EARTHBeetrooper Armor Horn
Archetype:
Beetrooper
ATK:
1000
LINK-2
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2 Insect monsters You cannot Special Summon monsters, except Insect monsters. You can only use each of the following effects of "Beetrooper Armor Horn" once per turn. During your Main Phase, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 Insect monster. If this card is in your GY: You can banish 3 other Insect monsters from your GY; Special Summon this card, but banish it when it leaves the field.
Beetrooper Armor Horn — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 55.5 · Deck: 62.6 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Beetrooper Armor Horn is a 1000-ATK Link-2 Insect whose value is that it extends the board through a once-per-turn Main Phase Normal Summon of an Insect and can return from the GY by banishing 3 other Insects. Its 1000 ATK and Link-2 body earn nothing on their own. The combo evidence (6 boards, 100% appearance, average power index 99.2) is strong, but every board is a Beetrooper build with the card in no recorded starter, searched, material or payoff role, so that number reflects the archetype's overall output more than this card's own conversion. The score is held down by zero interaction, a GY revival that costs three Insects, and a self-restriction that blocks non-Insect Special Summons while it is on the field.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Extra Deck Link-2 reached through Link Summons and Insect Normal Summon effects; deck data shows it in 400 of 400 sampled decks, but the combo role counts are all zero, so routes are inferred (observed presence, inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 72 | Appears in all 6 recorded combos with average power index 99.2, but combo role is empty and the example boards are Beetrooper-wide, so the card's own contribution is only partly isolated (observed, with an inferred share). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | GY effect banishes 3 other Insects to Special Summon itself, a costly self-recursion; example boards show netCardAdvantage of 6 (observed, with the card's own share inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | No negation, removal or hand-trap effect in the card text (verified). |
| Material Utility | 40 | Link-2 with Top and Bottom arrows is a usable Link material for Insect-oriented routes, but a Link monster's material value is narrow and its effects do not add value after being negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | The GY revival is a single-spot, one-shot route that a GY-hate effect can stop, and it is limited to once per turn per effect (verified text, inferred impact). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 55 | Typically 1 copy per deck (avg 1.36, max 2) and runs in 15 archetypes, but the 'cannot Special Summon non-Insect' restriction constrains the rest of the deck while the card is on the field (verified text, observed copy counts). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 55.5, Deck ≈ 62.6, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Self-locking restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Extends the board through a Main Phase Normal Summon of an Insect (verified text).
- Self-revives from the GY by banishing 3 other Insects, giving recursion that is available once per turn (verified text).
- Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks across 15 archetypes, with 1.36 copies on average (observed).
- Its recorded boards carry high power index values (observed).
Weaknesses
- No opponent interaction of any kind (verified text).
- The GY revival needs 3 other Insects in the GY, a real cost (verified text).
- The non-Insect Special Summon restriction is a self-lock while the card is on the field (verified text).
- Zero recorded starter, searched, material or payoff roles, so the card's own function in combos is poorly isolated (observed).
Counters / choke points
- GY-hate effects that stop the banish-and-Special-Summon revival (inferred).
- Opponent Special Summon blocking or board-wipe effects that remove the Insect extenders it relies on (inferred).
Best use
Extender / GY recursion for Insect boards, with the Beetrooper line as the observed home. Decks: Beetrooper, Battlewasp, Inzektor, Traptrix. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: 2 Insect monsters material; cannot Special Summon non-Insect monsters; once-per-turn Main Phase Normal Summon of an Insect; GY banish-3-Insects Special Summon with banish-on-leave.; Link-2, ATK 1000, Top and Bottom arrows, EARTH Insect, Beetrooper archetype.
- Observed: In 400 of 400 sampled decks; 1.36 average copies; 15 distinct archetypes.; Appears in 6 of 6 recorded combos; average power index 99.2 when present.; Usage statistics: inclusion 100% in Beetrooper (2310), 50% in Inzektor, Battlewasp and Beetrooper (597).
- Inferred: Its Link-material value is narrow and the card carries no interaction, so the material and interaction scores are limited.; Its real contribution to the high combo power index is partly the archetype's, so the combo score is discounted.
- Data gaps: No banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited). Card text in the evidence is truncated or garbled in the main-phase clause, so the exact sub-options after 'you can:' are unverified. combo data combo role is empty for all examples, so the card's role within each combo cannot be confirmed. deck data reports decks running it in the Main Deck 400 for an Extra Deck Link monster; the main/extra split is unclear. top-card data is empty; no current cross-format ranking to confirm live accessibility. format values (3, 4, 7) are not labelled in the evidence, so gameplay-specific conclusions are not drawn.