EARTH
1Armed Ninja
Archetype:
Ninja
ATK:
300
DEF:
300
View:
3834
FLIP: Target 1 Spell Card on the field; destroy that target. (If the target is Set, reveal it, and destroy it if it is a Spell Card. Otherwise, return it to its original position.)
Armed Ninja — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 51 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Armed Ninja is a 1-for-1 flip-effect answer that only ever hits a Spell Card on the field, and it does nothing to build a board on its own (combo data is empty, so there is no observed conversion). Its score comes from a cheap, flexible, 3-copy slot that appears in 119 decks across 20 archetypes; that spread confirms it is a dependable generic staple, not a strong card in itself. The 300 ATK/300 DEF stats earned nothing, and the high deck count was treated as accessibility evidence, not as power (guardrail 3).
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Generic 1-drop that shows up in 119 decks at 2.5 copies on average, but there is no searcher evidence, so it depends on being drawn (observed; no searcher route in text, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Flip effect only destroys or returns a targeted card and creates no board, and no combo boards exist to confirm otherwise (verified text; combo data total 0). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Even at best it is a 1-for-1 against a Spell, and a Set non-Spell target is merely returned, so there is no card advantage or refuel (verified text; inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Narrow but reliable answer to any Spell Card on the field, with a reveal-and-check path for Set targets (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | Level 1 non-Tuner Warrior EARTH is a usable but narrow material body for Level 1 Synchro or Rank 1 Xyz (inferred; no material stats in evidence). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Single-use flip effect that a negate or a missing Spell target shuts off, with no recurring or multi-zone value (verified text; inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Cheap, no garnet or lock, 3 copies are fine, and it fits 20 archetypes with a 2.5-copy average (observed deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 51, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap, clean slot with redundant copies that fit across 20 archetypes
- Reliable answer to any Spell Card on the field
- Flip effect gives a set-monster answer that doesn't cost a card when the target isn't a Spell
Weaknesses
- Targets only Spell Cards, so it is dead against a board with none
- Creates no board and gives no card advantage
- No searcher or refuel route in the evidence, so it has to be drawn
Counters / choke points
- Opponent plays without Spell Cards on the field, so the effect has no legal target (verified text)
Best use
Spell removal / flip-effect utility. Decks: Greed, Hole, Ninja, Madoor.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Flip effect targets one Spell Card on the field and destroys it; a Set target is revealed and destroyed only if it is a Spell, otherwise returned (card text); Level 1, EARTH, Warrior, 300 ATK / 300 DEF (card stats); Present in 119 recent decks; 3 copies in 75 of them, average 2.5 (deck data)
- Observed: Appears in 20 distinct archetypes, most often Greed (28.6%) and Hole (25.2%) (deck data); Runs alongside generic staples such as Swords of Revealing Light, Dark Hole, Monster Reborn and Raigeki (top partners; co-occurrence, not synergy); 82.4% of decks are gameplay type 6 (deck data)
- Inferred: Usable as a Level 1 non-Tuner material body for Synchro or Xyz (text-derived); Being a generic staple across homes means accessibility is real but power is not confirmed (causal caution, guardrail 3)
- 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 is assumed as the legal maximum no top-card ranking data; top-card status is false and rankings are empty