FIRE
4Wind-Up Magician
Archetype:
Wind-Up
ATK:
600
DEF:
1800
View:
3701
If the effect of a "Wind-Up" monster is activated, except "Wind-Up Magician": You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Wind-Up" monster from your Deck in face-up Defense Position. This effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field.
Wind-Up Magician — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 59 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Wind-Up Magician's text converts each activation of another Wind-Up effect into one extra Level 4-or-lower Wind-Up body from the Deck, once while it stays face-up. That is a modest, repeatable +1 body in an archetype that runs it in most of the sample, and its 600 ATK and 1800 DEF earn nothing by themselves. The card has no observed combo boards, no opponent interaction, and a trigger that depends on Wind-Up effects, so its score sits in the mid-50s rather than higher.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Runs in 114 of 114 sampled decks at a 2.78 average copy count (observed), but no searcher or combo route is evidenced in the pack, so access is inferred to be moderate (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 42 | Text gives one Special Summon per face-up instance, but there are 0 recorded combo boards, so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 62 | The effect adds one Deck card to the field without spending a card, which is +1 advantage limited to once per face-up instance (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The card has no negation, removal, or hand-trap effect, so it brings no opponent interaction (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | It is a Level 4 FIRE Spellcaster body, a clean generic material whose value is unaffected by negation (inferred from stats and text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It is a single face-up monster whose trigger lapses when it leaves the field, and no redundancy evidence is supplied (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It is a 3-copy staple at 2.78 average copies with no garnet, but it is tied to the Wind-Up archetype, which is a mild restriction (observed plus inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 59, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Archetype-locked trigger (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Adds a free Level 4-or-lower Wind-Up body from the Deck on each qualifying activation
- Runs at 3 copies in 99 of 114 decks, so it is reliably accessible in the archetype
- Level 4 FIRE body works as generic material even when its effect is negated
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction
- Effect only works with Wind-Up effect activations and lapses when it leaves the field
- No combo or searcher evidence in the pack to confirm the conversion
Counters / choke points
- Negating the triggering Wind-Up effect in response removes the summon
- Removing it from the field ends the once-per-face-up effect
Best use
Extender / body recursion inside Wind-Up lines, usable as a Level 4 material elsewhere. Decks: Wind-Up. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Trigger requires another Wind-Up effect activation (excluding itself); Special Summon is 1 Level 4 or lower Wind-Up monster from Deck, face-up Defense Position; Effect is once per face-up instance; Level 4 FIRE Spellcaster 600 ATK / 1800 DEF; Runs in 114 sampled decks, 99 of them at 3 copies
- Observed: Top partners co-occur in 85–96% of decks; Two Wind-Up archetypes account for about 56% of decks
- Inferred: Summon is a net +1 body with no card cost; Level 4 body is a usable generic material; Access depends on Wind-Up effects being activated, with no evidenced searcher route
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no searcher or tutor evidence for Wind-Up access routes no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited)