WATER
5Cyber Shark
ATK:
2100
DEF:
2000
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If you control a WATER monster, you can Normal Summon this card without Tributing.
Cyber Shark — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 57 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Cyber Shark's value is a Level 5 WATER body with 2100 ATK that can be Normal Summoned without Tributing while you control a WATER monster, so it converts cleanly into board presence and Level 5 material. Its conditional effect is only a small tribute saving, and it has no searcher, negation or recursion, so it does not earn a high power score. The ATK figure contributes nothing on its own; the score rests on the tribute-free summon condition, its material fit, and its spread across 8 archetypes in the 13-deck sample. Combo evidence is absent, so the combo and resilience axes are text-based inference and the confidence stays Medium.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 50 | Live in hand only when a WATER monster is already on the field, and it is not a searcher, so access is conditional (observed: 13 decks, 100% main, but no combo starter data). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | The text enables a tribute-free Normal Summon of a 2100-ATK body but builds no further board on its own (inferred: text only, combos_evidence total_combos 0). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | Saves a tribute but returns no card advantage and no refuel (inferred: card text, no combo netCardAdvantage data). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | Has no negation, removal or hand-trap effect, so it provides essentially no opponent interaction (verified: card text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | A Level 5 WATER Fish is clean material for Level 5 Synchro and Rank 5 Xyz, and the body remains useful even if its effect is negated (inferred: card text plus attribute and level fit). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | A single 2100/2000 monster that dies to ordinary monster removal and has no recursion or multi-zone presence (inferred: card text; no interaction data supplied). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Normal Summon condition is a mild restriction, the card is not a garnet, and it is usually run 1 to 2 copies across 8 archetypes (observed: copies avg 1.46, distinct_archetypes 8). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Level 5 WATER body gives clean material fit for Level 5 Synchro and Rank 5 Xyz
- Tribute-free Normal Summon is a real saving when a WATER monster is already on the field
- Spread across 8 archetypes in the sample, so it is not a single-deck dependency
- Cheap to run: near-zero garnet cost and typically 1 to 2 copies
Weaknesses
- No searcher, negation or recursion, so it provides no card advantage or interaction
- Effect is conditional on controlling a WATER monster
- Single body with no redundancy, dies to ordinary monster removal
- Combo evidence is absent, so its real conversion rate is unmeasured
Counters / choke points
- Monster removal or destruction effects that remove the body before its material use
- Opponent effects that target the WATER monster needed to enable the tribute-free summon
Best use
Level 5 WATER material body with a tribute-free Normal Summon when a WATER monster is already on the field. Decks: Shark, Umi, Marincess, Ice Barrier, Harpie, Umi Control. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Effect Monster, Level 5, WATER Fish, 2100 ATK / 2000 DEF; Normal Summon without Tributing if you control a WATER monster; Appears in 13 of the sample decks, 100% main deck; Spans 8 distinct archetypes
- Observed: Average 1.46 copies per deck, max 3; Top partner Buzzsaw Shark in 84.6% of decks containing Cyber Shark
- Inferred: Level 5 WATER body is clean Synchro and Xyz material; Tribute-free summon is a modest resource saving rather than card advantage; Conditional access via WATER monsters already on the field
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) for inclusion % across a larger sample no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no dated metagame sample, so meta_power is null