EARTH
5
1Amazoness Golden Whip Master
Archetype:
Amazoness
ATK:
2000
DEF:
1200
View:
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[ Pendulum Effect ] "Amazoness" monsters you control gain ATK equal to their own Level x 100. When an attack is declared involving your "Amazoness" monster: You can target 1 Spell/Trap on the field; destroy it. You can only use this effect of "Amazoness Golden Whip Master" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] If this card in the Monster Zone is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can place this card in your Pendulum Zone. If an "Amazoness" monster(s) is Special Summoned to your field, while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can place this card in your Pendulum Zone. You can only use each effect of "Amazoness Golden Whip Master" once per turn.
Amazoness Golden Whip Master — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 63 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 61 · Deck: 65 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion · Secondary: Removal
Why it scores here
The card's value comes from recurring itself: its monster effects return it from the Graveyard to the Pendulum Zone when Amazoness monsters are Special Summoned, and it can be re-placed after battle or effect destruction. Its once-per-turn effect destroys one Spell/Trap when an Amazoness attack is declared, giving it conditional removal. The 2000 ATK, the Level-5 body, and the static +500 ATK buff to Amazoness monsters earn no points on their own. The score is held down by the absence of combo data (no observed starter, searched, or payoff behaviour) and by the archetype lock.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 65 | Present in all 235 sampled decks, with 100% inclusion in Amazoness archetype 815 and near-universal co-occurrence with the core Amazoness partners; no combo data confirms how often it is live in the opening hand (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 55 | No recorded combo boards, so conversion is inferred from text alone: a static ATK buff plus a conditional Spell/Trap destruction, with no one-card-to-board line evidenced (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Graveyard-to-Pendulum-Zone recursion gives repeated use without card advantage, and the card is not a searcher or refuel engine (verified text, inferred weight). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Destroys one Spell/Trap once per turn, but only when an Amazoness attack is declared, so it is conditional and soft rather than a flexible negate (verified text, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 45 | A Level-5 Earth Warrior body is a plausible material for Level-5 Extra Deck monsters, but no material-use data exists in the evidence (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 75 | Recovers from battle or effect destruction through the Monster Zone and Graveyard routes and operates across zones and turns, with two recursion triggers (verified text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 78 | Average 1.84 copies per deck with a 3-copy maximum and no garnet or lock cost; the usage statistics show 2 typical copies in the core archetype (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Recovery/Recursion + 0.3 Removal (secondary). Intrinsic ≈ 61, Deck ≈ 65, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Recursion from the Graveyard to the Pendulum Zone gives repeated use
- Conditional removal of a Spell/Trap when an Amazoness attack is declared
- Included in every sampled deck with about 2 typical copies in the core archetype
- Redundant copies are fine with no garnet cost
Weaknesses
- Removal is conditional on an Amazoness attack and limited to once per turn
- No combo evidence, so the board conversion is inferred from text only
- Archetype-locked: only useful in Amazoness decks
- The effect-negated body has no demonstrated material value
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the Pendulum or Monster Zone effect, or Spell/Trap removal before its attack-triggered effect
- Handling the Amazoness core, since this card has no value outside it
Best use
Pendulum recursion body with conditional Spell/Trap removal. Decks: Amazoness (archetype 815), Amazoness (archetype 1388). Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: Pendulum static +Level×100 ATK buff, once-per-turn Spell/Trap destruction on Amazoness attack, GY-to-Pendulum-Zone recursion (2 triggers); 235 of 235 sampled decks run it; avg 1.84 copies, max 3; 83.8% of decks in Amazoness archetype 815; 15 distinct archetype IDs, but most share the name Amazoness
- Observed: Usage statistics: 100% inclusion in archetype 815 (typical 2 copies); 66.7% in archetype 1388 (typical 1 copy); Top partners co-occur in 97–100% of decks (Amazoness Princess, Silver Sword Master, War Chief, Call); 87.7% of decks are gameplay type 7
- Inferred: Recursion is the primary value, so the Recovery/Recursion role is the main read; Removal is a secondary role because its trigger requires an Amazoness attack; Level-5 body material use is plausible but not evidenced; Recovery through two routes gives high resilience
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no material-use or as_material data for a Level-5 body distinct_archetypes (15) overstates portability: most entries are the same Amazoness name under different IDs