WATER
5Catapult Turtle
ATK:
1000
DEF:
2000
View:
7402
Once per turn: You can Tribute 1 monster; inflict damage to your opponent equal to half the Tributed monster's ATK on the field.
Catapult Turtle — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 50 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 52 · Deck: 49 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Catapult Turtle is a plain Level 5 WATER Aqua body whose only effect is a once-per-turn tribute-for-burn: it costs one monster and deals half that monster's ATK, so it is a card-disadvantage conversion rather than a source of advantage. Its 1000 ATK and 2000 DEF earn nothing in the rubric; the score comes from its near-universal 1-copy inclusion across 59 archetypes (generic portability and clean deckbuilding) and its inferred use as a Level 5 material. Confidence is only Medium because there is no combo evidence at all, so its real conversion value cannot be measured here.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Ran as a single copy in 255 of the sampled decks with no searcher or enabler needed, but it is a plain body with no observed starter or searched appearances (no combo data) (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | The card text converts a tribute into burn, but no recorded board shows it contributing to a combo, so conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | Its tribute cost removes one of the player's own monsters for damage with no card gain, which is a net-negative exchange (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 10 | The effect deals damage to the opponent and has no negation, removal, or lock component (verified). |
| Material Utility | 50 | A Level 5 WATER Aqua body is a generic material candidate and would still hold its level and attribute if its effect were negated; this is inferred from stats, not from observed material use (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | A monster with no protection or redundancy that any removal ends, and whose effect requires a tribute on a live board (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Runs at 1 copy in most decks (avg 1.09), has no garnet or lock restriction, and is easy to fit into a main deck (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Utility (no combo evidence to break the tie; chosen from text). Intrinsic ≈ 52, Deck ≈ 49, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck (decks present, combos absent, meta unknown)
Strengths
- Generic portability: appears across 59 archetypes, so it fits many homes
- Plain Level 5 WATER Aqua body usable as material across lines
- Clean deckbuilding: 1-copy inclusion with no garnet or lock restriction
Weaknesses
- Its effect costs one of your own monsters for damage, a net-negative card exchange
- Burn equals only half the tributed monster's ATK, so low-ATK tributes deal little
- Dies to any removal; no protection, redundancy, or multi-zone presence
- No combo evidence: its conversion value is unmeasured
Counters / choke points
- Monster removal or destruction effects
- Any effect that negates or banishes the body before it can be used
Best use
Level 5 material body with tribute-for-burn as a finisher option. Decks: Galaxy Photon, Horus, Tachyon. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect: once per turn, tribute 1 monster to deal damage equal to half its ATK to the opponent; Level 5, WATER, Aqua, 1000 ATK / 2000 DEF, Effect Monster; Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel, DuelLinks; no legal copy limit listed for OCG or Duel Links beyond the sample
- Observed: Present in 255 sampled decks at 1 copy in most (avg 1.09, 238 at 1 copy); Spread across 59 distinct archetypes, led by Galaxy Photon (27.5%); Top co-listed partners include Called by the Grave and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
- Inferred: Material body role: its value is as a Level 5 WATER body, not as an effect engine; Resilience is low because it is a single monster with no redundancy; Its effect is a conversion of a board monster into damage, not card advantage
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion and material role are text-only inference no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): archetype inclusion % comes from the deck sample only no rulings: whether the tribute can target the card itself is not stated in the evidence gameplay_type ids (7, 4, 6, 3, 10) are not mapped to a named format, so format-specific weight is unknown