Silver Fang

Silver Fang — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 33 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 36 · Deck: 31 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Material body

Why it scores here

Silver Fang is a plain Level-3 EARTH Beast Normal Monster (1200/800) with no effect, no archetype, and no recorded combo appearances, so its power comes almost entirely from being a free, always-summonable body that can serve as Level-3 Xyz or generic Fusion material. Its 28 deck appearances are mostly single-copy filler in nostalgia/old-school piles (Dark Magician 78.6%, Blue-Eyes 50%, Sparks 42.9% co-decks), which is accessibility evidence, not a synergy engine. Its 1200 ATK earns it zero points here — the score is driven by clean but low-value material utility, zero interaction, and the fact that it converts into nothing beyond a body. It is not punished as a garnet (it is never dead), but it also is not rewarded for being popular.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 1.0 Material body / Normal. Intrinsic ≈ 36, Deck ≈ 31, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Normal Monster with no cost, no once-per-turn clause, and no self-locking restriction — never a dead card in hand
• Level 3 EARTH Beast body usable as generic Xyz/Fusion material, including when its effect is irrelevant
• Legal in TCG, OCG, and Master Duel with no listed restriction, so redundant copies are always playable
• Requires no engine or support network, making it trivially splashable as filler

Weaknesses

• No effect text whatsoever — zero disruption, negation, removal, or advantage generation
• 1200 ATK / 800 DEF is below the modern playable body threshold and contributes nothing to the score
• No archetype membership and no archetype-specific searcher, so there is no reliable route to access it
• Zero recorded combo appearances and zero guide mentions — it converts into no board

Counters / choke points

• Any monster removal (Dark Hole, Fissure, Book of Moon) — a 1200 ATK vanilla dies to essentially everything
• Any single negate or bounce removes it with no recovery
• Larger normal-summoned bodies beat it in battle without committing resources

Best use

Generic Level 3 body for Xyz/Fusion material and filler. Decks: Old-school / nostalgia Normal Monster piles, Dark Magician classic builds, Blue-Eyes classic builds, Limit-1 event lists. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: 'A snow wolf that's beautiful to the eye, but absolutely vicious in battle.' — a Normal Monster with no effect; Type/frame: Normal Monster, EARTH, Beast, Level 3, 1200 ATK / 800 DEF, no archetype; Legal in TCG, OCG, and Master Duel with no listed banlist restriction token; deck data: 28 decks run it, all 28 in the main deck, 0 in the side; combo data: 0 total combos, 0 appearances; guide data: 0 guides, 0 mentions
• Observed: Copies per deck average 1.68 (17 decks at 1 copy, 3 at 2, 8 at 3); 16 distinct archetypes in the deck sample, led by Hole 14.3%, 'Không có' 10.7%, and 'Sự kiện Limit 1' 10.7%; Top partners are nostalgia/vanilla cards: Dark Magician 78.6%, Blue-Eyes White Dragon 50%, Sparks 42.9%, Mammoth Graveyard 39.3%; Polymerization co-occurs in 35.7% of its decks, consistent with a Fusion-material role
• Inferred: No archetype means no archetype-specific searcher, so access is draw-only; Level 3 EARTH Beast with no restrictions makes it a valid generic Xyz/Fusion material even when blanked; The 28 deck appearances look like filler/old-school inclusions rather than a competitive engine; Its 1200 ATK body has no meaningful board impact on its own
• Data gaps: 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