normal Summon while controlling a "Six Samurai" monster, declare 1 Monster Type; that Type cannot declare an attack or be Special Summoned while this card is face-up.; Level 4 EARTH Warrior (1200 ATK / 400 DEF), archetype Six Samurai, legal in TCG, OCG and Master Duel.; 111 sampled decks run it, all in the main deck, always exactly 1 copy.
• Observed: 57.7% of sampled decks are Secret Six Samurai; gameplay type 7 accounts for 93.7% of usage.; Top co-deck partners: Shien's Smoke Signal 99.1%, Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En 98.2%, Asceticism of the Six Samurai 96.4%, Reinforcement of the Army 86.5%.; combo data records 0 combos and 0 appearances of this card, so no starter/material/payoff role is confirmed.
• Inferred: As a Level 4 EARTH Warrior in its own archetype it has practical search/access routes, but the floodgate itself needs an existing Six Samurai monster in play.; Because the lock is static on a fragile 1200-ATK body, it behaves as a temporary floodgate rather than a persistent control piece.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no average power index when present or average starter count when present for this card