DARKAbyss Actor - Hyper Director
Archetype:
Abyss Actor
ATK:
800
LINK-1
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1 "Abyss Actor" Pendulum Monster You can target 1 card in your Pendulum Zone; Special Summon it, then place 1 "Abyss Actor" Pendulum Monster with a different name, from your Deck or face-up Extra Deck, to your Pendulum Zone, also you cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except "Abyss Actor" monsters. You can only use this effect of "Abyss Actor - Hyper Director" once per turn.
Abyss Actor - Hyper Director — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 52 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49.5 · Deck: 53.4 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Hyper Director is a Link-1 whose only real job is to convert a Pendulum Zone card into a second Abyss Actor Pendulum monster from the Deck or face-up Extra Deck, once per turn. Its power comes from being the cheap, always-available Extra Deck piece that keeps the Pendulum zone live, not from its 800 ATK or the Link-1 body. The score stays moderate because no combo evidence exists to confirm the conversion, the effect is once-per-turn with a self-restriction on Normal and Special Summons, and its usefulness is confined to a single archetype family.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Present in all 289 recorded decks and co-occurs with the core Abyss Actor Pendulum monsters in 86-97% of them, so it is consistently reachable as an Extra Deck link piece (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Text shows it places a second Pendulum monster and fuels the Pendulum zone, but no combo boards were supplied to measure how far that converts (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Places a Pendulum monster from Deck to Pendulum Zone without a draw, a modest card-count gain with no graveyard refuel evidence (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | No opponent interaction; its only restriction is self-imposed on the controller's own summons for the turn (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Link-1 DARK Fiend body usable as Link material for higher Link monsters, but Link-1 is a narrow material and no effect-negated material stats were supplied (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Once-per-turn effect with a single trigger point in the Pendulum Zone; no redundancy or multi-zone survival evidence (verified). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Costs one Extra Deck slot and averages 2.5 copies, with a mild self-restriction on summons for the turn (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 49.5, Deck ≈ 53.4, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-restriction on summons (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Keeps the Pendulum zone live from the Extra Deck, and co-occurs with core Abyss Actor pieces in most decks
- Cheap, single-slot Extra Deck link that is run in nearly every sampled deck
Weaknesses
- Score is capped by the lack of combo evidence, so conversion value is text-only
- Self-restriction on summons for the turn
- Its value is tied to one archetype family, so it does not port to other decks
Counters / choke points
- Effect is conditional on a Pendulum Zone card being present, so Pendulum zone disruption removes the target
- Once-per-turn limit makes repeated use unavailable within a turn
Best use
Pendulum-zone extender and Link-1 material for Abyss Actor Link monsters. Decks: Abyss Actor. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once-per-turn effect that targets a card in the Pendulum Zone, Special Summons it, and places an Abyss Actor Pendulum monster from Deck or face-up Extra Deck into the Pendulum Zone; Restricts the controller's own Normal and Special Summons for the turn, except Abyss Actor monsters; Link-1 DARK Fiend with an 800 ATK, in 289 recorded decks
- Observed: Present in 289 of 289 recorded decks, averaging 2.5 copies; Co-occurs with core Abyss Actor Pendulum monsters in 86-97% of decks; Stats show 57% inclusion in the Abyss Actor theme at a typical 2 copies
- Inferred: Acts as a consistent Pendulum-zone extender that keeps the archetype's zone live; Its value as Link material for higher Link monsters is narrow but real
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no official rulings supplied for Pendulum zone target and placement timing no effect-negated material or interaction data