EARTH
3Beast of the Pharaoh
ATK:
400
DEF:
600
View:
3154
If this card is sent to the GY for a Synchro Summon: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower Zombie monster in your GY; Special Summon that target.
Beast of the Pharaoh — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 58.5 · Deck: 62.4 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Beast of the Pharaoh is a Level 3 Earth Zombie whose only effect fires when it is sent to the GY for a Synchro Summon, Special Summoning one Level 4 or lower Zombie from the GY. Its value is as a Synchro material that returns one extra body, so the card scores on being a cheap, repeatable Synchro-line extender rather than on its 400 ATK. The 144-deck presence and strong partner overlap (Cupid Pitch, Stardust Charge Warrior, Foolish Burial) confirm it is a live, practical staple, but that frequency is not used to inflate the score. It has no interaction, and with no combo data the conversion score rests on text inference.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Present in 144 recent decks across 45 archetypes with strong partner overlap, so it is reliably drawn, but no combo starter/searched data was supplied (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 50 | Text shows a single revive of one Level 4-or-lower Zombie from the GY, a fair extra body with help rather than a full board on its own (verified text, inference on scale). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The GY revive is roughly a 1-for-1 body recovery with no draw, search or banish refuel, so it is close to even (verified text, inference). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | The card has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect, so it brings no opponent interaction (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 65 | A generic Level 3 Earth Zombie that works as Synchro material, and its effect is designed to trigger off that use, so it converts when used (verified text, observed deck use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Its trigger works from the GY, so it is hard to stop once it has gone there, but it is a single-zone, single-use effect with no redundancy (inference). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Typically run at 1 copy, avg 1.2 copies per deck, with no garnet or self-lock restriction, so it is cheap to include (observed deck stats, usage statistics). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 58.5, Deck ≈ 62.4, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in a large spread of decks (144 decks, 45 archetypes), so it is easy to access in practice
- Cheap to run at 1 copy with no garnet or lock cost
- Its effect converts Synchro material into an extra Zombie body
Weaknesses
- Only a Level 3, 400 ATK body with a narrow Level 4-or-lower Zombie revive target
- No interaction, negation or removal of its own
- No combo evidence supplied, so its real starter/payoff role is unverified
Counters / choke points
- Negation of the trigger effect in the GY is possible but low-impact; the card is hard to punish once it is already a Synchro material
Best use
Level 3 Synchro material that revives a Level 4-or-lower Zombie from the GY. Decks: Synchro Event, Morphtronic, Black Luster Soldier, Shiranui, Spellbook. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect: when sent to the GY for a Synchro Summon, Special Summon one Level 4 or lower Zombie from the GY; Level 3 Earth Zombie, 400 ATK / 600 DEF, no interaction text
- Observed: Present in 144 decks, avg 1.2 copies, 74.3% in gameplay type 4; Top partners include Cupid Pitch (78.5%) and Stardust Charge Warrior (71.5%); Usage statistics: 100% inclusion at 1 copy in Black Luster Soldier and Kuriboh archetypes
- Inferred: Primary role is an Extender, since the GY revive adds a body to the Synchro line; Material-body secondary role follows from the effect requiring Synchro Summon material use
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion and starter/material shares are text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies (unlimited) assumed no per-format legal copy data (legal_copies is empty)