Spell
EquipCyber Shield
Archetype:
Harpie
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Equip only to "Harpie Lady" or "Harpie Lady Sisters". It gains 500 ATK.
Cyber Shield — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 41 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 38 · Deck: 43 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Cyber Shield is a Harpie-only equip spell: it gives +500 ATK to Harpie Lady or Harpie Lady Sisters and does nothing else. Its score comes from being cheap to run and reasonably reachable inside Harpie lines (36 decks, average 1.64 copies, with Harpie support cards as top partners), not from its ATK boost. It converts nothing into card advantage, interaction, or board presence on its own, and no combo boards record it, so the high stat-free ATK bonus earns no points beyond the deck-level fit.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Live in 36 recent decks at about 1.6 copies each, but no searcher or starter route is recorded in combos (observed, with a text-based inference that it needs a Harpie Lady on the field). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Text only: +500 ATK on a named monster, with no recorded combo boards to show what it converts into (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | A one-for-one spell with no refuel, draw, or recursion in the text (verified from card text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No negation, removal, or disruption in the text (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A spell card, so it cannot be used as material and leaves no body behind (verified from card type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Dies with its equip target and can be removed by spell removal, so it is fragile (verified from card text, inferred from the equip rules). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 65 | Single-copy-friendly, no garnet or lock, but restricted to two named monsters, which is a mild restriction (observed copy distribution plus card text). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility profile (no clear role); single role, no blend. Intrinsic ≈ 38, Deck ≈ 43, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Cheap, non-garnet, easy to run in Harpie decks
- Consistent inclusion in Harpie lines with 1 to 3 copies
- Low rules complexity: clear text with a fixed target list
Weaknesses
- Only works on two named monsters, so it is dead outside Harpie Lady shells
- No card advantage, interaction, or material value
- Vulnerable to spell removal and to losing the equip target
Counters / choke points
- Spell removal such as Cyber Shield's equip target being destroyed or the equip being destroyed
- Monster removal of Harpie Lady or Harpie Lady Sisters, which leaves the equip with no legal target
Best use
Utility ATK boost for Harpie Lady or Harpie Lady Sisters. Decks: Harpie Lady shells (Harpie archetype, Harpie's Feather Duster and Hysteric Party lines).
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Equip only to Harpie Lady or Harpie Lady Sisters, +500 ATK (card text); Equip spell card type, no material value (card type); 36 decks, copies distribution 1:20, 2:9, 3:7 (deck stats)
- Observed: Harpie-line top partners at 63 to 100% co-occurrence (deck stats); Harpie archetype 9 of 36 decks (deck stats)
- Inferred: Accessibility is moderate: it is live in Harpie lines but has no recorded searcher route; Combo role is a Utility ATK boost with no recorded combo conversion
- Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo conversion and starter/searched/material shares are unknown No guides supplied usage statistics lists only one archetype (Simorgh, 100%), which conflicts with the Harpie-centric deck evidence and was not used to raise the score No banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) average starter count when present is null, so deck resilience is estimated from archetype spread only