DARK
6Skelgon
ATK:
1700
DEF:
1900
View:
4110
"The Snake Hair" + "Blackland Fire Dragon"
Skelgon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 55 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Skelgon is a vanilla Fusion Monster whose entire text is a material clause ("The Snake Hair" + "Blackland Fire Dragon"), so it brings no effect, disruption, or card advantage of its own and none of its 1700 ATK / 1900 DEF earns points. Its real, observed role is as a Level 6 DARK Zombie body summoned by Ready Fusion (co-occurring in 44% of the 25 decks that run it) and then converted into further Fusion/Xyz material. That clean Level-6 DARK Zombie typing is what lifts it above a dead Fusion, and it is cheap to slot as a 1-of, but its only practical summon route is an external enabler and its native materials are not realistically played, keeping the score in the mid-range.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 46 | Native materials (The Snake Hair, Blackland Fire Dragon) are not realistically played, so the live route is Ready Fusion (co-decks 44% of its 25 decks), a single specific enabler (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 38 | With Ready Fusion it produces one extra Level 6 body that converts into further material, but it does nothing on its own and combos_evidence shows 0 appearances (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 37 | As a plain body with no effect, GY trigger, or search it generates no card advantage by itself; any gain comes from the cards it feeds (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Card text is only a material clause with no effect, so it offers zero disruption, negation, or removal (verified). |
| Material Utility | 68 | It is a clean Level 6 DARK Zombie Fusion, useful as Xyz/Fusion material for Zombie and Rank-6 lines even when its body is unremarkable (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 37 | A vanilla Fusion with a single summon route and no recursion dies to any removal and re-accessing it needs the enabler again (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It is run almost exclusively as a 1-of (avg 1.08 copies) that costs a single Extra Deck slot without bricking the hand (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body / Normal weights (primary); no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 55, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 6 DARK Zombie typung makes it clean material for Zombie/Rank-6 lines
- Free to run as a 1-of in the Extra Deck (avg 1.08 copies)
- Accessible through the generic Ready Fusion enabler
- Splashable across many archetypes (12 distinct in sample)
Weaknesses
- Completely vanilla — no effect, no disruption, no card advantage
- Native Fusion materials (The Snake Hair, Blackland Fire Dragon) are not realistically played
- Depends on an external enabler (Ready Fusion) to ever hit the board
- No recursion or GY interaction; dies to any removal with no recovery
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (on Ready Fusion / the fetch line)
- Any removal on the summoned body before it is used as material
- Negation of the enabler leaves Skelgon unsummonable
Best use
Ready Fusion target / Level 6 DARK Zombie material. Decks: Zombies, Tearlaments, Vendread, Skull Servant, Kashtira Zombie variants. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text is only a material clause: "The Snake Hair" + "Blackland Fire Dragon" (no effect); Level 6 DARK Zombie Fusion Monster with 1700 ATK / 1900 DEF; Legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel, and Duel Links
- Observed: 25 decks run it, average 1.08 copies, spread across 12 distinct archetypes; Ready Fusion co-occurs in 44% of decks running Skelgon; combos_evidence records 0 appearances, so it is not a tracked combo central piece
- Inferred: The only practical summon route is Ready Fusion (Level 6 or lower non-Effect Fusion), since its native materials are not played; Its value is as a Level 6 DARK Zombie material body for further Fusion/Xyz plays
- 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