DARK
1Brain Controller
ATK:
100
DEF:
200
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If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Brain Control" from your Deck to your hand. If you pay LP (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 face-up monster on the field and declare a Level from 1 to 8; that monster becomes that Level. If this card is sent to the GY as Synchro Material: You can Special Summon this card to your opponent's field in Defense Position, but negate its effects. You can only use each effect of "Brain Controller" once per turn.
Brain Controller — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 65 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 63 · Deck: 66 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Brain Controller scores on being a cheap Level 1 DARK Psychic Tuner whose Normal or Special Summon effect reliably searches Brain Control, and it appears in 47 sampled decks across 9 archetypes with a 1.51 average copy count. Its 100 ATK and 200 DEF earn nothing; the score comes from the searcher, the Level 1 Tuner body, and cheap deck cost. The LP-paid Level change and the Synchro-material Defense-position effect add modest utility, but there are no recorded combo boards to show the card converting into a winning board, so combo conversion stays moderate.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Live when Normal or Special Summoned: the summon trigger adds Brain Control from the Deck to hand, and it is a common Level 1 body, but it has no hand-activated route of its own (verified text, observed deck spread; tier: inferred for the search route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 60 | Searching Brain Control gives a steal line, but combo data is empty (0 boards), so the conversion into a full board is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 55 | The summon search is roughly a 1-for-1 that turns a body into a spell, with no recursion or repeated advantage in the text (verified text; tier: inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 30 | The LP-paid Level change can break a Synchro or Xyz level requirement, and the GY effect gives the opponent a negated body; there is no negation or removal (verified text; tier: inferred). |
| Material Utility | 70 | A Level 1 Tuner that is a clean Synchro and Psychic material body; the body still converts when its effects are negated (verified text, observed as a deck-level Tuner choice; tier: observed for deck use). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | The summon effect is negated by one response, and the once-per-turn restriction limits it to one search per turn; the GY effect is harder to stop but only fires in one situation (verified text; tier: inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | A 1-cost body with 1.51 average copies and no garnet or lock restriction, so it is cheap and splashable (observed in deck data; tier: observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 63, Deck ≈ 66, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap Level 1 Tuner with a summon-triggered search for Brain Control
- Present in 47 sampled decks across 9 archetypes (Kaiju, Psy-Frame, P.U.N.K., Kashtira, Myutant and others)
- Strong deck co-occurrence with Emergency Teleport (97.9%), Psychic End Punisher (95.7%) and Brain Control (85.1%)
Weaknesses
- No combo evidence: combo conversion rests on text alone
- The searched value depends on Brain Control, so it is weak when that card is not in the deck
- No interaction beyond a Level change that costs LP
- The once-per-turn limit on each effect caps repeated use
Counters / choke points
- Generic negation of the summon trigger (for example Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring) removes the search
- Opponent removal or level manipulation after the summon limits its Tuner role
Best use
Searcher for Brain Control and a Level 1 Tuner for Psychic and Synchro lines. Decks: Kaiju, Psy-Frame, P.U.N.K., Kashtira.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: summon trigger searches Brain Control, once per turn per effect; Card text: LP-paid Level change from 1 to 8 on a face-up monster; Card text: GY as Synchro Material gives a negated Defense-position Special Summon to the opponent's field; Level 1 DARK Psychic Tuner, 100 ATK / 200 DEF, legal in TCG and OCG
- Observed: Appears in 47 sampled decks at 1.51 average copies (26 decks at 1 copy, 18 at 2, 3 at 3); Spread across 9 archetypes, led by Kaiju 27.7% and Psy-Frame 25.5%; Co-occurs with Emergency Teleport in 97.9% of decks and Brain Control in 85.1%
- Inferred: The summon search is the main reason the card is played; the Level change is a secondary utility; The Level 1 Tuner body is a practical Synchro and Psychic material
- 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 the 47-deck sample only no starter-count data for the deck resilience estimate