DARK
4Transonic Bird
ATK:
0
DEF:
2400
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3276
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Sonic Tracker". Once per turn: You can reveal 1 Ritual Spell in your hand, add 1 Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand whose name is listed on that card, and if you do, shuffle the revealed card into the Deck. Once per opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can send 1 Ritual Spell from your Deck to the GY; this effect becomes that card's effect that Ritual Summons a monster when the card is activated. If this Ritual Summoned card is Tributed: You can target 1 face-up card your opponent controls; negate its effects until the end of this turn.
Transonic Bird — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51.7 · Deck: 52.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Negation/Interaction
Why it scores here
Transonic Bird is a Ritual monster whose value comes from its two search-and-access effects: a once-per-turn swap of a Ritual Spell for a named Ritual Monster, and an opponent-turn Quick Effect that sends a Ritual Spell from the Deck to the GY. Its tribute-negate only matters after it has been Ritual Summoned and tributed, so it adds a single targeted negation rather than a board. The 18-deck sample shows it is consistently played alongside Pre-Preparation of Rites and Sonic Tracker, which supports a real role, but no combo data exists, so combo conversion and starter access stay unproven and the high ATK-free body earns no points on its own. The score sits in the low 50s because the card depends on a Ritual Spell and a Ritual Summon route rather than generating card advantage by itself.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Reachable through a once-per-turn Ritual Spell search and an opponent-turn Quick Effect, and present in 18 decks with Pre-Preparation of Rites in 94% and Sonic Tracker in 89%; no starter role or searched-for role data (observed, inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Text describes a Ritual body plus a tribute-negate, but no recorded boards show it converting into a board, so the score is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | The hand-to-deck Ritual Spell swap leaves hand and deck counts unchanged and the GY send is fuel rather than advantage, so there is no net card gain (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Negates one face-up opponent card's effects only after this card is Ritual Summoned and tributed, a single-target conditional effect rather than a hand trap (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 4 DARK Winged Beast body is usable as generic Level 4 material, but the Ritual Summon route makes it a summon-line piece rather than a common material (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Two distinct access windows (own turn search, opponent-turn send) and 8 distinct archetypes give some redundancy, though both depend on the Ritual Spell being present (observed). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 45 | Average 1.33 copies and mostly single copies keep the slot cost low, but it requires Ritual Spell support and Sonic Tracker, a dependency that is a mild restriction (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Negation/Interaction. Intrinsic ≈ 51.7, Deck ≈ 52.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn search turns a Ritual Spell in hand into a named Ritual Monster in hand
- Quick Effect on the opponent's turn sends a Ritual Spell from the Deck to the GY, giving a second access window
- Level 4 DARK body that can be used as generic Level 4 material
- Tribute-negate gives a targeted negation after summon
Weaknesses
- Needs a Ritual Spell and a Ritual Summon route, notably Sonic Tracker, so it is not a standalone body
- The search is a card swap, not card advantage
- The negation needs summon plus tribute and hits one card until end of turn
- 0 ATK makes the body weak as a field presence
Counters / choke points
- Inferred: opponent negation of the Ritual Spell or the Ritual Summon before resolution; no counter-card evidence was supplied
Best use
Ritual Spell searcher and ritual-line enabler with a conditional tribute-negate. Decks: Shinobird, Resonator, Dogmatika. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Ritual Summon via Sonic Tracker is stated in the card text; Once-per-turn Ritual Spell reveal, Ritual Monster search, and shuffle-back are stated in the card text; Opponent-turn Quick Effect sends a Ritual Spell from Deck to GY and becomes that spell's Ritual effect; Tribute-negate targets one face-up opponent card after this card is tributed; Level 4 DARK Winged Beast, DEF 2400, ATK 0
- Observed: Appears in 18 recent decks, 17 with Pre-Preparation of Rites and 16 with Sonic Tracker; Average 1.33 copies per deck, with 13 of 18 decks running 1 copy; Spread across 8 archetypes and 2 gameplay types
- Inferred: The search is a hand-quality swap rather than card advantage, from the revealed card being shuffled back; The tribute-negate is a low-frequency line that depends on the Ritual Summon; Its main role is as a Ritual line enabler, not a board piece
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies are assumed legal no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no rulings supplied for the Quick Effect timing or the becomes-that-effect clause Sonic Tracker's own card text is not in the evidence