EARTH
3Card Blocker
ATK:
400
DEF:
400
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When this card is Summoned: Change it to Defense Position. When a face-up monster you control is targeted for an attack: You can change the target to this card. When this card is targeted for an attack: You can choose a number from 1 to 3, then send that many cards from the top of your Deck to the Graveyard; this card gains 500 DEF for each card sent, until the End Phase.
Card Blocker — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 44 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 46 · Deck: 44 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Card Blocker is a 400 ATK / 400 DEF Level 3 Earth Warrior whose main value is defensive: it can redirect an attack aimed at a face-up monster you control, and it can gain up to 1500 DEF by milling 1-3 cards from the top of your Deck. The score comes from its low-cost, single-copy deckbuilding profile and its usefulness as a plain Level 3 material body, not from its stats. No combo evidence exists, so the score rests on text and three decks where it runs as a generic main-deck utility, and the attack-redirect and self-mill effects do not convert into card advantage or a board on their own.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 40 | Three of three sampled decks run it in the main deck at one copy, but there is no searcher or combo-start evidence, so it is only a live body when drawn (observed; the searcher route is absent). |
| Combo & Conversion | 20 | No recorded boards and no combo examples; the card only protects or stalls and builds nothing beyond itself (verified from text; observed: appearances 0). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | The top-deck self-mill costs cards from the Deck to the Graveyard and returns no advantage (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | The attack-redirect is situational protection for a face-up monster rather than negation or removal, so it is soft interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 50 | As a Level 3 non-Tuner Earth Warrior it is a generic material body, and its effects do not block material use, so it converts even when its effects are negated (inferred from text and stats). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | It works only as a field card, dies to any attack that exceeds its DEF, and its DEF gain depends on Deck size and the number of cards milled (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | It is a single-copy generic card with no garnet, lock, or self-restriction, and it runs in three different archetype decks (observed: 1 copy per deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Utility + 0.3 Material body. Intrinsic ≈ 46, Deck ≈ 44, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 3 generic body that stays a usable material even when its effects are negated
- Redirects attacks aimed at a face-up monster to itself, a situational protective effect
- Cheap to run: one copy in each sampled deck with no garnet or lock cost
- Can gain up to 1500 DEF by self-milling 1-3 cards when attacked
Weaknesses
- No searcher, combo starter, or card advantage in the text
- The Summon effect forces it into Defense Position, which weakens it as a turn-one play
- Its ATK and DEF are low for the board, so ordinary attacks beat it unless the DEF gain is used
- Its self-mill cost is paid from the Deck with no return
Counters / choke points
- Monster-removal effects that target it directly
- Negation of its effects, which removes the redirect and the DEF gain
- Attacks that are larger than its DEF after the DEF gain
Best use
Utility defensive body and Level 3 material. Decks: Sacred Beast, Synchron, Cyber Dragon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Summon effect changes it to Defense Position; Attack-redirect for a face-up monster you control; Top-deck self-mill of 1-3 cards for +500 DEF each until End Phase; 400 ATK / 400 DEF, Level 3 Earth Warrior, legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks
- Observed: Appears in 3 of 3 sampled decks, all main deck, one copy each; Partners are staples (co-occurring in 3 of 3 decks each), with no combo appearances
- Inferred: Converts as a plain Level 3 material body even when its effects are negated; Protective value is limited to defending a monster that is already on board
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies assumed no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion is inferred from the 3-deck sample only