WATER
Snowdust Giant
ATK:
2200
DEF:
800
View:
3775
2 Level 4 WATER monsters Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; reveal any number of WATER monsters from your hand, and place that many Ice Counters on face-up monsters on the field. Non-WATER monsters on the field lose 200 ATK for each Ice Counter on the field.
Snowdust Giant — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 45 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 43 · Deck: 46 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Snowdust Giant converts only into a modest WATER Rank 4 body (2200 ATK) plus a soft ATK-reduction effect: revealing WATER monsters from hand places Ice Counters that make non-WATER monsters lose 200 ATK each. It generates no card advantage, offers no negation or removal, and does nothing on the opponent's turn, so it never builds or defends a board on its own. Its 2200 ATK and its 218-deck presence across 32 archetypes confirm it is an easy, generic extra-deck pickup, not proof of strength. The score therefore reflects reliable accessibility and low deck cost against very limited conversion, with the high ATK earning no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Requires only 2 Level 4 WATER monsters, a standard material an Xyz in WATER decks (Mermail/Atlantean) can field, but it is an extra-deck piece never shown as a starter or searched (text verified; no combo confirmation). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No combo evidence exists (0 appearances) and the text builds no board beyond its own body, so conversion is a single 2200-ATK body with a minor debuff (inferred from text). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | The detach-and-reveal effect produces no searches, draws, or GY refuel, so it is roughly card-neutral with no advantage engine (text verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 20 | The only interaction is an ignition ATK reduction of 200 per Ice Counter on non-WATER monsters; it is soft, situational, and unusable on the opponent's turn (text verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | The card is itself a Rank 4 Xyz with 2 Level 4 WATER materials, so it is a WATER body/name of limited further-material use rather than a clean material provider (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | No protection, no GY or multi-zone function, and once its single material is detached it is a near-vanilla 2200 body (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | It costs one extra-deck slot, needs no archetype lock, and is run at ~1.09 copies (max 2), making it cheap to include across WATER decks (observed from deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility (default) + 0.3 Material body blend; values rounded. Intrinsic ≈ 43, Deck ≈ 46, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Rank 4 requiring only 2 Level 4 WATER monsters, so it is usable in a wide range of WATER decks
- Decent 2200 ATK body for a Rank 4
- Small non-WATER ATK-reduction effect that scales if multiple Ice Counters can be placed
Weaknesses
- Effect generates no card advantage or follow-up
- Ignition effect only works on your own turn, so it offers no disruption
- ATK reduction of only 200 per Ice Counter is marginal and rarely decisive
- No protection; after detaching material it is essentially a vanilla body
- Extra-deck slot cost with no combo payoff
Counters / choke points
- Any targeted monster removal or negation before the effect resolves
- Effect negation (e.g. generic monster negates) blanks it into a vanilla 2200 body
- Decks that do not field non-WATER monsters make the ATK-reduction clause irrelevant
Best use
Generic WATER Rank 4 extra-deck utility / ATK-reduction body. Decks: Mermail, Atlantean, Shark, Deep Sea, Icejade. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: 2 Level 4 WATER monsters; detach 1 material to reveal any number of WATER monsters from hand and place that many Ice Counters on face-up monsters; non-WATER monsters lose 200 ATK per Ice Counter on the field; Rarity/stat line is a Rank 4 WATER Beast-Warrior Xyz with 2200 ATK / 800 DEF
- Observed: Appears in 218 decks, run in main at ~1.09 copies (max 2); Spread across 32 distinct archetypes, led by Mermail/Atlantean (~20.6% each) and Shark (~9.6%); 0 combo appearances, 0 starter role, 0 material role, 0 payoff role; Strongest co-deck partners are WATER Xyz/Synchro pieces and generic staples (Marincess Coral Anemone, Called by the Grave, Atlantean/Mermail cards)
- Inferred: Its practical role is a generic WATER Rank 4 body with a minor debuff, not a starter or payoff; Combo conversion is limited to its own 2200-ATK body because the effect neither builds nor defends a board; Low slot cost and no archetype lock make it a cheap extra-deck inclusion
- 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