Spell
ContinuousWhitefish Salvage
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You can target 1 Fish monster in your GY; add it to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Whitefish Salvage" once per turn. If this card in your possession is destroyed by an opponent's card effect and sent to your GY: Take 1 Fish monster from your Deck, and either add it to your hand or Special Summon it.
Whitefish Salvage — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Whitefish Salvage is a Continuous Spell whose main value is repeatable Fish retrieval: once per turn it adds a Fish monster from the GY to hand, and if it is destroyed by an opponent's card effect it gets another Fish from the Deck to hand or Special Summons it. That is a card-for-card conversion with a second payoff when the opponent spends a removal on it, which keeps it from being a dead card. It scores in the mid-50s on the strength of its deck integration (143 sampled decks, 22 archetypes, typical 1 copy) and its resilience to removal, not on its ATK/DEF (it has none) or its 3501 view count, which earn nothing. The lack of any recorded combo boards and no Continuous Spell placement route in the evidence keeps the score and confidence from going higher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Card text makes it a Continuous Spell with a field-only activation (not hand-activated), and the 143 sampled decks show it is routinely reachable, but no searched or starter data was supplied (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The text converts one Fish into hand and possibly a second Fish on destruction, but no combo boards or power index data were supplied, so the conversion is text-only inference. |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Each activation is a 1-for-1 search, with the destruction trigger giving a repeatable extra Fish when removed by an opponent effect; this is card-text inference (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or disruption effect of its own, so it offers no opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Continuous Spell cannot be used as material and provides no level, attribute or name for summoning (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | The destruction-triggered Fish retrieval gives value even when an opponent removes it, and it appears across 22 archetypes in the sample; the once-per-turn limit on the search is a real constraint (verified text plus deck observation). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | It is a single Spell slot with a 3-copy default, averaging 1.39 copies per sampled deck, and it imposes no garnet or locking restriction (observed from deck data, plus text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable Fish retrieval: one search per turn from the GY plus a second Fish on destruction by an opponent card effect
- Broad deck integration: 143 sampled decks across 22 archetypes, with Shark and Fish lines at the top and high co-occurrence with Buzzsaw Shark and Lifeless Leaffish
- Cheap to run: a single Spell slot, 1.39 average copies, no locking restriction
Weaknesses
- Field-only activation as a Continuous Spell, so it cannot act from hand and depends on being placed or searched first
- No own interaction or material value, so it contributes nothing when the Fish it fetches is not needed
- Its power is tied to the Fish monsters it retrieves; without them in the deck it converts nothing
Counters / choke points
- Opponent card effects that destroy or remove it from the field (inferred from text; it still triggers its destruction effect when removed by an opponent effect)
Best use
Searcher/Tutor and recursion support for Fish-type lines. Decks: Shark, Fish (archetype 40 and 598), Ghoti, White Aura, Gishki. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Continuous Spell with two effects: a once-per-turn Fish search from GY and a destruction-triggered Fish retrieval from Deck (card text); Formats: TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (evidence); 143 sampled decks, 22 distinct archetypes, average 1.39 copies (deck data)
- Observed: Top partners Buzzsaw Shark (59.4%), Lifeless Leaffish (58%) and Beautunaful Princess (57.3%) co-occur in the sampled decks; Gameplay type 7 accounts for 67.1% of sampled decks
- Inferred: Reliable access depends on placement or search routes that the evidence does not record; The destruction trigger gives recursion when an opponent effect removes it
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion evidence comes only from the 143-deck sample no searched-for role or starter role data; accessibility cannot be measured no banlist token; assumed 3 copies