FIRE
3Beetrooper Scale Bomber
Archetype:
Beetrooper
ATK:
1200
DEF:
2000
View:
1346
If an Insect monster(s) is Normal or Special Summoned to your field (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. When a monster your opponent controls activates its effect (Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 Insect monster; destroy it. You can only use each effect of "Beetrooper Scale Bomber" once per turn.
Beetrooper Scale Bomber — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 61 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 62 · Deck: 64 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Starter / Combo enabler
Why it scores here
Beetrooper Scale Bomber is a Level 3 Insect that Special Summons itself from hand when an Insect is summoned, and its Quick Effect tributes an Insect to destroy a monster that activates an effect. It is present in all 400 sampled decks across 10 archetypes, so it is reliably accessible, but the score is held back by the tribute cost (a one-for-one trade at best, no refuel or draw) and by the Insect-only restriction. The 100 power index comes from only 4 combos, none of which tag it as a starter, searched, material, or payoff piece, so that figure does not raise the score much.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 75 | Present in 400 of 400 decks and summonable from hand whenever an Insect is summoned, but the summon is conditional on Insect summons rather than always live (observed, verified). |
| Combo & Conversion | 65 | Appears in all 4 recorded combos as a body in 1-card and 2-card boards with 2 boss monsters and 3 end monsters, yet role_in_combo is empty and the sample is tiny (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | No draw, search, or graveyard refuel in the text; the tribute cost means it trades a card for a destruction at best (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 55 | Quick Effect destroys a monster that activates an effect, paying a tribute, once per turn; it is a soft removal that is timing-dependent and costs a body (verified, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 50 | Level 3 FIRE Insect body at 1200 ATK; its material value is generic and inferred from level and type, not from a recorded material count (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 55 | Two effects both usable once per turn from hand or field, so it has multi-zone reach, but a negate on either effect ends that use (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Single copy in 323 of 400 decks with an average of 1.27 copies, so it is cheap to run, but the Insect requirement limits it to Insect-based builds (observed, verified). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal / Negation + 0.3 Starter / Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 62, Deck ≈ 64, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Insect-only restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Present in every sampled deck across 10 archetypes
- Hand-summonable and can answer an opponent's effect activation
- Cheap to run at about 1.27 copies per deck
Weaknesses
- The tribute cost makes it a trade rather than card advantage
- No draw, search, or graveyard refuel
- Useful only in Insect-based builds
Counters / choke points
- Negating the summon trigger or the Quick Effect shuts it off for that turn
- Opponent monsters that do not activate effects give it no target
Best use
Removal / Negation with a hand-summon body in Insect boards. Decks: Beetrooper, Battlewasp, Ragnaraika, Inzektor. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: hand Special Summon when an Insect is summoned to your field, and Quick Effect tributing an Insect to destroy a monster that activates an effect, each once per turn; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks (100%); Average 1.27 copies per deck, distribution 1: 323, 2: 45, 3: 32
- Observed: Appears in 4 of 4 recorded combos, with average power index 100 and average starter count 0.75; Co-occurs in 98.5 percent of decks with Beetrooper Sting Lancer; Beetrooper archetype inclusion 52.4 percent with typical 1 copy
- Inferred: Soft removal that trades a body for a destruction; Generic material value from Level 3 Insect type; Multi-zone reach from hand and field
- Data gaps: no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) combos sample is 4 boards, all from one archetype family, with no role tags no ruling or FAQ text on self-tribute, so it is unclear whether the card can tribute itself no top-card ranking context for this card