DARK
2Armored Bitron
ATK:
500
DEF:
0
View:
3403
You can Tribute this card: Special Summon 1 Cyberse monster from your Deck, except "Armored Bitron", but negate its effects, also you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn, except Cyberse monsters. If a Link-3 or higher Link Monster you control is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect, while this card is in your GY: You can Special Summon this card, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use each effect of "Armored Bitron" once per turn.
Armored Bitron — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Armored Bitron's verified text converts itself, at a card-for-card rate, into a Cyberse monster from the Deck, and its Graveyard effect can bring it back when a Link-3+ monster you control is destroyed. The deck data shows it is spread across 27 archetypes at an average of 1.71 copies, which supports a modest intrinsic score, but no combo data confirms what it does in play. The 400/400 main-deck rate is a sampling artifact of how the decks were selected, so it earns no points, and the 500 ATK and Level 2 body are not scored.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | The card is a Level 2 monster that can be summoned normally, and decks run 1 to 3 copies with no searcher evidence in the pack (observed, inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The Tribute effect trades this card for one Cyberse monster from the Deck, so the net body count is zero unless that monster is strong; there are no combo boards to confirm the conversion (verified text, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | Deck-to-field is card-neutral, and the Graveyard effect recovers the card itself after a Link-3+ monster is destroyed, which gives mild recursion (verified text, inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The only negation applies to the Cyberse monster it summons, not to opponent cards, so opponent interaction is effectively absent (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 2 DARK Cyberse body is a usable material, but the card is tributed when its main effect is used and so is not a clean material in that line (verified text, inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | It has two effects, each once per turn, and works from the field and the Graveyard, which gives multi-zone recovery (verified text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | It runs at 1 to 3 copies with no garnet or lock beyond its own restriction that a non-Cyberse Special Summon is blocked for the turn (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-3). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Tribute effect turns the card into a Cyberse monster from the Deck (verified text)
- Graveyard effect can bring the card back when a Link-3+ monster you control is destroyed (verified text)
- Spread across 27 archetypes in the sample (observed)
- Run at 1 to 3 copies, averaging 1.71 per deck (observed)
Weaknesses
- The summoned Cyberse monster has its effects negated (verified text)
- Non-Cyberse Special Summons are blocked for the turn after use (verified text)
- No combo evidence, so conversion is text-only (data gap)
- No opponent interaction in the text (verified text)
Counters / choke points
- Destruction of the Link-3+ monsters that feed the Graveyard effect (inferred)
- Restricting Cyberse monsters, which limits the Deck target (inferred)
Best use
Cyberse Tribute extender with Graveyard recursion. Decks: Darkfluid, Code Talker, Firewall, Mathmech, Cyberse. Suggested copies: 2.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Tribute this card to Special Summon 1 Cyberse monster from the Deck, with its effects negated; Special Summon is blocked for the rest of the turn except for Cyberse monsters; Graveyard effect triggers when a Link-3+ monster you control is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect; Each effect is once per turn; Level 2 DARK Cyberse, ATK 500, DEF 0; Decks: 400 sampled, 27 archetypes, copies averaging 1.71 (max 3)
- Observed: Archetype shares: Darkfluid 28.8%, Code Talker 17.8%, Firewall 15.8%, Mathmech 11.5%; Top partners by co-occurrence, such as Cynet Mining at 97.2%; The Code Talker guide lists the card in its main-deck section, but the snippet does not discuss it
- Inferred: Primary role is Extender, with Recovery/Recursion secondary, from the Deck-to-field and Graveyard effects; Level 2 body is usable as material when not tributed; Tribute activation location is not stated in the text, so accessibility is estimated
- Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference The deck sample was selected by this card (matched_reference CardId), so 400/400 main inclusion is an artifact and not a measured rate No usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion is inferred from the deck sample only No banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed The text does not state where Tribute can be activated from No rulings supplied