WIND
7Storm Shooter
ATK:
2300
DEF:
500
View:
781
Once per turn, you can select and activate 1 of these effects: ● Move this card to an adjacent (horizontal) unoccupied Monster Card Zone. ● Return 1 Spell, Trap or Monster Card on your opponent's side of the field in the same column as this card to its owner's hand.
Storm Shooter — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 10 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker / Going-second · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Storm Shooter reliably converts into a tempo bounce: once per turn it returns one Spell, Trap or Monster on the opponent's side in its column to the hand, or it repositions itself sideways. Its 2300 ATK and Level 7 body earn nothing on their own. The score comes from a playable one-copy effect that appears in six decks across three archetypes, but the bounce is column-restricted, gives no card advantage, and there is no combo evidence showing it converts into a winning board. The 7-star non-Tuner body is useful as material but is not evidenced in any recorded board.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Runs as a 1-of in all 6 sampled decks across Synchron, Radiant Typhoon and Floowandereeze, but no combo data shows it being searched or started from (inferred from decks, no combos). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | The text only offers a single bounce or a sideways move per turn with no recorded boards, so it converts to little beyond one tempo play (inferred from text; no combos). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Bouncing an opponent's card gives tempo but no card advantage, and nothing in the text refuels or draws (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | The bounce can hit any Spell, Trap or Monster but only in the same column, once per turn, which is situational soft interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 7 WIND Winged Beast with no Tuner in its type line is a generic material body, but no recorded board shows it used that way (inferred from text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The sideways move gives some repositioning across zones, but nothing protects it from a single negate or removal (verified from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Single copy, no garnets or locks, and the 6 decks show it slots into different homes with no restriction (observed from decks). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Board breaker / Going-second + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn bounce hits Spell, Trap or Monster on the opponent's side, so it answers more than one card type
- Sideways move gives repositioning across Monster Zones
- Single-copy, no garnets, runs in three archetypes
Weaknesses
- Bounce is limited to the column the card is in
- No card advantage: the opponent's card returns to hand while this card stays on the field
- No recorded combo boards show it as a starter, searched card or payoff
Counters / choke points
- Board-wide removal or negation that ignores column position
- Opponent setting the column with blockers so the bounce has no legal target
Best use
One-of tempo bounce and Level 7 material body in shell-style decks. Decks: Synchron, Radiant Typhoon, Floowandereeze. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once per turn: move to an adjacent unoccupied Monster Zone, or return a Spell, Trap or Monster on the opponent's side in the same column to hand (card text); Appears as a 1-of in 6 of 6 sampled decks across 3 archetypes (deck data)
- Observed: Co-occurs at 100% with Wynn the Wind Charmer, Verdant, Called by the Grave and Harpie's Feather Storm (top partners)
- Inferred: Usable as a Level 7 non-Tuner material body, from the type line and level (no combo evidence); Bounce is a tempo play rather than card advantage (from text)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied - combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) - archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no banlist token - assumed 3 copies (unlimited)