DARK
6Ambitious Gofer
ATK:
2400
DEF:
100
View:
2784
Once per turn: You can target up to 2 monsters your opponent controls; your opponent can reveal 1 monster in their hand to negate this card's effect, otherwise destroy those monsters.
Ambitious Gofer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Ambitious Gofer's score comes from its once-per-turn effect: it can target up to 2 opposing monsters, and the opponent must either reveal a monster from hand to negate the effect or lose those monsters. That is a flexible removal option with a real cost for the opponent, and the Level 6 DARK Fiend body stays a 2400-ATK material even when its effect is negated. The 2400 ATK itself earned no points, and the card scores only moderately because there is no combo, searcher, or guide evidence, and the deck sample is small (6 decks).
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | No searcher or starter data; it is a single-copy main-deck card in 6 of 6 decks across 3 archetypes, so it is live but needs no special setup (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | Combo data is absent, so conversion rests on text alone: removal of up to 2 monsters with no board-building follow-up (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | A resolved destruction is a 2-for-1 in our favour, and a negation costs the opponent a hand monster, but there is no refuel or recursion (verified, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Forces a choice on the opponent (reveal a monster or lose up to 2 monsters), which is a strong but easily answered tool because most decks hold a monster in hand (verified, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 65 | Level 6 DARK Fiend is a clean generic material, and a 2400-ATK body remains even after its effect is negated (verified, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Once per turn and single-spot on the field; a single hand reveal shuts it down, with no redundancy or recovery (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | One copy, no garnet or lock restriction, and archetype-neutral, so it fits into most decks at a low slot cost (observed, inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 58, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Forces the opponent to either reveal a monster from hand or lose up to 2 monsters
- Clean, generic one-copy slot that fits across archetypes
- Retains a 2400-ATK, Level 6 material body when its effect is negated
Weaknesses
- Once per turn, so it cannot be repeated in a turn
- Answered by revealing one monster from hand
- No searcher, combo, or recursion support in the evidence
- Small deck sample (6 decks), so the archetype spread is thin
Counters / choke points
- Opponent reveals one monster from hand to negate the effect (card text)
Best use
Removal / Negation with a 2400-ATK body. Decks: Monarch, Archfiend, Labrynth. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: once per turn, target up to 2 opposing monsters; opponent reveals a monster from hand to negate, otherwise destroy; Level 6 DARK Fiend, 2400 ATK; 6 of 6 sample decks run 1 copy in the main deck
- Observed: Present in 3 distinct archetypes (Monarch, Archfiend, Labrynth), all Gameplay type 4; Top partners co-occur in 6 of 6 decks, but this sample is too small to show real synergy
- Inferred: Primary role is Removal / Negation, based on the text's destroy-or-negate choice; Generic material value of the Level 6 body
- 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 average starter count when present unavailable — DeckResilience estimated