EARTH
3Wind-Up Dog
Archetype:
Wind-Up
ATK:
1200
DEF:
900
View:
3700
During your Main Phase: You can increase this card's Level by 2 and ATK by 600, until the End Phase. This effect can be used only once while this card is face-up on the field.
Wind-Up Dog — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Wind-Up Dog is a 1200-ATK Level 3 Earth Beast. Its one useful effect, a once-per-face-up Main Phase Level +2 and ATK +600, turns it into a Level 5 body, so it converts into material value rather than board presence. The 1200 ATK and its stats earn no points; the score rests on its material utility and its low deck cost. It does not search, draw, or interact, so the rubric caps combo conversion and resource economy low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Appears in 35 of the sampled decks across 14 archetypes, but it is a generic body with no searcher or starter route in the evidence (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The card text gives a Level +2 and ATK +600 once per face-up, but no recorded combo boards exist to show a real conversion path (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | No draw, search, or recursion appears in the text, and no card-advantage data is supplied (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect in its text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 60 | A Level 3 Earth Beast that the text raises to Level 5 is a practical material body, and its base Level 3 still works if the effect is negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The effect is once per face-up and is lost if the card is negated or leaves the field; the body remains as material (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Typically runs one copy in the sample, with no garnet or lock restriction (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 3 Earth Beast that the text raises to Level 5, a flexible material body
- Generic body that appears across 14 archetypes
- Low deck cost: one copy typical, no garnet or lock
Weaknesses
- No search, draw, or recursion in its text
- No combo evidence to show a real conversion path
- Effect is lost on negation, and the card has no interaction of its own
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Level-change effect leaves only a Level 3 body
Best use
Level-changing material body. Decks: Wind-Up, Fluffal, Heraldic. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: once per face-up, Main Phase, Level +2 and ATK +600 until End Phase; Sample: 35 decks, 27 of them running 1 copy
- Observed: Appears in 14 archetypes in the deck sample; Top-partner co-occurrence at 51.4% is generic staple overlap, not synergy
- Inferred: Level 5 after the effect makes it a usable material body; Negation leaves a Level 3 body that still converts as material
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for archetype inclusion