EARTH
4Chain Dog
ATK:
1600
DEF:
1100
View:
2604
Cannot be used as a Synchro Material, except for the Synchro Summon of a Beast-Type monster. If this card is in the Graveyard: You can Special Summon this card, and if you do, banish it when it leaves the field. You must control exactly 2 Beast-Type monsters to activate and to resolve this effect.
Chain Dog — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 35 ± 5 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 38 · Deck: 33 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Chain Dog's value is a conditional graveyard recursion: it Special Summons itself only while you control exactly 2 Beast-Type monsters, and it banishes itself when it leaves the field, so it converts into a single 1600-ATK body once and never again. The text restricts it as Synchro material to Beast-Type Synchro Summons, which limits its material utility. Its 1600 ATK and 4-Level body earn little on their own, and the single-deck, zero-combo evidence keeps the score low and the confidence at Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 30 | Usable only from the graveyard and only with exactly 2 Beast-Type monsters on the field, with no combo or searcher evidence to show how often that condition is met (inferred from text; single deck sample). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Converts into one 1600-ATK body with no further board build, and zero recorded combo boards exist to show a stronger line (inferred from text; no combo evidence). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | Recurs itself from the graveyard at no card cost, a one-for-one refuel of a body but no card advantage (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 25 | Level 4 Earth Beast is a usable material, but Synchro use is restricted to Beast-Type Synchro Summons, which blocks the common generic route (verified from card text). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 30 | Banishes itself when it leaves the field and has no protection, so one disruption ends its use; the 2-Beast condition adds fragility (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Single copy with no garnet or lock beyond the Beast-Type condition, so it is cheap to run (observed: 1 copy in 1 deck). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role only (Recovery/Recursion); no secondary role blended. Intrinsic ≈ 38, Deck ≈ 33, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: Synchro-material restriction (-2). Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Free, repeatable-by-recursion body from the graveyard that needs no card cost
- Clean single-copy deck cost with no garnet or lock
Weaknesses
- Needs exactly 2 Beast-Type monsters to resolve, which is a hard condition
- Banishes itself when it leaves the field, so the recursion is one-shot
- 1600 ATK with no negation, removal or hand-trap effect
- Synchro material use limited to Beast-Type Synchro Summons
Counters / choke points
- Any graveyard hate or banish that stops the graveyard Special Summon
- Board-control effects that remove one of the required Beast-Type monsters before activation
Best use
Graveyard recursion body in a Beast-Type shell. Decks: Scareclaw. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Graveyard Special Summon requires exactly 2 Beast-Type monsters and banishes the card when it leaves the field; Synchro material use is restricted to Beast-Type Synchro Summons; Single copy in one recent deck (Scareclaw, 1 copy)
- Observed: Appears in 1 of 1 sampled deck with 1 copy; 0 of 0 combo boards
- Inferred: Recursion is a single-use body rather than repeatable card advantage; Beast-Type condition is a moderate-to-hard restriction in practice
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited)