EARTH
5Battle Steer
ATK:
1800
DEF:
1300
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A bull monster often found in the woods, it charges enemy monsters with a pair of deadly horns.
Battle Steer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 47 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 44 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body
Why it scores here
Battle Steer is a vanilla Normal Monster with no effect text, so it converts nothing into value on its own and has no interaction. Its score comes only from being a clean Level 5 Earth Beast-Warrior body that can serve as material and cannot be negated because it has no effect. The 1800 ATK and the 17 Exodia decks it appears in earned no points: the deck count reflects archetype cohesion, not card power (guardrail 3), and no combo boards record it.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 45 | Always live in hand as a plain body, but no searcher or combo route is recorded (as_starter/as_searched both 0) (verified + observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 15 | Card text is flavor only and combos_evidence records 0 appearances, so it converts nothing (verified + observed). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | No draw, search, or refuel text; a Normal Monster summon is card-neutral with no return (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 0 | No effect text, so no negation, removal, or hand-trap reach (verified). |
| Material Utility | 55 | Level 5 Earth Beast-Warrior is a generic material fit, and it stays intact when negated because it has no effect to negate; no as_material observations exist (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | No effect for an opponent to negate, but also no recovery, multi-zone, or multi-turn use (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Single-copy usage (avg 1.06), no garnet or restriction, and no self-lock; the slot cost is a plain body (observed + inferred). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Material body / Normal; no secondary role. Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 44, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- No effect for opponents to negate or target
- Clean Level 5 Earth Beast-Warrior body that fits generic material requirements
- Cheap to run: single-copy usage with no garnet or restriction
Weaknesses
- No effect text, so no searching, drawing, removal, or combo contribution
- Its only function is as a body, and nothing in the evidence shows it converting material use into value
- Deck presence reflects Exodia archetype cohesion rather than the card's own strength
Counters / choke points
- Monster destruction or removal effects that clear the body (inferred)
Best use
Level 5 body / material fodder in Exodia-style lists (observed deck placement; the material role is inferred). Decks: Exodia. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Normal Monster, EARTH Beast-Warrior, Level 5, 1800/1300, no effect text (flavor only); Card archetype field is null; the 'Exodia' label comes from deck-level archetype grouping, not card text
- Observed: Appears in 18 of the sample decks, 17 of them Exodia (94.4%), 1 Harpie (5.6%); Average 1.06 copies per deck, all main deck; 0 combo appearances across all recorded boards
- Inferred: Accessibility is a live hand body with no searcher route; Material value comes from the Level 5 Earth Beast-Warrior fit and survives effect-negation because there is no effect
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference (combos_evidence.total_combos = 0) no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion inferred from the deck sample only card.archetype is null, so archetype membership relies on deck grouping no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited)