Spell
NormalWhite Circle Reef
Archetype:
White
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Target 1 Fish monster you control; destroy that Fish monster, and if you do, add 1 monster with the same name it had on the field from your Deck to your hand, or, if you controlled a Fish Synchro Monster when you activated this card, you can Special Summon it instead. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 2 Fish monsters with the same name in your GY; place 1 of the 2 on the bottom of your Deck, and if you do, Special Summon the other. You can only use each effect of "White Circle Reef" once per turn.
White Circle Reef — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 50.2 · Deck: 49.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
White Circle Reef reliably converts a live Fish monster you control into one same-name monster from the Deck, or a Special Summon if you controlled a Fish Synchro when it was activated. Its graveyard effect adds a second, smaller recursion route: it banishes itself to Special Summon one of two same-name Fish from the GY. The score is held down by the cost, since it must destroy your own Fish first, and by the lack of combo evidence, which leaves the conversion value text-only. The 21-deck, five-archetype spread confirms the card is played, but that frequency does not raise the score.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Needs a Fish monster you control to target and destroy, so it is dead without a Fish on board; decks show it in five archetypes, which supports a live route (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | One same-name Deck monster per activation, or a Special Summon with a Fish Synchro present; no combo boards recorded to confirm the usual end state (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Destroying your own Fish and then adding one card is roughly even, and the GY banish effect returns a body from the graveyard (verified text, inferred value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap reach against the opponent (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Spell has no material value of its own; the Fish it targets are the material bodies (verified text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Usable from the graveyard as well as the hand, with two once-per-turn effects in separate zones; it can still be negated before resolving (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | One copy per deck (average 1.05 copies), no garnets, and fits any Fish-based build, though it is a brick without Fish (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 50.2, Deck ≈ 49.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: self-destruction cost (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Converts one live Fish into a same-name Deck monster or a Special Summon
- Graveyard effect gives a second use after the card is spent
- Single slot with no garnets; playable across five archetypes
Weaknesses
- Needs your own Fish monster to be destroyed first
- Both effects are once per turn each
- No direct interaction against the opponent
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the activation before resolution (text-based inference)
Best use
Fish-deck recovery searcher. Decks: White Aura, Gishki, Shark, Ghoti, Fish. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: destroy a target Fish you control to add a same-name monster from the Deck, or Special Summon it if a Fish Synchro was controlled; banish from GY to revive one of two same-name Fish; 21 of 21 sampled decks run it in the main deck, average 1.05 copies
- Observed: Five archetypes and strong partner overlap (Fishborg Harpooner, Infinite Impermanence at 100%)
- Inferred: Accessible only with a live Fish, so it is a Fish-gated searcher; Graveyard recursion adds value over the destroy cost
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies are assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is from the deck sample only