LIGHT
8ABC-Dragon Buster
Archetype:
ABC
ATK:
3000
DEF:
2800
View:
6333
"A-Assault Core" + "B-Buster Drake" + "C-Crush Wyvern" Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by banishing the above cards you control and/or from your GY. (You do not use "Polymerization".) Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can discard 1 card, then target 1 card on the field; banish it. During your opponent's turn (Quick Effect): You can Tribute this card, then target 3 of your banished LIGHT Machine Union monsters with different names; Special Summon them.
ABC-Dragon Buster — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 64 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 61.67 · Deck: 65.25 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Boss/End-board · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion, Removal
Why it scores here
ABC-Dragon Buster converts a Union-engine board into an end-board finisher. It is a payoff in 5 of 6 recorded combos, always in the end board, with an average power index of 89.8, and it is run in all 400 sampled decks at about 2 copies each. The score is held down by its prerequisite of banishing the A/B/C Union pieces, the discard cost of its once-per-turn banish, and the Tribute cost of its revival. Its 3000 ATK and Level 8 Fusion body earned no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Summon requires banishing the A/B/C Union monsters from the field or GY, but it runs in all 400 decks at about 2 copies each and is never a starter or searched piece in the combos (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 88 | Appears as a payoff in 5 of 6 combos with power index 100 in the top examples, 4 end-board monsters, and an average power index of 89.8 (observed). |
| Resource Economy | 70 | The once-per-turn discard-then-banish is card-neutral to negative, but reviving 3 banished monsters on the opponent's turn recovers material; combo netCardAdvantage is +6 (observed; revival advantage inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | A single-target banish of a field card on a once-per-turn Quick Effect, with no negation text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 35 | The body is a Fusion whose Tribute is used only as the revival cost, and no material use appears in the evidence (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The revival can be activated on the opponent's turn, which gives a response outside the player's own turn, but there is no evidence on how the body fares under negation (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | Two copies on average in every sampled deck, but the card is locked into the A/B/C Union package (observed; lock inferred from text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Boss/End-board + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion (secondary: revival on the opponent's turn). Intrinsic ≈ 61.67, Deck ≈ 65.25, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Union-engine dependency (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Payoff in 5 of 6 recorded combos, always in the end board
- Average combo power index 89.8; top examples reach 100
- Run in all 400 sampled decks at about 2 copies each
- Revival of 3 banished LIGHT Machine Union monsters on the opponent's turn
- Positive netCardAdvantage (+6) in the top combos
Weaknesses
- Needs A/B/C Union monsters banished or in the GY before it can be Summoned
- Once-per-turn banish costs a discard
- Revival requires Tributing the card itself
- Only 6 recorded combos, so the conversion sample is thin
- No evidence on how the body performs under effect negation
Counters / choke points
- Effect negation of the Fusion body (inferred from its Quick Effects)
- Disrupting the A/B/C Union pieces before the Fusion Summon (inferred)
Best use
Boss/End-board finisher with Union-engine revival. Decks: ABC (archetype 1021), Therions, Synchron. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Quick Effect (once per turn): discard 1 card, then banish 1 target on the field; Opponent's turn Quick Effect: Tribute this card to Special Summon 3 banished LIGHT Machine Union monsters with different names; Summon requires banishing A/B/C from the field or GY
- Observed: Present in 400 of 400 decks, average 1.99 copies; Payoff in 5 of 6 combos, always in the end board; Average combo power index 89.8; Typical copies 2 in ABC usage statistics
- Inferred: The opponent's-turn revival gives resilience outside the player's own turn; Body value is limited to tribute and revival fodder
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) Only 6 recorded combos, so the combo sample is thin legal copies is empty No rulings available Top-card rank is absent Guide snippets are partial