FIRE
4Volcanic Rocket
Archetype:
Volcanic
ATK:
1900
DEF:
1400
View:
4007
When this card is Summoned: You can add 1 "Blaze Accelerator" card from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand.
Volcanic Rocket — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 63 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 61 · Deck: 64 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter
Why it scores here
Volcanic Rocket converts one on-Summon trigger into one Blaze Accelerator from the Deck or Graveyard, so its power comes from the starter it fetches, not from its 1900 ATK, which earns nothing directly. It is in all 400 sampled decks as a main-deck card (79% in Volcanic archetype 900), which confirms it is reliably accessible and fits its home, but the combo evidence is empty, so combo conversion rests on card text alone. Zero effect interaction and a single-target search with no recorded board outcomes keep the score in the middle band.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Runs in 400/400 sampled decks with 1.5 average copies and is a Level 4 body that is easy to Summon (observed; the in-hand route is not separately tabled, so it is inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 58 | The text converts one Summon into one Blaze Accelerator, but no recorded boards exist to show how far that goes (inferred from text; combo data has 0 appearances). |
| Resource Economy | 68 | A Summon-triggered search adds a card while the 1900-ATK body stays on the field, a net +1 with no cost stated in the text (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or disruption text, so it offers no opponent interaction (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 Pyro effect body is a usable generic material, but no combo evidence shows it being used as material (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The search can be stopped by one negate on the Summon trigger, but the body survives as material and the target can come from the Graveyard as well as the Deck (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | It is a one-to-three copy, non-garnet, non-locking card with typical copies 1 in usage statistics and no restriction text (observed, usage statistics). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher + 0.3 Starter. Intrinsic ≈ 61, Deck ≈ 64, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Included in all 400 sampled decks as a main-deck card, so it is consistently live in its home archetype
- Summon-triggered search reaches a Blaze Accelerator from either the Deck or the Graveyard
- Adds card advantage while leaving a Level 4 body on the field
- Clean, cheap to run: typical 1 copy, no garnet or lock text
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction of its own (effect_interaction 5)
- Value depends entirely on Blaze Accelerator being available and the search going unnegated
- No recorded combos, so its real board conversion is not measured
- Single-target search with no effect beyond the Summon trigger
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Summon trigger, which stops the search but leaves the body (generic interaction, inferred; no named counter in evidence)
Best use
Searcher that fetches Blaze Accelerator into the Volcanic line. Decks: Volcanic (archetype 900), Volcanic (archetype 1376), Volcanic (archetype 1387). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: On Summon: add 1 Blaze Accelerator from Deck or Graveyard to hand (card text); Effect Monster, Level 4, FIRE Pyro, 1900 ATK / 1400 DEF (card data); Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, and DuelLinks (formats); Appears as a main-deck card in 400/400 sampled decks (deck data)
- Observed: 79% of sampled decks are in Volcanic archetype 900; 85.8% are gameplay type 7 (deck data); Top partners co-occur in 91–98% of decks (deck data.top partners); Usage statistics: 100% inclusion and typical copies 1 in Volcanic gameplay 6 (usage statistics)
- Inferred: The Graveyard route gives resilience against a one-card discard or send plan (text-based); Material value of the Level 4 body is generic but not evidenced in combos; Accessibility is high because it is a Level 4 Summon with a search that does not depend on another card (text-based)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no meta sample — meta power is null no rulings supplied — the timing of the on-Summon search is taken from text only