LIGHT
1Watapon
ATK:
200
DEF:
300
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If this card is added from your Deck to your hand by a card effect: You can Special Summon this card.
Watapon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 52 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Extender
Why it scores here
Watapon is a Level 1 LIGHT Fairy whose only effect lets it Special Summon itself when it is added from the Deck to the hand by a card effect; it is therefore pure material support rather than a starter or a payoff. Its value is real but small: it turns an existing search into one extra body for a Link-1 (Linkuriboh) or Ritual material, and its Level 1 LIGHT Fairy typing makes it a clean, generic material that still works when blanked. It is run only as a roughly 1-copy main-deck piece in ritual-flavoured decks (Libromancer, Cyber Angel), and its 200/300 stats and total lack of disruption earn it nothing. High ATK/DEF were never in play here — every point comes from the body and the material fit, not from combat stats.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Text confirms a Level 1 monster that can also be Normal Summoned, and it appears in 16 recent decks (Libromancer, Cyber Angel) as a search target, but its Special Summon only fires when it is added from Deck to hand (verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 38 | With zero combo samples supplied its conversion is text-only: it turns an existing search into one extra Level 1 body for a Link-1 or Ritual material, a modest one-body gain (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 38 | It is roughly card-neutral, converting a search that already happened into a body rather than generating any new advantage (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card provides no disruption, negation, or removal of any kind (verified). |
| Material Utility | 65 | As a Level 1 LIGHT Fairy it is clean generic material for Linkuriboh/Accesscode lines and Ritual fodder, and it still functions as a body even if the effect is blanked (verified). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Its trigger is a single one-shot Special Summon; if it is negated, or the card is simply drawn naturally, only a 200/300 body remains (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 58 | Deck data shows it run as a ~1.12-copy, main-deck-only 1-of, so it is a cheap slot but can be a dead draw when opened without a search (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Extender. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 52, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 1 LIGHT Fairy is clean generic material for Linkuriboh/Link-1 lines and Ritual fodder
- Free Special Summon when searched, giving a body off an existing search
- Runs as a compact single main-deck copy with no Extra Deck cost
Weaknesses
- Only 200 ATK / 300 DEF — negligible as a combat body
- Effect is dead when the card is drawn naturally instead of searched
- Provides zero disruption, negation, or removal
- Trigger is a one-shot that is easily blanked
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the search or of the Special Summon trigger blanks its only effect
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring on the search that would add it
- Graveyard-hate or hand disruption that removes the added body before it can be used as material
Best use
Free Level 1 LIGHT Fairy body for Ritual and Link material. Decks: Libromancer, Cyber Angel. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: 'If this card is added from your Deck to your hand by a card effect: You can Special Summon this card.'; It is a Level 1 LIGHT Fairy with 200 ATK / 300 DEF and no archetype.; It has no disruption, negation, or removal text.
- Observed: Runs in 16 recent decks, all main-deck, at 1.12 average copies (max 2).; Appears across 11 distinct archetype tags including Libromancer, Cyber Angel, Solemn, Artifact, Windwitch and Darklord.; Top partners include Libromancer Geek Boy/Agent/Fire, Cyber Angel Benten, Preparation of Rites, Linkuriboh and Accesscode Talker.
- Inferred: It converts an existing search into one extra Level 1 body usable as Link-1 or Ritual material.; Being drawn naturally leaves only a 200/300 vanilla body since the trigger never fires.; Its resource flow is essentially card-neutral.
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only