WATER
4White Sunfish
Archetype:
White
ATK:
1200
DEF:
1200
View:
2939
If this card is in your hand: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower Fish monster in your GY with the same name as a card you control; Special Summon this card, and if you do, Special Summon that monster. You can only use this effect of "White Sunfish" once per turn. If this card is Special Summoned from the GY: You can treat it as a Tuner this turn.
White Sunfish — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 53 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
White Sunfish converts a same-name Level 4-or-lower Fish in the GY, plus a card you control, into two bodies from hand, and it can be treated as a Tuner from the GY for a turn. The score is capped by the conditional target (a same-name card must already be on your field), a hand-activated effect that hand traps can answer, and zero opponent interaction. Its presence in all 400 sampled decks confirms it is a dependable staple in the White/Ghoti shell but earns no points by itself, and its 1200 ATK/DEF and 2889 view count contribute nothing.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Playable from hand in all 400 sampled decks at about 1.57 copies, but the hand effect needs a same-name Fish L4-or-lower in the GY and a matching card on your field, and no observed starts exist (verified + observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The text gives a hand-summon plus GY revive for two bodies, but there are zero recorded boards, so the conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Two bodies for one hand card with a GY monster brought back is a modest net gain in board presence with no card cost, but no netCardAdvantage data exists (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or disruption on its effects, so it scores near zero here (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A clean Level 4 WATER Fish body that can be material and gains Tuner status when Special Summoned from the GY, which converts even if the hand effect is negated (verified + inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The main effect is a once-per-turn hand activation that hand traps can negate, and it needs a specific same-name target, though the GY Tuner effect offers some fallback (verified + inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Low-copy staple with no garnet or lock restriction, in a 3-copy-or-fewer slot, although it is tied to Fish and White partners (verified + observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender (primary) + 0.3 Material body (secondary). Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Hand-summon that also revives a same-name Level 4-or-lower Fish, giving two bodies from one card
- Level 4 WATER Fish body with clean material utility and GY Tuner option
- Running in all 400 sampled decks at low copy counts keeps deckbuilding cost minimal
Weaknesses
- Target requires a same-name Fish L4-or-lower in GY and a matching card you control, so the effect is conditional
- Once-per-turn hand activation is exposed to hand-trap interruption
- No opponent interaction or negation
- No recorded combo boards to confirm conversion
Counters / choke points
- Hand traps that negate hand-activated effects (inferred from text; no counter data in evidence)
- Disruption that removes the same-name field card, closing the target condition (inferred)
Best use
Hand-summon extender that revives a same-name Fish in White/Ghoti shells. Decks: White Aura, Ghoti, Shark.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Hand effect: Special Summon itself and a same-name Level 4-or-lower Fish from the GY, requiring a same-name card you control, once per turn; GY effect: may be treated as a Tuner this turn when Special Summoned from the GY; Level 4, WATER, Fish, 1200 ATK/DEF, Effect Monster; legal in TCG, OCG and MasterDuel; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, avg 1.57 copies, 31 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Running main in 76.5% of Gameplay 7 decks, 16.8% Gameplay 4, 6.8% Gameplay 6; Abyss- usage inclusion 66.7% at 3 copies (single archetype row; small sample); Top partners include White Sardine, White Aura Whale and White Reincarnation at 90%+ co-occurrence
- Inferred: Extender role: hand-summon with a GY revive adds board presence without card cost; Material value from Level 4 WATER Fish body and GY Tuner option; Vulnerability to hand traps because the main effect is a hand activation
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) avg_starter_count_when_present is null, so deck resilience cannot use starter-count data No rulings field supplied for the same-name target condition