WIND
4Sonic Shooter
ATK:
1300
DEF:
600
View:
2692
If there are no cards in your opponent's Spell & Trap Zone, this card can attack your opponent directly. If it does, the battle damage inflicted to your opponent is the original ATK of this card.
Sonic Shooter — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 38 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 40 · Deck: 37 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Sonic Shooter converts almost nothing: its single effect lets it attack directly only while the opponent's Spell & Trap Zone is empty, so it is a conditional 1300-damage poke with no card advantage, no removal, and no disruption. It appears in 7 recent decks (always a 1-of) but in 0 recorded combos, so the practical evidence is a standalone body rather than an engine piece. What little value it has is a clean generic Level 4 WIND Winged Beast that can serve as Xyz/Link/tribute material even with its effect blanked. Its stats, level, and print count earn it nothing here; the low ATK and the empty-backrow condition keep the score down.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 42 | Generic Level 4 that can simply be Normal Summoned, but no searcher for it appears anywhere in the sample, so it must be drawn (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 18 | Appears in 0 of the recorded combos and extends no board beyond its own single body (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | The text provides no search, draw, GY refuel, or plus — at best a 1-for-1 body (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 12 | The only effect is a conditional direct attack; it offers no removal, negation, or disruption of the opponent's plays (verified). |
| Material Utility | 48 | A clean Level 4 WIND Winged Beast is usable Xyz/Link/tribute material even if the effect is negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 25 | A 1300 ATK body with no protection dies to any removal, and the direct attack requires the opponent's Spell & Trap Zone to be empty (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 57 | Played at exactly 1 copy in all 7 decks with no garnet, lock, or extra-deck requirement, so it is a cheap but low-impact slot (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 40, Deck ≈ 37, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Level 4 WIND Winged Beast that is easy to Normal Summon and fits Xyz/Link/tribute material roles.
- Conditional direct attack can push damage in backrow-light situations.
- Near-zero deckbuilding cost: no lock, no garnet, no extra-deck requirement, run as a 1-of.
Weaknesses
- The direct attack is fully conditional on the opponent's Spell & Trap Zone being empty.
- No card advantage, searching, or recursion of any kind.
- No disruption or removal — it cannot interact with the opponent's board or hand.
- Low 1300 ATK makes it weak in battle and trivial to remove.
- No archetype, no searcher, and no combo evidence — it is a standalone body only.
Counters / choke points
- Any Set Spell/Trap in the opponent's backrow disables the direct attack entirely.
- Any single removal effect (destroy, banish, bounce) ends it.
- Higher-ATK bodies in battle against the 1300 ATK body.
- Battle-phase negation or attack prevention.
Best use
Direct-attack utility body and Winged Beast material. Decks: Harpie (casual), Amazoness (casual), Winged Beast / Beast-Warrior casual builds. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: attacks directly only if the opponent's Spell & Trap Zone is empty, for damage equal to its original ATK.; Level 4 WIND Winged Beast, 1300 ATK / 600 DEF, no archetype, legal in TCG/OCG/MasterDuel/DuelLinks.; No card advantage, search, recursion, or interaction is written on the card.
- Observed: 7 recent decks run it, 100% in the Main Deck, always exactly 1 copy.; 0 recorded combo appearances, 0 as starter/searched/material/payoff.; Top partners are Birdface, Cyber Harpie Lady, Amazoness cards and Harpie Lady variants (casual Winged Beast/Beast-Warrior shells).; No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) rows exist for this card.
- Inferred: With no listed searcher, the card must be drawn; there is no practical tutor route in the sample.; Its Level 4 WIND Winged Beast typing gives usable Xyz/Link/tribute material value even when its effect is blanked.; The empty-backrow condition makes the effect unreliable in any meta that sets backrow.
- 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