EARTH
1Buster Blaster
ATK:
0
DEF:
0
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Once per turn, you can either: Target 1 face-up monster you control; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position. While equipped by this effect, the equipped monster loses 500 ATK and DEF. If the equipped monster destroys an opponent's monster by battle: Destroy all face-up monsters on the field with the same Monster Type as the destroyed monster. (A monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time. If the equipped monster would be destroyed, destroy this card instead.)
Buster Blaster — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 38 ± 12 · Confidence: Low
- Intrinsic: 38 · Deck: — · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Buster Blaster needs a face-up host monster and a won battle before its main effect does anything, so its power is conditional and its ceiling is a battle-triggered sweep of every face-up monster sharing the destroyed monster's type, which also hits the controller's own board. Its once-per-turn unequip-and-Special-Summon option gives it some reuse, but it cannot come from hand or graveyard under the text supplied, which holds accessibility low. No decks, combos or guides were supplied, so the score rests on text alone and the Level 1 / 0 ATK stats were not used to lift it.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 15 | Card text only allows it to be equipped to or Special Summoned from a face-up position on the field, and no decks, combos or searchers are supplied to show a route to reach it (inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | The sweep needs an equipped host to win a battle, and no combo boards are supplied to confirm how often that line lands (verified text, inferred conversion). |
| Resource Economy | 35 | The sweep destroys all face-up monsters of a type, including the controller's own, and there is no draw, searching or graveyard refuel in the text (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 35 | Its only interaction is the battle-conditioned mass destruction, which is situational and not a negation or hand-trap effect (verified text, inferred strength). |
| Material Utility | 35 | Level 1 EARTH Machine is a cheap body, but the text does not say whether it can be used as material while equipped, and no material stats are supplied (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The unequip-and-Special-Summon option lets it recur from the field once per turn, but nothing in the text recovers it from the graveyard and the replacement clause sacrifices it to protect the host (verified text, inferred resilience). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | The text imposes no garnet or self-lock, and one copy costs a single slot, though no deck evidence confirms how it is run (verified text, inferred cost). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Board breaker + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 38, Deck ≈ —, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: Final = Intrinsic (provisional; no decks and no combos supplied, Deck = null)
Strengths
- Equip-based body that can be placed on any face-up monster you control
- Once-per-turn unequip-and-Special-Summon lets it reset its position from the field
- Battle-triggered sweep destroys every face-up monster sharing the destroyed monster's type
- Replacement clause lets the card take the destruction in place of the equipped monster
Weaknesses
- Needs a host monster on the field and a won battle before the main effect works
- The sweep also destroys the controller's own face-up monsters of the same type
- No recovery from hand or graveyard in the supplied text
- No decks, combos or guides supplied to confirm practical use
- Stats used as supplied (Level 1, 0 ATK) and not cross-checked
Counters / choke points
- Removing or destroying the host monster before battle (the replacement clause means this card is destroyed instead)
- Clearing the field of face-up monsters before the battle step (inferred, not in evidence)
Best use
Board breaker that converts a won battle into a same-type sweep, with the unequip-and-Special-Summon loop for reuse on the field. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Once-per-turn choice: equip to a face-up monster you control, or unequip and Special Summon in face-up Attack Position; Equipped monster loses 500 ATK and DEF; Battle win destroys all face-up monsters with the same Monster Type as the destroyed monster; A monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time; Equipped monster's destruction is replaced by destroying this card
- Inferred: Accessibility is low because the card needs to already be on the field; Sweep also hits the controller's own monsters; Level 1 body is a cheap, low-restriction slot
- Data gaps: No decks supplied: deck and synergy signals unavailable No combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference No guides supplied No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) No usage statistics (StatisticsCard) available Level 1 / ATK 0 taken from evidence as supplied and not cross-checked against an external source Rulings unknown for the equip, replacement and once-per-turn interactions