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4Armored Cybern
Archetype:
Cyber Dragon
ATK:
0
DEF:
2000
View:
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Once per turn, you can either: Target 1 "Cyber Dragon" you control, or 1 Fusion Monster you control that lists "Cyber Dragon" as Fusion Material; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it. Once per turn, while equipped to a monster by this effect: You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; the equipped monster loses exactly 1000 ATK (even if this card leaves the field), and if it does, destroy that target. If the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or card effect, destroy this card instead.
Armored Cybern — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55 · Deck: 56 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Armored Cybern is a Union that must be equipped to a Cyber Dragon (or a Cyber Dragon Fusion) before it does anything, then shrinks a monster by 1000 ATK and destroys it, and it can also destroy itself to save its host from a destruction. Its value is a repeatable board-breaking removal line inside a Cyber Dragon shell, which is why effect interaction carries the score. The 50-deck sample shows it is consistently run at one copy with near-100% overlap with Cyber Dragon, which supports accessibility and cheap deckbuilding, but the absence of combo data keeps conversion and resource scores near the middle. High ATK or DEF on the card earned no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 58 | Needs a Cyber Dragon to equip to and is normal-summonable at Level 4, but has no searcher in the evidence; it appears in 50 of 50 decks as a 1-copy staple (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | No combo boards were supplied, so conversion rests on the text: equip, then a 1000-ATK shrink and destroy, one per turn each (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | Trades roughly one-for-one with the target and gains no card advantage; the self-revive clause only recovers the body (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Destroys a face-up monster once per turn while equipped and can redirect a destruction onto itself, a flexible removal line (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | Level 4 Machine body with Cyber Dragon typing fits Cyber Dragon Fusions; no material statistics were supplied (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Dies to a single removal of its host and is only protected by its own sacrifice; the Special Summon clause gives some recovery (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | One copy in 41 of 50 decks, no garnet or lock restriction, and a 3-copy limit is assumed (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Board breaker + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 55, Deck ≈ 56, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Repeatable removal once equipped to a Cyber Dragon, with a self-sacrifice that protects the host
- Runs in 50 of 50 sampled decks, almost always at one copy
- Cheap to include with no garnet or lock restriction
Weaknesses
- Two steps before any effect: a Cyber Dragon target must be on the field and the card must be equipped
- Shrink effect is once per turn and only reaches the -1000 ATK level
- No combo evidence to show it converts into a full board
Counters / choke points
- Targeted removal of the equipped Cyber Dragon host
- Negation of the equip or the trigger effect
Best use
Board breaker in Cyber Dragon homes. Decks: Cyber Dragon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Equip and shrink-destroy effect with once-per-turn clauses per card text; Runs in 50 of 50 sampled decks at 1.2 average copies; Cyber Dragon is the top partner at 100% co-occurrence
- Observed: Inclusion is concentrated in Cyber Dragon homes across 12 distinct archetype IDs; Only one copy is run in 41 of 50 decks
- Inferred: Accessibility rests on a Cyber Dragon host rather than a searcher; Conversion and resource economy are judged from text only, not from boards
- 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