WATER
4Toxic Boxfish
ATK:
1800
DEF:
800
View:
1719
1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner monsters If this card is Synchro Summoned: You can target 1 card in either GY; banish it. If this card is banished: You can target 1 face-up card your opponent controls; negate its effects until the end of this turn. You can only use each effect of "Toxic Boxfish" once per turn.
Toxic Boxfish — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 58 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Toxic Boxfish is a generic Level 4 WATER Synchro body. Its value comes from a once-per-turn-per-effect negate on a face-up opponent monster, which only fires after the card is banished, and from a targeting banish of one GY card on Synchro Summon. The 1800 ATK and 800 DEF earned no points. Its presence in 307 recent decks (about 70% in Ghoti gameplay) confirms it is a practical, low-cost staple, but that frequency is not used to inflate the score; no combo evidence exists to show a strong conversion.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Live in 307 of 307 decks at 1 copy each, but it needs a Synchro Summon with a Tuner and non-Tuner, and no combo starter/searched data is supplied (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | Text-only: a GY banish on Synchro Summon and a negate on banish; no combo examples or power index exist, so conversion is unmeasured (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 25 | The Synchro Summon effect banishes one card in either GY, which is removal of a GY card rather than card advantage; no netCardAdvantage or refuel is shown (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Negates one face-up opponent monster's effects until end of turn, but only after the card is banished, and the banish route is not in the evidence (verified text; inferred reach). |
| Material Utility | 50 | Level 4 WATER Fish body that is a generic Synchro material; the negate is a Banish trigger, so the body still converts when its effects are negated (inferred from text; no material role stat). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Two effect windows (Synchro Summon and banished) spread across zones, each limited once per turn, but the negate depends on a banish route that is not evidenced (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Single-copy, no garnet, no lock, no self-restriction, and 298 of 307 decks run exactly 1 copy (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal / Negation + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 58, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Synchro body with no garnet or self-lock cost
- Negate on banish gives a soft, once-per-turn-per-effect interaction
- Live in 307 recent decks across 47 archetypes at 1 copy each
Weaknesses
- No combo evidence; combo conversion is text-only
- Negate needs the card to be banished first, and the banish route is not in the evidence
- Synchro Summon effect is a GY banish with no card advantage
- Concentrated in Ghoti gameplay (about 70% of decks), so its home is narrower than the archetype count suggests
Counters / choke points
- Negation or hand traps that stop the Synchro Summon before the effects resolve
- Opponent monster effect negation during the Synchro Summon trigger
Best use
Synchro body with a negate after banishment, a soft-interaction utility for WATER Synchro decks. Decks: Ghoti, White Aura, Shark, Mermail Atlantean. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 WATER Fish Synchro, ATK 1800 / DEF 800, formats TCG and OCG; Synchro Summon effect: target 1 card in either GY and banish it; Banished effect: target 1 face-up opponent card and negate its effects until end of turn; Each effect is once per turn; Present in 307 of 307 recent decks, 298 at 1 copy, 47 distinct archetypes
- Observed: About 70% of decks are gameplay type 7; Ghoti archetype is 38.8% of decks; Top partners include Arionpos, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Icejade Gymir Aegirine at roughly 63–75% co-deck rate; Usage statistics: 100% inclusion in Ghoti (gameplay 4) and Floowandereeze (gameplay 4) at 1 copy
- Inferred: Negate on banish is reachable mainly through cost-banish effects in its home archetypes, but the banish route is not in the evidence; Material utility is generic Level 4 WATER body, with no measured material role stat; Accessibility is medium because Synchro Summon needs a Tuner and a non-Tuner
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banish-route data for the banished effect no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed (unlimited)