LIGHT
8Armed Protector Dragon
ATK:
2000
DEF:
2800
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Face-up Equip Cards you control cannot be destroyed by card effects. This card gains 500 ATK for each Equip Card equipped to this card.
Armed Protector Dragon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 49 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 49 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body
Why it scores here
Armed Protector Dragon scores mid-range (49) as a generic Level 8 LIGHT Dragon body, not as an engine or a high-power boss. Its only verified effect protects face-up Equip Cards from card effects and grants +500 ATK per equipped Equip Card. The 2000 ATK and 2800 DEF earned no points, and the ATK clause was scored as negligible support. The score rests on the body converting into material and on its inclusion in 22 recent decks, while combo conversion, interaction and resilience stay low because there is no recorded combo, no searcher and no interaction clause.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 35 | No searcher, summon route or recorded starter/searched appearance exists, so access depends on the deck list itself; 22 decks across 11 archetypes confirm it is reachable in practice (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | Text is a passive with no summon, search or board-building clause, and combo data records 0 appearances (verified). |
| Resource Economy | 50 | No card advantage or graveyard refuel appears in the text, and a single body trades roughly one-for-one (verified text, inferred neutral). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The only effect protects face-up Equip Cards from card effects; it has no removal, negation or hand-trap reach (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A generic Level 8 Dragon body; co-deck partners such as Galaxy-Eyes and Photon bodies (12 of 22 decks) suggest material use, but material role is unmeasured (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | The card does not protect itself and has no recursion, so once its passive is blanked it is a plain body (verified text, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Typically one copy (avg 1.32; 16 of 22 decks run one) with no garnet or lock clause, so it is cheap to run (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Material body / Normal profile; no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 49, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Level 8 Dragon body that appears in 22 recent decks across 11 archetypes
- Typically one copy per deck (16 of 22 decks), so the slot is cheap to run
- Its effect protects face-up Equip Cards from card effects (verified text)
Weaknesses
- No summon route, searcher or recorded combo appearance; it is a body without a stated engine
- The ATK boost depends on Equip Cards and is not scored
- Its passive does not protect itself, so it has no resilience of its own
Counters / choke points
- Card effects that target the body itself, since the text protects only Equip Cards (verified text)
Best use
Material body / Level 8 Dragon tech. Decks: Level 8 Dragon material lines alongside Galaxy-Eyes / Photon bodies (observed co-deck partners). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 8 LIGHT Dragon Effect Monster, ATK 2000 / DEF 2800; Effect: face-up Equip Cards you control cannot be destroyed by card effects; Effect: gains 500 ATK per Equip Card equipped to it; 22 recent decks run it (decks running it in the Main Deck 22, decks running it in the Side Deck 0)
- Observed: Average 1.32 copies per deck; 16 of 22 decks run one copy; Appears in 11 distinct archetypes; 72.7% of decks in gameplay type 4; Co-occurs in 12 of 22 decks with Galaxy-Eyes/Photon/Dragluon-family partners; usage statistics: 100% inclusion at typical 1 copy in Gogogo, Dododo and Evolsaur
- Inferred: Primary role is Material body, because a generic Level 8 Dragon body is the only role the text supports and combos are absent; Accessibility is moderate: no searcher exists, but deck inclusion shows it is reachable in practice; Material utility is moderate: the body is usable as a Level 8 Dragon material even though material role is unmeasured
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no searcher, summon or material route for this card in text or evidence average starter count when present unknown, so deck resilience is partly assumed