DARKBrute Enforcer
ATK:
1600
LINK-2
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2 Effect Monsters You can discard 1 card, then target 1 face-up card your opponent controls; your opponent can discard 1 card with the same original card type (Monster, Spell, or Trap) as that face-up card to negate this effect, otherwise destroy that face-up card. You can only use this effect of "Brute Enforcer" once per turn.
Brute Enforcer — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 62 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 63.8 · Deck: 61 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal / Negation · Secondary: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Brute Enforcer's score comes from one reliable job: a once-per-turn, field-activated answer to a face-up card, costing one card from hand. The opponent can stop it by discarding a card of the same original card type, which keeps it from being a free removal, but it still forces a card or a removal every turn it is live. Its 1600 ATK and Link-2 body earn nothing on their own. Being in all 400 sampled decks, and in 140 archetypes, confirms it is easy to reach and portable, not that it is strong here; with no combo data, combo conversion and resilience stay low.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 72 | Link-2 with Bottom-Left and Bottom-Right arrows is a common Extra Deck summon, and it appears in 400 of 400 sampled decks at about one copy each, though no combo data shows a searcher or starter route (observed frequency plus inferred summon ease). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No recorded combo boards include it, and the text only converts one removal per turn, so it does not build a board on its own (verified text, no combo evidence). |
| Resource Economy | 42 | The discard cost is a card from hand, and the destruction is a one-for-one exchange at best, while a negate has the opponent spend a card too (verified text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 68 | It destroys any face-up card unless the opponent discards a card of the same original card type, a flexible and hard-to-ignore removal that only misses set cards (verified text). |
| Material Utility | 35 | No combo evidence shows it as material, so its use as a Link material is inferred from its Link-2 frame and DARK Cyberse body (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | It works only from the field, once per turn, and can be answered by a matching-type discard or by removing the card itself, with no recursion (verified text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | It runs one copy in the sample, has no garnet or lock restriction, and sits in the Extra Deck, so the cost to include it is low (observed deck stats). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Board breaker. Intrinsic ≈ 63.8, Deck ≈ 61, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Once-per-turn removal that works on any face-up card, regardless of type
- Opponent must hold and spend a same-type card to stop it, so it is not a free answer
- Link-2 Extra Deck body that is easy to summon and sits in all 400 sampled decks
- Single-copy cost with no garnet or lock restriction
Weaknesses
- Once per turn, so it answers one card per turn
- Costs a card from hand to activate
- Can only target face-up cards, so set cards are immune
- 1600 ATK and the body add nothing to its power; value comes only from the effect
Counters / choke points
- Opponent discards a card with the same original card type (Monster, Spell, or Trap) as the target to negate the effect
- Set or face-down cards cannot be targeted
- Removing or destroying the Brute Enforcer body itself before it activates
Best use
Single-copy, once-per-turn field removal / negation that works across 140 archetypes. Decks: Sky Striker, Orcust, Black Luster Soldier. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Link-2, DARK Cyberse, Bottom-Left and Bottom-Right arrows, ATK 1600 (card fields); Discard 1 card from hand to activate; target 1 face-up opponent card; opponent may discard a card of the same original card type to negate, otherwise destroy; once per turn (card description); Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, avg 1.02 copies, 140 distinct archetypes (decks_evidence)
- Observed: Top partners: Knightmare Unicorn 41.2%, Knightmare Phoenix 38.5%, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 35.2% of decks (decks_evidence); Gameplay spread: 45.5% gameplay 3, 33.5% gameplay 7, 15% gameplay 4, 6% gameplay 6 (decks_evidence); Scrap usage_statistics inclusion 100%, one copy (usage_statistics)
- Inferred: Link-2 is easy to summon from the Extra Deck, so accessibility is high (inferred from frame and decks); Its Link material value is limited, scored as a weak material body (inferred from frame; no combo evidence)
- Data gaps: No combo data: combo conversion, starter/material/payoff roles, and power index are all text-only inference No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No rulings supplied for the same-type negate interaction Guide snippets do not name Brute Enforcer, so guide evidence adds only context usage_statistics covers only Scrap (one archetype)