Skull Knight

Skull Knight — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 47 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 48 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Boss/End-board

Why it scores here

Skull Knight is a vanilla Fusion Monster whose entire value is its body: a Level 7 DARK Spellcaster with 2650/2250 and no effect text, so it earns points only through material utility and portability across 20 distinct archetypes rather than any disruption or advantage. Its 2650 ATK contributes nothing to the score; what matters is that it converts into Rank 7 or Fusion material in decks such as Kashtira and Primite. Because it must be summoned either through its two specifically named vanilla materials or through an external Fusion-summon enabler that the evidence never shows, accessibility, combo conversion, and resilience stay low, landing it in the mid-40s.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: Primary Material body / Normal profile (0.7 Material body + 0.3 default utility where relevant). Intrinsic ≈ 48, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Specific named Fusion Materials (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Level 7 DARK Spellcaster body with 2650 ATK that is clean material for Rank 7 Xyz and Fusion plays even when it is a blank body.
• Observably portable: appears in 53 sampled decks across 20 distinct archetypes (Primite, Dark Magician, Shining Sarcophagus, Kashtira, Blue-Eyes and more).
• Low slot commitment — average 1.21 copies per deck, and 45 of 53 decks run exactly one.

Weaknesses

• No effect text at all: no disruption, no negation, no card advantage, no interaction.
• Requires two specifically named vanilla Fusion Materials to summon by Fusion, with no self-summon route in the evidence.
• Zero combo evidence, zero guides, and no usage statistics, so the practical summoning route is unconfirmed.
• As a plain body it dies to any common removal once it hits the field.

Counters / choke points

• Effect negation or removal aimed at the external enabler that brings it out (e.g. hand traps such as Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring).
• Graveyard-hate or summon-denial effects that stop the Fusion-summon route before Skull Knight ever resolves.
• Generic monster removal, since a 2650 ATK vanilla has no protection once it is on the board.

Best use

Low-commitment Level-7 DARK Spellcaster material body for Rank 7 Xyz / Fusion lines. Decks: Primite, Dark Magician, Shining Sarcophagus, Kashtira. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text is exactly '"Tainted Wisdom" + "Ancient Brain"' — a vanilla Fusion Monster with no effect.; It is a Level 7 DARK Spellcaster Fusion Monster with 2650 ATK / 2250 DEF.; It is listed as legal in TCG, OCG, Master Duel, and Duel Links.
• Observed: Appears in 53 sampled decks (all main deck sample registration), average 1.21 copies, 45 decks running exactly 1.; It is spread across 20 distinct archetypes, led by Primite and Dark Magician at 11.3% each.; Top co-deck partners include Rank 7 Number 11: Big Eye (34%) and Level-7 Kashtira Unicorn/Ogre/Riseheart (30.2%).; 0 combo appearances recorded and 0 guides supplied for this card.
• Inferred: Its practical role is an Extra Deck Level-7 DARK material body rather than a summoned boss, since it has no effect and is not a starter.; The 2650 ATK and vanilla stats earn no score points; only material utility and portability matter.; Lacking any self-summon text, its inclusion implies an external Fusion-summon enabler the evidence does not name.
• 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 the actual summoning route (external Fusion-summon enabler) for this specific-material vanilla Fusion is not documented in the evidence