LIGHT
4Alien Stealthbuster
Archetype:
Alien
ATK:
1700
DEF:
1500
View:
3835
If this card is sent to the GY: You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; place 2 A-Counters on it. During your Main Phase, except the turn this card was sent to the GY: You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 card with an A-Counter; destroy it. You can only use each effect of "Alien Stealthbuster" once per turn.
Alien Stealthbuster — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Alien Stealthbuster converts a GY send into a one-for-one destruction: it places 2 A-Counters on a face-up monster, then banishes itself from the GY during the Main Phase to destroy a card carrying an A-Counter. Its value is that reusable removal line, not its 1700 ATK or Level 4 body. The 237-deck sample confirms it is a played, portable card, but the combo evidence is empty, so the starter and conversion scores rest on card text. High deck inclusion and partner co-occurrence were not allowed to raise the score beyond what the text supports.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Text lets it act once it is in the GY, and 237 of the sampled decks run it, but no searcher or starter route is recorded (inference, deck-observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Its counter placement and destruction add interaction, but no combo boards are recorded, so conversion is text-only (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | Banishing itself to destroy one card is a one-for-one exchange with no card advantage (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Repeatable once-per-turn destruction of A-Counter cards from the GY is real interaction, but it depends on the counter being placed first (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 4 Reptile body with 1700 ATK can serve as material, but no material routes appear in the evidence (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | The GY-based effects work from multiple zones and across turns, though each effect is once per turn (verified from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Run at 1 to 3 copies in one slot with no garnet or lock restriction, and it is cheap to include (observed, avg 1.52 copies per deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal / Negation + 0.3 Starter / Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable GY-based removal: destroys one A-Counter card per turn via self-banish
- Places A-Counters on a face-up monster from the GY, which feeds its own removal line
- Cheap to run with no garnet or lock cost, and it appears in 237 sampled decks across 34 archetypes
Weaknesses
- Removal requires the A-Counter setup first, so it is not an immediate answer on its own
- One-for-one exchange with no card advantage
- Each effect is once per turn
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the GY trigger or the A-Counter placement
- Handling the A-Counter target before the Main Phase destroy
Best use
Removal / Negation with a GY-based counter trigger. Decks: Alien, Ogdoadic/Abhyss, Ragnaraika, Reptilianne.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 LIGHT Reptile Effect Monster, 1700/1500, Alien archetype; Effect 1: on GY send, place 2 A-Counters on a face-up monster; Effect 2: from the GY during your Main Phase, banish it to destroy a card with an A-Counter; Each effect is once per turn
- Observed: Present in 237 of the sampled decks (avg 1.52 copies), with 34 distinct archetypes; Top partners co-occur at 55 to 95 percent, which is co-occurrence, not causation
- Inferred: Removal is a practical role, requiring setup first; Generic utility is capped at 65 because the A-Counter text is archetype-flavoured; Material routes are not evidenced but the Level 4 Reptile body is plausible material
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed no rulings or material routes supplied