Skelengel

Skelengel — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 44 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 45 · Deck: 44 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body

Why it scores here

Skelengel is a one-line card: a Level 2 LIGHT Fairy that draws a single card when it is flipped face-up, so its whole payoff is a slow, self-replacing body rather than a combo engine. Its 900/400 stats and the drawn card earn no ATK-based credit — the score comes from being a cheap, lock-free, generic body that can be Normal Set, and the 22 sampled decks do run it main-deck at 2.23 copies. With zero combo appearances, no search route, and no disruption in the text, it cannot start, extend, or interrupt a line, which leaves it below the middle of the scale.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default) profile, single primary role, no secondary blend applied. Intrinsic ≈ 45, Deck ≈ 44, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Self-replacing: flipping it draws a card, so the body pays itself back without any additional investment
• No cost, no once-per-turn tax beyond the flip, no archetype lock and no garnet — it occupies a single clean slot
• Generic Level 2 LIGHT Fairy body that is usable as Link or Rank 2 Xyz material even if its effect is negated
• Works from face-down, so removal that only targets face-up monsters does not stop it

Weaknesses

• FLIP timing is slow: the effect only happens after the body survives a turn or is flipped by an outside effect
• Provides no disruption, negation, removal or interruption on either player's turn
• 900 ATK / 400 DEF are trivially outclassed by essentially any modern body
• No known search route, so it is entirely dependent on being drawn and Normal Set
• One-shot value: once flipped it is a spent 900-ATK body

Counters / choke points

• Nobleman of Crossout or any effect that banishes/removes face-down monsters before the flip
• Trap Hole-style summon negation when it is Normal Summoned or Set
• Generic effect negation or a card that flips it during a window where the draw is wasted
• Any removal during the opponent's turn that destroys it face-down without triggering the FLIP

Best use

Cheap self-replacing defensive body that draws a card. Decks: Duel Links stall/draw builds, Exodia draw decks, Vintage / GOAT-era Fairy and defensive control shells. Suggested copies: 2.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text is exactly 'FLIP: Draw 1 card.'; Level 2 LIGHT Fairy, 900 ATK / 400 DEF, Flip Effect Monster, no archetype membership; Legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel and Duel Links per evidence.card.formats; 22 decks run it, all in the main deck, at 2.23 average copies (max 3)
• Observed: Zero combo appearances (0 total combos, 0% as starter / searched / material / payoff / end board); 14 distinct archetype tags across the 22-deck sample, with 'Greed', 'Ninja' and untagged entries at 3 decks each; Top co-deck partners are vintage staples: Pot of Greed 54.5%, Fissure 45.5%, Monster Reborn 45.5%, Swords of Revealing Light 40.9%; Deck recency spans 2023-02 to 2026-09 with no guides and no StatisticsCard rows
• Inferred: The deck sample is a retro / Duel Links-era pool, so the archetype spread reflects generic staple usage rather than dedicated archetype homes; No search route is present in the evidence, so accessibility depends entirely on drawing and Normal Setting it; The body retains generic Level 2 LIGHT Fairy material value even when the FLIP effect is negated
• 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