LIGHT
Constellar Hyades
Archetype:
Constellar
ATK:
1900
DEF:
1100
View:
3206
2 Level 3 LIGHT monsters Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; change all monsters your opponent controls to face-up Defense Position.
Constellar Hyades — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 54 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 54 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker
Why it scores here
Constellar Hyades is a Rank 3 Xyz whose single effect converts a spent Xyz Material into a board-wide position change, moving every opposing monster to face-up Defense Position once per turn. That is a real but narrow board-breaking effect: it costs a material, gains no advantage, and does not destroy or negate anything. Its 34-deck presence across 18 archetypes and a steady Constellar partner web confirm it is a live, practical card, but the high-ATK-free body and the absence of any combo data mean the score stays in the middle rather than rewarding popularity.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 62 | Played in 34 of the sampled decks across 18 archetypes, with Constellar Ptolemy M7 co-appearing in 17 of them (observed); no starter or searched stats exist, so the route into the field is inferred from the Constellar support cards. |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | No recorded boards exist, so the card's contribution is text-only: it converts nothing on its own and only changes the battle position of opposing monsters (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | The effect detaches an Xyz Material with no card draw, search, or recovery attached, so it is a material-for-board-state trade with no net advantage (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 58 | The effect hits every opposing monster at once and is hard to play around, but it only changes position rather than removing or negating, which caps its value (verified from text, with rating inferred). |
| Material Utility | 20 | The card is a Rank 3 Xyz with no observed use as material for other summons and no evidence of it being a generic material body (inferred from text and absence of combo data). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | Its once-per-turn clause and dependence on a material on the field give it limited redundancy, and any negation of the effect ends its use (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 60 | Legal at 3 copies with 31 of 34 decks running one copy (average 1.15), so it is cheap to run and needs no garnets or locks (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Board breaker / Going-second profile, single primary role, no secondary blend. Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 54, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Changes every opposing monster's battle position in one activation
- Runs in 34 sampled decks across 18 archetypes, so it has a practical home
- Cheap to run at one copy with no garnet or lock cost
Weaknesses
- Spends an Xyz Material for a position change rather than a removal or a negation
- Once-per-turn restriction limits how often the effect can be used
- Dependent on Constellar support for reliable access
Counters / choke points
- Negating the effect shuts off its only function
- Opponent setups that do not depend on monsters in attack position are unaffected by the position change
Best use
Board breaker. Decks: Constellar, Sacred Beast, Fiendsmith, Greed, Magical Musket. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Xyz Monster, Rank 3, LIGHT Beast-Warrior, ATK 1900 / DEF 1100 (card text); Once per turn, detach 1 Xyz Material to change all opposing monsters to face-up Defense Position (card text); Legal in TCG, OCG, MasterDuel and DuelLinks (formats)
- Observed: Appears in 34 of 400 sampled decks, 31 of them at 1 copy (average 1.15 copies per deck); Distinct archetypes: 18; largest share Sacred Beast at 5 decks; Constellar Ptolemy M7 co-appears in 17 decks (50%)
- Inferred: Accessibility rests on Constellar support cards since no starter or searched data exists; Board-breaker role is inferred from the text, not confirmed by combo data; Effect negation would fully remove its value
- Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); archetype inclusion inferred from deck sample only no rulings available for the once-per-turn timing interaction with opponent turns