LIGHT
6VIP Whale
ATK:
2400
DEF:
1000
View:
367
You can Tribute additional monsters when you Tribute Summon this card face-up. If this card is Tribute Summoned: You can place VIP Counters on this card equal to the number of monsters Tributed for its Tribute Summon. When your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can remove 1 VIP Counter from this card; toss a coin and call it. If you call it right, negate that effect. If you call it wrong, this card's original ATK becomes halved until the end of this turn.
VIP Whale — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 47 · Deck: 48 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Boss/End-board
Why it scores here
VIP Whale's 2400 ATK and Level 6 body earn almost nothing on their own. Its score comes from a quick-effect coin-flip negation that spends one VIP Counter per activation, with the counter total set by how many monsters were Tributed for the summon. Its 1-of presence across 11 sampled decks in four archetypes confirms it is a real, practical piece, but that usage does not raise the score by itself.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | Normal-summoned from hand but needs a monster on the field to Tribute; no searcher or starter evidence in the pack (verified text, inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Zero recorded combo boards, so conversion is text-only: one body that adds counters, with no observed build-out (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | No draw, no recursion, no card advantage; the Tribute cost is paid by the summon itself, and counter removal costs no card (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | Negates any activated card or effect on a 50% coin call per counter, but a wrong call halves its ATK; flexible reach, soft odds (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 6 LIGHT Fish body that stays a usable material even when its effect is negated; fit depends on the target Synchro or Xyz (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Stays on the field as a body, but the coin-flip negation can be stopped by opponent responses and the wrong-call penalty compounds it (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | 1-of in all 11 sampled decks with no garnet, lock or restriction; the only cost is needing a Tribute (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Boss/End-board. Intrinsic ≈ 47, Deck ≈ 48, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Negates any activated card or effect on a coin call; the quick effect reaches both players' activations (verified)
- Counter total scales with the number of monsters Tributed, so a multi-Tribute summon gives more flips (verified)
- Played as a 1-of in 11 of 11 sampled decks across four archetypes (observed)
Weaknesses
- Each negation is a 50% coin flip; a wrong call halves its original ATK until end of turn (verified)
- Needs a monster to Tribute and a Tribute Summon to gain counters at all (verified text)
- No combo, searcher or guide evidence, so its real board impact is unmeasured (data gap)
Counters / choke points
- Opponent responses to its quick-effect activation can stop the coin flip from mattering (inferred)
- Each flip is 50/50 regardless of the situation, so a single counter is a weak answer to a key card (verified text)
- Removing the Tributed monster or the summon itself (before counters are placed) leaves no counters (inferred)
Best use
Coin-flip negation body with an end-board ATK threat; a 1-of slot in the Clown Crew shell. Decks: Clown Crew, Monarch, Mitsurugi. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: extra Tribute on face-up Tribute Summon; VIP Counters equal to Tributed monsters; quick-effect coin-flip negation; ATK halved on a wrong call; Level 6, LIGHT, Fish, 2400/1000, Effect Monster; legal in TCG and OCG; 1 copy in each of 11 sampled decks
- Observed: Present in 4 archetypes (Monarch 4, Mitsurugi 3, Clown Crew 3, Kaiju 1); Co-occurs in 7 of 11 decks with Clown Crew cards, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Droll & Lock Bird, and Called by the Grave
- Inferred: Accessibility depends on having a monster to Tribute; no searcher route exists in the evidence; Level 6 LIGHT body fits Synchro or Xyz material requirements in some decks; Opponent responses can blunt the coin-flip negation
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist or legal copies per format; assumed 3 copies no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion inferred from the 11-deck sample only actual Tribute count per summon is not in the evidence, so the counter total is unknown