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EquipSoul Fist
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Equip only to a Dragon Synchro Monster you control. "Red Dragon Archfiend" equipped with this card is unaffected by your opponent's activated effects. Once per turn, during your Main Phase: You can make the ATK of all monsters your opponent currently controls become equal to the equipped monster's. Once per turn, when an attack is declared involving the equipped monster: You can target 1 monster in your opponent's GY; banish it, and if you do, the equipped monster gains ATK equal to that banished monster's, until the end of this turn.
Soul Fist — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 61 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
Soul Fist's power is its effect-immunity on the equipped Dragon Synchro and its once-per-turn ATK equalizer that reduces every opposing monster to the equipped monster's ATK, which is a board-wide swing. Its ATK gain from banishing an opposing GY monster is a minor add-on, not card advantage, so resource_economy stays low. The card's 96.8% deck presence and 97.7% co-occurrence with Red Dragon Archfiend confirm it is a live, expected piece of the Dragon Synchro lines, but that frequency is not counted as strength. Its narrow Dragon Synchro-only equip restriction and single-spot exposure cap the score, and no combo data exists to confirm the board conversion.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Equip spell that needs a Dragon Synchro already on the field; 96.8% of decks run it at about 1 copy with frequent partners, so access is live but not guaranteed from the opening hand (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 58 | Text describes a board-wide ATK equalization plus an ATK gain on attack, but no combo boards were supplied, so the conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | Only banishes one opposing GY monster for ATK; it draws, searches and refuels nothing for the controller (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 68 | Immunity to the opponent's activated effects on the equipped monster and a once-per-turn ATK equalizer give strong, hard-to-play-around board effects (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 20 | Equip spell with no material or level role; the monster it attaches to is the only body (verified from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Equipped monster gains immunity, but the card is single-spot and dies with that monster; no redundancy beyond one copy (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Runs as 1 copy in nearly every deck with a narrow Dragon Synchro restriction that the surrounding lines already satisfy (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Board breaker + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 61, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Immunity to opposing activated effects on the equipped Dragon Synchro
- Once-per-turn board-wide ATK equalization
- Near-universal presence in the Dragon Synchro lines (96.8% of sampled decks)
Weaknesses
- Requires a Dragon Synchro on the field before it does anything
- No card advantage or refuel
- Dies with the equipped monster; single-spot presence
Counters / choke points
- Negating or destroying the equipped monster removes the card with it
- Opponent board effects that do not target the monster can still reach the rest of the field
Best use
Board breaker that protects a Dragon Synchro attacker and equalizes the opposing board. Decks: Red Dragon Archfiend / Archfiend lines, Resonator lines, Crimson Dragon and Centur-Ion Dragon Synchro builds. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Equip-only to a Dragon Synchro Monster you control; Equipped monster is unaffected by the opponent's activated effects; Once-per-turn Main Phase ATK equalization of all opposing monsters; Once-per-turn banish of an opposing GY monster for ATK gain
- Observed: 96.8% gameplay share and 1 copy in 334 of 347 decks; 97.7% co-occurrence with Red Dragon Archfiend and Soul Resonator
- Inferred: Board conversion from the ATK equalizer, since no combos were supplied; Accessibility depends on having a Dragon Synchro already out
- 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 legal copies empty for all formats — legality not confirmed