DARK
4Witty Phantom
ATK:
1400
DEF:
1300
View:
3570
Dressed in a night-black tuxedo, this creature presides over the darkness.
Witty Phantom — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 48 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 47 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body
Why it scores here
Witty Phantom is a vanilla Level 4 DARK Fiend Normal Monster; its only text is flavor, so it converts into nothing on its own. Its score comes from being a clean, unrestricted Level 4 body that remains usable as material even though it has no effect to negate, and from being cheap to run at 3 copies. Its 1400 ATK and 1300 DEF earn no points, and its presence in 53 decks reflects being a generic filler slot, not measured strength (guardrail 3).
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Only generic draw and revival partners are observed in the deck sample, with no searcher or combo route (observed; no combo appearances). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | No combo boards recorded and the text describes no effect, so it builds nothing by itself (verified from text; combos_evidence total is 0). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | A plain 0-cost body with no draw, recursion, or banish refuel in the text (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | No effect in the description, so it provides no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A clean Level 4 DARK Fiend that is a generic material and is not blanked by anything, since it has no effect (inferred from text and level; no combo material data). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Has no effect to negate, but also no value once on the field and no multi-zone or multi-turn use (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | No garnet, lock, or self-restriction; it is a 3-copy generic slot across 53 decks (observed from deck copies and text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Material body / Normal, no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 47, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean, unrestricted Level 4 DARK body usable as generic material
- Cheap to run: no garnet, lock, or self-restriction; 3 copies in 49 of 53 decks
- Effect-less, so no effect to negate and no interaction risk
Weaknesses
- No text-based effect, so it converts into nothing on its own
- Dead card when drawn with no material or revival need
- Generic and interchangeable: 9 archetypes, mostly filler slots, with no combo role observed
Best use
Level 4 material body / filler slot. Decks: Greed, Hole, Madoor.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Monster, Level 4, DARK Fiend, ATK 1400 / DEF 1300 (card); Description is flavor text only with no effect (card text); Present in 53 recent decks, 3 copies in 49 of them (decks_evidence); No combo appearances recorded (combos_evidence)
- Observed: 96.2% of sampled decks run it in gameplay type 6; Most frequent partners are generic staples such as Pot of Greed, Monster Reborn and Dark Hole (top_partners)
- Inferred: A Level 4 DARK Normal is a clean generic material body that stays usable when blanked, because it has no effect to negate; Its deck role is filler and material, not an engine, since no combo or searcher evidence exists
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no rulings or material-usage data for Level 4 Xyz/Link lines